April 9, 2006<\/p>\n
MY wife doesn’t like Los Angeles. “The cars,” she says, “the smog — it’s a wasteland!” In the decade Nina and I have been married, I have never come close to convincing her that the cradle of global popular culture has any redeeming qualities — but it’s always fun trying.<\/p>\n
More than most cities, serious online legwork is a prerequisite to rooting out L.A.’s charms, but they are multifold: even before we arrived I knew our problem would be time, not money.<\/p>\n
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