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Stadium Bar & Lounge opens today at Century and Prairie in Inglewood, about 100 feet from Intuit Dome and an eight-minute walk from SoFi Stadium, built to be the sports district’s home for pre-games, watch parties and after-parties. Eight 100-inch TVs surround the bar for Rams, Chargers, Lakers, Clippers and Dodgers games, backed by game-day tailgate buckets, michelada and taco platters, and halftime drink specials. The week rolls with Margarita Monday, Taco Tuesday and Wednesday tequila tastings, while DJs take over Friday and Saturday nights from 9:00pm and after-parties start at 11:00pm on SoFi, Intuit Dome, Kia Forum and YouTube Theater event nights. Stadium Bar opens at 12:00pm Monday and Friday, 4:00pm Tuesday through Thursday and 10:00am on weekends, staying open until 2:00am nightly, just in time for Sunday’s Battle for LA.

Cocina Victorias has opened at 130 E. Grand Ave. in downtown El Segundo, serving authentic Mexican food made with tradition and built on a shared dream between four friends. The menu runs from tempura cauliflower tacos, a quesataco plate and a birria taco plate to burritos, carne ranchera and a cilantro Caesar salad, with plates starting around $12. Rooted in Mexican culture and made for community, it aims to be a place where good food brings people together and everyone feels like family. Cocina Victorias is open daily from 9:00am to 9:00pm, with online ordering, delivery and catering available.

Sweet Red Peach is bringing its from-scratch cakes and Southern-style desserts to the Westside, with a new bakery coming to Westside Plaza on W. Olympic Blvd. in Sawtelle. Founder Karolyn Plummer started out selling desserts with her brother to local salons, barbershops and churches before opening her first bakery in 2000, and the brand has since grown to locations from Inglewood and Pasadena to Atlanta. Expect pound cakes in flavors like German chocolate, deluxe carrot and chocolate chip cream cheese, plus peach cobbler, banana pudding, coffeecake, cookies and cupcakes. An opening date has not been announced, so keep an eye on Sweet Red Peach’s Instagram for updates.

LA28 has unveiled Stars Align as the official slogan of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, launching worldwide with a 60-second film set to the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Can’t Stop and showcasing the Hollywood Sign, Griffith Observatory and L.A.’s golden-hour sunsets. Los Angeles will become the third city ever to host three Olympic Games when they open July 14, 2028, followed by its first-ever Paralympic Games on Aug. 15.

The world’s largest pop-up book is on view inside the Central Library rotunda in Downtown L.A., free for all ages through November. Luceros y Penumbras, designed by L.A. artist Daniel González and engineered by Matthew Reinhart, unfolds to about 31 by 20 feet, rises more than 11 feet and weighs nearly a ton. Commissioned by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, it celebrates the Central Library’s 100th birthday with scenes of a giant tree against the city skyline and the library’s own facade.

The L.A. City Council has signed off on Onni Group’s revised plans for 2143 E. Violet St., near the L.A. River in the Arts District. The plan calls for 30- and 20-story towers with 474 one-, two- and three-bedroom homes, 77 of them set aside as very low- and extremely low-income affordable housing, above ground-floor shops and walkways that cut through the site. Designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz, the project trades a larger office plan for housing, one of several Onni projects shifting away from offices in recent years.

The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation breaks ground next Wednesday, Nov. 5, on two new Dodgers Dreamfields at Altadena’s historic Charles S. Farnsworth Park, one of the sites hit hardest by the Eaton Fire. The $1.4 million project, with LA County Parks, will fully restore both fields for youth baseball and softball, adding new irrigation, fencing, shade structures, a STEM trail and solar-powered hexagonal scoreboards inspired by the ones at Dodger Stadium. These will be the foundation’s 69th and 70th Dreamfields, following its rebuild at Altadena’s Loma Alta Park and giving local families a revitalized place to gather and play.

Waymo has expanded its driverless ride service into the South Bay, with coverage now stretching through Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach down to Torrance. The rollout is part of nearly 250 square miles of new service Waymo is adding across five markets over the next week. Rides to and from LAX still aren’t available.

Santa Monica-based Starz beat Wall Street’s expectations in its third quarter, bringing in $322.4 million in revenue against a $319.5 million forecast and narrowing its net loss to $34.8 million from $52.6 million a year ago. Lionsgate’s Michael has become the best-performing Pay 1 title in the network’s history since debuting on Aug. 10. Streaming revenue grew to $226.6 million, and Fightland, Starz’s first owned original series, helped boost distribution revenue.

Hollywood is honoring Sir Patrick Stewart, who died Wednesday in Los Angeles at 86, after a career that took him from the Royal Shakespeare Company to the bridge of the Enterprise as Captain Jean-Luc Picard and to the head of the X-Men as Professor Charles Xavier. Tributes poured in from across both franchises, with Hugh Jackman calling him one of the greats of stage and screen and a wonderful friend, William Shatner praising his grace and humanity, and George Takei crediting Picard with inspiring a generation of stargazers. Fans can still visit the handprints and footprints he left at the TCL Chinese Theatre in 2020, with his Next Generation crew by his side.

Avengers: Doomsday is reportedly set to hold its world premiere in Los Angeles on Monday, Dec. 14, an invite-only event four days before the film hits theaters on Dec. 18, though Marvel and Disney have not confirmed the plan. That timing would match how Marvel launched Infinity War at the Dolby Theatre and Endgame at the L.A. Convention Center. Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, the film brings together the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and Wakanda to face Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom, and Disney says domestic presales have already passed $50 million. It also opens the same day as Dune: Part Three, a showdown fans have nicknamed Dunesday.

USC hosts No. 2 Ohio State this Saturday at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, with kickoff at 4:30pm on NBC + Peacock. It’s the Buckeyes’ first trip to the Coliseum since 2008, when Mark Sanchez led the Trojans to a 35-3 win. USC (6-2) is looking to bounce back behind quarterback Jayden Maiava, while Ohio State brings Heisman favorite wide receiver Jeremiah Smith to town.

The Battle for LA is back this Sunday when the Rams host the Chargers at SoFi Stadium at 1:05pm on FOX. The Rams lead the all-time series 7-6, but the Chargers have won two of the last three meetings. The Rams come in riding momentum from their 35-21 win in Las Vegas, where Matthew Stafford set the franchise record for touchdown passes, while Justin Herbert and the Chargers are fresh off their bye and looking to flip the script in the 14th regular-season meeting between the neighbors.