Lovers can be godawful at picking up suggestions. But leaving an OC Weekly on the dining table, one turned to a page with a luscious woman on it (wait . . . I thought that was every page?) could boost your chances at scoring a lovely gift from your ...
Mourning the loss of his recently deceased father, Santa Ana psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Peter Gelker picked up the woodworking tools the old man had left behind, read a few how-to books and began to create art. The resulting whirligigs--mechaniz...
One of the best things we can do for our skin is wearing sunscreen, even in "winter." Seriously. When you meet an older woman with supple cheeks and nary a wrinkle, ask her what her secret is--it's gonna be sunscreen. But as with anything else in th...
Though the phrase "going viral" didn't yet possess cultural cachet, Rodney King's odyssey certainly served as a template. From the blurry hand-held video that captured his police encounter (read: beat-down) on March 3, 1991, to the subsequent aquitt...
After starting her brand I Must Draw (www.imustdraw.com), Desiree B. realized that when spoken aloud, especially with her British accent, it sounded like "I'm a straw." But if you're familiar with her teensy cards and cute hand-sewn plushies, the mi...
Grace Kook-Anderson stands in the final room of the Elizabeth Turk exhibition at Laguna Art Museum (LAM), surrounded by the artist's enigmatic creations. The soft, white flesh of marble sculptures and chalk writing on the black-box walls is behind u...
If there's one thing downtown Fullerton has covered, it's beverages. And not just of the alcoholic variety--there are quite a few fantastic coffee shops, as well, including Green Bliss. Located in the beautiful Villa del Sol plaza, it wins at much m...
History isn't an exact science, and nowhere is that more obvious than at the Bowers Museum's touring exhibition "China's Lost Civilization: The Mystery of Sanxingdui." Considered to be one of the "greatest archeological finds ever to be unearthed...
"It's called the Soft Goat." "The soft what?" "Goat." "What the hell is that supposed to mean?" "Well, I think they mean goat as in goatee." Weekly staff writer Charles Lam is the best person in the office to run weird food or inven...
An overview of local theater in 2015 should give people who place value in producing plays that aren't tried and tired some measure of satisfaction. About a dozen emerging American playwrights will see productions on local stages this year--and, for...
Though it isn't time to put away your winter coats just yet (more rain, pleeeease!), here's a preview of what's good (and bad) in Spring 2015. A few of these trends are recycled from last spring, but they're still bolder than what was deemed cool th...
This year, I walked with ghost hunters, admired Ikea-framed art, talked masculinity with queer bikers, gazed through Frida Kahlo's eyes, discovered Christianity's less-than-respectful attitude toward animals, reawakened to the dangers of nuclear ene...
Perhaps we've hammered in the point you should shop local this holiday season. . . . No? Here's one more try: Main & PCH, the lifestyle website based out of Huntington Beach that we've covered before, is putting on a small-business pop-up. The shop ...
Twenty years ago this holiday season, the Reverend Slappy White fell off a turnip truck he'd hitched a ride on in Riverside. Instead of Stanton, he came to downtown Fullerton, where he immediately fell in with a ragtag collection of actors, poets, m...
"Little kids seem to think this is the dark place where Satan dwells," says Terri Kennedy with a smile. "I mean, sometimes he's here." The longhaired brunette has heard it all over the years about her legendary Goth store, Ipso Facto in Fullerton, n...
Actors breaking character. A near lack of production values. Garishly over-the-top gay and Latino stereotypes. Yet, in spite of things that might make a theater purist or an ethnic-studies major chafe, Theatre Out's annual Christmas show, Last Chris...
As Christmas rolls around again, you have yet another chance to force Earth-friendly gifts onto your not-so-Earth-friendly family. But these selections are so beautiful it won't matter that they're made from recycled hogwash. Here are a few ideas fr...
The visual trigger that creates a painting, the nagging thought that becomes a poem, the aria that begins with a musical note, the news article that becomes a film . . . all art has its beginning with some unruly sense impression. Few local artists ...
At first glance, Tin & Velvet seems as if it belongs next to Brighton, Things Remembered or some other kitschy mom store. The name and slogan (A Shop of Delight) implies miniature garden bicycles or charm bracelets. But if that were the case, Tin & ...
Most Americans equate Cuba with Fidel Castro, cigars, rum and baseball. But it has produced an incredible literary history. From Cuban national hero Jos? Mart? in the 19th century to Richard Blanco, the first Latino and gay man to read at a presiden...