St. Catherine of Siena Parish School plans a pageant show this Friday, May 17, a tribute to the town’s famous Pageant of the Masters production. The school transforms itself into a gallery of live art, where students pose in full-sized art works. This year’s exhibit includes Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” Leonardo DaVinci’s “Last Supper,” and [...]
Editor, I want to say thank you for an excellent show in the play “Hello Dolly.” The music, dancing, acting, costumes, sets were comparable to a very professional production anywhere. No one would guess these were 14 to 18 year old actors. If there were flaws no one knew it. I wish there would be [...]
Fristers, a nonprofit that assists teen moms to become self-sufficient, has added a new school-readiness program for children of their clientele. The Kidsters Childcare and School-Readiness Program in Newport Beach is offered simultaneously with the life coach program offered teen moms. Teen mothers rarely can afford preschool, though studies show there are great benefits. Children [...]
After a half-year of playing a string instrument in third grade, novices are left in the lurch with no bow to turn to until high school. That will change next fall with the addition of a strings section to the elementary and middle schools’ regular music curriculum, a step towards the district’s goal of developing [...]
Exhibit Focuses on Kids’ Images The Boys and Girls Club is holding their sixth annual National Image Makers Photography Exhibit on Wednesday, March 20 from 3 to 7 p.m. at the club, 1085 Laguna Canyon Rd. The exhibit will feature works by over 120 members with a display of over 800 photographs of the world [...]
Second Ocean-Film Set Rolls In Laguna Beach Film Society kicks off its second Ocean Awareness film documentary with Emmy award-winning director, Jason Krumb and his new film, “TransparentSeas,” on Friday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. at the Forum Theatre in the Festival of Arts grounds. The film highlights the journey of a group of surfer [...]
Classes Mix Art, Nature and Unusual Settings Laguna Outreach for Community Arts is now taking registrations for a choice of ocean or plant themed art workshops at Laguna Beach locations this month. Art and Sea Lions, offered on Saturday. Feb. 9, 9-10:30 a.m., takes place at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center. Participants will view [...]
Concert Summons Visual and Musical Homage The Laguna Concert Band’s winter concert, “Music at an Exhibition,” adds a visual collaboration to the repertoire and will be performed at the Laguna Playhouse on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 3 p.m. The exhibition will open at 2 p.m. and the concert at 3 p.m. Tickets for the concert will be $10 [...]
Friendship, love, cliques and gangs, violence, drop-outs, haves and have nots, unintended pregnancy and booze keep fueling angst among teens and their parents regardless of the passage of time. These subjects set to rock ’n’ roll comprise the gist of the ‘70s era musical and movie “Grease,” performed for the first time by Laguna High [...]
The school district is offering a free, 10-week parent education program entitled “Parent Project – Changing Destructive Adolescent Behavior,” beginning Wednesday, Nov. 7. Classes will be held from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Susi Q Senior Center. This interactive class will provide parents of adolescents an opportunity to learn effective strategies and skills for eliminating frequently [...]
Laguna is known for the arts. Fine arts. We also have a lot of good music, compliments of Laguna Beach Live, and fabulous dance, via Laguna Dance Festival. But I’m a wordsmith and I find myself often in search of literary arts that are harder to find. Yes, there are hundreds of book groups. Yes, [...]
Laguna Beach’s school board agreed earlier this month to seek funding under the state Education Department’s class size reduction program, as it has since the mid 1990s, effectively committing to 20-student classes in kindergarten through third-grade. This year K-3 class size at El Morro Elementary and Top of the World Elementary ranges from 19 to [...]
La Playa Center’s free English-as-a-second-language classes began this week at the Boys and Girls Club of Laguna Beach. They are offered with childcare and a weekly food distribution on Monday through Thursday from 9-11 a.m. There are three levels of classes taught by 12 volunteers from Laguna Beach and the surrounding area.
Laguna Art Museum seeks volunteers to join its team of docents, who help to form the museum’s education department. Prospective docents undergo an extensive nine-month training course, which begins Oct. 1. The curriculum includes learning about California art, its wider art-historical context, visual thinking strategies, and effective tour techniques. Classes meet once a week and [...]
Enrollment climbed this year at Thurston Middle School and Top of the World Elementary by 41 and 28 students respectively, though district-wide enrollment only rose by seven students. El Morro Elementary experienced an unusual 60-student drop in enrollment, while Laguna Beach High School’s student census fell by 12. Even so, school officials reported that they [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
