Whether it's juicing, recycling, buying organic or using your own poop for fertilizer (look it up!), a sustainable lifestyle requires extra effort. But thanks to all the yoga-pants-wearing moms, it's not hard to stop creating waste destined for a la...
Every comic-book geek worthy of the term has his or her favorite writer and artist. It's a question as important as favorite superhero or "DC or Marvel?" We may bicker, but there's little argument the best of the best (Kirby, Jimenez, Ditko, Perez, ...
When you walk into CocoRose Boutique, next to the theater/church in the Orange Circle, you'd never guess a 25-year-old owned it. A storefront in the circle is enviable real estate, not to mention expensive, but Courtney Rose was determined to have i...
When asked what percentage of UC Irvine's service workers are Latino, Amanda Novoa thinks for a moment, then says, "Well, just by looking, I'd say 98 percent, but I'm just making that up." She's being facetious, but the intent is clear: A huge po...
Last week, the alternative-health community took a blow so big it's making it look as if it's even more full of horseshit than expected in the eyes of conventional medicine. And the turd is Belle Gibson, an Australian "wellness" blogger and creator ...
On the surface, there's little overtly radical about curator Eric Minh Swenson's "NUDE SURVEY ONE," an eclectic exhibition of sculpture, painting, drawings and photography that celebrates the nude, mostly female, form, tucked away in the Jamie Brook...
There's been a loooot of talk about the drought in recent months. Yet it still doesn't seem official to us regular folks because there haven't been any fines, making it easy to forget how dire our situation is. According to a recent report from ...
The real star of the Monkey Wrench Collective's Slings & Arrows isn't the wholly committed ensemble, the deconstructed concept of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, or the complimentary cheese and grapes during intermission, all of which merit praise. It...
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...
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...
"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...
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 ...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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 ...