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“In Search of the Real,” an exhibition by the Laguna College of Art and Design faculty, opens with a reception Thursday, Feb. 5, for the First Thursday Art Walk at Forest & Ocean Gallery, 480 Ocean Ave. “This show brings together LCAD’s celebrated drawing,...

The brown-eyed man in a Laguna Beach police uniform and baseball cap wears a slight smile, his facial expression radiating security and strength. Officer Jon Coutchie, the subject of the artist’s portrait, was killed in a traffic collision on Sept. 21, 2013, the second Laguna...

The popular Laguna Beach Live jazz series kicks off Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 6 p.m. with the hot sounds of The Latin Jazz Syndicate at Seven-Degrees, 891 Laguna Canyon Road. The Latin Jazz Syndicate features trumpeter Bijon Watson and pays homage to America’s indigenous music while...

Photo submissions for Laguna Bluebelt’s 2015 Photo Contest celebrating Underwater Parks Day will be accepted from Jan. 17- 31 in professional and amateur categories. The contest aims to educate and promote awareness of Laguna’s Marine Protected Areas thus ensuring that future...

Wine, cheese and conversation at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25, starts off an expanded version of a new open mic experience hosted at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway. Hosts Michele McCormick and Ed Kaufman invite writers to read their work, three-minute stories, poems or...

Laura Ricker volunteered her talents as an event organizer of the 2012 Laguna Beach Music Festival and signaled that if the director’s job became available, she’d happily apply. This year, her wish came true. Ricker steps into a post temporarily filled last year by Carla Neuss...

By Christopher Trela | NB Indy He’s created one-man shows about George Gershwin, Chopin, Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein, and Liszt. Now, musician, actor and playwright Hershey Felder returns to Laguna Playhouse with his latest solo show, “Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin,” written...

By Robin Pierson, Special to the Independent As she travels the world, award-winning artist Martha Fuller opens her mind and her camera shutter to the quirky and the mysterious, connecting seemingly disparate images to create an emotionally expressive memoir. In her sh...

Registration is now open for a studio visit with painter Kathy Jones and workshops with artists Lydia Delgado and Reem Khalil, organized by Laguna Outreach for Community Arts. The Art Club event where Jones will discuss her approach and process is on Thursday, Jan. 15, 4-6p.m.,...

Tim Wirkus, winner of the 2013 Quarterly West novella contest, will discuss and sign his debut novel, “City of Brick and Shadow,” at 6 p.m. Thursday Jan. 15, at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway. The 31-year-old author lives in Irvine and is working on his doctorate at...

Some of the area’s top executive chefs will serve as culinary team that will create a three-course dinner for the Ocean Institute’s Jazz Festival on Saturday, Jan. 24.             Leading the culinary team is Frederic Castan of St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort. Other chefs include...

Friday, Jan. 9 Nate & the Declaration, 9 p.m., Marine Room Tavern, 214 Ocean Ave. World Anthem, 7 p.m., Cliff Restaurant, 577 S. Coast Hwy. Nick I and ADD, 9 p.m., Mozambique, 1740 S. Coast Hwy, 949 715-7777. Pianist Emanuel Ax, 8 p.m., Soka University Performing Arts Center....

By Daniella Walsh | LB Indy The year just concluded was a good one for the Laguna Art Museum and 2015 promises to keep pace, forecasts Executive Director Malcolm Warner. He was particularly optimistic about the future of “Art and Nature,” a symposium and exhibition where artists...

  The LA Horn Quartet performs in the Live! at the Museum 7 p.m. concert series Thursday, Jan. 8. Formed in early 2010, the quartet consists of friends Dylan Hart, Allen Fogle, Laura Brenes, and Annie Bosler drawn together by a mutual interest in expanding a horn quartet as...

CALENDAR Friday, Jan. 2 Slingshot, 9 p.m., Marine Room Tavern, 214 Ocean Ave. Nick I and ADD, 9 p.m., Mozambique, 1740 S. Coast Hwy, 949 715-7777. Cash’d Out, 8 p.m., The Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, 949 496-8930. $15. Saturday, Jan. 3 Zero Trash...