Good morning. It’s Friday, March 20th. Expect the last day of our ten-day ninety degree nightmare, with the National Weather Service’s Heat Advisory expected to finally end at 8pm.
“Ruben Cloud” and “Mvddy Watxrz,” two members of Sigil Kult, in a parking lot on Spring Street. (Hayes Davenport / L.A. Material)
Meet the crew that earned online fame for destroying a Section 8 unit.
The invisible floating circus tent that hosts the world’s social media users landed in Downtown L.A. last weekend, when a group known as Sigil Kult — who alternately call themselves a musical collective, a family, and an actual cult — earned tens of millions of Instagram views for posting videos of themselves doing severe damage to a room they’d been occupying in the historic Hotel Alexandria.
Banned from the premises since Monday after being removed by LAPD officers and building security, Sigil Kult has been wandering around the city — and trying to get back into the Alexandria.
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