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“These people are unbelievable the way they dress,” he said. “I’m here in a Brioni, these guys are in Lululemon pants. These guys are moving into the future. These are some of the worst-dressed people I ever met in my life.”
Zeke Faux • Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
To anyone living in Los Angeles in the first decade of the twentieth century, the idea that motion pictures would be crucial to the city’s future (or to any city’s future) would have been laughable. The “flickers” had been around for barely ten years, and were still mostly seen as little more than a gimcrack novelty.
Gary Krist • The Mirage Factory
7.16 What can be said of the United States often can be said most clearly about Los Angeles. Historically, the city-state had often suggested where not only the American city was headed but also the American people, with all their Americanness. All gig workers now, all climate refugees now. All of us trapped, consciously or not, by our racist past
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Megan Prelinger (left) shows a small selection of 'The Hacker Quarterly' while her husband, Rick (right), scans the stacks at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco on Mar. 13, 2024. (Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)
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Sarah Jessee • This San Francisco Library Collects Print Materials You Were Never Meant to See | KQED
when Max one day said, “Jacaranda is the best-dressed woman in Los Angeles,” it came out sounding mean-spirited and vile. The gold had washed off the surface and the Gates of Paradise had been melted down for private purposes no longer on public view. It was only art anyway,
Eve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
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