In 2009, when TED awarded me its TED prize and the opportunity to make a wish to change the world - -a wish they would help me fulfil l -- I thought of a mirror.
When I got on the phone with Lauren a few weeks ago, she talked to me while weaving through L.A. traffic on her way to a photo shoot not a suggested practice but a reality of the day-to-day demands of running two fashion lines, two websites and a successful novel series (L.A. Candy was a New York Times bestseller).
The record company wanted me to be involved in the L.A. scene, so they took me to premieres and things.
For me, the quintessential L.A. experience occurred a number of years ago when I was crashing at Paul's apartment in West Hollywood and the doorbell rang.
"What was important was his private conversations -- you know ... everybody say the l'avvocato told me, l'avvocato suggested me, I met the l'avvocato, I had a call in the early morning from the l'avvocato... to be in touch with him ... to be related to him ... was a state symbol for everybody, " journalist Carlo Rossella told CNN.
Chicago Rapper King Louie Went From Selling Mixtapes Out Of His Trunk To A Deal With Epic Records: Rising rapper King L (aka King Louie) talked with me about selling mixtapes on the street, getting a shout-out from Kanye West, and his daughter.
L. one afternoon, Steltzner showed me a scale model of the final design, with its spidery legs.
Our L.A. correspondent, Jody Jacobs, got me invited to Donna Reed's.
"For many patients who would have a favorable response to treatment now, it doesn't make sense to me to put their treatment off, " says Mitchell L. Shiffman, a liver specialist with Bon Secours Health System's Liver Institute of Virginia.
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She joined me in studio here at NPR West, and next week, the L.A. County Bar Association will host a two-day Diversity Pipeline Summit.
It was when I lived in L.A. that I first realized what is so German about me.
Having lived in Cleveland, New York and Los Angeles, Nathaniel tells me, it's reassuring to be able to look up at the L.A. Times Building and know where he is.
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