The Festival of Arts Foundation awarded $30,000 in grants to Laguna Beach High School to enhance visual and performing arts education, the district announced this week. The high school’s art program received a $15,000 award and supporters of its instrumental music program received $5,000. The campus’s dance and performing arts departments received awards of $2,500 [...]
There is a lot more to hula dancing than grass skirts and swaying bodies, according to master hula instructor Michael Casupang, of Honolulu’s Mid-Pacific Institute School of the Arts, visiting Laguna this week with 23 of his advanced students. They will demonstrate just that, first at the Artists Theatre at Laguna Beach High School at [...]
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 [...]
