This L.A. Times story on intellectually-orientated events in L.A. seems to have an unhealty affinity for NYC. No less than six occurences of 'york':

"The only thing wrong with intellectual life in L.A. is that people keep asking if there's intellectual life in L.A.," New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger said before speaking at a recent LACMA debate. "The last remnant of provinciality is asking that question."

He's from New York City, so it must be true.