Mention ‘culture’ and ‘Los Angeles’ in the same sentence, and you’ll likely hear a few snickers. After all, this is Hollywood’s town, a city of car-crazy transplants with no real interest in the high arts, right? Wrong, says Donald Rosenberg. The myth of a cultureless L.A. probably wasn’t ever true, and it certainly isn’t true now. America’s second-largest city is buzzing with culture, and is fast becoming one of the country’s centers of artistic innovation.