Another question I almost immediately asked myself: why would a mirror in a bathroom be almost completely ensconced in darkness at a nightclub for young people—girls who wanted to touch up their makeup, boys who wanted to check out their hair? But maybe there was a point to the space that I wasn’t grasping yet, maybe it was partly a prank, the anti-scene, the wry commentary on how you could make anything seem fashionable to L.A.’s young and hip if you just made it exclusive enough. Maybe the space was performance art conjured up by older hipsters taking advantage of the naïveté of the city’s
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