Piper French
Articles
Essay
In Los Angeles, the fantasy and the reality of the movies live side by side.
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Review
Downtown LA represents an intentional failure of the built environment.
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Dispatches
Silver Lake —
I tried to imagine what a Soviet citizen, especially one familiar with such spaces, would think of the assembled crowd.