This Week: The Purpose Drive Life, Implausible Genitals and Kevin Bacon
Tues | JUNE 10 A Cypress doctor grabs a tire-iron during a confrontation with a guy who cuts ahead in the gas line during rush hour, resulting in his arrest for “brandishing a deadly weapon in a rude, angry or threatening manner,” an offense punishable [...]

Gord Peteran redefines what it means to be a chair

GORD PETERAN’S “MUSICAL BOX”
Gord Peteran’s furniture sort of explains a lot of things, possibly even why Wickes just went bankrupt. The 34 creations in “Furniture Meets Its Maker,” now wrapping up a two-year traveling show at the Long Beach Museum of Art, include tables of junk [...]

GORD PETERAN’S “ARK”
LBMA sends us an advance look into Gord Peteran’s upcoming exhibit “Furniture Meets Its Maker”:
It is furniture unlike any other. A table that doesn’t hold objects, chairs not made for sitting, objects that appear to function as torture devices or for the sexually experimental. Despite the dubious functionality of many of the pieces [...]

The beauty of LBMA’s portrait exhibit is providing your own backstory

CHANTAL by SEAN CHEETHAM
The gangly teenager with the anti-Bush and pro-peace buttons pinned to his baggy red V-neck sweater has a face like an empty slogan. The only hint that the boy might have a flicker of inner conviction—and please, don’t get your hopes up—is [...]

Kicking Edgar Allan Poe: Readings of Poe’s twisted tales and all of the usual macabre gore that accompany them. Pair this with a classic “Treehouse of Horror” episode for a perfect Halloween prelude. 7:30pm.
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Farmers Market: The produce you pick up here is about as [...]