The Los Angeles Perspective on Atlanta

We're still dope. But the shine is coming off the City Too Busy to Hate.

Venice Beach

LOS ANGELES — I took off for a week or so to visit my father in Corona, California, and pointedly ignored the horrifying “Purge” double murder down the street for the sake of my sanity. I get enough violence in my daily diet as it is.

Atlanta and Los Angeles have a lot in common. They’re both defined by unbounded sprawl and unbounded ambition…