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They are listed in the catalogue of mid-century modern design as “the London Chairs,” sleek and invitingly comfy looking black leather, rosewood and metal chairs designed in 1962 by Martin Grierson. Currently posed at Peter Blake Gallery, they’re for looking, not sitting.

Laguna Dance Festival's new season brings three dance companies to Laguna Beach beginning Sept. 22.

A felon is a house-guest of a North Dakota pastor. A musical with an all African-American cast set in a Georgia funeral home. Two strangers hooking up on New Year’s Eve and becoming parents. Such is the diverse dramatic fare presented in one-night only shows over the next three...

An assist by elected officials helps the Plein Air Painters Assoc. near fundraising to match a public grant even as the organization plans for its next painting invitational next month.

A gallery exhibit of street art by Artists Republic in Laguna Beach includes the showing of an original work by the elusive street artist Banksy.

“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...

Among the dense Sunday crowd of passengers waiting to board an outbound trolley at the Sawdust Art Festival, a woman cradled a bubble-wrapped package roughly the size of a tiny mummy.

Casey McQuillen showed off what he called “stupid doodles” but that were charming line drawings that might live in a kid’s inner comic book. His buddy Jonathan Jucaban meanwhile manipulated an outsized marking pen that made him look like a kid with a with a new toy. “We’re here...

  They are middle-schoolers with kooky monikers like William Barfée, Leaf Coneybear and Chip Tolentino, all vying to win the top prize at the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Divining the derivation of words like boanthropy or omphaloskepsis, they are supervised by a...

Jordan Dimitrov made his first replica of a ship at age 8 and remains fascinated with maritime history and sailing vessels plowing the seven seas to this day. Thirty-two years later, three of his meticulously life-like model ships can be seen at this year’s Festival of Arts,...

In the latest Laguna Playhouse show, "All Shook Up," Elvis Presley's tunes and Shakespeare's comedic plot twists combine for a light-hearted summer show.

Conceived by Diane Challis Davy with the script by Dan Duling and narration by Richard Doyle, the summer production titled “Partners” celebrates creative unions in the visual and performing arts, fiction and science and points between.

Work by plein-air watercolor painter David Solomon embellished booths at the Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach for 35 years. But that’s not his only distinction. At age 72, the four-decade local resident is the patriarch of a clan of artists that spans three generations. During a...

A retrospective of Peter Krasnow's work at the Laguna Art Museum reveals his evolution from painter to sculptor.

When Harold L. Pastorius, Jr., a multi-media artist and the first president of the Sawdust Festival, married teacher Kay Watts, he presented his bride with a painted self-portrait. Titled “Love me for a 100 Years,” it shows a bearded, intense-eyed man outlined in light paint on a...