A glance at the aspiring young actresses seductively draped on the arms of Don Henley and company at the slick club The Gate, and you'll remember that it's only Los Angeles. A consciously unslick option filled with grungy couches and old furniture, The Living Room is the place to charge your brain with caffeine while you drain the battery of your laptop computer. But, if you think granola is for the birds, then head out to Patrick's Road House, a good ol' greasy spoon on the beach, where Arnold Schwarzenegger has been eating his Sunday spuds of late. In Los Angeles, the trends shift with the wind. Yoga has replaced aerobics as the trendy workout.
Shoulder pads are back.
Because in LA, image is everything - if you're not in, you may as well be six feet under. Small workshops highlight projects like the International Museum Network. This small workshop brings together artificial-intelligence researchers and other thinkers to tackle these profound questions. Well, you won't learn that here. Post-speech fun includes Hacker Jeopardy and Spot the Fed contests.