February 14, 2024

Each week, Arts Orange County and Culture OC deliver you this look at the stories and events happening in our arts and cultural community.

Tony Bennett Tribute

A special concert paying tribute to the legendary jazz vocalist offers a preview of this year's hotly-anticipated Jazz Festival at Fullerton's Muckenthaler Cultural Center MORE

Five Reasons Chocolate Rarely Pairs with Wine, and Five Tips for Those Determined to Do It

On Feb. 14, everyone wants to drink wine with chocolate. Experts help us understand why it’s not such a great idea.

Orange County Celebrates Tết and Lunar New Year

PHOTO STORY: Drew A. Kelley captures the festivities at the 42nd annual UVSA Tết Festival at the OC Fair and Event Center in Costa Mesa on Saturday, Feb. 10.

Pacific Symphony's New Pops Conductor is Ready to Make a Splash

Enrico Lopez-Yañez’s mission as a conductor goes beyond entertaining an audience. He also seeks to connect with audience members through the stories told within the music.

Paul Hodgins Makes an Appearance on 'This Day'

Publisher and co-founder of Culture OC, Paul Hodgins, recently appeared on "This Day," a news program serving the residents of Laguna Woods.

Each week, we recommend a variety of events and experiences from the listings at SparkOC.com, our free website for Orange County's arts and cultural community.

JU1CE

It's the return of this theatrical collaboration between Santa Ana's Wayward Artist and the OC Playwrights Alliance, presenting a lineup of locally-written short plays that all deal with the imaginative and the fantastical MORE

Monroe Isenberg: nowhere is here

This captivating free exhibition at the Doyle Arts Pavilion in Costa Mesa turns ordinary materials into meditations on "time, space, and the natural world." MORE

SciFri...Cloud Science Friday

Get your elementary school-aged child excited about the science unfolding in the skies above us with this free educational session at the Buena Park Library MORE

Natural Language - Contemporary Book Art

Literature is an immortal art form but the book itself can be a provocative and inspiring artwork, as celebrated in this free exhibition at Irvine's Great Park MORE

 
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