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Hometown: Long Beach, Calif...
...Tuesday's massive, afternoon-long blackout. Although temperatures have been unseasonably high this month, they were hardly torrid enough to overload the peninsula's air conditioners. It wasn't hurricane season, either, when tropical storms regularly knock out power lines. It was a tranquil, balmy afternoon by the beach - the sort of "paradise" so many thousands of people migrate here for each winter...
...casual Spirit Awards, celebs wear jeans, snack on popcorn on the blue (yes, blue) carpet, duck into porta-potties parked on the sand, and usually wrap up all their low-budget revelry by dark. But this year, as a party-starved Hollywood convened under a leaky tent on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif., the annual frolic over independent film seemed especially, well, spirited. With quirky low-budget movies like Juno and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly well represented in the Oscar nominations, the Spirit Awards didn't need to fulfill its usual role of lauding under-acknowledged indies...
...endearing and surreal, and the best way to experience it is with a tour of Santa Catarina state. The heart of the region - and one of the few places in Brazil where renting a car is a good idea - Santa Catarina is a meandering mix of lush valleys, vibrant beach life and gentle fishing villages where the legacy of early pioneers lives on. From tiny Azorean settlements like the village at Armação with its colonial-style chapel, to the grand timber-framed Germanic architecture of Blumenau (home to one of the world's biggest Oktoberfests outside Munich...
...world, that both a post-graduation job and that coveted junior summer internship will prove elusive without a sophomore-year position in finance already on the books, and—whenever possible—a freshman-year internship before that. Whatever happened to lazy summers spent reading by the beach, backpacking across Europe on a shoestring for months, or learning new languages? Why must these opportunities unique to college summers fall by the wayside of Wall Street...