Columns

Deck Chairs It was the consensus of City Council that the downtown area was overdue for some refreshing. So, they offered preliminary suggestions on 20...

Christmas Eve in Laguna ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the town City Council was voting, letting residents down. The staff was concocting new ways...

Courting Happiness “Deck the halls with boughs of holly." "Tis the season to be jolly.” Given that, let's explore our relationship with happiness. Happiness is a...

Remembering Gean Austin Today is the 35th anniversary of the passing of long-time Laguna Beach High School music teacher Gean Austin (1897-1984). Gean loved music—it...

Funny Numbers There has been controversy concerning the veracity of figures used in this column. The assertion is that the numbers are made up and...

Brown Friday While the rest of the country celebrated Black Friday, Laguna Beach contended with Brown Friday, when a broken sewer value was finally fixed....

On Thanksgiving Morning, Laguna Beach Woke On Thanksgiving morning, Laguna Beach woke to a massive sewage discharge of at least 1.4 million gallons of raw...

Blame Game Indy columnist Michael Ray has a long, positive history with Councilmember Peter Blake and recently wrote a piece defending him. In order to defend...

Ms. Yury Goes to Washington Unlike actor Jimmy Stewart’s character (Jefferson Smith) who won a seat in Congress, in the Oscar award-winning movie of 1939,...

Intrigued by the promise of Jewish secrets to feeling good, I attended the first class of a series by Rabbi Eli at the Chabad...

Sewer Vent Folks who recreate in our ocean have long been eyeing our sewers. Just waiting for them to leak...again. The day before Thanksgiving, they...

One Short The city council came to an abrupt halt. Before them were two forks in the road. A councilperson said, “One fork in the...

Is the Gas Tax Working for Laguna? Here’s a question for the residents of Laguna Beach who voted to increase the gas tax because our...

In Defense of Peter Blake To understand my friendship with Peter Blake, one must know how I came to know him. I collect art and...

The First Village Entrance A lot has changed between Laguna’s two village entrance projects. Two entrance projects? Yes, there was another one, back in 1933...