The Paris Olympic Games are beginning. Or so NBC and the media would like you to believe. In fact, between early June and now, Paris and other parts of France have already presented about 1,000 events in the 2024 Olympiad. The Cultural Olympiad, that is. The host city of every Summer Olympics holds an arts festival, just as Los Angeles did 40 years ago in such spectacular fashion that it dramatically changed our city not only culturally but physically, economically and, maybe more important of all, psychologically.
When it comes to the way L.A. looks, acts and thinks about itself, you can credit some of that to the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival.
Read more at the Los Angeles Times.