Starting Dec. 4, 2024, Delta will launch a seasonal route from Los Angeles to Brisbane, Australia, which will operate three times per week through March 28, 2025.
Old Is New Again in the City of Angels
14.02.2024 - 12:18 / cntraveler.com / Art
"The energy is shifting. Can you feel it?” It is a cloudy Sunday afternoon in Highland Park. A perfect day to hear about ghosts.
This neighborhood in Northeast LA is known for its early-1900s Arts and Crafts homes and varieties of cashew-milk lattes. Highland Park fell into disrepair and gang violence by the '90s, but over the last 20 years it has been rediscovered and revitalized by the city's creative class. People like Danielle Thomsen, who's telling me about the ghosts in the store.
A shoebox diorama of a shop, Pattyes Closet II is filled with vintage Levi's, draggy caftans, old photos, terrifying dolls, and costume jewelry. The store is around the corner from Rosie Bunny Bean (a pet supply shop that sells whole frozen duck necks for your dog), a vegan soft-serve joint, the wonderful Taiwanese restaurant Joy, at least four coffee shops, and a delightfully bizarre marionette theater. A Corvette vrooms past, blaring a Bruce Hornsby song.
Sunset views from the Maybourne Beverly Hills
Retro roller dancing at Venice Beach
I spot a series of paintings of young women from the early days of Los Angeles, not long after 44 settlers founded the city in 1781. The women are in witchy Stevie Nicks lace. “Sometimes I come in and their eyes are closed,” she says. The eyes on the canvas? “Oh, everything in here is haunted,” she says flatly. “It's Los Angeles. There are spirits everywhere. That's why you have to believe in something. Otherwise, you're untethered, and they take you away.” She pauses, “Did you just show up here, or were you invited?”
Angelenos believe in their town above all else. But today finds LA in flux. The city vaulted to the sixth most expensive in the world, while the unhoused population increased 9 percent last year. The entertainment industry just climbed out of a paralyzing writer's strike. The big four streamers, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and Disney, continue to reimagine (or, depending who you ask, disrupt) the whole damn place. Parties are finally back in full swing. And yet—or perhaps because of all this—there's a certain amount of celebration of the past. This town has always known how to tell a good story, and right now the best story it has is its own.
“The best things in Los Angeles right now build on what's already here,” says Jamie Lee Curtis. She pronounces the Los with a long o. The Oscar winner, who has been enjoying what Angelenos like to call a third act, grew up “in then very unfancy Beverly Hills” and is a tireless cheerleader (her word) for her hometown. And right this second she's cheering for a local cuisine that she calls “basic.”
Hotel staffer Jay James looking dapper in his uniform
A seafood platter at the Bel-Air’s bar
“Basic has become a pejorative, but I like good
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