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Mariachis Tapatio de Los Angeles displayed their boundless joy and talent performing for the Boys and Girls Club in Laguna Beach on Monday, Aug. 8. The performers, who each sang and played traditional instruments, introduced the audience to Mexican dances, passionate cries from...

The 12th annual Rotary Classic Car show takes place this year on Sunday, Oct. 2, which benefits many local charities. The club recently distributed $12,000 in annual community grants to representatives from the Boys and Girls Club, Laguna Beach Seniors, LOCA, radio station KX...

Intrepid Traveler This is me reporting live from the Michigan Dunes. I like saying live like a TV reporter. Makes me feel like I’m where the action is. You’ll notice in my picture, I’m holding up a copy of the Indy. Well, I was until a drive by snatching took it away from me. It...

Nepal Children’s Home Gains Backers Chhahari, Inc., a home in Kathmandu, Nepal, for 23 at-risk and orphaned children, added two Laguna Beach residents to its board, Tori Johnston and Victoria McGinnis. Johnston, who works as an audio programming manager for an in-flight...

Artists made the runway their canvas at the Festival of Arts, competing to create the most imaginative and unique designs using reclaimed, reused or recycled materials last Sunday, Aug. 13. A three-panel judge chose the top looks in four categories and over 2,000 Festival...

The Russell Ferrante Trio and saxophonist Bob Mintzer will play the final Concert on the Green at the Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Saturday, Aug. 20, from 1-2:30 p.m. “This is a not-to-be-missed concert for fans of the Yellowjackets and great jazz music,” said Susan...

A Sawdust Art Festival exhibitor, a self-described video drone pioneer who goes by the name ArtZ, will demonstrate drone camera technique and aerial drone photography at the show this weekend. “It was just a few years ago when spectacular aerial shots were cost prohibitive to the...

Bestselling author Michelle Gable, who has written a second novel, “I’ll See You in Paris,” visits the Festival of Arts at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 21. In her debut work, “A Paris Apartment,” Gable, of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, fictionalized the true story of a French courtesan and the...

A jury selected three award winners in several categories from more than 300 entries by Orange County students in the Festival of Art’s Junior Art Exhibit. The awarded categories were photography, two-dimensional works and three-dimensional artwork for each grade from...

  The Price of Fame   Lately, I’ve been too busy to write. It has become difficult to accomplish much of anything because there are just too many requests for my attention. You might say that it sounds like I need to learn to establish clear boundaries that will keep me...

Senior Receives Scout’s Highest Honor Recent Laguna Beach High School graduate Ashley Brown was awarded the nation’s highest Girl Scout honor, the Gold Award, for developing an educational campaign to promote local residential gardens. The Gold Award, attained by only 5 percent...

Friday, Aug. 19 Art-a-Fair, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. weekends, 9 p.m. weekdays. 777 Laguna Canyon Rd. $7.50. Free to residents. Thru Aug. 28. Festival of Arts, 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m., 650 Laguna Canyon Road; free to residents. Pageant of the Masters, 8:30 p.m., ticketed. (800) 487-3378or...

See the U.S.A. in A Chevrolet This week, all three major U.S. stock indexes, the Dow Jones Industrials, the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the Nasdaq, reached another set of all-time highs. Today’s bull market began over seven years and has continued its run, climbing a slope or...

“Stray Cat Strut,” “Rock This Town,” “Sexy and Seventeen” are hits that still reverberate through memories of anyone who danced through the 1980s along with visuals of Lee Rocker strumming his double bass like a guitar. Those memories came to life this past Sunday, Aug. 14, when...