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The Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, right, shares a moment with Mayor Bloomberg, left, in Los Angeles in September, 2006. Villaraigosa was announcing the Community CompStat Initiative. Read more... |
L.A. Slam-Dunks New York in Basketball Tradition
Basketball
By JOHN HOLLINGER
New York might be the Big Apple, but as far as basketball goes it's the pits compared with Los Angeles.
A few big-picture similarities may make the comparison seem even. For instance, both cities have a flagship franchise that has stood as one of the...
What's Posh Out West?
Style
By PIA CATTON
The sporting world has contributed to a match made in fashion heaven: Victoria Beckham and Los Angeles. Ms. Beckham — along with her enormous sunglasses and creative wardrobe — will be spending more time on the West Coast now that her husband, the...
A Tale of Two Urban Plans
Architecture
By JAMES GARDNER
There has always been robust competition between New York and Los Angeles. Or more precisely, between New Yorkers and ex-New Yorkers, since many Angelenos originated in the city which they now reject with all the fervor of a convert to a new creed....
Raising Coastal Children
By SARA BERMAN
Last summer, my family packed our bags and spent three weeks in Los Angeles: We swapped houses with friends of ours who had recently moved to the centrally located Pacific Palisades. While they spent a week in our New York apartment, we lived in their...
To Live & Give In L.A.
Philanthropy
By A.L. GORDON
The difference in the social landscape of New York and Los Angeles can be measured in the length of the red carpet at the Golden Globes tonight. New Yorkers revel in good works and historic institutions. In Los Angeles, people revel in the beauty,...
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Bloomberg Enjoys Freer Rein Than L.A.'s Mayor
By JILL GARDINER
Mayor Bloomberg here and Mayor Villaraigosa in Los Angeles each have high public approval ratings and are both being buzzed about for higher office. But their city governments are entirely different beasts.
"It's so different from New York it's like...
Museums That Grow In Warm Weather
By AMANDA GORDON
Space, content, curatorial stewardship, patronage, and the embrace of locals and tourists all help determine a museum's identity and success.
New York is one of the few great museum cities in the world. But its grandest institutions — the...
A Myth Of Two Cities
Movies
By GRADY HENDRIX
The gauntlet was thrown at the end of 1977's "Annie Hall" as Woody Allen and Diane Keaton held their terminal squabble in a health food restaurant on Sunset Boulevard.
"Why would you want to live out here?" Mr. Allen whined. "It's like living in...
A Wild Sense of Freedom
Photography
By WILLIAM MEYERS
Bergamont Station is the center of the art market in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It is a 5 1/2–acre site the city of Santa Monica bought as a park-and-ride stop for a Metro train that never arrived. Instead, the long, corrugated metal warehouse...
Art in a Young City
Gallery-Going
By DAVID GROSZ
"It used to be that you couldn't figure out where the center of the L.A. art scene was," the New York–based art dealer R. Peter Miller said recently. "There wasn't a core, there wasn't an identity."
But around 2001, Mr. Miller, who lived periodically...
The Battle of the Books
Books
By ADAM KIRSCH
Old habits die hard. That's what I thought when I read Shalom Auslander's recent rant against Los Angeles, its inhabitants, and everything it stands for, on the Nextbook Web site. The headline, "Killing Spree," not only summed up the violent reaction...
The Taste Of the West
By JENNIFER LEUZZI
"All cities are B cities compared to New York," chef Mario Batali said.
Yet Mr. Batali opened a restaurant in Los Angeles after finding success with Babbo and other Italian restaurants in New York. He opened Mozza, an outpost of his casual downtown...
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As awards season kicks into high gear, all eyes turn toward Los Angeles. The glamorous industries and balmy temperatures, the sunkissed lifestyle and poolside parties are enough to make New Yorkers feel the sharp cold of January all the more. While we shiver, they shine. But there's more to New York than a few chilly months.