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A POEM, A BIRTH AND SOME SKETCHES Keys to an Artist’s Newest Direction

Nov 01, 2009 ● By Don Kindred

Poetry written on a scrap of paper in the middle of the night, by a friend of 62 years, has set artist Susan Marcley on a journey that she feels “was meant to be.” And as her life story unfolds this would certainly seem to be true.

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Community News - Award Winning Entertainment Comes to Town

Nov 01, 2009 ● By Don Kindred

Several years in the planning, the first Annual San Clemente Jazz Festival will commence Saturday September 5th 2009. This festival will kick off the Labor Day week-end, and its message will be … make San Clemente your jazz destination for the holiday.

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Community News - “Bringing the Bands to the Sand” A Summer Recap

Nov 01, 2009 ● By Don Kindred

San Clemente’s 2008 Summer Concert Series kicked off on Friday, June 6, with “Live Jazz” performed by the San Clemente High School and Shorecliffs Middle School Jazz Bands.

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To Paint or Not to Paint That’s the Question

May 01, 2008 ● By Don Kindred

Jean Glass at the beach.It’s bigger, it’s better, it’s broader, and it’s a bonanza for plein air painters and art aficionados. The 7th Annual Paint San Clemente 2008 Plein Air Competition sponsored by the 401 members of the San Clemente Art Association

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Summertime, and the reading is easy

May 01, 2008 ● By Don Kindred

“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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San Clemente’s Art Entrepreneur - Shane Townley

Feb 01, 2008 ● By Don Kindred

You’re an artist. You have to sell your paintings? How? You operate two art galleries to hang your works simultaneously, appear in gala art expos throughout the country, enter art walks everywhere, advertise, feature guest artists in your galleries, paint commissioned works, frame paintings, and paint, paint, paint.

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Jumping Jack Flash - Tribute Band Keeps the Music Rolling

Feb 01, 2008 ● By Don Kindred

The newspaper headlines screamed, “The Ugliest Band in Britain!” “They Never Wash!” and of course, “Would You Let Your Daughter Date a Rolling Stone?” They became the biggest rock-n-roll band of their time, and arguably the most successful entertainers of all time.

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The Craft Becomes an Art Vic Cumming

Nov 01, 2007 ● By Don Kindred

From sign painter to revered floral watercolorist, this was the long, circuitous route Vic Cumming took through an entrepreneurial life beginning in Johannesburg, South Africa, and continuing here in San Clemente with what he and his wife Miki call “our mom and pop art shop.”

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Local Band Gives It Back at The Fiesta

Aug 01, 2007 ● By Don Kindred

The ShysAlex Kweskin used to ride in the little motorized train in the Fiesta Parade when he was three. His mother bought his little red Keds at Sam’s Shoes and a variety of everything at the Coronet “Five and Dime” Store.

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Regina Hurley Mrs. Versatility of the Art World

Aug 01, 2007 ● By Don Kindred

Regina with her bronze creation “Looking for Treasures”.Regina Hurley is an artist - a real artist. She loves everything about life, nature, and beauty. She paints, sculpts, draws, teaches, absorbs, creates and then creates some more.

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