It arrived with the kind of low rumble that made Mrs. Alvarez peek from her kitchen in Highland Park and made the dog next door bark at something that was both alarming and oddly permanent: a green roll-off dumpster parked in front of a bungalow, shadows stretching long across cracked sidewalks as the sun sank behind the Hollywood hills.
The Hook: A Dumpster, a Deadline, and a Neighborhood









