If there’s one thing Ocean Beach can’t seem to get enough of, it’s arts and culture. Add a good cup of coffee or a snack to the mix and you’ve got a match made in heaven. Such is the case with the Lazy Hummingbird, a new combination coffeehouse and arts center, in the site formerly known as the OBCentric Gallery, located at 4876 Santa Monica Ave. Open since July 22, the venue may only have a capacity of three dozen people, but its reputation is already looming large within the community. Like its namesake, the venue is small, but is a blur of activity. Most aspects of OBCentric have not only been retained, but expanded, including its art gallery. Open at 6 a.m., Lazy Hummingbird hosts activities both day and evening, with nothing starting later than 7 p.m. It’s a unique mix. Like most other coffeehouses, it offers an open mic night (the next on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.), with solo performers like Bridget Allen on Friday, Sept. 23 representing part of the entertainment lineup. Meanwhile, there are also regular trivia nights, but what really sets the Lazy Hummingbird apart is its mix of classes, which so far have included everything from upgrading vintage jewelry to lessons on tie-dye. Conscious of being “green,” the latter has used new bed sheets donated by the Sunset Cliffs Inn. While it’s true the economy is tough, owner Danielle Eder feels she is filling a void in Ocean Beach. “We don’t have a late-night coffee shop in Ocean Beach,” Eder said. “We don’t have a place where you can go to study or read. It seemed like there was a need.” She said economic conditions are actually a little more favorable to her shop than perhaps a larger enterprise. “It just made sense,” said Eder. “It’s all really reasonable, cheap. Coffee and maybe a pastry is one of the cheaper things that people, if they are going to go out, will splurge on, versus a big dinner.” For Eder, being part of the community is key to the Lazy Hummingbird’s early success, particularly when it comes to showcasing Ocean Beach’s artists. “We want to support the community,” she said. “They support us, that’s kind of what we’re there for. We’re not opposed to others [from outside Ocean Beach], but we have so much great, thriving, art around us already, we just wanted some place where people can showcase it and display it.” Art is rotated regularly every one to three months, she said. “We get fresh art in there constantly,” Eder said, with the speed of replacement owing to a range of factors from how many pieces an artist has up, to how the art itself is received by the coffee shop’s customers. She said it is a bonus to have the creators of the works as neighbors, too. The Lazy Hummingbird also goes the extra mile for local businesses. “We deliver by bike and foot,” she said. “We rigged up a bike where we have the coffee pot in the middle and the cups around it. During the day, we deliver to the spas and area shops. At night, we take things to a lot of the bartenders who work in the area.” Eder said the classes appear to be the biggest draw so far, with the regular clothing swaps in particular being “huge.” With so many musicians in Ocean Beach, the open mic night is also popular and now held twice monthly on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. For more information, visit http://lazyhummingbird.com/lazy_hummingbird/Home.html.