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| | HIDE FROM THE SUN - Los Angeles CityBeat |
 | | Accordingly, I have amassed some handy survival tips for the gothic-pale-and-loitering in this urban Anvil of the Sun, where too much of the population willfully refuses to believe that life is not as easy as Baywatch. |
 | | In a dark bar, the sun is under control: It is one narrow, arrow-straight beam of bright white light lancing from a gap in the not-quite-closed street door, made magical by dancing dust motes and, in the good old days, the blue curl of cigarette and cigar smoke. |
 | | Outside is heat, hostility, mania, and melanoma, but those within have encapsulated cool tranquility, taking refuge amid an aroma of aged wood and old beer. |
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