Classically Trained: Time to strike up Laguna's band

By Bradley Zint

It's the kind of group that gets people out of their chairs and into new ones.

Making art where others see junk

By Joanna Clay, joanna.clay@latimes.com

"People would walk into my booth and they'd say, 'You call this art? This is just junk,'" James Koch says in "Sculptor of the Found Object."

By Ellen Gaddie

Editor's note: Lisa McLaughlin's colleague Ellen Gaddie is mother of a University of Oregon freshman and wrote this...

By Barbara Diamond, coastlinepilot@latimes.com

By Barbara Diamond

By Joanna Clay, joanna.clay@latimes.com

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