Today, "Clueless" darling Alicia Silverstone calls it "The Kind Diet." Now rewind back to 1944, when Donald Watson coined this term, "vegan." In November of that year, Watson founded The Vegan Society and shook up the vegetarian revolution with a new lifestyle completely free of animal products. Read more...

Photo: The Veggie Grill’s “All Hail Kale Salad” includes marinated kale and red cabbage, roasted corn salsa and agave-roasted walnuts with a ginger-papaya vinaigrette. There is also an option to add blackened chicken.

Los Angeles is losing something. Last fall, local officials began an aggressive campaign to rid the Los Angeles River Basin of graffiti, slathering vibrant and animated paintings and tags with sheets of gray paint. Read more...

Photo: One of the works in “Lost Angeles” is by art history student Jacob Patterson. Courtesy of JACOB PATTERSON

It is rather fitting to title a graduation exhibition "Hello World." Read more...

Photo: Design | Media Arts graduate student Gautam Rangan features the myth of the Hindu goddess Durga in his installation “Durga Vuelta.” Rangan is one of six master of fine arts candidates presenting their work in the group exhibition “Hello World” at the New Wight Gallery in Broad Art Center.

Genie Cartier starts her workout with a handstand on a chair. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year English student Genie Cartier is an acrobat, aerialist and fire dancer for Machina Candeo, a circus group in Los Angeles. Cartier is also a published poet who will attend a master’s of fine arts program in writing at San Francisco State University this fall.

The prerequisites of becoming a fashion model are rigid: One must be at least 5 feet 8 inches tall, have a decent face and subsist on a diet of grapes and nuts, unless one has a genetically gifted metabolism. Read more...

Photo: Fashion and Student Trends Modeling Director Hector Marquez and model Marissa Cohnen strike a pose. For the last two years, Marquez has selected student models like Cohnen and taught them to effectively strut down the runway.