Concert Follows Earth Day Cleanup The eight annual Earth Day Blue Water Music Festival takes place Sunday, April 28, at the Cliff Restaurant, 577 S. Coast Highway, from 4 to 9 p.m., the culmination of a citywide clean-up challenge by volunteers. Those interested in taking The Challenge or buying tickets should contact promoter Rick Conkey, [...]
An Epiphany Read Long-time resident and trained physician, Jacques V. Souadjian M.D., will release a new book both physically and electronically, “Health Smart Epiphany!” The self-help book discusses the mechanisms of chronic illnesses and how to prevent and treat them. Souadjian will answer call-in questions as a guest on The Friendship Show on KX [...]
Young Curators Devise Portrait Show A team of eight Laguna Beach High School student curators tutored by Laguna Outreach for Community Arts will hold their second juried show at Laguna Nursery, kicking off with a public reception and awards for winning artists on Thursday, May 2, 4-5 p.m. The “Our Town” portrait exhibition will be [...]
Cycling enthusiasts lobbied Laguna Beach’s Arts Commission to consider adding an artist designed bike rack competition to its portfolio of publicly funded projects during a meeting on Monday, April 22. Under state mandates to create streets accessible to bicyclists, pedestrians and autos, Laguna is moving towards designating bike routes through town and have added painted [...]
By Christopher Trela | NB Indy Movie fans are preparing for cinematic nirvana with the arrival of the 14th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, which began this past Thursday with a glitzy gala opening and concludes Thursday evening, May 2, with a world premiere and party at Lido Theatre. In between, fervent filmgoers can [...]
Friday, April 26 Sawdust Art Festival Art Classes: 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. www.sawdustartfestival.org/studioartclasses 949-494-3030. Also 4/27. Tijuana Dogs dance band, 9 p.m. Mozambique, 1740 Coast Hwy. www.mozambiqueoc.com 949-715-7777 Michael Dena, 8 p.m, Hotel Laguna, 425 S. Coast Hwy. 949-494-1151. Also 4/27. DJ Dance Party, 10 p.m., Mare Culinary Lounge, 695 S. Coast Hwy 949-715-9581 [...]
Ed Peterson knows now how he expects to spend his summer. A concept by the Laguna Concert Band’s music director-conductor to collaborate on an animated film received the green-light last week. The proposal earned Peterson the $5,000 Seven-Degrees Inspiration Grant at this year’s Art Stars Awards gala. The work will be produced this summer with [...]
Cheering on Sisters to Defy Conventions By Robin Pierson Sam Dawson did not enter her 60s gracefully. The love of her life, her second husband, the man who called her his dream girl and “kid,” died leaving her to face the “over-the-hill” decade alone, not a kid and no one’s girl. And while she [...]
The next season of six performances at the Laguna Playhouse promises a more expansive range of theater experiences, ranging from a Noel Coward farce to Joan Didion’s memoir about surviving the most challenging of life’s trials. “We’re changing it up,” Executive Director Karen Wood told supporters last week at a Hotel Laguna reception, where she [...]
Issuing an Earthy Challenge Blue Water Green Earth, the creators of the “Music Matters” Showcase and The Blue Water Music Festival, will issue Laguna Beach a challenge to clean the entire city – every beach and downtown street – in 30 minutes on Earth Day, Sunday, April 28,. Those who participate will receive half off [...]
Visiting bands, duos and soloists fill stages across Laguna Beach, joining established local performers in what is becoming more of a year ‘round scene. The latest attraction is Jammin’, a smooth jazz series that is a collaboration between Laguna Playhouse and Mozambique restaurant, whose owner Ivan Spiers keeps the music turned up. Hiroshima, a jazz [...]
Despite its imagery of atomic annihilation, the name Hiroshima was selected by the eclectic, five-member band of world-class world musicians for a definite purpose, said the band’s positively explosive artistic force, June Kuramoto. “Many Japanese resent us for naming the group Hiroshima but when they understand that our purpose is to continue the message of [...]
Laguna Concert Band Director Ed Peterson won this year’s Seven-Degrees of Inspiration Grant, a $5,000 prize for his proposal to produce an original score for an animated student film, while Heisler Park sculpture garden creators Scott and Naomi Schoenherr were declared artists of the year during Laguna Beach’s annual Art Stars awards on Sunday. More [...]
Film Spins a Tale of Spiritual Discovery “Travellers and Magicians,” the first feature film from Bhutan, the Buddhist kingdom that measures gross national happiness instead of GNP, will be screened by the Laguna Beach Film Society on Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. at South Coast Cinema. Directed and written by Khyentse Norbu, a renowned [...]
One of Laguna Beach’s oldest restaurants, the White House, celebrates its 95th year with a month of special musical performances beginning Tuesday, April 16, with the Lolly Allen jazz quartet and drummer Paul Kreibich. Kreibich, who performed with Ray Charles, will be performing from 6 to 9 p.m. alongside Lolly Allen on vibes and pianist [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
