"It's a great space," explains Lisa Cherry, owner of the Makery. "It doesn't matter that there isn't a ton of foot traffic." Cherry is referring to Community, the hidden gem of a shopping center in a working-class part of Anaheim where she teache...
Jordan Harrison's 2011 play, Maple and Vine, couldn't come to OC at a better time for all you hepcats in love with everything about the 1950s except, oh, the unsettling reality simmering beneath its placid surface. The vintage sofas and appliances. ...
More people are learning that diet is a huge contributor to illness and now are applying that same knowledge to their pets. And a company appropriately named Just Food for Dogs is pushing hard for a change. JFFD doesn't sell anything but dog food...
The homeless man sleeping in the courtyard of Cal State Fullerton's Begovich Gallery is barely shielded from the elements by the sliver of shade he's huddled under, the foliage failing to protect him from the sun and rain, the bleaching of his skin ...
By now, all of your trendy or tech-savvy friends have mentioned Ello on Facebook. Probably both, since these days, the two aren't mutually exclusive. Ello's brand is minimalist, promising no ads, and as with many social networks first starting out, ...
Sly humor and marketing genius are the most compelling ideas behind curator David Michael Lee and his "RIBBA|500" exhibition at Coastline Art Gallery. Using Ikea's cheap RIBBA picture frames--specifically the 20.25-by-28.25 version--as his theme, Le...
Nature. Skateboards. Beers. Joints. Bikers. Confederates. How a young man fits these aesthetics into one accessories brand is intriguing, but it works. Helm Street's (helmstreet.com) lookbook scrolls through tatted and rugged dudes and chicks part...
Maybe it's a sign of the apocalypse, a realization that as the world grows smaller in terms of connectivity, it appears to be fracturing in real space everywhere, or just simple coincidence, but damn if there aren't a shitload of theaters mounting W...
It's mid-September. You thought you'd be wearing tights, snuggling in a scarf and drinking a hot pumpkin latte. Even if you're not that dumb, maybe you hoped, just hoped, for 80-degree weather instead of 106. Maybe you could wear that scarf at night...
A Los Angeles gallery owner devoted to Minimalism. A beloved teacher and artist who died of ovarian cancer in 2013. The two women honored at the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion for the next month couldn't be more different, the exhibitions bearing thei...
For people distrustful of new technology, the Tile app may feel a bit Orwellian. You can put an insignificant and unnoticeable chip on something to track its location?! Yes, and welcome to the future. For now, it's only a harmless way to find your k...
It wasn't easy being queer in America in 1953, when Tennessee Williams settled into a Key West studio to begin writing Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Earlier that year, Miami passed an ordinance requiring chaperones in movie theaters to protect teenage cust...
For bohemian women, walking the line between dressing like a hippie and staying chic is difficult. That's why it's inspiring to find companies such as Vaalbara (vaalbaradesigns.com), a SoCal-based accessories house that finds haute harmony between e...
If you're looking for a way to be put off your breakfast, try reading the Cuba Assets Control Regulations from the U.S. Department of the Treasury over coffee. Installed after Fidel Castro defeated the corrupt Batista regime in Cuba, seized U.S. bus...
A favorite pastime of us Weeklings is arguing about trends. This week, it was Bulletproof? coffee, which, it turns out, is a pretty great food trend if you sip it with a dose of reality. Bulletproof? was "invented" by Dave Asprey, a man who market...
Shakespeare may have been correct in that there is nothing new under the sun, but he left out an important caveat: except for every single moment. So, while the four scripts that are part of the fourth-annual OC Centric new play festival (the only...
Men might want to stop reading this right about . . . now. Ladies, consider raising a glass to the menstrual cup, the ultimate underdog tool for periods. Menstrual cups have gathered on the fringes of feminine hygiene since the Victorian Era (galvan...
The Ferus Gallery gave Southern California modern art. Intended by artist Ed Keinholz and curator Walter Hopps in 1957 as a "fuck you" to the East Coast idea that only New York knew anything about art, Ferus gathered together a bevy of avant-garde...
It's easy to make natural scrubs, soaps and lotions for your body, but makeup is a hard product to replicate without a lab. If you're the type of girl who gets dolled up every day, no homemade concoction will do the trick. But if you only want to su...
A tale of two Shakespeare companies: one benefiting from an intimate relationship with the well-funded, respected UC Irvine theater department and has created one of the most striking performance venues you will ever see; the other a gypsy troupe th...