"We have a request to see more décolletage," says turquoise-haired Kelly Castillo as she adjusts the ponytails of Kelsie Blackwell, the... More >>

A few weeks after my piece about Barbara T. Smith's 1981 "Birthdaze" performance ran ("The Angry Penis Lives"), a friend of mine's artist husband... More >>

Amid the hearty backslapping at lectures, performances, galas and dinners celebrating the Getty's massive Southern California-wide arts... More >>

Coined in 1987 by novelist K.W. Jeter, the term "steampunk" is a literary subgenre of sci-fi and pulp stories, a retro melding of Jules Verne,... More >>

Curators Dorian Rooney and Carl Berg's "Eyes of the World: Exhibition of Visual Journalism" at Irvine Fine Arts Center begins with what you would... More >>

The other day, a friend of mine posted to my Facebook page an image of Steve Jobs with the headline "1 Person Dies and 100 million cry"; next to... More >>

The culty goodness of the Coen Brothers' 1998 film, The Big Lebowski, escapes me. A comic ode to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, with its femme... More >>

Embrace your inner geek. It's a motto of all those in the Blizzard Entertainment tribe, and one that Tom Chilton, Chris Robinson and J. Allen... More >>

Rin Tanaka's love for vintage Americana is one that's hard to find even here—in America. You can call him an American vintage-fashion... More >>

Centuries before the United States sent armies to the Middle East to gain or preserve potential petroleum reserves, American ships slaughtered... More >>