Markets Down? Party It Up at L.A.'s Stock Exchange

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Since our financial institutions are in decline, what better way to honor them than by sloshing them with Red Bull vodkas and blasting them with trip hop? The Los Angeles Stock Exchange, a beautiful 1931 structure, reopened last week as Exchange LA, a 25,000-square-foot venue perfect for L.A.'s new economies: award shows and after parties.

The "Wall Street of the West" was once home to the Pacific Stock Exchange, which had trading floors here and in San Francisco until the exchange...