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Relive the '60s at "A Night With Janis Joplin" in a brief run at Laguna Playhouse.

Last summer, Jennifer, a teacher on parental leave, and husband Jesse, a Thurston teacher and Laguna Beach lifeguard, returned to the Sawdust. “We are a legacy. People are coming back who still remember my parents,” said Jennifer.

As the Festival of Arts celebrates its 85th year, it is no longer an aging beauty, but a head-turning stunner thanks to $10.5 million worth of architectural surgery. Now, the redesigned and rebuilt festival grounds serve as the summer home of 140 artists, including many longtime...

Come September, a traffic-choked stretch of Laguna Canyon Road will be enriched by another mural to soothe the harried.

Paris, Rome, Florence, Naples and Milan. Those were must-see destinations for young 18th century English aristocrats sent abroad to round out their formal education and give them the requisite cultural veneer. In that era, of course, aristocrats meant lords, not ladies. Produced...

Tracy Turnblad has almost made it through her senior year of high school even though her heart wasn’t in it. She sat through more detentions than classes due to her penchant for teasing her hair into dizzying heights and incurring the wrath of the school’s principal. It’s 1962 in...

“ An artist is the interpreter of his own thoughts and conclusions. Each painting is a new beginning, a new day to define his, the artist’s, feelings, thoughts and conclusions….” Phil Dike (1906-1990) wrote those words in 1976, a key decade of his long career which was by...

  Politicized art was not what Community Art Project vice president and curator of exhibitions Jennifer Griffiths had in mind last November when she planned an all-women’s art show for the CAP gallery located within Wells Fargo Bank. Given President-elect Donald Trump’s...

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,...