For one week in fall, the Smashbox studios in Culver City are abuzz with the latest fashions. Last week was no exception as over 20 of Los Angeles' best designers displayed their Spring 2009 collections at the Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week.
It is in the heated weeks before the presidential election that the neatly manicured streets of Irvine receive an extra splash of color. If you have driven around at all, you will note that the cause is hardly the changing leaves of autumn. Instead it is the abundance of political yard signs. Although the signs predominantly feature varying shades of red and blue, it is Orange County's reputation as a more-or-less socially conservative area that makes it no surprise to see a smattering of canary-yellow "Yes on 8" signs.
Another frozen yogurt shop has arrived in Irvine: Céfiore. Although this quaint yogurt shop provides its yogurt at 39 cents per ounce, nine cents more than the price of its popular competitor, Yogurtland, it's definitely worth it.
Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Donald Rumsfeld are just a few of the faces you can see when taking up one of the unique University of California-District of Columbia (UCDC) Summer and Academic Internship Programs. UC Irvine sends its best and brightest undergraduates to Washington, D.C. to live, play and work with the established professionals that move and shake the world.
