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Friday, August 18 “A Night with Janis Joplin,” Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Rd. Through Sept. 10. 949 497-2787. Renown Muzic, 5 p.m., Laguna Art-A-Fair, 777 Laguna Canyon Rd. 949 494-4514 Terron Brooks, 5:30 p.m., Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Rd. Sawdust Festival,...

The Festival of Arts’ concerts conclude with a 1 p.m. performance by drummer Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band on Saturday, Aug. 19. As a band leader and a sideman, Sanchez has banged out a fiery stew of straight-ahead jazz and melodies and rhythms from Latin American...

“Laguna Beach of Early Days,” a personal historical account by Joseph S. Thurston, whose parents settled in Aliso Canyon in 1871, is now available thanks to a reissue by his grandson, Kelly Boyd. During a City Council meeting last week, Mayor Pro Tem Kelly Boyd said that he and...

The Joanne Artman Gallery now represents oil and mixed media artist Anna Kincaide. The artist specializes in portraits of stylized women disguised by avant-garde, floral-inspired hats. Her work is on display at the gallery, 326 N. Coast Highway, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday-...

By Loreen Berlin – Special to the Independent Local artists currently exhibiting their specialties in the Festival of Arts also applied their talent to other mediums and fashioned outfits from the fun and the youthful to the flirtatious and phenomenal during Saturday’s...

Fashion reinvention takes the stage at the Festival of Arts this Saturday, Aug. 12. Competing to create the most inspired couture using reclaimed, reused or recycled materials are Festival exhibitors Carla Bosch, Antje Campbell, Stefan Cummings, Brad Elsberry, Elizabeth McGhee,...

The newest juried show “August Nights,” by members of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, opens with a 5-8 p.m. public reception Saturday, Aug. 12, at the Forest & Ocean Gallery in Laguna Beach. The award winning paintings and artists will be announced at...

Friday, August 11 “Chicago,” 7:30 p.m., No Square Theater, 384 Legion St. $25. Also 8/12, and 2 and 7:30 p.m. 8/13. Gary Turner, 5 p.m.; Laguna Art-A-Fair, 777 Laguna Canyon Rd. 949 494-4514 Melanie Taylor, 5:30 p.m., Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Rd. Sawdust Festival, 935...

As the Festival of Arts celebrates its 85th year, it is no longer an aging beauty, but a head-turning stunner thanks to $10.5 million worth of architectural surgery. Now, the redesigned and rebuilt festival grounds serve as the summer home of 140 artists, including many longtime...

Laguna Beach Live! presents YuEun Kim and Etienne Gara performing at 7 p.m. in the Laguna Art Museum Thursday, Aug. 10. Born in South Korea, violinist Kim attends the USC Thornton School of Music. French-born violinist Gara has performed extensively since making his orchestral...

Laguna local Ellen Giradeau Kempler’s latest book of haiku and photographs, “Thirty Views of a Changing World” is now available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. The book was inspired by the Japanese artist Hokusai’s series of woodblock prints, “Thirty-six Views of...

Miche McClendon, a Virginia Beach transplant, found a new home in Laguna Beach and opened a jewelry studio and gallery at 241 Forest Ave. There she makes and sells necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets by weaving chains using an ancient technique or hand fabricating each link...

A Festival of Arts Foundation grant of $3,000 made possible three of summer art enrichment programs on the Festival of Arts’ grounds. Festival of Arts hosted seventh and eighth grade students participating in the Pacific Symphony’s summer arts immersion program, Arts-X-Press. The...

Friday, August 4 Upstream, 5 p.m., Laguna Art-A-Fair, 777 Laguna Canyon Rd. 949 494-4514 Catte Adams, 5:30 p.m., Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Rd. Sawdust Festival, 935 Laguna Canyon Rd., April Strong, Sam Bybee, George Butts Duo, 11 a.m.; Upstream, 11:30 a.m.; Calafia...

An artist’s reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. for James Verbicky in the JoAnne Artman Gallery, 326 N. Coast Highway during Artwalk on Thursday, Aug. 3. Verbicky uses antique and vintage paper and magazines to make media omnipresent in his collages. In 2008, the U.S. government...