On a Tuesday in September, Mary Ruble walked up to the barre of the Westside School of Ballet in Santa Monica for a 7:45 a.m. ballet class, joining about 30 women of all ages. Ballerinas perform “On the Moon I Swear,” choreographed by Westside School instructor Sadie Black, at the Westside School of Ballet adult showcase. “What I’ve experienced taking …
Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake, one of the neighborhoods of Los Angeles that attracts recently arrived New Yorkers. “What is Los Angeles?” one New York Times writer recently asked, as if the mere existence of this place was too much for the brain to bear. “I was just looking at a map of L.A. trying to be like, ‘Hmm, where …
