What to Do in LA if You’re Here for Business (2025)
Key takeaways
- Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Photographs: Jordan Michelman In Transit
- I go there to work and play, alone and with friends and family, for short trips and extended stays.
- In no way does any of this mark me as an expert; Angelenos are rightly wary of outsiders beaming in to make claims on their city.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Photographs: Jordan Michelman In Transit
Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story. The very name Los Angeles—the “City of Angels”—is plural for a reason. This place contains multitudes; it is not any one thing or singular set of shared realities, but rather a series of overlapping metaphysical geographies, vast and intimidating and yet surprisingly human, intimate and personal. There’s nowhere else quite like it.
I’ve been traveling to Los Angeles several times a year for the past decade for myriad reasons: to experience the city’s coffee scene as a cofounder at the international coffee publication Sprudge, to report on the city’s food and bar scene as a contributor to LA Times Food, and as an enthusiastic consumer of LA’s uniquely unrivaled cultural smorgasbord. I go there to work and play, alone and with friends and family, for short trips and extended stays. Along the way, there are parts of the city that have begun to feel familiar and comfortable and others that remain baffling and hard to pin down. All of it remains distinctly compelling. Call me Randy Newman if you’d like: I love LA.