As LA reopens, an underground dance party draws revelers and worries health experts
LOS ANGELES - At midnight on Friday, a security guard opened a thick steel door into a South L.A. warehouse. Unfamiliar sounds of late poured out from underneath: music, laughing and dancing. "Inside, inside," the guard commanded, and slammed it shut behind a small line of wary but elated partygoers in paisley-print facemasks. A pink neon light beckoned them to a pair of masked ushers, who checked tickets for what was likely L.A.'s first underground club night since the coronavirus lockdowns began.
Around a dozen techno fans clustered on the small outdoor patio next to an enclosed main dance floor. The crowd wasn't very big, at that point far fewer than 100 people. But as more guests trickled in to see the dark-techno DJ Axkan perform, some looked around in giddy disbelief that this was
