G2 SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2013 LIVING SUNDAY LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | LEXGO.COM CALIFORNIA TV PICKS From Page G1 For the week of January 27-February 2 it a distinctly Mediterranean flavor. Rising steeply from the shoreline to the canyons of the San Joaquin Hills, Laguna Beach has developed into one of California’s premier artist colonies. In 1903, San Francisco painter Norman St. Clair took up residence here, and within a few years, artists made up half of Laguna’s population of 300. The town really hit its stride in the 1920s, becoming a destination of choice for plein air painters who found the combination of cliffs, ocean

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Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin bid farewell to 30 Rock as the series ends a seven-season run Thursday. the perfect outdoor studio. Today, Laguna has some 2013 is a celebration of the goofy — and sometimes 100 art galleries and regular Don’t miss: ‘30 Rock’ touching — ads that keep us entertained even when art walks, in addition to the the big game turns into a boring blowout. Boomer famous Sawdust Festival series finale Esiason and Aisha Tyler are our hosts. 8 p.m., CBS. (June 28 to Sept. 1 this year) Wednesday: Keri Russell (Felicity) returns to prime featuring 200 local artists MARK RIGHTMIRE | ASSOCIATED PRESS Sad, but true, it’s time to say goodbye to one of time in The Americans. It’s an intriguing, tension- working in glass, paints, A surfer came ashore this month just north of the Newport television’s top sitcoms. After earning 14 Emmys, filled 1980s-era drama about a pair of Soviet spies jewelry, ceramics, sculpture, Beach pier. The city is a haven for water sports. six Golden Globes and plenty of critical praise textiles and photography. during their seven-season run, Liz (Tina Fey), Jack (Russell and Matthew Rhys) posing as a married couple in the Washington suburbs. 10 p.m., FX. If you would rather be a enough, you can almost hear L’Occitane en Provence) and (Alec Baldwin) and company are calling it a wrap participant than a spectator, the Beach Boys harmonizing restaurants (I recommend with a one-hour send-off. Thanks to the entire TGS Thursday: In the new drama series Do No Harm, you can sign up for the gang for all the offbeat, wildly absurd memories. Steven Pasquale stars as a highly successful in the background. Canaletto Ristorante two-hour Sawdust Studio Veneto), it’s no wonder that 8 p.m. Thursday, NBC. neurosurgeon who struggles to keep a lid on his Newport Beach devious and dangerous alternative personality. art classes held every Friday it attracts more than 14 Other bets 10:01 p.m., NBC. and Saturday. Join locals in A 30-minute drive from million visitors annually. Sunday: Because there just aren’t enough honors Friday: The 44th NAACP Image Awards salutes crafting your own art, from Laguna will take you to At the opposite end of to go around in Hollywood, we have the 19th annual outstanding achievements by people of color in origami glass bowls to tide Orange County’s other the spectrum from upscale Screen Actors Guild Awards. It’s yet another chance entertainment and literature. Top nominees include pool bracelets. storied coastal community, Fashion Island is rustic to watch TV and movie stars dress up and say the TV remake of Steel Magnolias, up for seven If art and the beauty Newport Beach. If Laguna is Crystal Cove. The 1930s- really nice things about one another. 8 p.m., TNT awards. 8 p.m., NBC. of its location put Laguna a center for artists, Newport style cottages and bungalows and TBS. is nirvana for yachtsmen Saturday: The next Louisville Life, hosted by Beach on the map, a facing the secluded cove are Sunday: The title Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real Candyce Clifft, takes a look at a new collaborative developing culinary scene and boaters of any kind. available for rent, and the basically says it all about this special that captures production at Actors Theatre of Louisville, meets is adding to its luster. If the city had an official Beachcomber Café is famous the mysterious sea beast on film in its natural lifestyle designer Barry Wooley, visits Nuts n Stuff There are the obligatory slogan, it would be, “Water, for its breakfasts and the habitat. No calamari jokes, please. 8 p.m., Discovery. and sits down with the executive director of the “restaurants with a view,” water everywhere.” colorful sunsets visible from Sunday: Remember T.R. Knight and the messy exit 55,000 Degrees education organization. 7 p.m., where a table overlooking I’m not just talking its deck. he made from Grey’s Anatomy? Well, he’s returned KET. the ocean is as important as about the ocean, although Before 1979, however, to TV in The Good Wife for a multi-episode guest Saturday: The next Kentucky Life, hosted by Dave the quality of the food. with nine miles of Crystal Cove, sandwiched stint as a political consultant. 9 p.m., CBS. Shuffett, is dedicated to exploring the history, Luckily, you can get both coastline, Newport is the between Newport and Monday: The great Larry Hagman left us last year, science and myths surrounding the 1811-12 New at places such as the wildly quintessential California Corona del Mar, was a but his character is alive in the first few episodes Madrid earthquakes. Shuffett visits Reelfoot Lake, popular Deck on Laguna; beach town. Add to that the private community where of Dallas. The soapy revival launches its second Kentucky Bend and other landforms shaped by Watermarc, just across from canals, harbor and Newport bungalow residents held season. 