Design

Peinture Chalks It Up

[Trendzilla] Deborah Cooper-Ramos teaches you how to touch up antique furniture at her new Costa Mesa shop

'The Essence of Art Nouveau'

Bowers Museum

Rush, The Mentors, The Germs and Crass: That Disney Shirt Gets Parodied by Dave Noise

​You know Dave Noise over at Factory Records, right? Well, it turns out that he not only sells records, he's hilarious and pretty good with the Photoshop. Hence his brand spankin' new Tumblr account called "Mickey Mouse Meets Ian Curtis," featuring parodies of the Joy Division-inspired Mickey shir ... More >>

Superman

Regency South Coast Village

Local Record Review: 'Captured American Flag Displayed Upside Down' by Kabong

​KabongCaptured American Flag Displayed Upside DownWild WarthogCall it Orange County's history of not-quite-mainstream when it comes to politics, call it a release perfectly timed for the moment given Occupy Wall Street is happening, call it a mixture of anti-authoritarian impulses over the pas ... More >>

Del Taco's New Logo Looks A Lot Like Its Old Logo

​Here's the Del Taco logo we know and love. After the jump, see the spiffy new logo!   

The Art of iPhone Photography

Facebook photo albums are littered with the digital debris of people spontaneously whipping out their iPhones and snapping the most mundane images. Kittens, gay beefcake, drunken frat parties, new babies, Republican Congressmen answering Craigslist postings; an influx of images, ... More >>

John Paul Jones Exhibit

Laguna Art Museum

Analog Music Rising From the Ashes: And Vinyly Will Press Human Remains into LPs

​According to Wired, a British company is planning to press cremated human remains into LP records. And yes, the platters will  play music. Jason Leach, who founded the company And Vinyly explained there were a number of reasons behind his decision to embark on this peculiar busines ... More >>

What Do You Get When You Mix Surfing and Green Living?

​The San Clemente Surfrider Foundation and the Orange County chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council tonight kick off events that celebrate Southern California's surfing heritage, sustainable materials and ocean protection."Surfing, Ocean Stewardship and Green Building" is the title of a ... More >>

Cuban Modernism

MOLAA

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Read This: The Prop 8 Trial Closing Arguments

Kimberly Valenzuela​The closing arguments in the lawsuit challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage were delivered on Wednesday. Cameras weren't allowed into the courtroom, but there were plenty of observers blogging the proceedings. But you don't need to get the arguments filtered. Be ... More >>

Menus And The People Who Write Them Badly

Flickr user othermaciej under Creative Commons​Why is it so hard to find properly written menus? Some are too concise and offer no details; others can't shut up. Below are twelve helpful hints for people doing menu writing.

The Glory of Athens

Bowers Museum

Descubre el Arte: José Guadalupe Posada

MOLAA

KOOZA

Orange County Great Park

Student Show/Cirque du Soleil Raffle

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art

ENC Green Building Tour

Environmental Nature Center

Wednesday Art Studio

Fullerton Museum

Wax On, Wax Off: Surfrider Foundation Builds Green

Surfrider.org​The buildings of Surfrider's global headquarters in San Clemente make up just one more demonstration of their commitment to preserving our coastal environment. The U.S Green Building Council (USGBC), an organization with a strict rating system for design and construction, awarded Sur ... More >>

Masquerade

Sandstone Art Gallery

Segerstrom Towers Achieve LEED-EB Gold Certification

Plaza TowerSegerstrom Co., the developer of South Coast Plaza and most of the Costa Mesa-Santa Ana-straddling South Coast Metro area, announced this week that its Plaza Tower, Center Tower and Park Tower achieved LEED-EB Gold Certification, the first multi-tenant buildings in California and three of ... More >>

Multiple Modernities

The Art Resource Group

Long Beach Antique Market

Veterans Stadium

[Best of OC 2008 Post Cards] Shops & Wares: Greetings From Stephanie Cook

[Aural Reports] Adrian Ross Is One of the Few Who Make Money in the Music Industry

Dese and Dose

New York School: Art Under the Influence

Engrave Circumstances

Pressing Matters: 500 Years of Wine in Art

OC Music Fest 09 Partners with Be The Shirt for Contest

What are you doing in May 2009? Not sure yet? Well, try to pencil in a few days for OC Music Fest 09, which happens in about 10 months in Irvine and promises to feature nearly 100 established and up-and-coming bands. In the meantime, you creative types may want to enter the Be The Shirt band/art ... More >>

Wide Screen Story

West Side Story

Thanks Coca-Cola... I Guess.

Sending over a giant box filled with Coke bottles, the Coca-Cola giants' latest little project includes bringing together Eastern graphic designers from China (I can only assume Coke is going to be a huge sponsor for the ‘08 Olympics), and West-side-of-the hemisphere musicians— mostly DJs like ... More >>

Jazz Times Ten

UCI Jazz Orchestra 
Winter Concert

Société des 
Artistes Huntington

Centered on the Center

Graveyard shift at the Times' OC plant, anyone?

If your dream job involves working 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. or 11:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m., has the Los Angeles Times got something for you! Get Informed about a company built on courage, achievement and creativity. A company that’s part of the most dynamic industry in the world – media! The Los An ... More >>

Carol On

A Christmas Carol

The Precarious State of Album Art

With desire for the actual physical object of music recordings waning among the general public, the fate of album art hangs precariously in the balance. This piece (written by Bryan Borzykowski) captures the prevailing attitude among young music fans and major-label execs, who seem to be all whatevs ... More >>

This Week in Cecile Whiting Loves Los Angeles

Pop LA: Picturing the City in the 1960s

VCA Arroyo Animal Hospital

Oo La La!

French friskiness rules at Stages

Home is Where the Digital Heart Is

Tyler Stallings strange new world

From Homeless To Fat

Sound In Colors sampledelic spawn

The Feng Shui Psychic

Shari Clemens design aesthetic is about what you cant see with your eyeballs

Twin Peeks

Whats Humming Through the Skulls of Orange County?

This Boy Cant Dance

Risky choice, faulty execution in Irvine production