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City of the Angels

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Noun1.City of the Angels - a city in southern CaliforniaCity of the Angels - a city in southern California; motion picture capital of the world; most populous city of California and second largest in the United States
Calif., California, Golden State, CA - a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes
Catalina Island, Santa Catalina - an island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While a mecca for the rich and famous, particularly in the film and television industries, many have taken the City of the Angels to task for its unending obsession with the automobile, for its pollution and for simply being, as novelist William Faulkner said, "Too loud, too large and too banal.
Viewing the cathedral from any direction should evoke sure recognition that this is the City of the Angels Catholic Cathedral, while subtly luring the viewer by its sense of spiritual strength," Mahoney said in a prepared statement.
But geologist Amy Barnes knows that something big is about to threaten the City of the Angels when she discovers that temperatures haver risen in the city's landmark La Brea Tar Pits.
 
 
 
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