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A new study shows that Laguna Beach non-profit arts and cultural institutions and their audiences generated $95.4 million in economic activity altogether in 2015, or twice that as five years earlier.

He wore bright colored capri pants, telling all that capri stands for “capricious” rather than the Italian isle. He extolled the usefulness of little black dresses to women and was described as a gifted and imaginary actor with “jazz hands.” Leonard, the lead character in “The...

The Festival of Arts is a hive of activity with hardhat workers roaming the site on evenings and Saturdays, scrambling to make up for time lost due to El Nino induced rains.

In axing the long-lived stone carving program on the Laguna College of Art and Design campus, President Jonathan Burke said he acted to protect students, faculty and staff from possible health risks generated by fine stone dust.

“We want you to stay in our town, please,” pleaded Laguna Beach Mayor Toni Iseman, addressing 126 Laguna College of Art and Design graduates at a commencement ceremony Monday, May 22, hoping the class of 2017 can add youthful zest to a town founded by activist artists.

The script writer of the Pageant of the Masters production penned a new radio play, "Tesla," about a little known scientist and futurist, which opens for a brief run at Laguna Playhouse.

  As the houselights dimmed, a rapt, multi-generational audience filled nearly every seat for opening night of the current Laguna Playhouse production. “King of the Road: The Roger Miller Story.” The anticipation rose when Jesse Johnson as Roger Miller strode onto the stage,...

“Washington is a great city, but we are always glad to be home in Laguna Beach,” said Suzanne and James R. Mellor, taking in the ocean view and carefully tended gardens of their home on the Montage resort. The couple recently returned from the nation’s capital, enthusiastic about...

“There is no time to dwell on what hell we came from or what may be heaven. Now that we know what we have done. Now we all know what we must do. We must keep going. We must stop the Americans. We must stop us. We must become Peace-Makers. We must change the world.” These words...

A foggy mist rises from the ground in patches and tentacles as sunrays penetrate cloud cover to enter the majestic Yosemite Valley, a background of timeless splendor. So unfolded an Ansel Adams-type vista that Laguna Beach photographer Cheyne Walls captured and parlayed into...

The Laguna Art Museum is on a roll with two enticing exhibitions.

Laguna Beach ceramic artist Marlo Bartels transforms a pathway in a housing development in Brea with whimsy, history and flashes of color.

the Laguna Beach Arts Commission is seeking more professional expertise from artists, architects, designers, curators, art historians and members of visual arts organizations as part of a public art review panel, the city manager’s report announced last week.

Noah Plomgren bounced around a stage at age 5, playing a robot named Calcium in a children’s repertory group. “I did not understand the concept of the show, but loved the experience of being on stage. It was magical,” the Laguna Beach native recalled recently. At age 9, he fully...

From Chopin to Beethoven, Bernstein to Gershwin, actor, playwright and musician Hershey Felder has through brilliant impersonations, replete with accents, a gamut of idiosyncrasies and streams of narrative brought back to life composers on the Laguna Playhouse stage. Now he has...