NEXT L.A.: A look at issues, people and ideas helping to shape the emerging metropolis.
“In Los Angeles it is much harder to distinguish between personal fantasy and social reality because the realization of fantasy is one of our dominant cultural traits.”
-- WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON, “Looking for History in L.A.”
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