(1)  Chief Operating Officer, Posie Carpenter, (center), decked out in her circa-1980s Madonna best, dances down the red carpet during the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center's 8oth Anniversary Celibration on Sunday, October 15, 2006.(2,3) The  Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center staff dances during the fashion show.(4) Nurse Geri Braddock, sporting a white nurse's uniform and hat from the 1970s, models on the red carpet during the fasion show. Every model represented a different decade beginning with the 20's going through to  2000.

(1) Seven year old student from Edison Language Academy, Sandra English and her mother Vickie Nunez, perform 'La Llorana' during the "Day of the Dead' festival on Saturday, October 29. (2) Sandra English shows her mother  the sugar skull which she made in class  for the alter.  (3) Claudia Vizcarra places a paper butterfly with the name of a loved dead one onto the tree to be honored and remembered. (4) Traci Wallace, an Edison parent, places a 'Calacast' onto one of the many colorful alters.