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By Daniella Walsh, Special to the Independent          Tony DeLap has been making art for at least 70 of his 90 years, and now the best of his lifetime oeuvre has been gathered into “ Tony DeLap: A Retrospective” by the Laguna Art Museum. The exhibition is comprised of roughly 80...

By Daniella Walsh, Special to the Independent Freshly minted college grad Benjamin Braddock wages a comical struggle in his bedroom trying to put on a diving suit and mask. They’re a graduation present from his parents that he is supposed to demonstrate in the family pool for...

Titled “Main Beach Mandala” by its creator, Jeff Lavinsky, they are meant to evoke dream catchers, a Native American construct. Now, the mural installed in recent weeks without the land owner’s permission has become a magnet for passersby, but also a source of controversy.

Undulating patterns of lights on sand. White-clad people elegantly gliding along the edge of Main Beach. Shiny mirror posts reflecting their environment, both natural and man-made. And now, 200 yards offshore, a lone lamppost seemingly abandoned in the middle of the ocean. For...

With its emphasis on the symbiotic relationship and history between Mexico and California, the show has also been included into this year’s LA/LA Pacific Standard Time roster of region-wide exhibitions and programs sponsored by the Getty Foundation to the tune of $ 8.5 million.

Long-hidden and newly restored, the mural “Settlement,” a work by early Laguna Beach Impressionist Edgar Payne, takes a star turn as part of Laguna Art Museum’s current exhibition “California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820-1930.”

When Paul Freeman moved to Laguna Beach from Washington, D.C. in 1987 he professed no interest in local politics, but soon became entangled in local issues, including aiding the effort to block the Irvine Company from developing Laguna Canyon with 5,000 homes, two golf courses...

Tom and Patti Klingenmeier and their two young sons, Michael and J.D., left behind their bustling Chicago life as owners of three small businesses all due to a 6-year-old’s question. “Dad how come you never take me fishing?” Michael plaintively asked.

“It’s getting better all the time…,” to appropriate a passage from a Beatles’ song that aptly applies to this year’s just concluded Laguna Dance Festival. Looking back on its 13th season, the festival’s founder Jodie Gates achieved a new pinnacle by presenting the modern dance...

Laguna Beach artists share some insights about summer art sales and what influences buyers.

The characters created by novelist Gloria Fickling are in the spotlight again in a documentary about their influence in changing women's roles in film and television.

It’s been a long stage journey for a once introverted seventh-grader, freshly arrived in San Diego from Clinton, Iowa, who was pushed into a drama class as part of a middle-school humanities requirement.

The painting looks stained and frayed at the edges. Haphazardly stored in the basement home of Laguna Beach artist G. Ray Kerciu for decades, he wagers that it might even have been sprinkled with a bit of rat pee. And yet, it has suddenly emerged as the piece de resistance that...

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.