“Never has there been such a paradox of our class system then what I’ve witnessed going on immediately around us.” Brin expounded to a vigilant crowd, some recently displaced by rising rents in Venice due in large part to Google paying full price for...
I first met Irwin in New York a few years ago doing the nightcrawler event crawl. Electronic music was dead. Jersey Shore was tenticulating into our minds and Moby had a tea shop. According to my reports from the scene in 2002-2004 New York’s nightlife was a...
The difference between Coney Island and the AK is in one the pigeons come up to you but the homeless avoid you. In Venice the pigeons stay away but the drifters are non-stop. I call them drifters because I’m half way there somewhere between a rat-hole and a...
Abbot Kinney changes. Rents increase. Traffic gets worse. Building crews work every day except Sunday. The biggest change, though, is the culture. The Oakwood Recreation Center used to be a center of African-American life. Working families could afford homes. Beyond...
