{"id":24871,"date":"2021-02-18T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/another-trend-story-from-the-new-york-times-about-bougie-los-angeles#id29135"},"modified":"2021-02-18T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:52:00","slug":"is-it-the-unofficial-hangout-for-the-young-beautiful-and-bored-is-it-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/is-it-the-unofficial-hangout-for-the-young-beautiful-and-bored-is-it-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it \u201cthe unofficial hangout for the young, beautiful and bored?\u201d Is it really?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there's one thing you can count on besides taxes and death, it's a trend story from The<\/em> New York Times<\/em> about bougie Los Angeles. The latest one is “How Erewhon Became L.A.’s Hottest Hangout”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Once health food stores were the domain of Birkenstock-clad hippies shoveling granola from a bulk bin. Now Birkenstocks are chic, tie-dye is regularly seen on catwalks and health food stores, too, have experienced a comeuppance. “It’s a paradox for a health food store to be cool,” said Jason Widener, a vice president at Erewhon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Admittedly, the photographs from Michelle Groskopf<\/a> are gorgeous. <\/p>\n

For an earlier, more nuanced take that frames Erewhon's celebrity and success in the doom palace that is gentrification, there's Jeff Weiss in Los Angeles Magazine<\/em>: “Is Erewhon’s Arrival in Silver Lake the Final Nail in the Gentrifying Neighborhood’s Coffin?”<\/a><\/p>\n

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Neighborhoods never die a corporeal death. They slowly atrophy and mutate, leaving behind a husk of corporate salad chains and hemp-latte bazaars. In that sense, Silver Lake has been slipping into a coma for years. But the appearance of the exorbitantly priced paleo palace might be the final gasp of the former bohemian refuge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If there’s one thing you can count on besides taxes and death, it’s a trend story from The<\/em> New York Times<\/em> about bougie Los Angeles. The latest one is “How Erewhon Became L.A.\u2019s Hottest Hangout”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Once health food stores were the domain of Birkenstock-clad hippies shoveling granola from a bulk bin. Now Birkenstocks are chic, tie-dye is regularly seen on catwalks and health food stores, too, have experienced a comeuppance. \u201cIt\u2019s a paradox for a health food store to be cool,\u201d said Jason Widener, a vice president at Erewhon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Admittedly, the photographs from Michelle Groskopf<\/a> are gorgeous. <\/p>\n

For an earlier, more nuanced take that frames Erewhon’s celebrity and success in the doom palace that is gentrification, there’s Jeff Weiss in Los Angeles Magazine<\/em>: “Is Erewhon\u2019s Arrival in Silver Lake the Final Nail in the Gentrifying Neighborhood\u2019s Coffin?”<\/a><\/p>\n

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Neighborhoods never die a corporeal death. They slowly atrophy and mutate, leaving behind a husk of corporate salad chains and hemp-latte bazaars. In that sense, Silver Lake has been slipping into a coma for years. But the appearance of the exorbitantly priced paleo palace might be the final gasp of the former bohemian refuge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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