NEWS OF THE MOMENT
New Web Site to Launch
The Laguna Beach Visitors & Conference Bureau will be introducing their new Web site by month-end January 2010. Watch for it! Also due to the nature of technology and the rapid growth that goes along with it, we have decided to move into the next realm by launching a mobile site designed to allow visitors to view our Web site while on the run on any mobile phone platform.
Passport to the Arts
The Laguna Beach Visitors Bureau has again partnered with our three summer art festivals to celebrate the Laguna Beach Passport to the Arts season pass. This $19 Passport allows entry into the three festivals all summer long and a one-time parking pass for the Act V parking lot. The Visitors Bureau has enlisted its membership to offer special discounts upon Passport presentation. Shoppers may purchase Passports online at www.LagunaBeachPassport.com or (during the summer season) at any of the festivals’ box offices. Anyone who purchases a Passport online before May 15th will be eligible to win a Fall getaway to Laguna Beach!
Casa Surf Project: 10 Designers, 10 Suites, 10 Companies
La Casa del Camino, an historic boutique hotel, became host to the Riviera Magazine Design series to create the Casa Surf Project. Action sports icons like Billabong Men’s and Billabong Women’s, Rip Curl, etnies, Roxy, Quiksilver, L* Space, Lost International along with Riviera Magazine and Glaceau teamed with Southern California’s finest designers to create the Casa Surf Suites. The redesigned rooms are open; nightly rates are $269 to $369, and a portion of the proceeds from each room are donated to key charities during the first year.
Member Accolades
Montage Laguna Beach received the AAA Five Diamond Award in 2009. Representing the upper level of the hospitality industry, AAA Five Diamond Award winners make up just 0.28 percent of the 58,000 Diamond Rated lodgings and restaurants throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Tabu Grill was awarded a 2010 ZAGAT rating of 29 (out of a possible 30), the highest rating in Southern California two years in a row. ZAGAT’s rating system is based on a combined score of food, decor, service and cost. Managing partner Nancy Wilhelm and chef Kevin Jerrold-Jones invigorate the California Contemporary cuisine by emphasizing the use of seasonal ingredients and local purveyors.
Crab Zone will be featured on ‘Best of the Bay’ as a 2010 nominee for Best Seafood Restaurant in Southern California on the following channels and dates: KTLA: January 10, 2010 at 11:00am; KCAL: January 24, 2010 at 2:00pm. Click here to view the video clip. Password to view: wbu4Tp. Best of the Bay TV is a half hour television show that is broadcast in eleven Bay Area counties. Best of the Bay TV’s “Best of… Television Series” features nominated entities selected by the show producers through industry research and/or nominations received on the Best of the Bay TV Web site.
MEMBER REMINDERS
Web Site Presence
Please email any public special events that your business may be having through December 2010 to ashley@lagunabeachinfo.com so it can be posted to the ‘Calendar of Events’ section on the LBVCB Web site. This also ensures our knowledge of your individual events, so we can pass on accurate information to our Visitors.
Just a Reminder
If you are in need of any Visitors Guides, Maps or Dining Guides, please contact the Visitors Bureau at 949-376-0511 or lbvb@lagunabeachinfo.com with your requests. If you have an upcoming event with professionally prepared handouts/brochures, please feel free to deliver them to the Visitors Center for distribution to Laguna Beach hotels.
MONTHLY ART WALK
March 4
First Thursday’s Art Walk
5:00-6:00pm – Community Art Project presents: Outdoor Sculpture Dedication – “Divers Cove” by Mike Tauber at Wells Fargo Bank – 260 Ocean Avenue. Reception following at Studio Arts Gallery.
6:00-9:00pm
Admission: Free
949-683-6871
www.firstthursdaysartwalk.com
Join 40 member galleries throughout Laguna Beach on the First Thursday of EVERY month for a festive and cultural evening. Free shuttles to participating gallery locations starting at 6:15 p.m. from the Laguna Art Museum (corner PCH and Cliff Dr.) or Bluebird Center (1590 S. Coast Highway). Shuttles run until 8:45 p.m.
