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Cultural Institutions and Parks

  • Calendar

    March 8, 2012

    North Orange County Heritage Festival

    Muckenthaler Cultural Center

  • Calendar

    December 15, 2011
  • Calendar

    November 17, 2011
  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    [UPDATED with SJC Spooked:] Banning Pervs in Parks Sweeps OC

    ​UPDATE, AUG. 17, 11:17 A.M.: It's become so routine it's lost its news value: The District Attorney's office announces it's sending a rep before the latest of the 7,000 city councils in Orange County considering a ban on sex offenders in local parks modeled after the county law co-written by DA T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    [UPDATED with Early RSM Nod:] Banning Pervs in Parks Sweeps OC

    ​UPDATE, JULY 29, 9:41 A.M.: The Rancho Santa Margarita City Council voted Wednesday night to move ahead with a ban on registered sex offenders in city parks that is similar to the county law enacted in April.The council agreed that banning only those who have preyed on children would leave kids v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Brats Berlin Luxe Lonchera Debuts This Weekend

    Brats Berlin website​When Christian Murcia of Crepes Bonaparte thought about expanding their mobile empire, he decided the best move would be to introduce a new concept. Brats Berlin, an interactive experience colliding street art with street food, was born. We're talking six bratwurst varieties ( ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    [UPDATED with SJC Law on Agenda:] Banning Pervs in Parks Sweeps OC

    ​UPDATE, JUNE 22, 10:09 A.M.: While expressing some concern the county pervs-in-parks ban is too broad, the San Juan Capistrano City Council did decide Tuesday night to bring a local ordinance back for a vote July 5.Among the options the city with huge swaths of open space will explore are applyin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Art Jumps From Canvas to Screen at Cinema Orange Tonight

    ​Frank Herbert Mason painted the Resurrection of Christ on display in Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York and eight large paintings of the Life of St. Anthony of Padua permanently installed in the 11th Century Church of San Giovanni de Malta in Venice.But, as demonstrated in a documentary scre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Online Petition Drive Targets Santa Ana Zoo Elephant Rides

    Laura Goldman, who lives in Los Angeles, read an LA Times article last November about the Santa Ana Zoo's elephant rides, which have been blasted by animal-rights activists and defended by city officials."I thought it was bizarre that a zoo would offer elephant rides," Goldman tells me of her reacti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Bolton Colburn, Laguna Art Museum Director, Resigns

    ​After nearly 15 years, Bolton Colburn is stepping down from the directorship of the Laguna Art Museum. The Laguna Beach Independent broke this puzzling news in an article published yesterday, stating that Colburn voluntarily resigned, effective May 13. The article didn't provide any explanation f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    420 Art Show Up In Smoke

    ​This is what we get for running with a press release about an art show with the word "chronic" in the title. Last week we received an e-mail from a gentleman named Sergio Sandoval associated with skate, surf and smoke-lifestyle company, Long Beach Chronic. The impresario was promoting a 420 event ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2011
  • Calendar

    December 30, 2010

    John Paul Jones Exhibit

    Laguna Art Museum

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2010

    El Carnaval de las Calaveras

    Fullerton College Art gallery

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    [CORRECTION:] Santa Ana Zoo Defends Elephant Rides as County and Animal Rights Groups Seethe

    ​CORRECTION: Residents cannot get into Santa Ana Zoo free this weekend, that promotion was last weekend. We regret the error. If you happen to pass by the elephants at Santa Ana Zoo, you might want to think twice before going on a ride.That's because the County of Orange has a rule: Don't touch th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2010
  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    William Louis Poolman Accused of Sending Mysterious White Powder to Spook Parking Citation Workers

    ​A man angry over a $68 parking ticket he received at Carpentaria State Park will be arraigned today for allegedly sending an envelope containing white powder to spook employees of a Costa Mesa-based parking citation collection company. William Louis Poolman answers to one felony count of mailing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    Gay-Bashed Artist Shows Work at Site of Hate Crime Against Him

    ​Santa Ana artist Skeith De Wine was victimized by gay bashing on Sept., 18, 2008, in front of what is now Belsito Roche Fine Art Gallery on East Broadway in Long Beach.Exactly a year to the day after the hate crime that left De Wine with severe dental damage, a nose broken in two places and a fra ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 4, 2009

    [Summer Guide] Different Brushstrokes This Summer at OC's Art Venues

    ​Santa Ana artist Skeith De Wine was victimized by gay bashing on Sept., 18, 2008, in front of what is now Belsito Roche Fine Art Gallery on East Broadway in Long Beach.Exactly a year to the day after the hate crime that left De Wine with severe dental damage, a nose broken in two places and a fra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Long Beach Museum Express Bus Seems Pretty Magic

