ARTS & CULTURE ARTS & CULTURE CULTURE » Orange County Still Offers Opportunities to Celebrate the Fourth of July from a Distance Orange County Offers Creative Alternatives to Fourth of July Celebrations Amid Coronavirus Santa Ana Arts Collective, a New Community for Artists, is Ready for Occupancy Black Student Union Members from Garden Grove High Find Their Voice and Purpose Celebrating Juneteenth in the Midst of the Black Lives Matter Movement Virtual and In-Person Summer Events Pick Back Up as Orange County Slowly Re-Opens Segerstrom Center Announces 63% Staff Cuts, Joining OC Arts Organizations Struggling with Coronavirus Impact Orange County’s Best-Kept Cultural Secret? It’s a Hotbed of Literary Talent Orange County Open Mics Go Online After Being Unplugged by the Coronavirus OC Music Groups, Fans Acknowledge #blackouttuesday Trend on Instagram Local Arts Groups Get Creative, Look for Funding as They Chart a Difficult Path Forward Online Raves: Orange County EDM DJs Reach New Audiences From Home Laguna Beach Cancels Pageant of the Masters, Festival of the Arts Orange County Food Pantry Adapts to Coronavirus Pandemic During Ramadan At The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, The Show Is Going On… Virtually All-Inclusive LGBTQ+ Bars and Clubs Face New Challenges Amid Coronavirus Leopo: Grocery Truck Markets Connect Santa Ana Neighborhoods During Coronavirus Losses Mount Quickly for Orange County Arts Groups Hodgins: Orange County Arts in Limbo as Groups Big and Small Ponder the Future Where to Find Easter Services, and a Little Culture, Online Arts Closures in Orange County This Year, O.C. Marks a More Muted Nowruz Than Usual Santa Ana’s Local Art Scene is Celebrated at Boca de Oro Panoringan: Favorite Spots to Hit During Orange County Restaurant Week Panoringan: Post-Valentine Love, Shiny and New Ways to Treat Your Significant Other Celebrating 40 years in Orange County, the O.C. Black History Parade Continues to Represent the Diversity in the Region Panoringan: Orange County Does Food Halls Like It’s Nobody’s Business Dueling Tet Parades in Little Saigon Still Lead to Happiness Once a Rebellious Santa Ana Gallery Café, SolArt Now Promotes Community Artists Through the Airwaves OC Fair Board Turns Down Ticket Price Hike For Now Panoringan: Spirit Backward, Orange County’s Dry Drinking Movement Takes Root at Temperance OC Fair Officials Consider Hiking Ticket Prices Not-to-Miss Arts and Cultural Events for Early 2020 Teaching Creativity at Beckman is a Top Priority With Programming Going Strong, The Frida Cinema Shifts Its Focus to Sustainability We Have 14 Ideas to Help You and Your Family Get Into the Holiday Spirit Santa Ana’s Annual Noche de Altares Honors the Dead, Unites the Community Lights, Camera, Action! Viet Film Fest and OC Film Fiesta Prepare for Take-Off Acjachemen People and Allies Call For Construction of Putuidem Cultural Village in San Juan Capistrano Chapman Professor is Developing a Docu-Series Aimed at Stopping Child Prostitution Before it Starts Summertime Jam Hits Laguna Beach During Busy Art Festival Season Little Saigon Night Market Blossoms Under the Summer Stars Hodgins: Is Government Spending for the Arts the Whole Story? Where Are the Fireworks Near You? What’s On Stage This Summer Public Demand For Affordable Artists Apartments in Santa Ana Prompts City Outreach Effort Costa Mesa Visual Arts Scene Starting to Make Waves Santa Ana’s Yost Theater Hosts the U.S. Premiere of Circa’s Newest Show Santa Ana Lures Artists With Low-Rent Housing Hodgins: Will Segerstrom Center Follow the National Diversity Trend When It Chooses a New Leader? The Mural Scene Expands in Santa Ana Hodgins: Laguna Dance Festival Leaves Laguna Beach; Is That a Good or a Bad Thing? Leopo: Two Sides of a Mirror: Santa Ana and Michoacán Little Saigon Tet Parade Marches On Despite the Rain Solving the Mystery Behind the Numbers of Your Favorite Pho Restaurants Quinceañera Dresses Are an Art Form That’s Vanishing from Downtown Santa Ana Hodgins: Should Imagination Celebration be Scrapped or Revived? Are You Looking For Something To Do For The Holidays? How To Do Día De Los Muertos For Free Orange County Arts Awards Contain Messages of Frustration and Hope Not To Be? All’s Not Well for Shakespeare in a Garden Grove Standoff Viet Film Fest Returns For Its 10th Edition El Centro Cultural de