Arts Features
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Surrender any adherence to the classical unities, the well-made play and even common sense with Vietgone. This is a play all over time, space,... More >>
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There are the people who enjoy Halloween, and then there are the people who absolutely LOVE Halloween and everything about it: quirky... More >>
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Running through Oct. 25 at South Coast Repertory, Vietgone is a dazzling, inventive, funny, balls-to-the-walls show. Playwright Qui Nguyen's... More >>
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Vinyl records and books have been back for a while, but Laura and Collin Insley of Books + Rec Shoppe want to make the two analog mediums a... More >>
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I'm sitting at a diner eating borscht. The owner is Latvian, married to the Libyan pizza maker a few shops down. The music playing in the... More >>
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Blue lipstick is not just for Goth kids anymore. Nowadays, everyone from celebrities to your fashionable girlfriend is forgoing the usual 50... More >>
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About 15 minutes into One Man, Two Guvnors Saturday night, someone's mind went wandering. It wasn't because that person was bored, but because he... More >>
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Cosplayers raise geeky fandom to new heights and make the rest of us non-costumed fans seem square in comparison. These super-fans exist to be... More >>
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Reading a book and "reading" a piece of art may seem similar—both involve the intricacies of interpretation, for example. But books lay out... More >>
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Hipsters love The Simpsons, and not just in that nostalgic, the-best-Simpsons-was-old-school-Simpsons way. Now that the1990s have returned,... More >>
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There isn't much rum and no lash in Shakespeare Orange County's The Pirates of Penzance. But there's plenty of sodomy, if the host of swishy,... More >>
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Jennie Cotterill is many things: muralist, painter, illustrator, designer, baker, musician, sculptor, teacher, curator, etc. But what best... More >>
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If "My Generation: Young Chinese Artists" at Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) is any indication, Chinese artists are an angry bunch. Post-Mao... More >>
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Ka Boom! Art Toy Gallery owner Tracy Otero is the first to call himself a hoarder, but he's also a businessman: He picks up rare and obscure... More >>
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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... More >>