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Contemplating ‘Costuming the Leading Ladies of Shakespeare: From Stratford to Orange County’ at UC Irvine

Contemplating ‘Costuming the Leading Ladies of Shakespeare: From Stratford to Orange County’ at UC Irvine

April 26, 2018 By Lisa Black Leave a Comment

The first work of Shakespeare’s I ever saw ... [more]

For the Birds: Orange County Was Once the Ostrich Capital of the Nation

For the Birds: Orange County Was Once the Ostrich Capital of the Nation

Taylor Hamby

March 15, 2018 Leave a Comment

There’s something about central Orange County that attracts people to enter into bizarre enterprises involving animals and tourists. Yes, Walt Disney and his mouse are the most exemplary example, but the city has had a storied history filled with folks capitalizing on animalistic entertainment long before Disneyland took over. (In Anaheim, the Mouse owns you!) […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Columns, Culture, Newsletter - Arts, Newsletter Edit, Slider Tagged With: Anaheim, ostrich, Santa Ana Race Track, W.A. Billy Frantz, Yesternow

Though Bumpy at Times, Cambodian Rock Band Is an Exhilarating Ride

Though Bumpy at Times, Cambodian Rock Band Is an Exhilarating Ride

Joel Beers

March 14, 2018 Leave a Comment

Part play, part rock concert, part eccentric comedy set against the backdrop of the Cambodian genocide, Lauren Yee’s new play, Cambodian Rock Band, is many things stuffed into one undeniably entertaining package—stuffed being the operative term. Commissioned by South Coast Repertory (SCR), it’s now receiving its world-premiere production, and the play’s relative newness shows. While […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Culture, Newsletter - Arts - Lead, Newsletter Edit, Slider, Theater Tagged With: Cambodian Rock Band, Chay Yew, costa mesa, Daisuke Tsuji, Dengue Fever, Khmer Rouge, Lauren Yee, South Coast Repertory

Bruce Brown Tributes by Surfing Heritage & Culture Center

Bruce Brown Tributes by Surfing Heritage & Culture Center

Lisa Black

March 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

The Surfing Heritage & Culture Center (SHACC) has two ongoing tributes to the late, great filmmaker Bruce Brown, who passed away surrounded by loved ones in December of last year: The exhibit “Bruce Brown: A Life Well Lived” and the special-interest license plate that’s in the process of becoming  available for California vehicles. Once a […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Culture, Newsletter - Arts, Paint It Black, Slider Tagged With: Bruce Brown, Bruce Brown Films, Dick Metz, san clemente, Surfing Heritage & Culture Center, The Endless Summer

Crimes of the Heart Is a Southern Gothic With Legs, But It Lags

Crimes of the Heart Is a Southern Gothic With Legs, But It Lags

Joel Beers

March 8, 2018 Leave a Comment

Beth Henley won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1981 for Crimes of the Heart. What made it surprising wasn’t so much that the play wasn’t great (it was one of the more competent ones amid a meager lot of plays during a period of commercial transition in mainstream American theater), but her gender. She […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Culture, Newsletter - Arts - Lead, Slider, Theater Tagged With: Alexandra Huie, Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart, Erica Jackson, Gil Garcia IV, Jeremy Krasovic, Jon Gaw, Sam Green, STAGES theatre, Steven Biggs, Tiffany Toner

Laguna Art Museum’s ‘Tony DeLap: A Retrospective’ Conjures the Thrills

Laguna Art Museum’s ‘Tony DeLap: A Retrospective’ Conjures the Thrills

Lisa Black

March 8, 2018 1 Comment

“Tony DeLap: A Retrospective” begins where exhibits usually end at Laguna Art Museum, in the medium-sized gallery. It’s as if curator Peter Frank needed a larger space to contain DeLap’s great turning point in the early 1960s. Reminiscent of Joseph Cornell’s boxes, thick assemblages under glass hang on the left wall, including Charlie McCarthy (1963), […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Columns, Culture, Newsletter - Arts, Paint It Black Tagged With: Laguna Art Museum, Mona Lisa, Paint It Black, Peter Frank, Queen Zozer, Tony DeLap

Movie Town, OC’s Last Great Video-Rental Store, Set to Close After 25 Years

Movie Town, OC’s Last Great Video-Rental Store, Set to Close After 25 Years

Gabriel San Roman

March 5, 2018 3 Comments

On a recent Friday night, Movie Town in Anaheim bustled with more customers roaming the aisles than usual. It appeared that the video-rental store enjoyed the kind of foot traffic needed to continue making it an OC rarity in an era of digital streaming. But far from a display of resurgence, loyal customers began bidding […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Film, Newsletter - Arts, Newsletter Edit Tagged With: Anaheim, La Habra, Movie Town, Video Rentals, Video Town

