The Daily Aztec

For nine months I have been living in a hostel-style beach house with a half-dozen other women, and by now I have a pretty good idea of what to expect when I come home.

An aroma of eastern spices constantly lingers at the corner of Eighth Avenue and Market Street thanks to the Asian modern mix at J. Wok. This clean and casual East Village restaurant is easy to find, and if the smell doesn’t draw in diners, the 4.5 foot wide swinging wooden door will.

In 2007, best friends Zack Parker and Taylor Paul arrived in Lido, Papua New Guinea in search of the perfect wave.

Imagine a work environment designed to make life as pleasant and productive as possible.

While looking at their bill at the end of the month, credit card holders will usually see a small charge from their credit card company.

Heading south on 30th Street, just past University Avenue, one particular establishment stands out.

Modern technology is drastically changing the way people communicate, collect information and live.

After sifting through pages of Craigslist ads and sending dozens of e-mails, job hunters will usually receive a response. With a strong interview, the job is theirs and feelings of anxiousness turn into relief and joy.

Tonight will not be a standard evening downtown. It will be a fat one. World famous disc jockeys, fairies on stilts and more than 100,000 people decorated in bright beads will be flooding Fifth Avenue from 6 p.m. to midnight.

Los Angeles County is comprised of 4,060 square miles of developed land overflowing with restaurants, bars, clubs, stores and an estimated 10 million people. To put things into perspective, San Diego County is about 139 square miles larger than L.A., but has an estimated 6,800,000 less people.

Although the worst economic downturn since The Great Depression, also now known as The Great Recession, ended in June 2009, the United States, California and San Diego are still suffering.

The older crowd of music junkies may remember the time when cassettes were put to shame by CDs and when sounds once recorded on magnetic tape went digital. Rewinding further back, vinyl records dominated the music scene in the early 1920s.