Irvine Global Village Festival This Weekend

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • September 26, 2012
We like to poke a little fun at Irvine for being a master-planned, vanilla-flavored utopia, because, well, it is. But I'd be hypocrite if I didn't say that I actually do a lot of my eating here. I am also embarrassed to say that after writing...
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