Rather, it was famed as an artistic, bohemian place with a history of flowering counter-cultures that spilled over and changed America and the world, from the beats in North Beach to the hippies in the hilly region of Haight- Ashbury to the gay rights movement in the Castro neighbourhood.
One of the first famed artists to speak out against Putin's political and artistic repression, Kremer organized a protest concert in Berlin four years ago that included Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim.
At such moments, the pianist links arms with such stalwarts of the Russian school as Horowitz, Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels, taking his place within an artistic tradition famed for vigor and command.
In a city famed for its culture and artistic heritage from being the birthplace of Joan Miró, as well as home to Antoni Gaudí's ornately decorative buildings, the Picasso Museum and the medieval Gothic Quarter blablabLAB are carrying on the tradition of creativity and innovation while also adding a 21st century artistic spin.
Particularly famed during the conductorship of Hans Richter (artistic director 1880 96) were productions of Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
His first show in three years, 'Dorian Gray', will be a hot ticket in Edinburgh this August 47 (35) Alexander McQueen; Fashion designer This February, the one-time artistic director of Givenchy, famed for his darkly romantic style, saw his own label turn a profit for the first time.
According to Heike Biedermann, a researcher at the Dresden state archive, Glaser was famed in the east German city for the artistic and musical salons he would hold in his house, and would often drop into artists' studios in order to trade sketches for hampers of food.
Groznjan is an artistic hive of galleries and studios with a popular annual jazz festival, and Motovun is famed for its summer film festival with movies viewed outdoors among the castle and fortress walls.
As her husband was highly intelligent, artistic and gay, one might without difficulty reason that Prince Philipp of Hesse, whose lovers included famed English anti-war poet Siegfried Sassoon, who had Jewish ancestry, to have been an unlikely spouse for the Roman Catholic princess.
Artistic types may have settled its warehouses, but it's fair to say that Bethnal Green isn't yet famed for its restaurant culture.
