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The L.A. Kings have just won the Stanley Cup for the first time in franchise history. This is what our homepage looks like right now.

For the Kings fans: More photos from tonight’s Game 6, and some shots from Times assistant managing editor Michael Whitley that offer a glimpse into the paper’s layout tomorrow. There’s a parade planned for Thursday.

Congratulations to the Kings! I used to be a huge Kings fan when I was a little boy, partly due to then-alternate team captain Wayne Gretzky. Although I haven’t watched every game this season, I was absolutely rooting for these guys to win the big one!

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Magic Johnson is perfect fit for Dodgers: Former Lakers great is the perfect guy to help reestablish bond between the fans and the franchise.

Photo: Lakers great Magic Johnson has all the skills necessary to be a strong owner for the Dodgers. Credit: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times

This is better than WWE buying WCW. I’m hoping The Magic becomes an on-screen character (Dodgers GM maybe?). Finally, optimistic excitement returns to the Blue Team!

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

‘Monday Night Raw’ star David Otunga talks about ‘WrestleMania’

WrestleMania is the Super Bowl of pro wrestling. Do you feel more pressure to have a good match Sunday than any other time of the year?

David Otunga: Yes. Absolutely. WrestleMania truly is our Super Bowl. It’s the time that you dream about. I have been imaging my WrestleMania moment forever and I have built it up so much in my head that I want it to be perfect. You are going to have so many eyes watching you – it’s the best of the best. The pressure is on to have a really good showing.

Twenty years from now, when people are looking back at your career, what do you hope they say?

I hope they say, “Wow. He was one of the greatest of all time. There was never anybody like him before and there will never be anybody like him again.”

Good for Otunga for thinking big. I do hope he succeeds in WWE; he has a great look, has charisma, and is quickly developing a memorable, coffee-drinking character.

No, I am not high.

LA Times: SXSW: Bruce Springsteen hits a lot of notes in keynote address

Today, Springsteen declared, we are living in a “post-authentic world,” where “authenticity is a house of mirrors.” This means that the hype, the methods of making music and the story are second to “what you bring when the lights go down.” He then traced his own musical influences with stories and small performances on an acoustic guitar and at one point admitted to a packed convention center room that he still practices his rock ’n’ roll poses in the bedroom mirror.

The Boss

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“The Artist” wins best picture! It was the only nominee filmed entirely in L.A.

[Updated 8:48 p.m. with some links.]

Photo: A scene from “The Artist” filmed at the Bradbury Building on South Broadway. Credit: the Weinstein Co.

Welcome home :)

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

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World Famous VIP Records in Long Beach struggles to stay relevant: The record store, key to the birth of West Coast rap, retools amid technological changes in music.

Now owned by Kelvin Anderson, VIP in Long Beach midwifed the careers of some of America’s best-known hip-hop stars. Rapper Snoop Dogg filmed parts of three videos on the VIP roof, next to its landmark sign, which featured the cartoon image of a black man in a baseball cap walking toward an enormous vinyl record.

But that was years ago. Anderson’s siblings have long since closed their stores. Today, in the age of Internet downloads, Anderson remains in music — barely.

Photo: Kelvin Anderson, owner of World Famous VIP Records, sits in his new downsized store, just a few feet down the street from his former location on Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach. Credit: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

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