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New West Guitar Group featuring guitarists Perry Smith, John Storie and Will Brahm perform March 28 at Seven-Degrees, 891 Laguna Canyon Road. The group has released five instrumental albums, each showcasing the laid-back virtuosity of their own arrangements. Concerts start at 6...

A grant from the Festival of Arts Foundation will enable Laguna Outreach for Community Arts to continue its free and affordable programs throughout Laguna Beach in fall 2018 and spring 2019. LOCA serves all age groups, from members of the Susi Q Center to pre-schoolers at the...

The Laguna Beach Library will rename its annual poetry contest after John Gardiner, to honor the memory of the local poet and former contest master of ceremonies. April is National Poetry Month and “seascape sonnets” is the contest theme. Throughout the month, entrants of all...

Laguna Playhouse will honor Lewis and Nellie Gail Moulton at their annual gala commemorating the Moulton Theatre’s 50th anniversary and the family’s generous contributions to The Playhouse. Their gift contributed to the building of the Playhouse in 1967, said event co-chair and...

Guitarist Eric Henderson, a protégé of Andrés Segovia, and Venezuelan pianist William Sigismondi, will perform together in concert at Neighborhood Congregational Church, 340 St. Ann’s Dr. from 8-10 p.m. on Saturday, March 24. A fortuitous encounter in Laguna Beach brought the duo...

Boba, homework and the horrors of having an embarrassing mom are parodied in this year’s “Lagunatots” at the No Square Theatre, 384 Legion St. on March 16-18 and 23-25. Friday and Saturday shows begin at 7 p.m. with a $10 dinner option before the show. Sunday shows begin at 2...

“Coastal Sage: Peter Douglas and the Fight to Save California’s Shore,” by Laguna local and Indy columnist Tom Osborne, is the topic of a free talk at he UC Irvine Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, 15207 Barranca Parkway, Irvine, at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 22. Douglas was the...

Works by newly juried Festival of Arts artists is on display in a new show, “Fresh Faces 2018” at the third floor gallery at Wells Fargo Bank, 260 Ocean Ave. The exhibit will showcase a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, glass, pastels, photography and mixed...

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...

LOCA Arts Education and Laguna Plein Air Painters Association present Lay it Down and Leave it, a landscape painting workshop Saturday, March 17, at 9 a.m. at Top of the World Elementary. Attendees will learn to lay paints with minimal brushstrokes, and heavy impasto textures....

Los Angeles saxophonist Tom Luer is joined by pianist Andy Langham, bassist Edwin Livingston, drummer Schnelle and vocalist Angela Parish for a 6 p.m. concert Wednesday, March 14, at Seven Degrees. Luer’s album “Project Popular” was released in 2011 to critical...

Hot-Footin’ It the Water’s Edge Having flown to the island of Hawaii and hiked to the top crater of Volcanoes National Park, I realized that I was not inspired to paint the smoldering brown crater. The only other possibility for finding an iconic subject to represent this...

Laguna Beach artist Sandra Jones Campbell opens her new 30-painting exhibition, “Better to Show Than Tell,” with a reception at Pacific Edge Gallery on Saturday, March 3, from 6-9 p.m. Inspired by her childhood memories of growing up in Oregon, this collection has all of the...

Laguna Beach Live! presents Argus Quartet at the Laguna Art Museum on Thursday, March 8, 7 pm. Praised for their “supreme melodic control and total authority,” the Argus Quartet also believes that today’s ensembles can honor the chamber music traditions while forging...

Authors Richard Fairgray and Alexander Burke will discuss their new book, “Sweet Penny & the Lion” at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 11, at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway. One day on the playground Penny’s class is playing a game when a lion hops over the fence....