Indy on Arts
Friday, Jan. 22
Laguna Beach Music Festival
recital,
free, 10 a.m. at the Suzi Q Senior Center. 380 Third Street. Call: (949) 497- 2441
Friday Flicks at the Forum,
“Chihuly in the Hot Shop,” 7 p.m. Forum Theater, Festival of Arts grounds 650 Laguna Canyon Road. Full Story
Chip by Chip
a Survivor Unlocks Her Silence
Jacqueline Grossman followed an artistic inclination and took a two-week sculpting class. She selected a piece from the stone yard and inadvertently chiseled open a floodgate. After 40 years of silence about her wartime past, hiding in Nazioccupied France, Grossman began coming to terms with her childhood ordeal. Full Story
Ocean Institute Jazzes Up Its Fundraising
The Ocean Institute in Dana Point will hold its annual “Jazz in January” fundraiser on Jan. 29 and 30, featuring Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and jazz guitarist Jonathan Butler. Full Story
Musician Starts Series to Benefit Victims of Tragedy
Singer-songwriter Adam Watts, frontman for the alt-rock band Fallborn, conceived a grass roots “giving back” tour to put his music in a context where it helps others, staring with a first concert in Laguna Beach. Full Story
New Hire to help Ramp Up Business Development
MacGillivray Freeman Films, the Laguna-based independent producers and distributors of giant-screen films, recently appointed Craig Thompson to the newly created position of senior director for business development, joining the team headed by its senior vice president, Mike Lutz. Full Story
Arts Briefs
Plugging Into an
Artist’s Most Powerful
Tool
Local watercolorist Kirsten Whalen will lead the Southern California Artists Association’s Connections discussion group this month on Jan. 27 at 5 p.m. Full Story
Tunes & Tomes
January 17, 2010
Sound Spectrum
Top 10 Bestsellers 1. Nora Jones, The Fall 2. John Mayer, Battle Studies 3. Vampire Weekend, Contra 4. Lady Gaga, Fame Monster 5. The XX, XX 6. 30 Seconds to Mars, This Is War 7. Crazy Heart, Soundtrack 8. Spoon, Transference 9. Grammy Nominees 2010, Various Artists 10. Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Full Story
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