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Looking for ways to spend your Memorial Day weekend? Here are a few options for you and your family to commemorate our fallen military heroes while also celebrating the start of summer. Saturday, May 25...
Following Jamaican-born Natasha Kingsley (Yara Shahidi of Black-ish and Grown-ish) and first-generation Korean-American Daniel Bae (Charles Melton of Riverdale) as they fall into an ill-fated whirlwind...
The daytime hustle of an artist does not define them. Ask them what they do and their secondary answer may include terms like “day job” or “paycheck,” but rarely “career.” It carries too much weight. It...
Welcome to Irvine Weekly‘s Movie Picks, your look at the hottest films in SoCal theaters this week — from indie art house gems and classics to popcorn-perfect blockbusters and new movies garnering...
An Impresario For All Seasons
You might have seen Jerry Mandel playing his saxophone around town — perhaps at the annual Orange County Arts Awards Ceremony after party at Costa Mesa’s Samueli Theater. While the self-possessed gentleman is a long-time jazz musician, his expertise on his horn is the tip of the iceberg of a decades-long arts and entertainment career. The president of the Irvine Barclay Theatre, former San Diego State University dean of the …
Urban Seoul: A Cultural and Culinary Crossroads
Korean food? Amazing. Mexican food? Amazing. Why not put them together? This sort of thinking — putting two great cuisines together to make another great cuisine — has been the basis of all sorts of advancement in the culinary world. Sometimes it’s beautiful, as is the case with Brazilian chicken & waffles. Sometimes it should be illegal, like *shudders* avocado hummus. Don’t even think of bringing up chocolate hummus, or, …
Irvine Studio Arts Festival Puts Creativity on Display
There are plenty of museums in Los Angeles, and quite a few around Orange County, but art exists everywhere. We don’t have to seek out the exhibits of prominent figures to be blown away by the creativity humans are capable of. In fact, if you’re in Irvine this summer, you won’t even have to leave town to immerse yourself in the arts. Why is it going to be so easy, …
Cracking the Code – Teaching Students the Intricacies of Computer Coding
If video games seem to be the only thing that can grab and hold your child’s attention, we may have found something for you. Parents looking for a new way to stimulate their children’s brains outside of school and prepare them for the technology-based workforce of the future should look no further than Code Ninjas, the new after-school program that opened a location in Irvine this past March. Code Ninjas …
ScreenX Has Landed at Irvine Spectrum
When you’re going to the movies, your choices begin long before you reach the cinema: Do you want to reserve your seat in advance? Which online service do you use to make your reservation? Which row would you like to sit in? Would you like extra carry-on luggage? Oh wait! Wrong industry. You get the idea, though. From combination snack choices at the concession area to theatrical membership services, there …