Gotta shake out the notebook everyone once in a while – a good way to shift perspective, a useful exercise in endeavors entrepreneurial and otherwise. This shift brings a street-level compendium of some prized points where the community of business intersects with the larger society of the City of Angels on everything from the environment of our cityscape to lunch scenes around town. … Start with the coniferous treat you’ll find on the big lawn at Wilshire Boulevard and Oxford Avenue, in front of Radio Korea’s local offices. Who figures that some property owner would go with a bunch of evergreens on a prime piece of the Wilshire Corridor? Enjoy it while you can – word around Wilshire says it might yield to development in the near future. … Anyone who visits the little forest should cross Oxford and take in the art deco delight of the Wiltern Theatre. There really ought to be a shade of green named for tiles that accent the 12-story standout. … Quite a spot, that particular intersection, where a glance across Wilshire will include the lovely columned courtyard with bookends that bespeak the American melting pot and assimilation in our city – a branch of Chase at one end, with Korean-American community bank Pacific City at the other. … You have to poke around a bit for another sign of assimilation, which isn’t exactly obvious by the presence of the Korea Times Media Group’s office between the two banks. Go up a block to Sixth Street and hang a right, though, and you might notice this billboard for the Korea Times’ U.S. edition, an English-language effort that’s distributed digitally and offers a clear reminder that the concept of assimilation can accommodate big business ambitions. … It’s more a matter of synthesis than assimilation for Eataly LA, the Italian market and restaurant that will soon join the lineup at the renovated Westfield Century City. The synthesis comes with an intellectual perspective, which was offered by Oscar Farinetti, founder and owner of Eataly, who recently flew in from Torino and spent time giving members of the L.A. media some background on the concept ahead of the opening in Century City. Farinetti made the claim that Los Angeles is home to about 70 percent of the digital arts that are reshaping the world, and Italy is home to about 70 percent of the “patrimony of arts” – the classical examples of the glorious pre-digital works. Accurate? Not exactly, but Farinetti painted a compelling picture in his own way, and it’s worth considering his viewpoint alongside the rest of what Eataly offers. … Another nice mix of art and fine food comes at Ray’s & Stark at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where the skirt steak is tasty, the silverware in a drawer provides a cute surprise, and you just can’t beat the lunchtime breezes in the courtyard. … Sullivan Says: Anyone interested in a local puzzler can go to the backside of Union Station some Friday evening to take in a calm that somehow manages to be very L.A. and very untypical of this place all at once.