Pageant Spotlights ‘The Genius’ of Art and Science
The Festival of Arts turns 80 this summer and shows no signs of aging. It seems to have its own fountain of youth, flowing...
Cub Car Culture
Photos and text by Marilynn Young
Wolfs, Bears and Webelos in Laguna Beach Cub Scouts Pack 38 transformed rough blocks of wood by shaving, painting...
Body of Work
Text and photos by Marilynn Young
Rubber dish gloves, old tennis balls, even the all-knowing Master Yoda found useful purpose as students at Thurston Middle School...
Best Ever CIF Finish for Boys
The Southern Section’s CIF swimming and diving championships got underway at Riverside Community College Thursday afternoon with a come-from-behind victory for the Laguna boys...
Hedden For God’s Country
From Bongos To Head Banging To Maxiwhacking
By Andy Hedden
Originally published in 2005.
It all started when my Aunt Pat gave me a set of...
Design House Crowns a Laguna Hilltop
Welcome lookie-loos! Tis the season for house and garden tours and here’s one for a good cause. The annual Philharmonic House of Design, now...
Ecstatic Over Earth Day
Earth Day celebration organized by Transition Laguna on Park Avenue between Coast Highway and the library drew hundreds of people to its habitats. The...
A Flight Into the Past
Aviation author Barbara H. Schultz animates the next Laguna Beach Historical Society program Tuesday, April 24, at City Hall with tales about historic aviators...
Recapturing Laguna’s Early History
by Ronald H. Chilcote
Adapted from “Nature’s Laguna Wilderness”
Before the Spanish
Originally the Laguna Wilderness was home to Native Americans. Remnants of their cultures are...
Spring Dance Festival Opens with Leaps and Bounds
Bevies of dancers that defy gravity with impossible reaches and soaring leaps provide proof of spring’s arrival in Laguna Beach. Beginning next Thursday, their...
A Race to Bring Out the Kid in Everyone
By Monica Petrova, Special to the Independent
El Morro Elementary’s jog-a-thon, one of the largest PTA fundraisers, is a day filled with dancing and running...
A Swan Remembered
Lila Zali and the Laguna Beach Civic Ballet will reclaim the stage during the next Laguna Beach Historical Society program Tuesday, March 27, at...
‘Sound of Music’ Still Resounds
As promised by one Broadway’s most popular tunes, “The hills are alive with the sound of music....” so is the Artists’ Theatre, where the...
Take Me Out To The Ballgame
Amy and Jack Norworth, who started Laguna’s Little League, hand out Cracker Jacks to players.
Once upon a time in 1964, a little boy of...
Indy Globetrotters
Send readers a postcard with a highlight from your travels. Pack an Indy and send a hi resolution image to www.lbindy.com. We’ll do our...