When Google Buys Your Hometown Mall
Rethinking civic identity in rapidly changing Los Angeles
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10 min readJun 25, 2019
I’m at a party in Silverlake when I meet her. She’s a model-turned-filmmaker from a place where the way people greet each other isn’t “Hello” or “How are you,” but “Do you have a cigarette?” She lives in the Hollywood Hills. I am told her friends make up most of the CW casting pool.
