Editor: Regarding: A proposal to eliminate automobile lanes to accommodate the addition of bicycle lanes on Glenneyre Street. Over the last several weeks I have read a number of newspaper columns and watched town council meetings wherein a handful of people who refer to themselves as “complete street” advocates, have proposed the idea of reducing [...]
The Laguna Beach Planning Commission will evaluate options for “complete streets” features on Glenneyre Street in a public hearing Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 6:30 p.m. The options to be evaluated, as outlined in a recent study prepared by a transportation consulting firm, are crosswalk enhancements at intersections and installation of bike lanes between Thalia Street [...]
Sculptor Richard MacDonald will be offering the public a glimpse into his creative process in “Seeing Through the Artist’s Eye” at Dawson Cole Fine Art in Laguna Beach, Saturday, Aug. 4 from 6 to 9 p.m. at 326 Glenneyre Street. MacDonald will be sharing insights into his artistic philosophy and introducing some of his newer [...]
Author Offers Insight into Newly Single Women Latitude 33 Bookshop, 311 Ocean Avenue, will host Rita Lee Lloyd, author of “How To Survive in the 21st Century as a S.S.O.F.F. (Suddenly Single Over Forty Female),” for a discussion and book-signing event at 4 p.m. Saturday, May 21. With humor and intelligence, understanding and practicality, Lloyd, a [...]
Sound Spectrum, 1264 S. Coast Highway Paul Simon, So Beautiful or So What Cars, Move Like This Foo Fighters, Wasting Light Airborne Toxic Event, All At Once Beastie Boys, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues Gorillaz, The Fall Alison Krauss, Paper Airplane Stevie Nicks, In Your Dreams Emmylou Harris, Hard Bargain [...]
Top sales/rentals for the week ending April 24: Sound Spectrum 1264 S. Coast Highway Paul Simon, So Beautiful or So What Kills, Blood Pressures Foo Fighters, Wasting Light Airborne Toxic Event, All At Once Strokes, Angles Adele, 21 Gorillaz, The Fall Alison Krauss, Paper Airplane Robbie Robertson, How To Become a Clairvoyant Emmylou Harris, Hard [...]
Top sales/rentals for the week ending April 3: SOUND SPECTRUM, 1264 S. Coast Highway Radiohead, King of Limbs Kills, Blood Pressures W. Nelson/W. Marsalis/N. Jones, Here We Go Again R.E.M., Collapse Into Now Strokes, Angles Adele, 21 Lucinda Williams, Blessed Snoop Dogg, Doggumentary Robbie Robertson, How To Become a Clairvoyant Ray Davies, See My Friends [...]
Top sales/rentals for the week ending March 27: Sound Spectrum, 1264 S. Coast Highway Radiohead, King of Limbs Troubadour DVD/CD, V.A., 60s Folk W. Nelson/W. Marsalis/N. Jones, Here We Go Again R.E.M., Collapse Into Now Strokes, Angles Adele, 21 Lucinda Williams, Blessed Snoop Dogg, Doggumentary Esperanza Spaulding, Chamber Music Society Britney Spears, Femme Fatale [...]
Top sales/rentals for the week ending March 13: Sound Spectrum, 1264 S. Coast Highway 1. R.E.M., Collapse Into Now 2. Troubadour DVD/CD, V.A., 60s Folk 3. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs (G) 4. Florence & The Machine, Lungs (G) 5. Black Keys, Brothers (G) 6. Adele, 21 7. Lucinda Williams, Blessed 8. Avril Lavigne, Goodbye Lullaby [...]
Laguna Beach Library Hosts Mystery Writers Mystery writers Cara Black and Libby Fischer Hellmann will visit the Laguna Beach Library at 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 17, to discuss their writing, answer questions, and sign their newest mysteries. Cara Black’s series of mysteries stars private investigator Aimee Leduc and the city of Paris. Beginning with [...]
Mystery writers Cara Black and Libby Fischer Hellmann will visit the Laguna Beach Library at 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 17, to discuss their writing, answer questions, and sign their newest mysteries. Cara Black’s series of mysteries stars private investigator Aimee Leduc and the city of Paris. Beginning with “Murder in the Marais,” and continuing [...]
‘Leadership Coach’ Tries a New Venue Laguna Beach Books hosts Cliff Shiepe, self-styled leadership coach and author of “Cliff Falls,” for a book-signing event at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 20, 1200 S. Coast Highway. “Cliff Falls” is a novel about the exploited child television star of an 80s sitcom who takes advantage of a [...]
Latitude 33 Bookshop will host local author Henry Garcia at a 4 p.m. book-signing event Saturday, Feb. 12, 311 Ocean Avenue. Garcia’s historical novel, “Matthew’s Call to Qumran” weaves a compelling story surrounding one of the most significant periods of religious history. “Matthew’s Call to Qumran” takes readers on the spiritual journey of young Matthew, [...]
Ill Prepared Hiker Rescued from Hillside
A sheriff’s helicopter was used to extract a hiker who suffered an anxiety attack and was unable to move from a steep trail in Laguna Beach’s open space about 6 p.m. Sunday, June 9, police said. Lifeguards in an all-terrain vehicle coordinated the extraction from thick brush and a steep slope between Alta Laguna Park [...]
