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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UPDATE: A Barcade employee says they opened the evening after the accident, and are now operating regular hours.

On Saturday night, a car drove into Blipsy Barcade and smashed through the front wall.

The Wilshire Center dive bar, which features DJ nights as well as old school video games including Rampage, Paperboy, Donkey Kong, Double Dragon, and Spy Hunter, remained closed as of last night.

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Embattled Silver Lake nightspot Club Los Globos has been stripped of its permits to put on shows. According to a report from Hollywood Style Scene the club (the winner of our award this year for Best After-Hours Spot) will not be able to operate public events for at least 45 days, due to action from the Los Angeles Police Commission.

See also:
*Los Globos Gets A Hip New Reinvention
*Los Globos Under Fire: Residents Complain of Noise, Urination, and Public Sex
*Los Globos After-Hours Club Stabbing in Silver Lake Sees Victim in Critical Condition

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Linda A. Rabka - Courtesy of AFM Local 47

Michael Ankney (L47 Live rep) handing out a leaflet.

Yesterday, the American Federation of Musicians staged a protest aimed at TV shows with live bands, here and in New York. In the Los Angeles area they picketed outside of The Tonight Show, Dancing With the Stars and Jimmy Kimmel Live. The 116 year old organization claims its performers haven't been granted a raise in seven years, despite renewed pressure on networks.

Fanning out from Burbank to Hollywood, about 30 union musicians from their Local 47 chapter handed out leaflets to line-bound prospective audience members in blistering heat.

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Tony Brandenburg speaks at the Pasadena School District's public board meeting Tuesday night

For the past two years, Tony Brandenburg -- lead singer of seminal Fullerton punk band The Adolescents -- and his wife have been caught in a struggle with their community school board and parents from Sierra Madre School in Sierra Madre (part of Pasadena Unified School District), whom they claim discriminated against their Autistic son.

On Tuesday night the Brandenburgs rallied several dozen friends and supporters together at the Pasadena School District's public board meeting, many holding signs and some in ski masks. They called for a censure of Board of Education Vice President Edward Honowitz, who they believe violated policy and conspired with other parents at their son's school, resulting in his removal from his first grade classroom last year, and again this term for second grade. Their son suffers from sensory processing disorder, a neurological problem associated with Autism, that results in confusion and distress in those afflicted when overstimulated.

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See also: Odd Future and Streetwear Employees Resent Fairfax Avenue Tourist Influx

Have you seen the video of the Fairfax Avenue palm tree on fire? It's below. On August 1 the palm exploded into flames after being shot by a bottle rocket. Its branches fell onto the awning of a local pizza place, setting it on fire.

The pizza shop is next door to the Odd Future apparel store, called OF, and the fire was started in the midst of a release party at the store.

The incident was first reported when Gawker posted a bystander's video on Friday, and that's when things got weird. To be specific, a bunch of sites wrote a bunch of gibberish. They mentioned our recent story on the tensions between the collective and Fairfax tourists (thanks!), but then announced that Odd Future themselves started the fire.

But that's totally wrong! Here's the real story.

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Jive667 via Flickr

That guy with the cardboard sign yelling "Tickets!" is on par with a gangbanger. At least that's the message City Attorney Carmen Trutanich sent with an announcement yesterday that Los Angeles will institute the nation's first-ever scalper injunction. What that means is that "known scalpers" -- 17 of them in particular, whose names you can see at the bottom of this post -- will be preemptively banned from plying their trade at specific venues and associating with each other. This tactic is more commonly used against gang members, preventing them from congregating in particular areas, or with particular people.

Trutanich, who is known for taking a hard line on minor offenders like street artists and political demonstrators, announced that the injunction sites include Staples Center and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the site of Bruce Springsteen and Roger Waters shows earlier this year. (It's also where he made the announcement.)

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Mark "Cobrasnake" Hunter

See also: Coachella Organizers Threatening to Take 2014 Off and Move the Festival Elsewhere

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will remain in Indio, at least for now. City Councilman Sam Torres, who last month proposed an admissions tax that would cost promoters Goldenvoice an estimated $4 million to $6 million, announced yesterday that he is suspending the initiative.

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Timothy Norris

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The 2013 Coachella could well be its last in Indio, say organizers, due to their opposition to a new events admissions tax initiative proposed by a city councilman there.

If the initiative makes it onto the November ballot, they warn, they would move both Coachella and the Stagecoach music festival out of Indio, and possibly out of the Coachella Valley entirely.

In that scenario, say Goldenvoice president Paul Tollett and Alex Haagen III, owner of the Indio Polo Club (where the festival is now held), they will build a new venue elsewhere.

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