Category: Arts

Film Review: “Marriage Story” gets Two Hits

Premiering at the Venice Film Festival this past August, writer-director Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” next screened at the Telluride Film Festival and then in Toronto, receiving praise and glowing comments in all […]

Film Review: “The Irishman” gets Two Hits

Ever since their 1973 film, “Mean Streets,” director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro have worked together on several memorable films. In 1980, their movie “Raging Bull” won Robert de Niro […]

Film Review: Ford v. Ferrari Gets Two Hits

Director John Mangold creates a movie about fast cars, the people who build them, and the drivers who master them. But he manages to make “Ford v Ferrari” entertaining for all audiences, […]

Holiday-Themed Art Shows for Fullerton Art Walk

This Friday, December 6th is the Downtown Fullerton Art Walk. During this month’s event, there will be a number of venues hosting holiday-themed art shows and fairs—for a unique holiday shopping experience. […]

Local Holiday-Themed Live Theater

This holiday season, check out local live theater productions in Fullerton and surrounding areas. Here’s a sampling of what’s playing… “It’s A Wonderful Life: a Live Radio Play” @ Stages Theater 400 […]

Film Review: “Harriet” Gets Two Hits

She almost made it to our twenty-dollar bill and may yet be there, so it’s time for us to watch a carefully researched and beautifully acted film about Harriet Tubman. Most of […]

Film Review: “Parasite” Gets a Hit and a Miss

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, “Parasite” is evoking praise from critics and puzzlement from audiences. Korean director Bong Joon-ho has made a film that defies categorizing. Is […]

Jazz at CSUF

For many years Fullerton jazz fans got their fix at Steamers which has been gone too long. To get my jazz fix I joined Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) on the campus […]

All the Arts for All the Kids Art Auction

The public is welcome to a special evening event on the 16th of November. All those wonderful hearts seen around town will be gathered and set up with hundreds of other fine […]

Muckenthaler Cultural Center’s Art @ Work Program

by Matthew Horton-Pope, Karina Garcia,  Bladimir Reyes, and Joshua Galindo SkyPets is a cooperative group of student entrepreneurs who have learned about art and business while working in the Muckenthaler Cultural Center’s “Art […]

“The Twilight Zone” at Stages Theater

Stages Theater enters “The Twilight Zone” playing now through November 9. This popular theatrical adaptation of Rod Serling’s classic TV series features various self-contained stories in a mixture of fantasy, science fiction, […]

“Presence” at Fullerton College Art Gallery

The latest exhibit at the Fullerton College Art Gallery features artworks addressing the presence of people of color in contemporary culture. The public is invited to an opening reception on Thursday October […]

Celebrating Día De Los Muertos in Fullerton

To celebrate the traditional Mexican holiday of Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), Fullerton residents can enjoy two events in town, at Fullerton College and The Muckenthaler Cultural Center. Fullerton […]

Film Review: “Judy” Gets a Hit and a Miss

Directed by Rupert Goold and written by Tom Edge, “Judy” serves up to audiences the last tortuous months of Judy Garland’s personal and professional life. The legendary performer still has the voice […]

Magoski Arts Colony Recognized

The Magoski Arts Colony in Fullerton was awarded the Dr. James Young Arts Legacy award at The Muckenthaler Cultural Center on Sept 26. The Arts Colony began in the fall of 2010 […]

Film Review: Downton Abbey Gets Two Hits

Fans of the television series “Downton Abbey” will not be disappointed in the enlarged screen version of the Crawley Family in their 300-room estate with all of their servants. The larger screen […]

Season of Art and Hearts

Our favorite season of the year is upon us. No, we’re not talking about Christmas. In Fullerton, we have our own special time of the year—the season of hearts. Locals look forward […]

Local Artist Explores Living with MS

In her new show, “Invisible,” at the Josephine Joan Gallery in Fullerton, mixed media artist and photographer Leanne Sargeant explores illness through a personal lens. Sargeant uses the camera to examine hidden […]

Film Review: “The Farewell” gets Two Hits

Tenacious about keeping an all-Asian cast and using dialogue that is 70% Mandarin (with subtitles), writer/director Lulu Wang was rewarded when “The Farewell” emerged from the Sundance Film Festival as an audience […]

News From a Passionate Printmaker

The fine art of printmaking (lithography, serigraphy, etching, woodcuts) is astonishingly well-represented in two galleries in Fullerton at the same time. Fullerton College displays their collection of fine art prints, accumulated over […]

“Rube!” @ Brea Curtis Theater

From September 13-29th, the Brea Curtis Theater presents “Rube!” a play by local author Joel Beers. “Rube!” is a dramatized account of the legendary Rube Waddell, a Major League Baseball pitcher at […]

Film Review: Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Gets Two Hits

Writer/director Richard Linklater, described as “one of the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance,“ still works outside mainstream Hollywood. A Texan, Linklater built his own […]

O-centric New Play Festival

O-centric: Orange County’s New Play Festival stages four compelling works from OC playwrights that tell stories you don’t typically see in local theatre, stories that need to be told. This year’s festival […]

“Puffs” @ Stages Theater

“Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic” by Matt Cox is a Potter-inspired comedy for anyone who has ever felt like a secondary character in […]