A new riot on Sunset

Los Angeles is a city rife with symbols of cultural evolution, or if you prefer, gentrification. (Take vast swaths of downtown, for example.) But nowhere is the contrast between L.A.'s anarchic rock 'n' roll past and its slick, upscale present thrown into starker relief than on the Sunset Strip, where the onetime Continental Hyatt House, a.k.a. the Riot Hyatt, has reemerged as the Andaz West Hollywood.

By Elina Shatkin

April 10, 2009