Diane Armitage
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Get In Line for Starfish “Love Potion #10” – Two Days Only!
Ready to whip up some love in your life? Make a beeline to Starfish Asian Cuisine for Mixologist Neil Skewes’ Valentine libation, “Love Potion #10.” (Because, really, why stop at less than perfection?) Because this annual favorite requires dry ice, the primary...
Acclaimed ROUX Chef Quits, ROUX Now Closed
ROUX Creole, the phenomenal new restaurant in Laguna Beach, has just lost its founding Chef, Norm Theard, due to “irreconcilable difficulties” between Theard and investors. Theard resigned yesterday (Tuesday), citing "lack of support and continuous negativity from the...
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March 15th Party at Nirvana Grille Celebrates PMMC, Friendship Shelter
With more than 100 sick seals and sea lions already piling into our little hospital in the Canyon, The Pacific Marine Mammal Center knows it’s in for a big summer ahead. They’ve already set up their “mini-clinic” in Huntington Beach, a temporary hospital for the...
OC Restaurant Week Starts March 6th!
OC Restaurant Week is just around the corner with dates set for Sunday, March 6th – Saturday, March 12th. For locals here in Laguna Beach, this can be a bane or a boom, depending entirely on the opinion you chose. On the bane side, this always designates a...
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Best Workout 101 – Burt Myer’s Boot Camp
Feeling burned out in your current workout or finding it difficult to even lace up those tennis shoes? Burt Myers’ Boot Camp offers the kick in the pants your lackluster derriere needs. Burt is a favorite personal trainer at Laguna’s Art of Fitness and offers the Boot...
2009 Plein Air Painting in Laguna Beach, Oct 11-18 – It’s Happening Everywhere!
Plein air artists from all over the world are descending on Laguna Beach for our 11th annual Plein Air Invitational weeklong event. This is really an amazing event to see and, better yet, most of it is free! Sponsored by the Laguna Art Museum, this rare and...
Check out Drum Circle at Laguna Beach’s Aliso Creek
In Laguna Beach, we’re entirely too sophisticated to bark at the full moon, but we will DRUM at it . . . in a massive, talented drum circle that is, thanks to our eclectic organizers at LaVida Laguna. A mainstay in this town for more than 5 years, the Laguna Beach Full Moon Drum Circles draw anywhere from 50 to 200 people who, ehrm, well … drum around a massive bonfire . . .
Laguna Beach’s El Morro for great mountain biking, trail running
Most visitors to Laguna Beach don’t realize that Laguna and Crystal Cove State Park have elevations that rapidly climb from sea level to about 1,000 feet. Granted, you’re never going to snowboard here, but you can get a heck of a workout walking, trail running, mountain biking and horseback riding in El Moro Canyon.
Renowned Laguna Beach artist Ken Auster takes on women’s boots
Recognized as one of the most accomplished plein air artists in the world, Laguna Beach’s own Ken Auster is as amiable and droll as they come … until you ask him about his new foray into the women’s boot business. Then, his eyes light up, he sits straight up, and he becomes extremely animated – not his usual M.O., I can assure you.
Laguna Beach’s Marine Room showcases songwriters
In contrast to Laguna Beach’s Marine Room’s standard fare of fun and rowdy live bands and fans, the Songwriter’s Showcase tends to be a mellower event with acoustic or single-instrument play … all the better to hear some of the most tremendous singing and songwriting talent in the area.
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