Musician Adds DJ to His Resume Local musician Jason Feddy began a day job this week, taking on the five-hour, midday time slot of Laguna Beach’s FM station, KX 93.5. Feddy, a local singer-songwriter known for his regular gigs around town and his “Shakespeare in the Park” project, earlier held down one of the station’s [...]
Art Sleuth Retraces Payne’s Steps Laguna Art Museum will host “Art Sleuthing Edgar Payne’s Paintings,” a free talk with art consultant and Laguna Beach resident Eric Jessen in Thursday, May 30, at 7 p.m. Jessen, a consultant on the Payne exhibition to the Pasadena Museum of California Art, will share the detective work that went into solving [...]
Laguna Art Museum’s 2013 Palette to Palate fundraiser, which took place at the museum earlier this month, raised $190,000, 25 percent more than a year ago. The museum expects to net $125,000 for its education and exhibition programs. Now in its eighth year, Palette to Palate saw the museum transformed by the culinary talents of [...]
Pacific Symphony Music Director Carl St. Clair, left, with his wife Susan, attended the symphony’s annual gala with supporters Joyce and Ron Hanson, among 325 guests. More than $1.34 million for the symphony’s artistic and education programs was raised at party led by Hope Miller, Pat Podlich and Patricia Steinmann, who transformed the St. Regis [...]
Some of the principals involved in the 1990 negotiations to save Laguna Canyon will recount their efforts during the next Laguna Beach Historical Society program, Tuesday, May 28, at the Laguna Beach City Hall Council Chambers from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The public is invited and there is no charge. The panel will include [...]
Sarah Mahoney is determined to walk again and the Woman’s Club of Laguna Beach wants to help her. Last May, Mahoney, an “A” student at Saddleback College, who can play at least four different musical instruments, was accepted to UC Berkeley as a music major. But muscle weakness that she initially attributed to a cold [...]
Club Leader Nominated for Women in Business Award Ellie Tipton Ortiz, current president of Laguna Beach’s Woman’s Club and a member of Soroptimist International locally, earned nomination by the Orange County Business Journal for its annual women in business award. Ortiz is an experienced divorce mediator whose company, Laguna Beach Legal Document Service, specializes in [...]
The vintage surf auction “California Gold” went off at the OC Fair & Events Center in Costa Mesa with total sales of $680,000. The event earlier this month was organized to raise funds for San Clemente’s Surfing Heritage & Cultural Center, whose mission is preserving surfing’s history. Hundreds of surfers and collectors attended the event [...]
Council Celebrates Cinco de Mayo The Crosscultural Council hosted a Cinco de Mayo celebration at the Woman’s Club with a taco dinner, a balloon man for the children, a raffle for free restaurant dinners, Falda Folklorica dancers and a singer serenading the crowd with Mexican love songs. The council supports the day worker center on [...]
Friday, May 24 Sawdust Art Festival Art Classes: 10 a.m., 2 p.m. www.sawdustartfestival.org/studioartclasses 949-494-3030. Also 5/25. Trevor Green, Sunset Serenades, 6:30 p.m. Heisler Park Amphitheatre. Tijuana Dogs (dance cover band) 9 p.m. Mozambique, 1740 Coast Hwy. www.mozambiqueoc.com 949-715-7777 Jason Feddy, 8:30 p.m., Hotel Laguna, 425 S. Coast Hwy. 949-494-1151. (Also 5/25) Jazz on the Patio: [...]
Jackson McKay Pries is the winner of the DAR American history scholarship for Laguna Beach High School. The organization also honored a score of other students at an awards program at Laguna Presbyterian Church last week. Counselors and teachers selected Jackson for the award because of his passion for American history as well as his [...]
Middle School’s Café to Open May 30 Thurston Middle School’s Wave Rider Café is scheduled to open Thursday, May 30, allowing parents and students to purchase a sample lunch while they are visiting campus during the annual open house. The café is intended to offer students nutritious, healthy grab-and-go lunches without a long wait. “A [...]
Eighty-five students in Laguna College of Art + Design’s class of 2013 participated in this week’s commencement ceremony. This year’s keynote speaker was Dr. Mitch Rosenberg, a human resources expert. President Jonathan Burke congratulated students on their achievement, which he described as demanding rigor, perseverance and creative vision. “I had the privilege of watching the [...]
Schoolpower’s sold out annual dinner dance raised $305,000 for Laguna Beach schools. One of the night’s more ambitious goals was this year’s Fund-A-Need, where Schoolpower targets funding a specific need after consulting with school district leaders. This year’s goal to upgrade the district’s wireless network will allow the use of new classroom technology. As a [...]
VFW hit three home runs in its regular season finale to beat Newport Beach’s 90 Meters. Grady Morgan and Christian Holm both homered in the first inning and VFW took a quick 5-0 lead and never looked back. Morgan’s home run was his fifth of the season, which led the Majors division. Cutter Clawson hit [...]
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 [...]
