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A Sawdust Art Festival exhibitor, a self-described video drone pioneer who goes by the name ArtZ, will demonstrate drone camera technique and aerial drone photography at the show this weekend. “It was just a few years ago when spectacular aerial shots were cost prohibitive to the...

Bestselling author Michelle Gable, who has written a second novel, “I’ll See You in Paris,” visits the Festival of Arts at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 21. In her debut work, “A Paris Apartment,” Gable, of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, fictionalized the true story of a French courtesan and the...

A jury selected three award winners in several categories from more than 300 entries by Orange County students in the Festival of Art’s Junior Art Exhibit. The awarded categories were photography, two-dimensional works and three-dimensional artwork for each grade from...

Friday, Aug. 19 Art-a-Fair, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. weekends, 9 p.m. weekdays. 777 Laguna Canyon Rd. $7.50. Free to residents. Thru Aug. 28. Festival of Arts, 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m., 650 Laguna Canyon Road; free to residents. Pageant of the Masters, 8:30 p.m., ticketed. (800) 487-3378or...

“Stray Cat Strut,” “Rock This Town,” “Sexy and Seventeen” are hits that still reverberate through memories of anyone who danced through the 1980s along with visuals of Lee Rocker strumming his double bass like a guitar. Those memories came to life this past Sunday, Aug. 14, when...

Among the dense Sunday crowd of passengers waiting to board an outbound trolley at the Sawdust Art Festival, a woman cradled a bubble-wrapped package roughly the size of a tiny mummy.

The big blue sea lion painted by Art-A-Fair artists will soon get a name and a new home. Guests are invited watch the commemorative parade makes its way up Laguna Canyon Road on Saturday, Aug. 20, at 12:30 p.m. to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, where a dedication and ribbon...

The Artists Fund at Festival of Arts is presenting its Art-To-Go Shoe Show silent auction on Saturday August 13, from 1 to 4 p.m. More than 50 exciting originals will be sold with proceeds to benefit artists in need. Peak bidding activity and close-outs take place between 2 and 3...

Casey McQuillen showed off what he called “stupid doodles” but that were charming line drawings that might live in a kid’s inner comic book. His buddy Jonathan Jucaban meanwhile manipulated an outsized marking pen that made him look like a kid with a with a new toy. “We’re here...

Besos de Coco with special guest, Robert Dove, on Winds bring Gypsy Jazz to the Rose Garden on Aug 17th as part of Jazz Wednesdays series by Laguna Beach Live! The Rose Garden is outdoors and offers personal table service for food and beverages. Concerts are 6 to 8 p.m. The...

  The board of directors of the Festival of Arts has approved the acquisition of five new pieces for the FOA’s Permanent Art Collection. “I was amazed and excited that there were a variety of works, that were not so costly, but represented the uniqueness, excellence, and...

Fashion will enjoy a reinvention from 1-4 p.m. tomorrow, Aug. 13 when the eighth annual Festival Runway Fashion Show returns to the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Rd. The show where festival artists compete to create the most inspired couture using reclaimed,...

  They are middle-schoolers with kooky monikers like William Barfée, Leaf Coneybear and Chip Tolentino, all vying to win the top prize at the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Divining the derivation of words like boanthropy or omphaloskepsis, they are supervised by a...

A display of 25 Festival of Arts commemorative posters feature works from 1941 to the present and include designs by Laguna Beach graphic artist Bill Atkins. The show can be seen through Oct. 3 in the third floor gallery of the Wells Fargo building, 260 Ocean Ave. Atkins, who...

The Concerts on the Green music series continues at the Festival of Arts from 1-2:30 on Saturday, Aug. 6 with saxophonist Grace Kelly. Kelly, a graduate from the Berklee College of Music, is a saxophonist, singer, songwriter, composer and arranger from Brookline, Mass. She has...