The Great Parks Huell Howser Showed Us on View at Orange County Great Park

The Great Parks Huell Howser Showed Us on View at Orange County Great Park

Matt Coker

March 1, 2018 Leave a Comment

Huell Howser exposed Orange Countians (and other Californians) to the Golden State’s great parks (and beaches and lakes and mountains and rivers and etc., etc., etc.). So, it is only fitting that the Orange County Great Park is the venue for the art exhibition “Golden Parks: Huell Howser.” Opening Sunday with a reception from 1-3 […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Film and TV, News, Newsletter - Arts Tagged With: art exhibition, California's Gold, Huell Howser, Orange County Great Park

Our Man In Malta on His Semi-Annual Theatrical Pilgrimage

Our Man In Malta on His Semi-Annual Theatrical Pilgrimage

Dave Barton

March 1, 2018 Leave a Comment

Every two and a half years over the past decade, I’ve had the opportunity to go to Malta and direct a play. After more than 25 years in the business, I rarely direct locally because most local theaters don’t pay; they’re too busy chasing audiences to do anything adventurous, so there isn’t much opportunity to […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Newsletter - Arts, Newsletter Edit, Theater Tagged With: Adrian Buckle, Ashley Elizabeth Allen, Bryan Jennings, Collapse, Garage Theatre, Jeffrey Kieviet, Long Beach, Malta, Marsaskala, Unifaun Malta, Whitney Elis

This Carnage Stops Now—Except for Real Carnage [Lost In OC]

This Carnage Stops Now—Except for Real Carnage [Lost In OC]

Jim Washburn

March 1, 2018 16 Comments

I hate to think I’m prone to racial profiling, but when I hear a mass shooting announced on TV, they might as well have a stock photo of an angry white guy because that’s who it’s going to be. Angry, pimply, teenaged white guy shooting up an Arby’s or a classroom. Old, angry white guy […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Columns, Newsletter Edit Tagged With: Donald Trump, guns, Lost in OC, NRA, Second Amendment, Wayne LaPierre

Historic Japanese Site in Huntington Beach Is in Danger of Being Torn Down for a Self-Storage Facility

Historic Japanese Site in Huntington Beach Is in Danger of Being Torn Down for a Self-Storage Facility

Taylor Hamby

February 23, 2018 3 Comments

There are currently five branches of Public Storage’s self-storage facilities in Huntington Beach, with talks of adding a sixth. Coincidentally, there are just five buildings that remain from the earliest days of the Japanese settlement in Orange County during the infancy of the 20th century in what is now Huntington Beach. On the corner of […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Columns, Culture, Newsletter - Arts, Newsletter Edit Tagged With: Barnabus Terasawa, Charles Mitsuji Furuta, Historic Wintersburg Preservation Task Force, Huntington Beach, Mary Urashima, Wintersburg, Yukiko Yajima

Oh, Baby! [Special Screenings, Feb. 22-March 1]

Oh, Baby! [Special Screenings, Feb. 22-March 1]

Matt Coker

February 22, 2018 Leave a Comment

Call Me By Your Name. Charming American doctoral student Oliver (The Social Network’s Armie Hammer) goes to an Italian villa to serve as the annual summer intern for an eminent Greco-Roman culture professor (Boardwalk Empire’s Michael Stuhlbarg). But Oliver and the professor’s son Elio (TimothŽe Chalamet of Interstellar and Homeland) fall in love. Director Luca […]

Filed Under: Comedy, Film, Film and TV, Newsletter - Arts, Special Screenings Tagged With: baby driver, Call Me By Your Name, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Coco, dark crystal, don't think I've forgotten, Edward Scissorhands, girls trip, i'm gonna got you sucka, la bohemia, lodgers, mary and the witch's flower, pariah, primal rage, room, Sophie Scholl, sound of music, Tony, trouble no more, words on film

The Most Important Play You’ll Ever See Is at Cal State Long Beach

The Most Important Play You’ll Ever See Is at Cal State Long Beach

Joel Beers

February 22, 2018 4 Comments

The most important play you will ever see is currently in production at Cal State Long Beach (CSULB). Okay, that’s a bit hyperbolic, but after experiencing Dreamers: Aquí y Allá, a living piece of theater ripped from the proverbial headlines that directly addresses the uneasy, uncertain status of nearly a million people living in the […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Culture, Newsletter - Arts, Slider, Theater Tagged With: Andrea Caban, Armando Vazquez-Ramos, Cal State Long Beach, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Dreamers: Aquí y Allá, Julie Granata-Hunicutt, Studio Theatre

Well-Dressed Tots, Thanks to Saxon & SunRa!

Well-Dressed Tots, Thanks to Saxon & SunRa!

