Getting Out 9/13/13
A Competition to Last Five-Courses
Surf and Sand Resort is hosting its annual Beer vs. Wine event at its Splashes Restaurant on Friday, Sept. 13. The $125 per person meal...
Personnel File 9/13/13
OCMA Director Departs
Newport Beach’s Orange County Museum of Art announced the resignation of its 10-year director, Dennis Szakacs, effective Dec. 31.
Szakacs, of Laguna Beach,...
Indy Calendar Sept. 13-19, 2013
Friday, Sept. 13
Sawdust Art Festival Classes: 2 p.m. Fused glass origami bowl w. Maggie Spencer. www.sawdustartfestival.org/studioartclasses 949-494-3030. Also 9/14.
Jazz on the Patio, 6:30 p.m....
Indy Calendar Sept. 6-12
Friday, Sept. 6
Sawdust Art Festival classes: 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. www.sawdustartfestival.org/studioartclasses 949-494-3030. Also 9/7.
Jazz on the Patio (Rusty Gillette, Frank Schatz, Jorg Dubin),...
Street Musicians Perform in a Free Concert
By Robin Pierson, Special to the Independent
Local street musicians will perform in a free downtown concert Saturday, Sept. 7, a festival intended to draw...
Paintings of Nude Men Banished From Art-A-Fair
Accepted into another art festival even before Art-A-Fair had officially ended, the Escondido-based painter shipped out his Laguna inventory and restocked the emptied booth...
Getting Out
Bluegrass Is Coming Back
Laguna Beach Live! presents Prairie Sky, a contemporary bluegrass and acoustic music band, on Saturday, Sept. 15 for an afternoon of...
Art Seen 9/6/13
Artists Capture Early California
During industrialization and immigration in the 1920s and 1930s, urban and rural California landscapes began changing. A group of both young and...
Art Seen 8/30/13
Artists Who Remake the Grand Tradition
When a brush cannot be found, use a brick. Saltfineart presents an exhibit of artists who are revolutionizing the...
Getting Out 8/30/13
Sawdust Signs Off With a Raffle
As the Sawdust Art Festival’s 47th season ends, 200 local artist-exhibitors and staff prepare for a final weekend of...
The Write Stuff 8/30/13
Library Hosts Local Author
Thomas Osborne, local author and columnist for Laguna Beach Independent, will be at Laguna Beach Library on Monday, Sept. 16, at...
Playhouse Gets Down With Motown Gala
The Laguna Playhouse’s Motown-themed gala is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Resort at Pelican Hill in Newport Beach and organizers are still...
Indy Calendar Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 2013
Final Weekend at the Festivals:
Sawdust Festival, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. daily. 935 Laguna Canyon Rd. 949-494-3030 www.sawdustartfestival.org
Fri. Aug. 30: 11:30 a.m., Michael Ubaldini, George Lawton;...
Laguna Dance Festival Promises to Defy Gravity
He appears on stage slowly, his movements precise and slightly exaggerated to focus the audience’s attention on his presence. Then the stage blacks out....
A Long-lived Home for Late Bloomers
As daughter of renowned illustrator Ben Stahl, Gail Stahl predictably would inherit a predisposition for ink. Instead she worked 25 years as a special...