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Largo Nights.

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A few days before the Super Bowl this past February, Benmont Tench, who has been playing keyboards with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for more than thirty years, took a break from rehearsing, in Tempe, Arizona, for the game's halftime performance to send a text message to a chum in Los Angeles. "This is not Largo, my friend," he wrote, as practice fireworks went off around him. "It's fun, but I wish Sara was standing next to me hitting me with her bow. And Ellen."

The chum was Mark Flanagan, or Flanny, as his friends call him, who has owned Largo, a small music-and-comedy club on Fairfax, across from Canter's deli, since 1996. Sara is Sara Watkins, the ...

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