Columns

That’s the Way the Ball Bounces Tennis players using the public courts adjacent to the Festival of Arts were recently served a two day notice...

Bushel Basket Twenty parents and one child asked Laguna Beach City Council to ban the deployment of 5G antennas. Before discussions could begin, a concerned...

Time to Be With Family This is when I miss my mom especially. I always knew that I could come to her house. There would...

Since Thanksgiving holidays highlight food as central, this quote captured my attention. "Eating is aggressive by nature and the implements required for it could...

Big Boo-Boo Old-fashioned Indy readers are like me. They wait until Friday and then go out to their driveways to look for the newspaper. Then...

Thanks for the Memento Those of us enjoying a traditional Thanksgiving meal—turkey, corn stuffing, mashed potatoes, and cranberries—will be eating a meal comprised of foods...

Thanksgiving Remembered The Beautiful Wife is the guardian of tradition in our home. We’re decorating for Thanksgiving, a celebration first observed by the Pilgrims in...

Rejuvenating Downtown Tommy Bahama just closed its store and restaurant, leaving more empty windows in Laguna. The one thing everyone can agree on is that...

Dr. Alan C. Braddock, associate professor of art history at the College of William and Mary, spoke on “From Nature to Ecology: The Emergence of Ecocritical Art History.”

Reality Check I was running late. I jumped off the trolley and hurried to the house. I threw off my jacket and shoes, put on...

Angels Among Us You may have seen the bare details in last week’s Indy: “14-year-old girl killed after canyon collision.” The girl was Jasmen Wilkinson,...

Charge It The holiday season is always a good time for turkeys, stuffing and gravy. Not the kind on the holiday table—the kind in city...

Hostile Word Takeover Have you noticed how advertisers are turning nouns into verbs? “That’s why we science,” says Bayer. They’re using common verbs as nouns....

An Easy Way to Make a Difference Nov. 17 will mark the second anniversary of Heidi Miller's surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she donated...

Dubious Data The Pew Research Center, known for phone-based polling, recently issued a report under this headline: “In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at...