"With its classic amusement pier, glittering bay and surfers bobbing on swells, Santa Monica was a perfect setting for 'Baywatch,'" writes the IHT. "But take a short walk inland, and this city on the edge of Los Angeles reveals itself as more than a stereotypical beach town." Nice review of ourt faux-sleepy People's Republic. And from none other than the über-paper for über-cosmopolitan Parisians.photo Jill Connelly/NYT
