{"id":2068,"date":"2014-02-11T16:55:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2014-02-11T16:55:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:55:19","slug":"a-los-angeles-primer-highland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles Primer: Highland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Highland Park\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/socal\/departures\/columns\/assets_c\/2014\/02\/photo%203-thumb-630x470-68484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People disagree about what most meaningfully indicates whether a Los Angeles neighborhood has turned &#8220;cool.&#8221; A seemingly disproportionate number of respected musical acts having emerged from it makes for one early sign. A sudden abundance of galleries and drinking spots there provides further, more solid evidence, amid which a few parking spots may stay open in the evening. Crime, for the most part, moves elsewhere. Its rents will, of course, rise \u2014 a force that inevitably renders the place uncool again. Somewhere during this process, the press naturally gets around to covering the neighborhood, and in the pre-internet era we would have said that heralded the beginning of the end; move into a part of town of which the newspapers have already made a big deal, and you&#8217;ve come too late.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite so today, when every development, no matter how inconsequential, sends off a ripple of online coverage. My own suspicion that I&#8217;d do well to give a neighborhood further consideration emerges when it begins to produce lists, the kind that compile its &#8220;Eight Least-Known Concert Venues,&#8221; say, or its &#8220;Twelve Essential Cocktails,&#8221; its &#8220;Top Fifteen Highly Artisanal Coffee Experiences,&#8221; its &#8220;Five Most Authentic Pupuser\u00edas.&#8221; The growing prevalence of this form, long a mainstay of such bastions of journalistic rigor as Cosmopolitan magazine, doesn&#8217;t seem to everyone an entirely positive phenomenon, and most lists do little to hide their sole intention of milking a few clicks from office workers bored halfway to nihilism. Still, used as a delivery system for basic information about what you&#8217;ll find where, they may come in handy indeed. As Highland Park figured into more and more of them, I sensed that its moment had come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/socal\/departures\/columns\/a-los-angeles-primer\/a-los-angeles-primer-highland-park.html\">KCET Departures<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People disagree about what most meaningfully indicates whether a Los Angeles neighborhood has turned &#8220;cool.&#8221; A seemingly disproportionate number of respected musical acts having emerged from it makes for one early sign. A sudden abundance of galleries and drinking spots there provides further, more solid evidence, amid which a few parking spots may stay open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-los-angeles-primer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}