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'Love West Coast' Is Straight Outta Misogyny - DAX Gallery shows how low legendary hip-hop photographer Mike Miller can go

There's a weird dynamic going on in Mike Miller's exhibition "Love West Coast," now at the DAX Gallery, with its army of semi-naked women battling for attention alongside his photos of West Coast hip-hop stars. Opening the show is a section designat...

by DAVE BARTON on September 3, 2015
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Angelina Elise Southern Gonzo Gothic - The Santa Ana artists depicts wacked-out scenarios on leatherwork

When you glance at Angelina Elise's work, you'll see lightly painted, folksy cartoons that resemble even-more-whimsical versions of O Brother, Where Art Thou? characters. Yet upon closer inspection, you'll see they're actually cute little men and la...

by LP Hastings on September 3, 2015
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Rothick Art Haus Closes With a Hayao Miyazaki Tribute - 3tArts sends off the Anaheim art gallery with its usual pop greatness

At the end of this month, 6-year-old independent gallery Rothick Art Haus will close shop. Husband-and-wife team Kelly Castillo and Nick Rothweiler, two of Orange County's consistently interesting curators, will transmogrify their intimate space int...

by DAVE BARTON on August 20, 2015
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Almery & Co. Is Church for Your Skin - Kelly Arnold's Huntington Beach sugaring shop also offers organic products

"When people come inside, the first word out of their mouth is 'beautiful,'" says Kelly Arnold, "and they leave feeling beautiful, too." Arnold is the owner of the new Huntington Beach sugaring shop and spa Almery & Co. With the help of her husband,...

by LP Hastings on August 20, 2015
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Wish We Were Here - The Garage Theatre's Darkside revisits Dark Side of the Moon

Because our corporate overlords demand that every word in this infernal rag drives readers to patronize those businesses that advertise in it, please pick up a hard copy, peruse the ads for medical-marijuana dispensaries, select one (because, yes, y...

by Joel Beers on August 13, 2015
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Less Wipes, More Trees

When we first think about making our homes more sustainable, we look at the obvious problems: plastic bags, yucky products loaded with harmful chemicals, and food grown with pesticides and antibiotics. But perhaps the less obvious changes are causin...

by LP Hastings on August 13, 2015
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The Year of the Pig - The ever-apolitical Bowers Museum celebrates the most divisive year in U.S. history

The argument lurking behind the touring "The 1968 Exhibit" at Bowers Museum is that the titular year was the most divisive in U.S. history. Just a partial listing of relevant events would support this thesis: the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and the ris...

by DAVE BARTON on August 6, 2015
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Life's a Cakewalk

It's pretty dumb to say that a certain dessert is "out of style." We eat dessert because it makes our sad lives feel better--not because it's trendy! On the flip side, there's a new, trendy dessert I just discovered and love: pie pops! You can fi...

by LP Hastings on August 6, 2015
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UCI's New Swan Shakespeare Festival Brings On the Bard - Eli Simon erects a mini-Elizabethan on campus to truly bring out Shakespeare as he's meant to be performed

Eli Simon wanted to build a theater. Like, a really cool theater. He had the money, thanks to funds from a department of excellence award (given to the UC Irvine drama department), as well as generous donors. He had the talent; he's been UC Irvine c...

by Joel Beers on July 30, 2015
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Melissa Loschy's Crowns Are Fit for a Queen - Loschy seeks to bring whimsical crowns back into the mainstream

More than any accessory, people are judged most fiercely by what they wear on their heads. But there is one piece that every lady deserves to own, no matter what anyone thinks: a crown. Though they're usually reserved for weddings and princess pa...

by LP Hastings on July 30, 2015
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Kordachrome - Celebrating the work of Cuba's revolutionary photographer, Alberto Korda

The most famous photograph in the world--and certainly the most copied--is the late Alberto Korda's Guerrillero Heroico, his candid shot of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. Taken as one of two shots when Guevara was at a state funeral for people k...

by DAVE BARTON on July 23, 2015
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Adult Coloring Books Are a Thing - Color My Boobs, The Fetish Coloring Book and other titles for grown-ups who want to be kids

Many of us shed the daily stress of work by plopping onto the couch and watching Netflix and HBO Go. It's probably the least productive way to find lasting relaxation. But maybe there's a better way: An influx of "adult" coloring books are on the ma...

by LP Hastings on July 23, 2015
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Romeo and Juliet Finds the Fault In Our System - Shakespeare OC's audacious, multiculti staging of the Shakespeare classic draws a line from Verona to Ferguson

There is something really, really weird going on with Shakespeare Orange County's Romeo and Juliet. It has nothing to do with the wildly exuberant, frenetic first act, which features everything from full-on ballet folkl?rico troupes to hip-hop-infus...

by Joel Beers on July 16, 2015
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Pi?ata Bomb Makes Hipster Pi?atas - Ryann Linehan and Ryane Acalin make the cutest cat-shaped things for you to smash

Donald Trump may be the most appropriate pi?ata in recent history, but he certainly isn't the cutest. In a medium in which we thought everything that could be done has been done, Pi?ata Bomb (pinatabomb.etsy.com) are making us giddy about pi?atas ag...

by LP Hastings on July 16, 2015
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Green Man at STAGES Preaches In Verde Veritas - Jim Knable's play makes its West Coast debut

Green may be the hue of jealousy's monster, but in Jim Knable's play Green Man, the color is more the irresistible persistence of memory, of clinging to something long gone as a way of not truly dealing with it. Oh, the green is also the green paint...

by Joel Beers on July 9, 2015
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Agenda Show Hits Long Beach - Native Shoes, Mission Workshop and other brands to watch for at the annual fashion convention

This week, the Agenda show returns to Long Beach. Even though the fashion convention touts itself as one of the most diverse in the country, the industry-only show is steeped in skateboard culture and streetwear vendors. Every year, we sift through ...

by LP Hastings on July 9, 2015
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The Bowers Museum Revisits Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny, you magnificent bastard. Directed by God to go to the ends of the earth--or at least west of the Mississippi--to spread civilization and democracy, white Americans faithfully went to war with Mexico, planted flags on already-cla...

by DAVE BARTON on July 2, 2015
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Dino Perez Draws! - The Santa Ana native impresses with dreamy prints and sculptures reminiscent of D?a de los Muertos art

If you've ever gone to the Santa Ana Art Walk, you've seen Dino Perez. He's the tall, Mexican teddy bear of a man always selling dreamy art prints that remind you a little of D?a de los Muertos. The 30-year-old grew up in Santa Ana, and the location...

by LP Hastings on July 2, 2015
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OCCCA Gets 'Moist' - Ginger Shulick Porcella features a bunch of bodily fluids and their respective orifices at the Santa Ana art gallery's latest exhibit

The word moist, reminiscent of soggy underwear and crotch rot, is one of the world's most phonetically displeasing words. Ask your friends what they think of the word and watch them grimace. Better yet, Google it, if you don't believe me. As the tit...

by DAVE BARTON on June 25, 2015
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Turn Your Dead Into a Tree! - Capsula Mundi and Bio Urn want to turn the remains of dead folks into tree food

Vikings sent their dead into the sea on a boat of flames. Zoroastrians leave theirs in special towers for vultures to consume; Hindus famously put the deceased on a funeral pyre. And in the U.S., we pump our faithful departed with formaldehyde and d...

by LP Hastings on June 25, 2015