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The Bold and the Buried

Part mad scientist, part Martha Stewart

2D Folly

A lone chroma-key green structure appeared down the slope at 6101 Mulholland Highway.

California Poetics

A middle-class fable set in gold country.

Chill Zone

Is this mélange giving Hot Girl Western, Italian futurism, or ’60s psychedelia?

Dead Tech

Justice for Zipatone!

Desert Revenant

Here, modesty gives way to heroic fragility.

Hinge Point

The museum’s motto could be, “Walls don’t stay up forever.”

Liquid Screen

The best view is from the escalators.

Pod People

Just like Spanish conquest, this ideal requires water, walls, and exclusivity.

Show Frank the Door

Same as a Honda dealership, just a half step above a 7-Eleven.

Slow Roll

More outdoor gallery and parklets than civic monument

Soft Story

Everyone’s shocked how smoothly it went, given the nasty fight seven years ago over who exactly would pay for it.

Steeped in Hairspray

How can she love a man already beloved by the world?

TikTok Crib

She abandons the toxicity of “curation” in favor of mess and chaos.

Wild Vision

Foreboding words for a ticket stub

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