Sep. 30, 2012 at 10:23am with 54 notes
Reblogged from latimes
On the adventure list - to walk the entire stretch of Sunset Blvd.
For Sunset, a new dawn: Sunset Boulevard has long operated as a zipper across the length of the city. But what the boulevard does most dramatically now is provide a bridge from private spaces to a more public-minded kind of city-making.
The second in Christopher Hawthorne’s On the Boulevards series.
Photo: Giant advertisements dominate the Sunset Strip, hoping to catch the eye of a steady stream of revelers. Credit: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg has a talent for making friends
via the LA Times - Rich. Tough. Savvy. But can Facebook’s chief operating officer get the company’s $100-billion IPO off to a smooth launch?
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There were no manifestoes from many of us, but everyone was quietly making their own manifestoes. The artist Harry Gamboa said it best when he said L.A. is a desert with mirages and something happens and, poof, it’s gone. I always liked that. That’s Los Angeles.