México Celebrates Its Grand Re-Opening on Saturday Is It Time for Local Arts Leadership to Reflect a Changing World? DANCE » How the Local Dance Scene Might Change in the Decade Ahead Hip Hop Culture Hits the Streets in Santa Ana American Ballet Theatre Takes Us to Ancient Greece in ‘Of Love and Rage’ After Living Her Dream, Dancer Danica Paulos Plans to Photograph the World ABT’s ‘Of Love and Rage’ Will Receive Its World Premiere at Segerstrom Skylar Campbell To Premiere His New Dance Group In Orange County Mariinsky Keeps the Vision of Classical Ballet Alive, Bringing ‘La Bayadère’ to Segerstrom Center Laguna Dance Festival Moves to Irvine. Temporarily, Maybe Choreographers Get Lab Time to Experiment Without Restrictions After 15 Years, Local Professional Dance Company Backhausdance is Just Warming Up Hodgins: Laguna Dance Festival Leaves Laguna Beach; Is That a Good or a Bad Thing? Martha Graham Dance Company to Highlight Female Power in Irvine with ‘The EVE Project’ SEVEN DAYS OUT: András Schiff, Susan Graham, Martha Graham, the Russian National Orchestra and Kishi Bashi Laguna Beach Music Festival Puts On Some Toe Shoes ‘Irish Christmas’ Delivers Gaelic Flavor to the Holidays It Takes Six to Tango Pilobolus to Surprise the Senses with Out-of-the-Box Dancing A Classic Company Brings Classic Ballet to the Segerstrom Stage “Why can’t ballet be the new hip-hop?” Laguna Dance Festival Pulls Out All The Stops With ‘Stars of Dance’ Jessica Lang Dance Delights In Spirited Tony Bennett-Inspired Work Laguna Beach Native Returns to Hometown for Debut Performance OC Arts Calendar: 10 Things You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall FOOD » Panoringan: Vagabond Food Truck and Uprising O.C. Launch During Lockdown Panoringan: How Does A Restaurant Like Bosscat Keep Going During a Pandemic and Protests? Panoringan: The Brave New World of Restaurant Dining. How Was the First Week of Service? Panoringan: When Is It Time to Move On in the Restaurant Industry? Local Farm Purchases Surplus Produce to Donate for Community Packages For Mother’s Day, Support Your Local Restaurants and Order In With Eating Out Off The Table, Options for Cinco de Mayo and Ramadan Panoringan: Quarantine Kitchen – Chefs Teach Via Social Media Panoringan: How Are OC Restaurants Adapting To Their New COVID-19 Reality? Panoringan: Quarantine Grocery Guide, Farmer’s Markets and Grocery Updates Panoringan: The Foodservice Industry Trend We Didn’t See Coming: Hand Sanitizer Manufacturing Panoringan: What Resources are Available for Restaurant Owners and Employees? Plus, the Latest Grocery Store Safety Strategies Panoringan: What Orange County Restaurants are Saying About How COVID-19 is Affecting Their Business Panoringan: Favorite Spots to Hit During Orange County Restaurant Week Panoringan: Post-Valentine Love, Shiny and New Ways to Treat Your Significant Other Panoringan: Orange County Does Food Halls Like It’s Nobody’s Business Panoringan: Spirit Backward, Orange County’s Dry Drinking Movement Takes Root at Temperance Cooperative Garden Promotes Food Self-Determination for Santa Ana Little Saigon Night Market Blossoms Under the Summer Stars MUSIC » Pacific Chorale Releases a New Recording of Works by Tarik O’Regan Online Raves: Orange County EDM DJs Reach New Audiences From Home No Hall? No Problem! Pacific Symphony Doubles Down on Online Presence Coronavirus Conditions Make Us Rethink Classical Music for Decade Ahead Yuja Wang Displays Virtuosity and Temperament for a Puzzled Segerstrom Audience Pacific Symphony’s New Season Includes a Collaboration with South Coast Repertory Should You Believe the Hype About Piano Virtuoso Daniil Trifonov? Early Beethoven Gets the (Emanuel) Ax Treatment Itzhak Perlman is Still Having Fun Spanish Harlem Orchestra Kicks the Holiday Up a Notch Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” Gets the Ellington Treatment Does Opera Have a Future in Orange County? No Ivory Tower for This Composer Florence Price Rightfully Finds Her Place Next to Gershwin with the Pacific Symphony Pacific Symphony Concert Will Fete Living Legends Sondheim and Lloyd Webber Irvine Barclay’s Star-Studded Season Includes Chick Corea, Performing This Friday Tommy Phillips is Not Distracted Renee Bodie Wants to Transport You Hodgins: For Pacific Symphony, Carl St.Clair was the Right Man at the Right Moment Pacific Symphony Will Bring Untold Histories to Life in ‘Canto de Anaheim’ Christ Cathedral Underwhelms as a Classical Music Venue Hodgins: Can an Orange County Piano Competition Thaw U.S.