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“The Grass is Blue: America’s Legacy of Bluegrass and Spirituals,” finds a home at Mozambique Tuesday, May 22, when Laguna Beach Live! presents Pacific Chorale’s artistic director, Robert Istad. The talk and music begin at 6:30 p.m. Demonstrating the musical highlights of Istad’s...

By Fitz Maurice This oil painting, “Crown, Glacier National Park, Montana,” will be my crescendo at the Hockaday Museum of Art show in Kalispell, Mont. Glacier is known as the “Crown of the Continent,” hence the title. It is my hope that this painting shows the deep blue...

Rock band Jamestown Revival will play their Orange County debut at the Blinking Owl Distillery in Santa Ana on Sunday, May 20. The performance at 802 E Washington Ave. is a fundraiser for Laguna Beach resident Summer Tarango. The proceeds will help pay for her ongoing breast...

Laguna Art Museum will offer free admission on Thursday, May 17, to honor Art Museum Day, allowing visitors to see the current exhibition, “Tony DeLap: A Retrospective.” Admission will also be free for the screening of Stanley Kubrick’s  “Dr. Strangelove,” which will be...

Women’s rights advocate Eileen Padberg will discuss her new book, “Out of My Lane” at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 20, at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway. Padberg, a 60-year-old Republican political consultant from Orange County, embarks on a journey to aid Iraqi women start...

By Chris Trela | NB Indy Aileen Kruidenier’s Irish grandmother, Eileen, was sick with cancer and in hospice care when she began painting glorious pictures based on her memories and experiences. “We asked her why we did not know this about her,” recalled Kruidenier. “She ...

Past, Present Come Alive in Columnist’s Book By Victoria Kertz | LB Indy James Utt doesn’t change his mind easily or often. The writer behind the “Heart Talk” column in the Laguna Beach Independent is possibly one ofthe most stubborn defenders of his beliefs in print today. Even...

Laguna Dance Festival will hold their annual gala Friday, May 18, by celebrating the centennial birthdays of composer Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins, who together with lyricist Stephen Sondheim created “West Side Story.” Guests will enjoy an evening of music...

Cove Gallery will introduce two Laguna Beach High School students in their Young Artist program during May. Chloe Levine and Amy You will be showing their work at the gallery and learning about how it operates. The two students are the fourth group to be involved in the program,...

Gallery Q at the Susi Q senior center explores diversity and unity in its “Harmony” exhibition and invites artists to submit work that explores the theme on Thursday, May 3. Gallery Q will be accepting artwork of any media from 10 a.m. to noon and 5 to 7 p.m. There is an entry...

Sunset Serenades returns beginning with a free 6:30 p.m. classical music performance by Jackie Menter Trio Friday, May 4, in the Heisler Park Amphitheatre. Here is the concert line up: May 5, Jack Benny, pop trio; May 18, Phil Gough/Alan Deremo Project; May 25, Maestro Lazaro...

“Dirty Blonde,” written by Claudia Shear and directed James W. Gruessing Jr., opens at Laguna Playhouse on Thursday, April 26, for six performances only. Starring Bets Malone as Mae West, the production examines one of America’s most enduring and controversial pop culture...

By Denny Freidenrich, Special to the Independent As a young girl, Robin Hiers fondly remembers riding bikes with friends in her Top of the World neighborhood and watching her parents, John and Lee, help co-found the Sawdust Festival and Art-A-Fair. It was an exciting time for the...

Laguna Craft Guild art show sets up at Main Beach at 9 a.m. Sunday, April 22. The local artists, many of whom also sell at the Sawdust Art Festival, sell  handmade goods on the cobblestones until sundown.   Avran to Open New Exhibition All are invited to the opening...