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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...

Capturing Maui’s Natural Wonders By Fitz Maurice, Special to the Independent What could be more exciting than flying to the Hawaiian Islands? To top off their tropical beauty, there are two national parks there, Haleakala National Park on the island of Maui and Volcanos National...

Friday, July 28 Duchicella, 5 p.m., Laguna Art-A-Fair, 777 Laguna Canyon Rd. 949 494-4514 Leslie Page, 5:30 p.m., Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Rd. Sawdust Festival, three stages, 935 Laguna Canyon Rd.: Poul and Richard, Jodi Siegel, 11 a.m.; The Farm, 11:30 a.m.; April...

Of 17 episodes scheduled for “Shark Week” on the Discovery Channel beginning Sunday, July 23, local Marc Ostrick produced two of them and directed a third with Radley Studios. Ostrick says he’s at work on another Shark Week episode next year for the 30th anniversary of the sho...

Eric Marienthal All Stars perform at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 22 at the Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Rd. The Grammy-nominated sax player’s band also features Mitch Forman, Franklin “Third” Richardson, Nathaniel Kearney, Jr., and Adam Hawley. As part of Chick Corea’s Elekric...

The Art-To-Go fundraising sale at the Festival of Arts, offering 100 original works with a travel theme, is available through Aug. 31. New items are added weekly. “Catalina by Air,” “Grand Canyon Day 10,” and “Palm Springs Weekend” are but a few of the titles. Best-in-show awards...

Friday, July 21 Duchicella, 5 p.m., 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 stages, 935 Laguna Canyon Rd.: April Strong, Kevin Miso, Brother Yusef, 11 a.m.; Upstream, 11:30 a.m.; Salty Suites,...

Paris, Rome, Florence, Naples and Milan. Those were must-see destinations for young 18th century English aristocrats sent abroad to round out their formal education and give them the requisite cultural veneer. In that era, of course, aristocrats meant lords, not ladies. Produced...

Tracy Turnblad has almost made it through her senior year of high school even though her heart wasn’t in it. She sat through more detentions than classes due to her penchant for teasing her hair into dizzying heights and incurring the wrath of the school’s principal. It’s 1962 in...

The Festival of Arts marks its 85th year in a newly renovated facility and officials cut the ribbon in time for the Festival’s art exhibit opening on Monday, July 3. Built in 1964, the exhibit space, art center and concert stage area has undergone a major transformation. “We...

Laguna Beach resident and pianist Eric Dries, together with sax player Steven Ragsdale, trombonist Joey Sellers, bassist Chris Hon and drummer Jessica Ragsdale, explore traditional jazz, free improvisation, and contemporary classical music in concert Wednesday, July 19. The...

  Poets Kathryn Nuernberger and Noah Blaustein join Kate Buckley, Laguna Beach’s inaugural poet laureate, at a 7:30 p.m. reading Tuesday, July 18, at The Sawdust Festival, 935 Laguna Canyon Road. The reading will be followed by an audience Q&A with the poets, as well as...