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—Hollywood: An artist named Nao Bustamante has purchased a grave plot at Hollywood Forever and turned her future grave into a pop-up art space. A two-person art show called "Odd Fellows" kicked off the fun this past weekend, in which Bustamante activated the space with a 1900s-era ritual prop and costume from the legendary Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge. [Grave Gallery via Esotouric]
—Compton: Manuel Dominguez High School in Compton was closed on Tuesday and classes were canceled after the school’s cafeteria was destroyed in a fire on Monday night. [LAT]
—The maker of Raw Organic Hemp rolling papers has been ordered by a federal court to stop selling and distributing certain products after a jury found the company engaged in unfair competition and violated the Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act by making nine "deceptive" statements, including that the papers are made in Spain and that its founder invented rolling paper cones. The court order will change the way Raw is marketed and packaged. [CSP]
—Genaro García Luna, at one time the architect and public face of Mexico’s war on its powerful criminal cartels, was convicted on Tuesday in a New York courtroom of betraying his country and colleagues by taking millions of dollars in bribes from the violent drug cartels he was meant to be pursuing. Luna had often been described as "the J. Edgar Hoover of Mexico." [NYT]