Illustration by Bob AulWe are all Derrideans now—sort of. The proof is last year's election. No one knows who "really" won. The truth of... More >>

Is someone smitten with you? Are you the sassy brunette in the cereal aisle, perhaps? The blonde in the green Honda on the 405 freeway at... More >>

Clay is a difficult medium, as anyone who's ever made the ugliest fish in fourth-grade art class can attest. It either falls in on itself,... More >>

Lower life forms attract Catherine Chalmers. No, she's not interested in Bud-drinking, ball-scratching shlubs, but rather such tiny creatures as... More >>

Sirens of incall/outcall, they beckon from the back pages of weeklies like, well, ours. What healthy, red-blooded heterosexual male with a fresh... More >>

Photo by Jack GouldThe Salton Sea, somewhere to the left of San Diego from where we sit, should be a hideous excursion into the kind of flatness... More >>

It just happened again: a few minutes ago, I dropped money I don't have on an old blues 78 on eBay. My heart soars; my bank account declines... More >>

Roland Reiss' "New Paintings and Selected Sculpture" at the Huntington Beach Art Center is a Pavlovian bell for art-critic doctor types who talk... More >>

Photo by Jack GouldRobt. Williams is the raunchy old man whose hideous and loving depictions of gigantic bazooms and mucous light the fires of a... More >>

In October 2000, San Clemente High School photography students; their instructor, Dan McIntyre; and their chaperones traveled nine hours into the... More >>