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Friday, June 2 Sunset Serenades: Yuval Ron Ensemble featured, 6:30 p.m., Heisler Park Amphitheater, Cliff Dr. Free. Voodoo Grove, 7 p.m., Cliff Bar & Firepit Lounge, 577 S. Coast Hwy. Party Foul, 9 p.m., Mozambique, 1740 S. Coast Hwy., 949 715-7777. DJ Ricky “Rocks”, 9 p.m.,...

“We want you to stay in our town, please,” pleaded Laguna Beach Mayor Toni Iseman, addressing 126 Laguna College of Art and Design graduates at a commencement ceremony Monday, May 22, hoping the class of 2017 can add youthful zest to a town founded by activist artists.

Meet the featured artist, Steve Bernstein, at Cove Gallery, 1550 S. Coast Highway, on June 1 at a 6-9 p.m. Art Walk reception. Bernstein’s work combines his two passions, photography and computers. While each of his pieces begins as a photograph, it is transformed into a work of...

To lure a younger audience, longtime Laguna Playhouse supporters created the eponymous Suzanne and James Mellor Laguna Playhouse Tribute Fund, which will provide free tickets to audience members 21 and under for select shows during the coming season. The Mellors have raised more...

Master of Ceremonies John Gardiner will host a public reading of winning poems from the Laguna Beach Library’s annual community poetry contest, Seaside Butterflies, Saturday, June 3, at noon. The top three winners in each age category will be recognized and are invited to read...

    The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, presents “85 Years of Art,” a summer exhibit allied with the Pageant of the Masters and Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach. Guests are invited to view this recently opened display at the resort through Sept. 5. The exhibit includes...

Michelle Temple’s interactive multimedia event celebrating artistic inspiration begins at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 25, at the Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Dr. Created by Pacific Symphony musician Michelle Temple, the multimedia event discusses the drive of the artist with a...

Laguna local Rossandra White will introduce her new book, “Monkey’s Wedding” at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 21, at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway. The protagonists, adolescents Elizabeth and Tururu share an uneasy friendship on a remote sisal plantation in 1953’s Zimbabwe when...

  By Rachelle Cano Looking for a great Laguna restaurant where you can spoil a special mother or grandmother? Here are some ideas for Sunday, May 14, on the OC coast. Since President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation making Mother’s Day a national holiday in 1914,...

The public is welcome to join a 5-8 p.m. reception for the artists of “Waterworks,” Saturday, May 13, at the Forest & Ocean Gallery, 480 Ocean Ave., shared with the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. The juried exhibition includes 40 original works in watercolors created...

Musicians Matt Venuti, Pam Wicks and Doug Miller perform live Saturday, May 20, in “A Concert to Celebrate What Unites Us,” at 6:30 p.m. at the Neighborhood Congregational Church, 340 St. Ann’s Dr. The evening will include unusual instruments, special songwriting, piano,...

The friendship of designers Tony Duquette and Elsie de Wolfe is portrayed in a duo of books, “The Walk to Elsie’s” and “The Walk From Elsie’s” written by Hutton Wilkinson and Manfred Kuhnert who will be hosted by the Laguna Playhouse Women in a lecture and book signing from 4:30-...

By Eileen Keighley Running a restaurant is challenging. Add seasonality and this increases tenfold. As summer season approaches, three Laguna entrepreneurs discuss whether to distinguish between visitors and locals and their business approach. Chef Azmin Ghahreman opened Sapphire...

  As the houselights dimmed, a rapt, multi-generational audience filled nearly every seat for opening night of the current Laguna Playhouse production. “King of the Road: The Roger Miller Story.” The anticipation rose when Jesse Johnson as Roger Miller strode onto the stage,...

  Join the Third Street Writers as they celebrate the release of the anthology “Beach Reads: Here Comes the Sun,” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 11, at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway. The anthology of 30 short stories, poetry, and personal essays explores the sun as...