Slideshow: Independence Day 2008
4th of July celebrations from South Laguna, Virginia Way Parade and Party, to Main Beach and the Heisler Park Fireworks. Full Story
Gallimaufry's 'Cabaret' Adds Its Own Kick
Performances begin July 17
Gallimaufry Performing Arts presents the Broadway musical "Cabaret," directed by Tony Award-nominee Jonelle Allen and starring Juliet Fischer- Schulein and Steve Josephson. Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturdays, July 17- 19, 24-26 at 8 p.m. at the Artists' Theater on Park Avenue. Full Story
Festival Weekend Wire
ports The art festival season is officially in full swing with all three open and offering an array of free art workshops, demonstrations and entertainment daily. Locals receive free admission all summer at the Festival of Arts and Art-A-Fair. Locals get in free after 5 p.m. Thursdays and the first Friday of the month at the Sawdust Art Festival. Full Story
Local Poet Taps Her Kentucky Roots for Inspiration
Reading and book signing, July 16
Laguna poet Kate Buckley, who recently won the North American Review's 2008 James Hearst Poetry Prize for her poem "The Life Cycle of Moths," will be featured at a poetry reading and book-signing event at the Laguna Beach Library to be held at 6:30 p.m. Full Story
Rohrer Enrolls Art School Grads for Exhibit
Rohrer Fine Art announces the New York School exhibition with an artist's reception and opening on July 12 from 6-8 p.m. The show will feature artists Samuel T. Full Story
Gay Bar's Legacy Lives on in Film
Film festival screening, July 15
The world premier of John Keitel's documentary, "Saving the Boom," will be held at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, July 15, at Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The 32-minute film documents the as yet still unsuccessful campaign to save the oldest gay bar in the western United States, Laguna Beach's Boom Boom Room, which closed last September. Full Story
'Chicks' Business Takes Flight
Local photographers Faye Chapman and Leslie Cunningham have joined forces to launch Event Chicks Photography, specializing in weddings and other special occasions. Chapman and Cunningham bring their individual years of experience to this joint venture. Full Story
Sound spectrum
The Real Tuesday Weld The London Book of the Dead
I have read that the music of The Real Tuesday Weld, a.k.a. Stephen Coates, carries the ghost of inspiration from 1930s crooner Al Bowley, and I find it remarkable when a young musician is stimulated by a time long passed. It is based on this understanding that I write my review this week. Full Story
Photographer Opens Hometown Studio
Laguna Beach photographer David Tosti will celebrate the grand opening of Tosti Studios from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m on Saturday, July 19. Contemporary art, wine and music will round out the introduction of the new photography studio/art gallery located at 210 N. Coast Highway. Full Story
A Musical Reminder of No Place Like Home
Take a trip down the yellow brick road July 19 with Pacific Symphony as it recreates the score to "The Wizard of Oz" with an 8 p.m. performance at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine. Full Story
Gallery Raises Funds for China Quake Victims
Mandarin Fine Art Gallery in Laguna Beach will host a silent auction on Saturday, July 12, to raise money for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake. The Mandarin Fine Art Gallery, Pottery Shack, Sapphire Restaurant, and other local businesses and artists have donated items for the silent auction. Full Story
Festival of Art Opening Party
Photographer Rob Gage shows guest Ora Sterling how he produced the image of a barn in the Dakotas. Hundreds of people attended the July 5 exhibition opening for 154 artists. Full Story
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