"It's a little bit like heroin—once you get a dose, it's hard to stop," says surfing photographer Ron Romanosky, who has also just told you... More >>

Rick Frausto hates big cars, Big Oil, big corporations and big government—the Bush administration, in which the first three out of four... More >>

In a 1997 interview for the catalog of her eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Catherine Opie reflects on the... More >>

The Office, an Art Space (the magic mushroom amid industrial-park cow shit) is now showing exhibits by two area artists centering on the tiny... More >>

"Bring your laundry money!" Sure, these words are not often part of your typical art-exhibit invite, but if you don't bring your quarters to the... More >>

Rock & roll stars: they're what every teenager with a $200 used guitar and a vivid imagination dreams of becoming when they grow up. That is,... More >>

Lately, I've been explaining to any folks unlucky enough to be trapped in cocktail chatter with me that it's gotten to the point where I... More >>

No "battle" like Astrakio's and Zoomzip's has ever been witnessed—or, at least, not in Orange County. In this rare performance, two Orange... More >>

"I don't know which one of you is crazier," the auctioneer scolded two bidders Saturday, during what amounted to a pregnant pause in the... More >>

This year's Orange County Philharmonic House of Design, its annual fund-raiser, is within sight of last year's Sunset Magazine design house, in... More >>