Get Out: What To Do This Weekend in Laguna Beach

THE GIVER
WHERE/WHEN: Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Rd. Friday, 10 a.m. & 7 p.m.; Saturday, 1 p.m. & 5 p.m.
WHY GO? The Playhouse's Youth Theatre presents this four-performance-only production of Lois Lowry's Newberry Award winner. Synopsis, from the theater's website: "Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now it's time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back." Jeez, this sounds pretty creepy, actually ... but people keep trying to ban the book, so since it's controversial—sold!
PRICE: $12.50. 

GUITARIST ALBERT LEE
WHERE/WHEN: Mozambique, 1740 S. Coast Hwy. Saturday, 8:45 p.m.
WHY GO? Did Eric Clapton really proclaim Albert Lee the greatest guitarist in the world? Seems the only way to find out would be to show up. Lee's also played with everyone from Emmylou Harris to Jackson Browne to the Everly Brothers and ... well, let's just say that at age 69, he's seen some things you and I will never see. Or hear, for that matter.
PRICE: $10. 

FLOCK OF '80s
WHERE/WHEN: Royal Hawaiian, 331 N. Coast Hwy. Saturday, 9 p.m.
WHY GO? Celebrate live music in Laguna Beach with fistfulls of Lapu Lapus, backed by decade-appropriate tribute band Flock of '80s, who'll blow out the Reagan-era smashes and one-hit-wonders you love to hate to hate to love.
PRICE: Free.

TRANSITION LAGUNA'S MONTHLY GARDEN ACTIVITY
WHERE/WHEN: 610 Anita St. Sunday, 9 a.m.-noon.
WHY GO? Plan on getting dirty—no, really, you should wear apropriate gardening duds—at Transition Laguna's monthly Thumbing of the Green. Instead of the usual garden install, though, this will be a seed planting, the seedlings of which will eventually be sold at the group's Saturday Farmer's Market booth. Come and find out what Transition Laguna Beach is all about! New members welcome!
PRICE: Free.

FRAN BLACKETER AUTHOR EVENT
WHERE/WHEN: Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Hwy. Sunday, 4 p.m.
WHY GO? Former Laguna Beach resident Fran Blacketer will talk up her novel You Can't Kill a Dead Man, in which "a Chicago lawyer-turned-small town public defender finds her carefully-crafted solitary life crumbling as she is reunited with her past, which ignites a chain of events that unleashes her family's darkest secrets. Driven by guilt and misguided love, she's determined to help her son, only to find that he's not so innocent." Wow—we're casting the movie already!
PRICE: Free to attend, but the books aren't.