Marina Watanabe

Organizers with One Fair Wage protest the new Noma popup in Silver Lake. Photo by Marina Watanabe for L.A. TACO. As diners showed up for their $1,500 Noma reservations on Wednesday in Silver Lake, they were met by a protest from more than a dozen workers with the labor rights group One Fair Wage.

An electrical box sits on a leisurely stretch of Traction Avenue in Downtown L.A.'s Arts District. From the outside, the box is completely ordinary—so nondescript that it’s rendered nearly invisible to the naked eye. With the exception of a few stray graffiti tags, its exterior is gray, unmarked, and unremarkable. Onlookers would likely be surprised to learn that the utility box is home to the smallest theater in Los Angeles, and possibly the world.

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