Next L.A. / A Look at issues, people and ideas helping to shape the emerging metropolis.

“L.A. is a city with an amazing poetry to it for me. It’s kind of rich and amazing and huge, and yet in some way it’s very thin on the ground. It’s like humanity has cast a spell on this desert, yet we can almost imagine it not being there, and that’s part of its appeal, its mirage- like quality.”- WILLIAM GIBSON, cyberpunk author whose bestseller “Virtual Light” was partly set in a bleaky futuristic L.A., in a Times interview.