Aimee Murillo

February 22, 2018 Leave a Comment

Finding chic, tasteful clothes for your baby isn’t impossible, but to find a brand of infant clothing that is cool, handmade and gives a portion of its profits to a cause is downright amazing! Enter Saxon & SunRa (www.saxonandsunra.com), a local apparel company that has adorned babies from the U.S. to Australia in well-made, spunky […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Columns, Newsletter - Arts Tagged With: fashion, Graciela Portillo, Saxon & SunRa, Trendzilla

Survios Takes Arcades to the Next Level with Virtual Reality in Torrance

Survios Takes Arcades to the Next Level with Virtual Reality in Torrance

Josh Chesler

February 20, 2018 Leave a Comment

If you’re still thinking of an arcade as the type of place you can go to throw quarters into games like Street Fighter, Pac-Man, The House of the Dead, and that classic side-scrolling version of The Simpsons (where the buttons to play as Bart were pretty much always broken), then you’ll probably be surprised by […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Culture, Newsletter - Arts, Slider

Champagne, Chilaquiles and Drag Queens: Mary Prankster Does VLVT Lounge’s Drag Brunch

Champagne, Chilaquiles and Drag Queens: Mary Prankster Does VLVT Lounge’s Drag Brunch

Mary Carreon

February 16, 2018 Leave a Comment

Orange County is the Stepford-wife, soccer-mom, cookie-cutter-housing-tract capital of Southern California. It’s a place that projects images of affluence accented by pristinely manicured lawns behind white picket fences. But the world that exists below the surface is a hell of a lot more colorful than that plastic projection. You can take a dip into this […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Columns, Culture, Newsletter Edit Tagged With: Dani Kay, Drag Brunch, Mahaliah Nakita, Santa Ana, Trina Modele, VLVT Lounge, Wilhelmina Caviar

World Music Troubadours Four Shillings Short Play San Clemente Art Supply

World Music Troubadours Four Shillings Short Play San Clemente Art Supply

Lisa Black

February 15, 2018 Leave a Comment

  Musicians Christy Martin and Aodh Og O’Tuama of Four Shillings Short met in 1995. Two years later, the husband-and-wife duo’s first tour lasted 3 months, playing 60 gigs in 30 states and racking up 30,000 miles. Believing they’d never make a living in the Bay Area as musicians, they stopped paying rent and hit […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Music, Paint It Black Tagged With: folk music, Four Shillings Short, San Clemente Art Supply, World Music

Marigold Shadows Brings High Fashion to Goth Millennials

Marigold Shadows Brings High Fashion to Goth Millennials

Aimee Murillo

February 15, 2018 2 Comments

While most local boutiques lean more toward skin-revealing garments and beach-friendly casual-wear, one brand is bringing designer-inspired couture to your closet. Marigold Shadows’ refreshing array of individualist avant-garde clothing is a departure from on-trend retailers with its oversize fit, dark color palette and asymmetrical silhouettes. In fact, most of its inventory looks as if it […]

Filed Under: Columns, Culture, Fashion, Newsletter - Arts, Newsletter - Film Tagged With: marigold shadows, Trendzilla, zoe abel

Chance Theater’s <i>Violet</i> Exposes America’s Cultural Fault Lines via a Mid-1960s Road Trip

Chance Theater’s Violet Exposes America’s Cultural Fault Lines via a Mid-1960s Road Trip

Joel Beers

February 15, 2018 1 Comment

An actor playing a character saddled with a physical impairment is no easy feat, Daniel Day-Lewis be damned. For every one that transforms the limitation into a second skin, there are many who use it like a prop. Rather than incorporating it into the character, it becomes the character, rendering the performance more gimmicky than […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Culture, Newsletter - Arts, Newsletter - Film, Newsletter Edit, Theater Tagged With: Anaheim, Chance Theater, Chris Kerrigan, Kari Hayter, Monika Pena, Violet

Three OC Sex-Industry Workers Share Their Personal Experiences—In All Their Gory, Glorious Detail

Three OC Sex-Industry Workers Share Their Personal Experiences—In All Their Gory, Glorious Detail

Jeanette Duran

February 14, 2018 13 Comments

Editor’s Note: For this year’s annual sex issue, OC Weekly spoke to three sex workers in Orange County. Their stories are gritty and graphic, but they also reveal a sense of personal pride, dignity and even humor in a profession that, despite being known as the world’s oldest, remains tainted with shame, scorn and, perhaps […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Featured, Longform, Newsletter Edit - Lead, Slider Tagged With: Orange County, sex issue

Still Lost in OC: Once-Old Weekling Is Still Old, Still Protesting

Still Lost in OC: Once-Old Weekling Is Still Old, Still Protesting

Jim Washburn

February 9, 2018 49 Comments

“Tonight, I shall make the moon disappear!” If I were Donald Trump’s speechwriter, that would have been the sole promise of his State of the Union speech, followed by 80 minutes of Kentucky Fried Chicken farts, to keep his base happy until they were cowering at his might under the smudgy Super Blue Blood Moon. […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Columns, Culture Tagged With: Anaheim, Donald Trump, Lost in OC, NAMM, Santa Ana, women's march

<i>The Hendrix Project</i> Delivers an Experience at Off Center Fest

The Hendrix Project Delivers an Experience at Off Center Fest

Lisa Black

February 8, 2018 2 Comments

Up-ending expectations of how storytelling should unfold onstage is one of the fascinating ways the spirit of the 1960s is infused into The Hendrix Project. Conceived and directed by the creatively fierce Roger Guenveur Smith with students at Cal Arts, the show has the audience watching spectators at Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsys […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Paint It Black, Slider, Theater Tagged With: City of Costa Mesa, Jimi Hendrix, Off Center Festival, Segerstrom Center for the Arts

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