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Erin Vaugan Draws the Forests and the Trees - Fullerton artist does whimsical cards and dioramas about the great outdoors

I squealed the first time I saw Erin Vaughan's work. There, sitting on a shelf, was a three-dimensional, vintage trailer made from paper; it was small enough to park in the palm of your hand. You could see rivets in the aluminum door and into the ti...

by LP Hastings on April 16, 2015
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DAX Gallery Gathers Masters and Rookies - The Costa Mesa gallery showcases nine artists--some mentors, some disciples, all talented

Even from outside the glass doors of DAX Gallery's "Undeniable," it's apparent why the paintings displayed inside make Andrea Harris McGee's "heart race" (quoting the show's press release). Big ideas; artfully positioned larger pieces than we're use...

by DAVE BARTON on April 9, 2015
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Driving Miz Daisy's Expert Finds - Saddleback College hosts this vintage market-meets-craft fair

"I've taken the things that nobody wanted since I was little," says Charlene Goetz. The co-creator of the Driving Miz Daisy vintage market at Saddleback College is a true digger. Goetz and her business partner, Shelly Peterson, have been antique dea...

by LP Hastings on April 9, 2015
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STAGEStheatre Stages Two Comedies - Dead Man's Cell Phone and The Book of Liz take on the human comedy that is life

Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone and David and Amy Sedaris' The Book of Liz feel as different as lobster bisque does from a breakfast burrito. The first is a time-, space- and form-bending comedy with poignant, poetic accents, while the latter is ...

by Joel Beers on April 2, 2015
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Buy USA Forever! - Frye Boot Co., Imogene + Willie, and American Apparel: brands you should favor over cheap Chinese shit

I can talk crap on America for days, but politics and the medical industry aside, we know how to make products that last--and it's important we continue to support those products and, in turn, our economy. Items made in China have a reputation for f...

by LP Hastings on April 2, 2015
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Fred Tomaselli Is Grooved Out, Man - Orange County Museum of Art's show of the artist shows his pieces are 45 years too late

"Fred Tomaselli: The Times," at Orange County Museum of Art, is the first Southern California solo exhibition of the artist's work in 15 years, but it posits a Hunter S. Thompson stoner's nihilism about pharmaceuticals and politics that made a lot m...

by DAVE BARTON on March 26, 2015
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Elimination Cleanse Works - Diggestive cleanses come and go, but this one actually works

When you tell people you're on a cleanse, you're mostly met with grunts and eye rolls. Admittedly, some are ridiculous. Only drinking lemon, honey and cayenne water until you can't think straight just seems dumb. Unfortunately, extreme cleanses m...

by LP Hastings on March 26, 2015
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Marc Masterson Is South Coast Repertory's Keeper of the Flame - The Costa Mesa institution's fine play tradition continues four years into Masterson's helm

South Coast Repertory (SCR) has won scores of local and national awards in its fiftysomething years, but next to the 20 bestowed upon it by this august publication, nothing matches the glittering trophy on display in its lobby: a 1988 Tony Award for...

by Joel Beers on March 19, 2015
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Bonobos Your Man - Fashion Island gets a hipster 'guideshop'

It takes a lot to get Weeklings to Fashion Island. We don't dress like Andy from The Office, and shit, do you know how much writers are paid? Yet the opening of the Bonobos Guideshop offers something different. It began as an online store in 2007...

by LP Hastings on March 19, 2015
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Chapman University Revisits the F Word - 'XX Redux' lands at the Guggenheim Gallery

At the entrance to Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery's "XX Redux: revisiting a feminist art collective," husband-and-wife artists Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner gaze at each other over a bouquet of daisies. A line at the bottom tells us, "She m...

by DAVE BARTON on March 12, 2015
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Natural Products Expo West 2015: Best of the Best - Natracare tampons, Sir Richards condoms, Shea Yeleen body balm and more

"The trick is to grab everything quickly," Mexican In Chief Gustavo Arellano said. "No discernment. You want to get out of there before someone tries to talk to you." He said this with his hands full of reusable swag bags so laden with freebies t...

by LP Hastings on March 12, 2015
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'Alien She' Brings Riot Grrrl Energy to OCMA

The gaggle of teenage boys wearing Minecraft tees, bad complexions and thick-framed glasses starts to giggle, grimace and look askance immediately upon entering the gallery at the Orange County Museum of Art. Ginger Brooks Takahashi's stuffed jeans ...

by DAVE BARTON on March 5, 2015
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The Factory & Co. Is Harveys' New Concept

Harveys means one thing to most people: seatbelt bags. Their ubiquity in OC, on the arms of girls (and even guys) of all social stations, is just wonderful. And the company's national presence grows every year. And now, after 17 years in business, H...

by LP Hastings on March 5, 2015
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Bonnie & Clyde at the Costa Mesa Playhouse Impresses

It shouldn't surprise anyone that two of America's most iconic criminals, Bonnie and Clyde, received the musical-theater treatment. Not when you consider the genre has tackled, or limped over, everything from anthropomorphized cats and New York City...

by Joel Beers on February 26, 2015
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Trendzilla: Brandon Mu?oz Is the Monk Behind Monkwood

"I'm always experimenting," says Brandon "Monk" Mu?oz. "I've been working with wood my whole life, but there came a point when I said, 'If I have to build another cabinet, I'm gonna go insane.'" Instead, the 37-year-old father of four sawed his o...

by LP Hastings on February 26, 2015
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Marshall Pailet Takes on Loch Ness at Chance Theater

If it were possible to speculate in the stock of a creative person, this chump would cobble together whatever few ducats he had lying around and invest them in Marshall Pailet. The writer and director of the musical Loch Ness, currently making its w...

by Joel Beers on February 19, 2015
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Trendzilla: Yoni Eggs Exercise Your Vag

Want to make your sex life a billion times better, not pee your pants when you're old, and save your vagina from eventually falling out? Good! Let me introduce you to yoni eggs. Yoni (the Sanskrit word for hoo-hahs) eggs are carved from crystal a...

by LP Hastings on February 19, 2015
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Celebrating OC Weekly's Favorite Visual Artists

Think curator Stephan "Bax" Baxter's chasing a review by gathering together four artists who've been named Best Visual Artist in OC Weekly? You're just being cynical. Think his sneaky appeal to our vanity succeeded because you're reading that review...

by DAVE BARTON on February 12, 2015
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Trendzilla: A Little Known Shop Isn't

For proof that Community in Anaheim is making entrepreneurship less scary, consider A Little Known Shop. Where else could taxidermied yetis, baby booties, geeky fan art and same-sex marriage prints be successfully sold under the same brand? After tw...

by LP Hastings on February 12, 2015
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Tristan & Yseult's Postmodern Timelessness

It's not often the average person's Spotify playlist veers from Richard Wagner to Dexys Midnight Runners, then to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It's probably as uncommon as the smorgasbord of sights, sounds, textures and orchestrated chaos afoot in T...

by Joel Beers on February 5, 2015