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INSIDEAn early summer lunch with Maer Roshan, the recently appointed and ninth editor in chief of Los Angeles magazine,
began routinely enough. What could be more normal than a couple of Angelenos sitting down to compare notes on the previous night’s earthquake?
“I was having dinner with a friend at the Century City mall,” Roshan said in his gritty, Marlboro Light-cured voice. “Suddenly the lights began
swinging and it’s like, ‘Well, it’s happening again.’ But no one screamed or anything.” He almost sounded disappointed. ¶ A waiter appeared at
our table in a dark corner of Eve, the bistro in the recently restored Beaux Arts-style Mayfair Hotel in downtown L.A., to announce that the chef
had prepared a special tasting menu for us. If print journalism is dying, helming a city magazine apparently still has its perks — tuna tartar tacos
and oxtail sopes, to be specific, and that was only the first course. ¶ “I have something for you,” Roshan said, extracting the
Mariah TaugerLos Angeles Times“I HATE the word buzz, but the magazine needed buzz,” says Los Angeles magazine editor Maer Roshan. His goal? To be more newsy and topical, with a distinct voice.
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