Sober Pairs With Send-Ups in Biennial Exhibit
The much anticipated California Biennial exhibition by the Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art justified its build-up. The 150 works now on display are...
Star Studded ‘Stories of Home’ Benefits Homeless
Combine the power of the written word with the immediacy of an actor’s visceral, live interpretation, and the result is a performance that literally...
Tenth Sawdust Winter Fantasy Holiday Festival Opens Saturday
The Sawdust Art Festival is ringing in the 2010 holiday season with its annual Winter Fantasy. The 10th such holiday fest, it features 170...
The Write Stuff
Painter, Teacher, Writer: a Career Progresses
Polymath. The dictionary defines this as a person with expertise in several areas of knowledge and ability. It seems an apt...
John Paul Jones Headlines Museum’s New Exhibit
Sometimes juxtapositions of museum exhibitions can be as intriguing as the individual exhibitions themselves. Such is currently the case at the Laguna Art Museum:...
Grounded in Tradition, Art College Pursues the Future
On a recent gloomy afternoon Kiley Davis, a Laguna College of Art and Design graphic design senior, immersed herself in color by creating a...
St.Clair Still Looking Forward
Anyone who has seen a Pacific Symphony concert in the past 20 years knows the passion and energy that music director Carl St.Clair brings...
Costumer Takes a Star Turn in ‘Lagunatics’
It’s that time again for No Square Theatre to stage “Lagunatics,” the popular spoof of the year’s issues that have wagged locals’ tongues: skateboarders...
Sawdust Shifts to Year-Round Use
Laguna Beach’s art colony vibe, instilled in visitor’s as they stroll the city’s summer art festivals, galleries and artist studios, need not dissipate when...
Museum Makes Gains Despite Sour Economy
Despite a lingering recession, Laguna Art Museum’s membership remained intact and its finances improved over the previous year even as expenses were dialed back,...
Two Locals Get to the Meat of the Matter
South Laguna dads Brian Smith and Robert Hagopian met at the Village Green Park in South Laguna while their kids played. Later around their...
A Battered Diamond Rediscovered
Concert for a Century–Old Piano
By Robin Pierson, Special to the Independent
For years the piano sat quietly in a corner of Bridge Hall at the...
Club Exhibit Showcases Young Artists
Boys & Girls Club members invite the public to view the works of 150 young artists in a gallery-style juried art exhibition Thursday, Jan....
Film Society Starts Sea Series
Over the next four months, the Laguna Beach Film Society will present Sea Tales: The Truth of the Ocean in Film, documentaries for those...
Tunes & Tomes
Best sellers during the week of Jan. 3
Sound Spectrum
Top 10 Bestsellers
Nora Jones, The Fall
John Mayer, Battle Studies
Alicia Keys, Element of Freedom
Lady Gaga, Fame Monster
The...