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Rapper Open Mike Eagle was barred from playing Harvard & Stone

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.]

One man's purity is another man's segregation. You don't expect to encounter those ideas in Hollywood in 2013, but they creep in through coding and innuendo.

Public racial slurs are rare, but people casually mention frequenting a club until it became overtaken by "the...well, you know." The doorman in Knocked Up was only half joking when he expressed his hopes for a black midget in the crowd, because the club promoters only permitted one and a quarter blacks for every 25 whites.

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West Hollywood's The Palms Bar, a hangout for the local lesbian community since the '60s, will close on June 9.

Located on Santa Monica Blvd. at La Cienega, the historic building that houses The Palms will be demolished to make space for a new mixed use development. In late April, the landlord told the bar's managers they had 30 days to vacate the building, but they will be allowed to stay open through the end of Pride Week. An official closing party will be held on June 2.

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Daniel Kohn

The line on Dunsmuir, north of Wilshire

*SECOND UPDATE 4:47 pm: There are still more tickets to be given away for folks at the El Rey. Details on the second page of this post.
*UPDATE 2:29 pm: Who got in and who didn't? Details on the second page.

See also: Our review of the Rolling Stones' show at the Echoplex

The Rolling Stones are playing the Echoplex tonight.

Tickets are onsale right now at the El Rey. $20, cash.

It's a lottery. (Here's the full info on the show from aeglive.com.) They're handing out tokens at this moment.

The official announcement just came down within the hour, but rumors and speculation have been brewing since last night.

That's when folks started lining up in front of the El Rey on Wilshire. One guy we talked to had been there since 1 am.

But too bad for him, because his odds of getting in are the same as someone who just showed up five minutes ago.

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Timothy Norris

From the Slayer and Megadeth show at the Gibson in 2010

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment.

As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park area.

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Nightlife mogul Steven Edelson, the wealthy operator behind the renovated Los Globos club, has filed a $10 million claim against the city of Los Angeles, West Coast Sound has learned.

The claim comes after the LAPD stripped Los Globos of its live music permits in October, though it has since resumed holding shows. Neighbors had complained about the partying.

See also: Los Globos Nightclub Shut Down

"They seem to be pretty hell-bent on stopping any form of fun in the city of Los Angeles and in Hollywood these days," says attorney Todd Winter, Edelson's corporate counsel.

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Reports of Lil Wayne's demise have been exaggerated, it seems.

The rapper tweeted tonight that he's fine. He was indeed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center near Beverly Hills.

But TMZ's report that he was on his death bed may have been wrong.

A member of entourage outside the hospital told the Weekly ...

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Old Firm Casuals

News broke this morning that The Echo has cancelled what was to be the first installment of an event called Insta-Fest, to take place March 30. The punk rock festival, sponsored by Insta-Press Clothing, Durty Mick Records and others, was slated to feature a who's who of international punk and oi bands, including Old Firm Casuals (featuring Lars Frederiksen of Rancid), Pressure Point from Sacramento and Toughskins, from L.A.

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums

Durty Mick announced the cancellation this morning via Facebook, alleging that, after the Echo management caught wind that the festivities would feature "the skinhead element" it decided to pull the plug.

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Aimee Candelaria

Burlesque Bingo at Key Club. See our full slideshow

Update: The Key Club has released a statement about its shuttering, which is at the bottom of this post.

The Key Club, a Sunset Strip favorite for decades, is scheduled to close later this month.

Though the club's ownership could not be reached for comment, its last show is slated for March 14, and sources behind various events held there confirmed its impending demise.

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Alfredo Marino with his wife Walli Marino

Update: Alfredo Marino has filed suit against Lil Wayne, in Los Angeles County superior court. The full suit is at the bottom of this post

Last year Downey, California-based bill poster Alfredo Marino saw Lil Wayne on Fairfax Avenue. He approached him hoping to get a photo, but says the encounter ended with a member of the rapper's entourage smashing him in the back of the head with a skateboard and sending him to the hospital.

Marino is set to file suit against Wayne this weekend and hopes to serve him with papers; after all, the superstar hip-hop artist will be in town for the Grammys, and is nominated for two.

How did this all happen? It went down like this:

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Adam Hervey

Adam Hervey, founder of Echo Park art and music venue Perhspace, suffered a brain stem stroke last Tuesday, January 16. According to close friend Adam Garcia, the 36-year-old Hervey began feeling strange, before losing hearing in his left ear and vomiting uncontrollably. He was rushed to the emergency room by ambulance shortly thereafter.

Doctors at Glendale Adventist Medical Center found a blood clot in one of the major arteries going to Hervey's brain and determined he was having a stroke. His mother gave the go-ahead for a high-risk brain surgery. Hervey was immediately rushed into the procedure. "They're not very pray-ey as a family," Garcia says, "but the hospital asked if they wanted them to call a priest because it was very likely he might not live through the operation, and if he did, he might be a vegetable."

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