Columns

It Takes Two Pools to Tango By Steve McIntosh Back in 2018, the city, along with an amenable school district, created a plan to resolve expanded...

Step Up Dustin Hoffman is one of my all-time favorite actors. His career started back in 1961 and has continued to the present. He was...

The Other Hand By Mark D. Crantz I write these columns. Send them in via Main Beach carrier pigeons. Indy places them. Then resounding silence. Every...

Decision gone wrong Three arborists sat behind the table in front of the city council last Thursday attempting to tell the story of the condition...

Unless your head is buried in the sand – or in a good book - you probably know by now that Gelson’s South Laguna...

In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden won 80 million popular votes to Trump's 74 million. In the Electoral College, Biden won 306 votes...

Sustainability in Food, Clothing, and Shelter  On a cool February evening at the Laguna Art Museum, an audience of a hundred or so attendees were...

By Billy Fried In the last six months, we’ve experienced a significant upgrade in the cultural fabric of Laguna. Starting, of course, with the magnificent...

By Paul Freeman What a great site for affordable housing. Naturally, it would help if there were a willing seller. Or a landlord offering a...

Trees Geez By Mark D. Crantz The reason why I’ve retired to a drafty monastery way up the mountain is to tell people my loftier thoughts....

By Denny Freidenrich I knew my friend William had a Bar Mitzvah, but I never pictured him as a particularly religious person. That is, until...

By Nessa Kavanagh  Parents are often under the impression that any teenage drug use is extremely dangerous, leading them to believe that extreme measures are...

By Hunter Fuentes and Jon Stordahl  One of us (I’ll give you a hint: the older one) was confirmed at St. Vibiana’s, the former...

By Rebecca Washington-Lindsey February, a short month, leaves little time to celebrate, honor, reflect or reminisce about African American/Black history. The 2024 national theme was...

Heavy-Handed or a Soft Touch By Susan McNeal Velasquez Some say, "You create everything in your universe. The magic emanates from you." Others say: "everything is...