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Love muscles up for Valentine’s Day

Lucha

How much more romantic can Valentine's Day get? Really, Angelenos. Watching a young couple pledge their love in marriage in a lucha libre ring with masked luchadores as groomsmen, saucy buxoticas as bridesmaids? Eat your heart out, Hallmark, a love fest happens February 14-16 at Lucha VaVOOM, "where authentic Mexican Masked Wrestling, Striptease and Comedy collide." We're talking a beef-and-babes spectacular that's part circus with a dash of burlesque sprinkled...

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Update | Pinkberry founder: ‘Not guilty’

Lee, arraigned, pleads not guilty

Was a homeless guy’ s ‘screw tattoo’ the motive? LAPD may not be convinced, but LA's DA claims Young Lee jumped out of his Land Rover in Korea Town and beat a panhandler with a tire iron, breaking the guy's arm and slashing his face over some inked art.

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TV news wrestles with Web blackout

TV News vs. SOPA Blackout

Newscasts walk a fine line when their parent corporations become players in controversial stories —— and network TV coverage of Wednesday's Anti-SOPA, Anti-PIPA protests proved it. Takes a ballsy editor or anchor to stand up to a piracy-battling CEO who's funding "censorship," and triggering protests that have led to a Web blackout. Some networks did better, some worse —than others.

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The day the Web went dark

SOPA/PIPA Blackout

"Student warning! Do your homework early!" tweets Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales. The crowdsourced encyclopedia, fifth-busiest web destination in the world, blacked out its English-language sites from midnight to midnight Wednesday, protesting what it says are extreme Congressional moves to crack down on Internet piracy. Here's how it went down.

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