“An unlikely yet undeniable connection which has been previously linked in Flaunt’s Oh La La Land issue, Ratican’s complementary tale of these two angelic and luminary cities, is smartly divided into seven sections of equivalent cultural totems. Lu and Giriat fairly split in tandem the section’s pages between the cities’ blonde objects of infatuation: Marilyn Monroe to Brigitte Bardot, portrayals of urban playgrounds: Santa Monica Pier to Place de la Concorde, and high points: Hollywood Sign to Sacré-Coeur. GPS coordinates have been conveniently added to guide Francophiles and Angelenophiles alike through parallel urbane galaxies; similar in their differences. “