THEATER
The Laguna Playhouse
606 Laguna Canyon Road
949-497-2787, ext 1
www.lagunaplayhouse.com
Monsieur Chopin
Feb 25 – March 7
Created by the same team that brought George Gershwin Alone to life, Monsieur Chopin begins at Frédéric Chopin’s salon at 9 Square d’Orléans in Paris. Monsieur Chopin will teach a piano lesson that actually took place on March 4, 1848, just days after the February 1848 revolution. As the piano lesson unfolds, he reveals secrets about the art of the piano and composition, as well as secrets about himself. Considered by his contemporaries, and now by history, as the true “Poet of the Piano,” Monsieur Chopin features some of the pianist-composer’s most beautiful and enduring music.
March 9-11
The Secret Life of Girls
An honest unflinching dramatization of teen-girl angst and the tumultuous, destructive world of girls’ bullying. Based upon interviews with girls on the giving and receiving end of bullying, the play highlights the impact of “cyberbullying,” the facilitation of mean-spirited behaviors through the use of cell phones, instant messaging, email and chat rooms.
March 16- April 11
The Second City: Can You Be More Pacific?
The internationally acclaimed sketch-comedy company, The Second City, has custom crafted a production for The Laguna Playhouse to lampoon our beloved Laguna Beach and Orange County. This show promises to deliver an avalanche of laughs that will highlight the most comedic and relevant elements of what it means to be behind the Orange Curtain. If you have lived in Orange County for any length of time, you will see yourself, your neighbor or your favorite plastic surgeon highlighted on stage for a good ribbing.
From real housewives to finding sand in all the wrong places, this California adventure is a comedy ride that can’t be missed and won’t require a toll road. This regionally fashioned production is the sixth of its kind, and celebrates the comedic troupe’s successful history of zany comedy and fosters such talented legends as John Belushi, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Amy Poehler and today’s ever-successful Tina Fey.
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Drive
Open daily; 11:00am-5:00pm
Admission: $10 general; $8 seniors, students and military; under 12 free.
949-494-8971
www.lagunaartmuseum.org
February 20- May 16
OsCene 2010
The OsCene is a survey exhibition drawn from artists working in all media including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, multi-media installations, video, architecture, performance, and design. The survey will focus on artists based in Orange County and Long Beach. OsCene 2004 was the first survey of Orange County artists in over 20 years. OsCene 2010 will be curated by Grace Kook-Anderson, curator of exhibitions at Laguna Art Museum.
COLLEGE EXHIBITIONS
Laguna College of Art + Design
College Gallery, 2222 Laguna Canyon Road
Mon-Fri 9:00am-5:00pm, Sat 9:00am-3:00pm
Admission: Free
949-376-6000
www.lagunacollege.edu
February 18- March 11
Works by William Stout
William Stout’s vast career spans thirty years in the field of visual entertainment, his work includes: books, comics, movie, music art, murals, and much more. He has worked on over 30 feature films and is considered one of the top designers in the field of themed entertainment design with clients that include Disney, Universal Studios, Steven Spielberg and LucasFilm.
March 14 – 21
Color It Orange
Annual juried youth art exhibition of Orange County public and private school students from kindergarten through grade 12. The exhibition encourages and celebrates youth art and creativity. Over 4,500 juried entries are expected from genres that include drawings, paintings, sculpture, prints, and photography by hundreds of students, with more than 600 exceptional pieces exhibited in the main gallery and campus studios.
ALL ABOUT THE ARTS…
March 6
First Saturdays – Artists Open Studios
11:00am – 4:00pm
949-497-0722
http://www.lagunabeachcity.net/arts/aos800.jpg
Enjoy a rare opportunity to visit with 26 professional artists in private working studios in Laguna Beach. Talk with artists in their working environment and gain insight about their inspiration and technique.
March 7, 21
Laguna Craft Guild, Main Beach Cobblestones
10:00am-dusk
www.lagunacraftguild.org
The Laguna Craft Guild exhibits in downtown Laguna Beach on the cobblestone of Main Beach. They represent a variety of art mediums; potters, glassblowers, textile artists, jewelers and many others as well. Come on down and visit them on a Sunday afternoon!
WINERY EVENTS
March 5
Monthly Tasting Party
Laguna Canyon Winery, 2133 Laguna Canyon Road
6:00-9:00pm
Admission: $35 per person
949-715-9463
www.lagunacanyonwinery.com/events/monthly_tasting.php
Enjoy a monthly tasting party with fine wine, hot food & live music.
Ashley Johnson
Marketing Manager
Laguna Beach Visitors & Conference Bureau
361 Forest Avenue, #200
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Direct: 949-376-0511 x100
Fax: 949-376-0558
www.lagunabeachinfo.com
A part of the OC Experience