9 p.m., TNT. the quakes, and he meets with specialists to find the beach on the Coast Bay, and what you have is a long-term leases. When Tuesday: In our eyes, Dominic Monaghan will out about earthquake preparedness, the odds of Highway; and Studio at the watery wonderland. plans were made to tear always be Charlie from Lost ... or a Hobbit. But now another quake occurring along the New Madrid Montage Hotel. Newport Bay separates down the cottages to he’s tracking down weird insects and creatures as fault, and whether popular legends surrounding the You’ll have to steer a few the main part of Newport make room for Pelican Hill our guide in the new nature series Wild Things With quakes are true. 8 p.m., KET. blocks away from the beach, Beach from Balboa Peninsula. Golf Club, residents took Dominic Monaghan. 7 p.m., BBC America. Saturday: Host Alec Baldwin is joined in New however, to uncover some of Studded with islands, it matters in their own hands. Tuesday: Break out the Lycra tights and fancy Orleans by celebrities and football stars for NFL Laguna’s real culinary jewels could easily be the American They appealed to the state capes. The Pioneers of Television series turns the Honors. It’s a pre-Super Bowl celebration of the such as Three Seventy cousin of Venice’s Grand legislature in Sacramento to spotlight on prime-time superheroes, including Su- season’s top performers, including the league MVP. Common (in a trendy Canal. Sailboats, fishing allow them to raise money perman, Batman and Wonder Woman. 8 p.m., KET2. 9 p.m., CBS. shopping and arts area) and boats and yachts share the to renovate the cottages, and Wednesday: Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials HERALD-LEADER STAFF, CONTRA COSTA TIMES Starfish Laguna Beach (in a bay with gondolas, water requested that the area be strip mall.) taxis and “Duffy Boats,” given state park status. One of the key things to small, canopied electric boats The legislature granted remember about planning available for rent. the request, and today, a trip to Laguna is not to Balboa Island, the bay’s Crystal Cove State Park — plan. Instead, spend your largest, is a must-see. Its a popular location site for BEST ARTY FACTS days leisurely. Pamper small town has one main Hollywood movie studios yourself the way vacationing street lined with unique — remains one of Southern A user’s guide for culture vultures stars do with a massage at shops and family-owned California’s largest remaining BETS Aquaterra Spa at the Surf & restaurants, and the Balboa examples of open space and Entertain these options SummerFest makes changes; Sand Resort. Pick one of 20 Fun Zone is a year-round natural seashore. for your week secluded beaches and coves amusement park on the Pelican Hill had to settle KCT announces ’13, ’14 seasons and study marine life in the water. for a cliff-top site overlooking tide pools, or just find a Away from the bay, the cove. SummerFest, the annual July theater festival in The Arboretum, bench in Heisler Park and Fashion Island isn’t an island will get an extreme makeover this year. Kentucky Conservatory watch the volleyball players at all. With a mind-boggling Patti Nickell is a Lexington- Theatre, which presents SummerFest, has announced the next two or surfers riding waves to selection of retail outlets based travel writer. Reach her at summers of shows in a schedule that will reduce the number of shore. If you listen hard (from Bloomingdale’s to [email protected]. productions and expand the number of weeks. Instead of the usual three shows, there will be two this year, each for a two-weekend run: J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, July 5 to 14; and A IF YOU GO Chorus Line, July 24 to Aug. 4. The summer of 2014 will have Romeo Laguna Beach, Calif. ■ Three Seventy Common, a few of the First Cabin, designed to and Juliet, July 5 to 13; and The Color Purple, July 23 to Aug. 3. blocks off the beach, is a favorite resemble the first-class dining “This is a change that has been a long time coming,” said theater Where to stay: Casa Laguna Inn room on a cruise ship, and enjoy general manager Wesley Nelson. “For a long time, the feedback we and Spa is a secluded retreat, with locals who appreciate the an after-dinner drink at Duke’s were getting from designers and technicians and a lot of other people hidden among tropical gardens locally sourced American cuisine. Bar, named for John Wayne, one involved was that we needed to take it down to two shows.” on a terraced hillside overlooking 370common.com. of the club’s early members. Nelson says the revised scheduling addresses several problems the Pacific. Accommodations ■ Starfish Laguna Beach has an Balboabayclub.com. that have haunted the festival over the years, including spates of bad include 15 rooms, five suites and inauspicious location in a small weather that have plagued some productions and the pressure that one cottage. The mouth-watering strip mall, but once inside you’ll Where to eat: two-day changeovers put on productions, particularly the later ones. breakfasts are best enjoyed feel as if you’ve been transported ■ Tamarind is the first American “Two solid tech rehearsals was the best you could hope for,” in the bougainvillea-draped to the Far East. The décor outpost of the Michelin-starred MARK CORNELISON | STAFF Nelson said, “and by the time