Sublime

Harry Chandler, owner and publisher of the Los Angeles Times, the mighty daily whose incessant drumbeat for the region influenced the city it covered in a way few newspapers have before or since. Chandler’s use of his paper to promote projects around the city—many in which his family and friends had a financial interest—had already turned Los Angel

Which seemed fitting considering even the mayor of the city-state had previously called L.A. “the northernmost city of Latin America” and meant it as a compliment;