    Mission San Juan CapistranoYeah yeah yeah, it's a Long Beach thing, but look where the Museum Express bus, which starts running June 2, goes this year: the Bowers Museum; California Science Center; Museum of Natural History; Getty Museum; Getty Villa; Griffith Park Observatory; Hollywood Museum; Hun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    "Art" Stands in the Way of Demolition at Irvine Hospital

    The fountain of disputeInternationally recognized Laguna Beach artist Marlo Bartels creates whimsical-but-functional sculptures that grace parks, museums and even the inside of people's homes. The city of Burbank commissioned him to make "Early Burbank," a 10x10 foot tile mural. Two undulating mosai ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 9, 2009

    Kilimanjaro

    Bowers Museum

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2009
  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    Interesting Op-Ed Pieces on FBI Informant, Toll Roads

    In "Breach of Trust: FBI Wants It Both Ways," the editorial board of UC Irvine's New University student newspaper takes issue with the indictment of a Muslim resident of Tustin and the use of a controversial government informant. (Background is here and here.) The case is bound to have a chilling ef ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 6, 2008

    OCMA's 2008 California Biennial Is the Gift That Keeps On (and On and On) Giving

    In "Breach of Trust: FBI Wants It Both Ways," the editorial board of UC Irvine's New University student newspaper takes issue with the indictment of a Muslim resident of Tustin and the use of a controversial government informant. (Background is here and here.) The case is bound to have a chilling ef ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 19, 2008

    Dalí Would

    Salvador Dalí

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2008

    The "Good Photo" Exhibit @ OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art

    Upon arriving at the OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art in Huntington Beach, I must admit I was surprised. On day two of the gallery’s "Good Photo" exhibition, I found myself not outside the impressive walls of a contemporary art gallery, but somewhere in Germany. Nestled in the heart of the Old Wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2008

    To Do Tonight 5/19

    Karaoke Madness, 9 p.m. Oh the madness! Hogue Barmichael's 3950 Campus Dr. Newport Beach, CA 92660 949-261-6270 Joyride Mondays, 8 p.m. I can ride the joy with no handlebars. The Pike Bar & Grill 1836 E. Fourth St. Long Beach, CA 90802 562-437-4453 Neil Verni, Until 7 p.m. Laguna Beach artist Neil ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 15, 2008

    Goodmovie

    Badlands

  • Culture

    March 27, 2008
  • Blogs

    March 1, 2008

    Dance, Monkey, Dance

    With the skies painted a dismal gray, and my mood darkening to match what loomed overhead, I headed to Santa Ana for the Santa Ana Zoo’s weekend birthday celebration. What’s that, you say? Santa Ana has a zoo? Yessiree. That it does and this weekend, the zoo turns 56. Fifty-six years of caged m ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 1, 2007

    A.A.

    Ansel Adams: Artist Obscured at Bowers Museum

  • Culture

    November 23, 2006

    Heat and Communism

    'Unbroken Ties: Dialogues of Cuban Art'

  • Film

    September 28, 2006

    Special Screenings

    Movie of the Week: La Belle et le Bete (Beauty and the Beast)

  • News

    August 17, 2006

    Toll Road Rage

    Hey, Porter! New firm cashes in on bad toll-road PR

  • Film

    June 8, 2006

    Home is Where the Art Is

    Three Women and a Chateau

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2006

    New Poll Takes Its Toll

    A public opinion survey released this fine Wednesday morning shows that 73% of Californians are opposed to extending a toll road through San Onofre State Beach. Last September, the Transportation Corridor Agencies commissioned their annual public opinion poll on how much we all love toll roads. The ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 22, 2005

    This Week in Forget Santa, Here Comes Jesus!

    Jesus Rafael Soto: The Universality of the Immaterial

  • Features

    January 27, 2005

    Uglier Losers

    RVCAs New Image skate art show has everything Beautiful Losers doesnt

  • Culture

    January 6, 2005

    Fool's Gold

    Bowers Queen of Sheba Lacks Treasure, Answers

  • Culture

    November 25, 2004

    Now Thats What I Call Art!

    At Laguna Art Museum, the song remains the same

  • Culture

    October 14, 2004

    Neo Classy

    At Laguna Art Museum, the song remains the same

  • Features

    February 5, 2004

    Cue Banjos

    I was in love with my cousin

  • Culture

    October 31, 2002

    Smallville

    Marin exhibit lacks soul

  • Culture

    November 16, 2000

    Great Slabs O' Dead Stuff!

    OCCCA's 'Extreme' is a 'Sensation'!

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    Bad Deeds Go Unpunished

    Officials say discovery that county parks are open for development is no big deal

  • Culture

    March 30, 2000

    The Truth About Beauty

    It can be downright ugly

  • News

    September 16, 1999

    Beach Reach

    Public access jeopardized at Crystal Cove

  • Culture

    July 15, 1999

    Hanoi (Art) Rocks!

    Protests aside, the Bowers exhibit is beautiful

  • Culture

    May 13, 1999

    Off the Strip

    A guide to weird Las Vegas

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