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To: All Members of the Laguna Beach City Council Re: Six-month moratorium on choosing or placing public art Background For some time, activists have complained about the quality of public art in Laguna Beach. It is not worthy of us. It does not belong in Laguna Beach; it belongs...

Iowa? New Hampshire? Why Not Laguna Beach? Every four years, we in this part of the country are gripped by a sense of powerlessness and frustration. We must sit idly by as the Iowa caucus, then the New Hampshire primary go a long way, a long disproportional way toward determining...

The Boys & Girls Club holds its annual Awards Night on Thursday, Feb. 11, and welcomes support from local businesses in the form of a donated sandwich, vegetable or cookie trays or items for goodie bags. Three individuals who have demonstrated strong moral character,...

Fannie Lum passed away with family by her side on Dec. 2, 2015. She was 88 years old. Seu Fun “Fannie” Lee was born July 10, 1927, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Fannie and her three siblings attended Chinese language school in addition to public school. She left Hawaii and crossed the...

Robert P. Powers, 63, died quietly at home in Santa Fe, N.M. on Jan. 2, 2016, following a courageous 10-month battle with cancer. Bob was born in Laguna Beach in 1952, attended El Morro and Thurston schools and graduated Laguna Beach High School in 1970. He was the son of Porter...

Dorothy Catherine Scott passed away peacefully on Jan. 12, 2016, at the age of 95. Scott is survived by her two daughters, Susan Kollmansberger of Laguna Beach and Sherry Scott-Tyler of North Fort Myers, Fla.; two son-in-laws; two granddaughters; and several nieces, nephews,...

Radio Station Hires New Staff Steph Weaver-Weinberg has been named music director of KX 93.5, Laguna’s alternative rock FM radio station. She was formerly a music and promotions assistant. “I look so forward to abusing this newfound power. My first decree shall be to change...

The Laguna Chapter of National Charity League honored 12 young women for their philanthropic and league service last month at the 27th annual debutante ball. The celebration recognizes the culmination of six years of commitment to serving the surrounding local communities, which...

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Ire Councilwoman Toni Iseman opened Agenda Item 22 at the last Council meeting by informing us that Laguna Beach had one of the highest per capita voting support for legalizing medical marijuana back in 1996. It was known as Prop. 215 – the...

Bottoms And Tops Is the stock slump over? Maybe. The market made a remarkable upward reversal on Wednesday after disorganized selling took the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 500 points before buyers finally rushed in, sending the Dow up over 400 points. The next day,...

  The play is “White or The Musk Ox Play,” and its premise of life, death, grief and letting go has fascinated Laguna Beach playwright Lojo Simon since its 2012 performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Simon calls the play by Jonathan Fitts “a universal story of...

The Laguna Plein Air Painters Association presents an exhibition featuring 50 original paintings from their members inspired by the work of the Spanish master Joaquin Sorolla. The great-great-granddaughter of Sorolla,  Fabiola A. Lorente-Sorolla will be traveling from Spain to...

  Update: The concert was postponed Friday, Jan. 22, due to bad weather on the east coast, prohibiting travel by the performers. The music of six Jewish composers, five of whom perished in concentration camps, will be performed Sunday, Jan. 24, in concert at Irvine Valley...

The Newport Beach Public Library Foundation encourages you to reserve your space for the upcoming Witte Lectures. The series begins Friday, Jan. 22, with Jessica Fellowes, writer of the official companion books to “Downton Abbey” and niece of Julian Fellowes, the show’s creator....

Editor and author Susan Dworkin will discuss her book, “The Nazi Officer’s Wife” at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway, at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 24. The true story of love and terror during the Holocaust was on the New York Times Bestseller List for 30 weeks in 2014....