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After 15 years, the beloved Los Angeles venue Machine Project is closing. Here are the hard-won lessons the founders learned. A stunt double leaps from Machine's second floor as part of Jon Rubin's A ...

Kamau Patton was having a drink at the BonaVista Lounge, the rotating bar atop the 34th floor of the Bonaventure Hotel downtown, when he realized he'd been looking at architecture all wrong. The New ...