-China Tensions? Christ Cathedral, a Big Space for a Big Sound, Hopes to Become a Center for Sacred Music José Hernández Seeks to Showcase the Heart of Mariachi For Summertime Patriotism, Nothing Beats Sousa Choral Arts Initiative Takes Chances to Present New Composers Hodgins: Pacific Symphony Wraps Up Its 40th Season with “Mediocre” Mahler’s ‘Titan’ Emerson Quartet Explores a Play on the Life of Shostakovich Classical Icon Joshua Bell Joins Forces with Isserlis and Denk For a Concert at Segerstrom Pacific Symphony to Perform a Healing Concert for Troubled Times Third Coast Percussion Lays Down a Virtuosic Set at Samueli Pacific Chorale to Sing the Praises of Women Composers Pacific Symphony Celebrates Nowruz with Persian Musicians Jazz Greats Gordon Goodwin and Dee Dee Bridgewater Play Orange County Next Week Guitar Virtuoso Manuel Barrueco Has Come a Long Way Since Leaving Cuba Pacific Symphony’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ Takes Flight in Costa Mesa SEVEN DAYS OUT: András Schiff, Susan Graham, Martha Graham, the Russian National Orchestra and Kishi Bashi New Local Arts Leaders Talk About How to Thrive in a Rapidly Changing Environment Carl St.Clair’s 30th Season with Pacific Symphony is Crammed with Favorites Laguna Beach Music Festival Puts On Some Toe Shoes LA Phil Visits O.C. with a Demanding Modernist Program The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra Plays a Holiday Concert at Segerstrom ‘Tis the Season for Surprises Nothing Screams ‘Christmas’ Like an Organ Spectacular! Pacific Symphony and Pacific Chorale Combine for a Grand Messiah A ‘Nutcracker’ Like You’ve Never Heard It Takes Six to Tango Curiosity and Surprise Fuel Daniel Hsu as He Prepares to Perform Preparation Meets Passion as the Dover Quartet Prepares to Play at Samueli Living Composers Reign During Choral Arts Initiative Concert Russian Violinist Avoided Tchaikovsky’s Concerto for Years What is All the Fuss About? Kenny Barron Takes Years of Experience and Plays in the Moment Ensemble Galilei, Neal Conan and Anne Garrels Explore Experiences in War The Chorale Brings ‘The Creation’ to Segerstrom … Finally! Hodgins: What Goes With Classical Music? Checkers, Cornhole and Cake Pops! First Stop: Orange County – The Taiwan Philharmonic Begins Its U.S. Tour on Oct. 30 Kristóf Baráti Looks at Stravinsky’s Big Picture Jazz Great Ahmad Jamal Comes to Orange County Pacific Chorale Names Its New President and CEO Passion and Elegance from the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble Rita Wilson’s Trip to Nashville Runs Through O.C. Hodgins: Marsalis and His Orchestra Dazzle with Duke in Irvine Hodgins: Pacific Symphony Turns 40 With a Bang and a Big Party Hodgins: Placido Domingo Brings LA Opera to O.C. Again, Reminding Us of What We’re Missing Meet Pacific Symphony’s New Concertmaster: Dennis Kim David DiChiera, founder of Opera Pacific, dies in Detroit Soka University’s Jazz Festival Packs a World into Three Days Philharmonic Society’s New Leader Talks About His Past and His Plans Dinnerstein and a Far Cry turn Bach and Glass into Pleasant Companions THEATER » Hodgins: Theaters Determined to Recreate Magic Online, Is It Worth the Effort? South Coast Repertory Announces New Season, Tries to Salvage Current One Rita Rudner and Paul Rodriguez Add Humor and Star Power to Laguna’s ‘Barefoot in the Park’ The Intriguing Personality – and Story – Behind ‘100 Heartbreaks’ Shakespeare OC Announces Its Demise Hodgins: What’s in Store for Theater on O.C.’s Biggest Stages? Hodgins: ‘She Loves Me’ Serves as a Fine Directorial Debut Hodgins: South Coast Rep Partners with Playwrights Horizons in New Commissioning Project Hodgins: SCR’s New Leader Tears Down Walls, Builds Bridges, Directs a Musical It’s the End of an Era as Friends and Fans Say Goodbye to Hal Landon Jr.’s Scrooge A Career Transformed by Tragedy South Coast Repertory Receives $5-Million Argyros Donation ‘Peter Pan’ Gets the Panto Treatment at Laguna Playhouse A Change in Direction and Leadership at Laguna Playhouse is Reaping Rewards Hodgins: After 40 Years of Humbugging, O.C.’s Scrooge is Hanging Up His Top Hat Stages Ends Eight-Year Drought of ‘Silence! The Musical’ with an O.C. Premiere Solid performances and production values elevate stage version of ‘Grumpy Old Men: The Musical’ Hodgins: South Coast Repertory’s New Leader Aims to Balance Its Past and Future ‘The Vandal’ Gets Its West Coast Premiere Courtesy Chance Theater Baseball Hall of Famer Rube Waddell Gets His Due at the Curtis Theatre in Brea O.C. Playwrights to be Showcased in an Upcoming New Play Festival of ‘Uncommon’ One-Act Tales At UCI, Portable Shakespeare Has Permanence Chance Theater Curtain Lifts On The Epic Musical ‘Ragtime’ Santa Ana College Rescues O.C.’s Oldest Shakespeare Company Hodgins: ‘M. Butterfly’ Flies a Little Differently 30 Years After Its Creation Emerson Quartet Explores a Play on the Life of Shostakovich Hodgins: ‘90s Classic ‘Skylight’ Finds New Relevance at Chance Theater Will We See Another Big Hit at This Year’s Pacific Playwrights Festival? Hal Landon Jr. To Step Down As Scrooge After 40 Years How Has Chance Theater Evolved Since It First Opened 20 Years Ago? Hodgins: Something’s Missing from O.C.’s Major Stages: Hispanics Breath of Fire Continues to Roar 15 Years After Its Birth ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ Comes to Life on the Chance Stage Chance Theater’s ‘Emma: The Musical’ Does Austen Proud Creating a Scrooge for the Ages Hodgins: Sara Bareilles’ Songs and Some Solid Performances Save ‘Waitress’ Two O.C. Producers Bring Nancy and Ronnie Back to Life – in a Musical Nonchalance and Humor Hide Surprises in Laguna’s ‘Seafarer’ ‘Orient Express’ is headed for La Mirada Santa Ana College Makes Offer to Host Shakespeare Orange County Next Year Not To Be? All’s Not Well for Shakespeare in a Garden Grove Standoff 3-D’s ‘42nd Street’ a tap-happy paean to Golden Age musicals Hodgins: Solid Performances and Classic Pop Songs Overcome Predictability in the Carole King Musical “Beautiful” SCR’s ‘Vanya and Sonia’ is the Perfect Blend of Chekhov and Durang SCR cooks up Durang’s Chekhov take-off ‘Vanya and Sonia’ Hodgins: ‘The Other Place’ Analyzes Mental Problems With Wit and Grace Pulitzer Winner Donald Margulies on Theater in the Trump Era A Chat with David Ivers, the New Leader of South Coast Repertory David Ivers is new artistic director of South Coast Repertory Chance Theater prepares to take us to ‘The Other Place’ Stage bio delivers a potent portrait of Janis Joplin She’s Janis Joplin for Life South Coast Rep’s Season Opener Plays With a Classic and Gets Mixed Results VISUAL ARTS » Orange County Artists in the Time of Coronavirus and Social Unrest How Orange County’s Visual Arts World is Coping with the Coronavirus Laguna Beach Cancels Pageant of the Masters, Festival of the Arts How Will the Museum Landscape in O.C. Change in the Next Decade? UCI’s Art Museum is a Dream Deferred, but Should Be Worth the Wait Rethinking ‘Rasquachismo’ in the O.C. Arts Community Palm Court Arts Complex Strides Into the New Year Art Collection in the Spotlight at Cal State Fullerton Orange County Museum of Art Moves Forward with Its New, $73 Million Building Artist Sergio O’Cadiz’s Memory Lives on in Cypress Exhibition Soka’s Latest Art Show Features Local Artists Pushing the Boundaries of Their Mediums O.C. Museum of Art Breaks Ground on New Home at Segerstrom Center for the Arts Whitewashing of Mural in Santa Ana Stirs Controversy Brea’s Public Art Caretakers Chapman’s Hilbert Museum of California Art to Expand and Nearly Triple In Size Costa Mesa Visual Arts Scene Starting to Make Waves Previously Forgotten Paintings Collected by Gardena High Are Presented at the Hilbert Museum New Faces and a Chicano Art Exhibit at Anaheim’s Muzeo The Mural Scene Expands in Santa Ana Hodgins: Imagination Celebration Reminds Us the Arts are Important. Are Schools Listening? Quinceañera Dresses Are an Art Form That’s Vanishing from Downtown Santa Ana A Border Made of Butterflies and Flowers, Not Bricks and Barbed Wire As a Blind Photographer, Kurt Weston Looks Beyond the Surface Diana Ghoukassian is Glimpsing the Nature of Things Ann Phong Turns Discarded Objects Into Art ‘The Idle Hour’ Encapsulates Leisure at Casa Romantica Hodgins: OCMA Moves a Step Closer to Its Goal With OCMAExpand Viet Film Fest Returns For Its 10th Edition The Bowers Museum presents West Coast premiere of ‘Knights in Armor’ OC Arts Calendar: 10 Things You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall