It was well after midnight and Jay-Z was presiding over a private dining room at Katsuya, the Philippe Starck–designed Los Angeles sushi restaurant, following a sold-out show at the nearby Hollywood Palladium. The concert marked the historic 1940 venue’s reopening, after a yearlong, $18 million renovation—it is now operated by concert-promotion giant Live Nation.
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