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Article: THE VIEW FROM N.Y.(New Yorkers seldom make fun of Los Angeles especially now that so much of the city has been influenced by California )(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
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- February 1, 1999
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Inveterate New Yorkers are finally admitting they really do like Los Angeles
HERE IN NEW YORK, people never make fun of Los Angeles anymore. Well, hardly ever. Contrary to conventional wisdom on the Left Coast, the sniping about L.A. has all but come to an end. In fact, there's a new kind of giddy conviviality in Manhattan just now for things SoCal. * Maybe that's because so much of L.A. is here. We've got California cuisine on our menus, health food stores on every corner and an art scene in Chelsea strikingly similar to the one that flourished in Venice 10 years ago. Disney has transformed 42nd Street into downtown Anaheim, and Tom Cruise, Randy Quaid and ...