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—Conservationists tracking the city's four remaining locations of Arthur Whizin's Chili Bowl, a near 90-year-old, chili bowl-shaped example of L.A.'s once flourishing programmatic architecture, are sounding the alarm that an illegal demolition of the building in the West L.A. neighborhood of Sawtelle is imminent, calling upon the public to contact Mike Bonin's office after the councilperson voted against the Neighborhood Council's support to give it landmark status. [Change.org]
—L.A. County is lifting the outdoor mask mandate after midnight tonight. [LAT]
—Sea levels will rise 10-12 inches in the next 30 years due to global warming, profoundly disrupting coastal life, according to an interagency report led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [CNN]
—Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder is postponing a couple of solo SoCal shows due to a positive Covid test. [PSD]