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Honda-Ya and Beyond: Three O.C. Izakayas That Prove Japanese Pub Culture Is Here to Stay
From the longtime favorite Honda-Ya in Tustin to reinvented and newer restaurants in Huntington Beach and Anaheim, food critic Edwin Goei explores Orange County’s evolving izakaya scene.
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Rhapsody in Taps Brings Southern California’s Tap Dance History to the Screen
Orange County choreographer Linda Sohl-Ellison celebrates her company’s legacy with an eight-hour video anthology featuring rare footage, legendary performers and decades of groundbreaking dance.
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Bei Bei Bridges the Divide Between Traditional and Modern Music
Local guzheng performer and composer transcends time by creating contemporary sounds with a classic Chinese instrument.
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Curtains Up for Cinematic Celebrations: Your Guide to Orange County’s 2026 Fall Film Festivals
Eight local festivals offer Hollywood stars, world premieres, cultural cinema, young filmmakers, action sports and ocean adventures on screens across the county this October and November.
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When It Comes to Censorship, Who Gets to Wield the Eraser?
Banned Books Week offers a reminder of Orange County’s nearly century-long history of censorship battles over textbooks, plays, movies, comics, art and library shelves.
EDITORS’ PICKS
There’s more happening in OC than we can cover. Every week, our editors pick a handful of additional events worth your attention – chosen independently, with no input from the organizations involved.
Oct. 24 @ 8 p.m.
Cauces Sónicos
Co-led by Wilfrido Terrazas and Michael Dessen, Cauces Sónicos (Sonic Channels) is a two-year project exploring nodes of cross-border interaction among artistic communities, musical migration, intergenerational creativity and horizontal processes of teaching and learning. This concert showcases the collective creativity of the project’s core ensemble, bringing together artists from Southern California and Baja California to explore different experiences of border life through music. At UC Irvine's Winifred Smith Hall.
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Through October. 25
The Addams Family Musical
Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family—a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before—keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. At the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center.
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Oct. 24-Feb. 28
Picasso Ceramics from the Rosenbaum Collection
This exhibition explores a fascinating and often overlooked chapter in the career of Pablo Picasso. The prolific artist devoted extraordinary energy to ceramics after 1947, creating nearly 4,000 works over the course of 25 years. The exhibition includes 63 original prints and limited-edition ceramics that reveal how Picasso transformed a traditional medium into a site of bold experimentation and creative reinvention. At the Bowers Museum.
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