Blue Mcright News Today

A roundup of news briefs and calendar items from around coastal Orange County, this week from the cities of Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa and Irvine.

Laguna Art Museum's highly-anticipated 42nd Annual California Cool Art Auction + Benefit + Bash starts Friday and runs until March 4 with both online and in-person auction events. 

Work is being finished on the stations, power and control systems, crossings, and parking areas

Laguna Art Museum plans to host its 42nd Annual California Cool Art Auction & Benefit from Feb. 19 to March 4, with both online and in-person auction events.The event is the museum's most anticipated event of the year.

Water is life, a Track 16 exhibition underlines.

An exhibit at Track 16, 'Confluence,' by nine mixed media artists, explores a range of water issues from communities fighting for survival, water scarcity resulting from infrastructure and climate change.

Packed with sustainable technologies, this creative compound consists of a two-level art studio and a one-bedroom house.

Moonlight (2016), debuts on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, May 14. The 10-episode show, based on Colson Whiteheads Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, follows Cora Randall as she tries to escape the antebellum South. She finds an actual railroad — and not just a metaphorical one — for her journey north. Cora is being hunted by Arnold Ridgeway, who is determined to bring her back to Georgia because her mother is the only escapee he has never caught. The series stars Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon and...