Where I Prefer to Dine
At some point when I strike up a conversation with someone new (and they learn about my food writing), they ask the question that I dread, “What’s your favorite restaurant?”…
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How Has the Pandemic Hangover Affected O.C.’s Arts Scene?
The doom-and-gloom reports surged shortly after the pandemic faded. Crowds weren’t coming back to theaters, museums and concert halls. Did Orange County venues and arts presenters experience the same audience…
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A Leap of Faith. A Vital Necessity. A Labor of Love.
Welcome to Culture OC. After providing award-winning arts and culture articles for Voice of OC since 2018, we’ve decided to create our own nonprofit news website. This is a labor…
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Langson IMCA Announces Recent Acquisition of 25 Artworks
The following is a press release from an organization unaffiliated with Culture OC. The information provided has been written by the submitting organization and not by the writers at Culture…
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Top Chef’s Amar Santana Dishes About Competing in Season 20
SPOILER ALERT: If you have not watched “Top Chef: World All-Stars” through episode nine, you may want to wait to read this until you have. This story contains spoilers. Attending…
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O.C.Theatre Guild Award Winners Recognized at Second Annual Ceremony
The 2023 OCTG Theatre Awards are in the books, and like the inaugural awards ceremony a year ago, they confirmed the dedication and determination of Orange County’s theater community in…
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Where Locals Dine with Cindy Avila
While I do my best to cover brand new as well as established restaurants, I’m reminded that there are many places that go overlooked for one reason or another. So…
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Above All, Attendees Found Joy at WonderCon 2023
Nearly everything at Wondercon, the annual celebration of all things pop culture held at the Anaheim Convention Center last weekend, was a commodity to be bought and sold, from the…
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet Follows His Own Score
French pianist Jean Yves Thibaudet has played Claude Debussy’s Préludes since he was a child. They’re a cornerstone of classical piano literature, after all, and in France they occupy a…
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New Ballet ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ Prioritizes Storytelling, Acting and Mexican Culture
An exploration of tradition and rebellion will take center stage in “Like Water for Chocolate,” Christopher Wheeldon’s latest full-length ballet for American Ballet Theatre. The work is based on a…
