A wise sage—is there any other kind?—once said MTV2's Wonder Showzen "is like Sesame Street on acid." Or was it crack? Oxycontin?... More >>

The Romantic tradition has always attempted to reproduce such strong, almost imperialistic emotions as awe, horror and fear into music, art and... More >>

Only children have long been regarded as loners who never experienced the great joys of getting pummeled into a dry-heaving hysteria by older... More >>

FALLING SAFESIt was one of those safes falling on you from a third-story window, a cartoon moment of consciousness-flattening, tweeting bluebirds... More >>

Mark Dutcher's world is shot through with holes. His show at the Office in Huntington Beach, "Go for Broken," is a deceptively childlike... More >>

In 1974, William Friedkin was one of the hottest movie directors in the world. He'd won the Academy Award for best direction three years... More >>

This isn't about bashing SciFi Channel; I'll be the first to cheer them for turning a remake of a beloved but lightweight genre classic into a... More >>

Long Beach artist Blaine Fontana is perhaps the clearest proof yet that the lowbrow art world has arrived—in stores. Few artists before him... More >>

It's a common occurrence for UC Irvine's graduate students to make the trek out to UCLA or USC for important international conferences and... More >>

"Landscape Confection" at the Orange County Museum of Art is perfectly serviceable, if a little dull—we've seen these works going back... More >>