you got to that third show, the crew courtyard. Casalaguna.com. evokes 1930s Indochina, and the London restaurant, offering Devine Carama will perform was just worn out.” Where to eat: cuisine is a delicious mix of Thai, sophisticated dishes from Friday at Al’s Bar. The new schedule leaves a week between productions. Nelson Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese. ■ The Deck on Laguna Beach. the Indian subcontinent in said there was concern that having an open week might interrupt Starfishlaguna.com. pretty surroundings. the momentum of the festival, which has been presented on three Tables, from which you can see Catalina and San Clemente Learn more: Lagunabeachinfo. Tamarindoflondon.com. The experience consecutive weekends. “But we decided the benefits outweighed com that,” he said, noting that with two-weekend runs, shows could take islands, are in great demand, ■ Sol Cocina offers the best is being billed as advantage of positive word of mouth from audiences. and the seafood is fresh, Newport Beach, Calif. of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula In future years, Nelson said, SummerFest might present a although service can be a bit Where to stay: The Balboa Bay and is one of the restaurants Devine concert or other sort of entertainment in the Arboretum on the open slow. Relax, you’re in Southern Club. Once the private hangout in Newport’s “Dine and Dock weekend, but for this year it will remain unscheduled “so we can see California. Deckonlaguna.com. of yachtsmen and Hollywood Experience,” where boaters may Lexington hip-hop artist Devine how this new system works,” Nelson said. ■ Watermarc, with its cutting- stars, it’s now the only resort in dock alongside while enjoying Carama kicks off his Devine Ex- He said KCT was announcing summer 2014 for several reasons. edge cuisine and trendy cocktails, Newport right on Balboa Bay. lunch or dinner. Solcocina.com. perience tour Friday at Al’s Bar at “We knew that some people might see we were going down to two is a great place for a leisurely Book a spa treatment; have Learn more: Visitnewportbeach. Sixth Street and North Limestone. shows and think that means we’re in trouble, and we’re not,” Nelson lunch. Watermarcrestaurant.com. lunch or dinner on the terrace com The evening will include perfor- said. “So we hope by announcing next summer, people will see we mances by Carama, JustMe, Rob are planning for the future.” Jackson, Decypha and J. Shelbs . He also said directors wanted to assure fans Shakespeare that Cover is $5 before 11 p.m. the Bard still would be part of the festival, just not every year. SummerFest’s predecessor was the Lexington Shakespeare Festival . It ON VACATION Animals are the subject of folded in 2006, and SummerFest was created to fill the void. new art exhibit Nelson said SummerFest also was being considered part of the Take us along Art and the Animal, an exhibit Kentucky Conservatory Theatre season, which will run on calendar Like to travel? Want to be of the Society of Animal Artists, years instead of school years, contrary to the practice of most in the paper? Do we have a an international group of sculptors Lexington arts groups. Along with the SummerFest announcement, deal for you. We want to see and painters who specialize in KCT announced its lineups for the next two seasons. Go to Mykct.org you on your vacation — hold- animal subjects, opens Feb. 3 at for more information. Excluding SummerFest, the shows are: ing a Herald- Leader. Send The Art Museum at the University 2013 us the picture and tell us of Kentucky. Free guided tours and where you are and when you family art activities will be offered March 2, Blackbird’s Evening of Dance: The premiere of KCT’s were there. You must include from 2 to 3:30 p.m. opening day. dance ensemble, led by choreographer Jenny Fitzpatrick. your name, address and a Works will be on view through April 20, 24-Hour Theatre Project: High school students work daytime phone number. We April 28. Museum admission is $5 with theater artists to create five original 10-minute plays in 24 hours. prefer to receive your photo by to $8. Call (859) 257-5716 or go to Aug. 30-Sept. 1, The Girl Project: An original theater work email. Send original photo to Uky.edu/ArtMuseum. created by area high school girls. Nov. 8-14, The History Boys: Alan Bennett’s play about boys in a vacationphotos@herald-lead- Daughtry will be rockin’ British boarding school. er.com . It should be in JPG PHOTO PROVIDED format, at least 300 dpi and Louisville Palace 2014 at the largest file size possible American Idol alumnus Chris Hilltop view (usually about 1 MB). Feb. 7-23, The Real Thing: Tom Stoppard’s 1982 play about reality Daughtry performs at the Lou- A photograph is published and honesty. During a cruise stop in Naples, Italy, Jim and Martha Shelton, isville Palace at 7 p.m. Saturday most every Sunday in the April 29, 24-Hour Theatre Project. with 3 Doors Down. Tickets are left, of Newport, Tenn., and Cal and Chris Lee of Nicholasville newspaper. Nov. 7-23, Cabaret: The classic John Kander and Fred Ebb musical $39.50 to $79 at Livenation.com . took in the Bay of Naples from atop the Posillipo hill. Other Photographs cannot be in the version of the 1998 Roundabout Theatre Broadway revival. HARRIETT HENDREN ports of call during their Mediterranean trip included Alexandria, returned, and publication is [email protected] RICH COPLEY, [email protected] Egypt; Athens, Greece; and Ashdod, Israel. not guaranteed.