The creative team behind the Aparna Nancherla cover shoot talks about the inspiration, experience, and historic location of the ?Money? issue. If you?ve never been to Los Angeles, it can be hard to imagine the spirit of a city where bougainvillea flourish next to concrete walls and chain link fences. Upon first experience, LA can […]

The creative team behind the Aparna Nancherla cover shoot talks about the inspiration, experience, and historic location of the ?Money? issue.
If you?ve never been to Los Angeles, it can be hard to imagine the spirit of a city where bougainvillea flourish next to concrete walls and chain link fences. Upon first experience, LA can be jarring — then striking — then almost fairytale-esque when you encounter a metropolitan oasis with cacti crawling from corners seemingly uninhabitable for anything ?alive? to stand a chance. Despite the exhausting ?so-LA? tropes of overpriced smoothies and unreasonable wait times for brunch, the greater location now known as the ?Hipster Triangle? (comprised of Echo Park, Los Feliz, and Silver Lake) in part set the stage for active citizens — ones who come together to challenge history — since protesters took to the streets and started advocacy newspapers to combat persecution of the LGBTQ+ community after the arrests of same-sex lovers who were caught kissing inside Black Cat tavern on New Year’s Day in 1967. On this same stretch of Sunset Boulevard, a little over 50 years later,...