“Forget booking a facial like a regular person — the real A-listers, she claims, don’t leave the house. “Instead, you have the personal number of facialist Iván Pol, who, even on the day of the Golden Globes, will bring his proprietary face-snatching radio frequency technology to you.””

“And of course, there’s Erewhon — the organic grocery chain that has become shorthand for LA excess —where smoothies and supplements double as social currency, even as the city has become “shrunken by GLP-1s” and longer cares about food, often preferring “legacy restaurants frequented by the somebodies of yesteryear, like the Polo Lounge.””