TheLAnd magazine
is a new source of local journalism in the spirit of the alt-weekly. The first issue features a photo essay of women in LA’s Virgil Village neighborhood
by writer and photographer Samanta Helou Hernandez
. She has been documenting gentrification and displacement along the Silver Lake and East Hollywood border on her Instagram,
“This Side of Hoover.”
Sandra Morena Tejada opening California Grill. Photo credit: Samantha Helou Hernandez