Paint Competition Expands its Portfolio
A new palette of events colors the 13th annual Plein Air Painting Invitational, a competition among artists who paint on location, expanded to offer...
Laguna Fortifies Newly Found Dump
The glass-filled slurry that besieged a Laguna Canyon neighborhood during last year’s record-breaking flood surprised residents when they stepped out into the light of...
Local Candidates Start Campaigning Early
More than a year before the terms of two Laguna Beach City Council positions expire, the wheels of political campaigns are already in motion,...
Supervision at Homeless Shelter Shifts
The Laguna Resource Center relinquished its contract to supervise daytime activities at the shelter for homeless people during Tuesday’s meeting of the City Council,...
Unexpected Alchemy Transforms Science Camp
An unofficial poll among Thurston Middle School sixth graders, who spent their third week of school at an outdoor science camp on Catalina Island,...
Flood Insurance Unnecessary in Laguna’s Canyon Acres
Unlike nearly every other Laguna Beach neighborhood, 37 Canyon Acres residents were recently informed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency that they needed to...
HÔM Group Affiliates With Sotheby’s
By Roger Bloom | NB Indy Editor
High-end residential real estate broker HÔM Group will become an affiliated member of the Sotheby’s International Realty network...
Hit by Tragedy, She Strides With New Purpose
Self-described social artist Pamela Burrus relies on different forms of media to advocate for various concerns. Two years ago, her mission took on greater...
Taking Up a New Tune
With its signature annual music festival, free First Sunday concerts at Laguna College of Art and Design, Jazz Wednesdays at Hotel Laguna, and infrequent...
Peddling Support for a Wheel of a Cause
“We are providing him with a bike, lights for the nighttime ride and loaning him a Garmen GPS unit so every time he comes into...
A Gift of Beauty Returns to the Sea
After five days of painstaking work creating an intricate circular painting with boldly colored lines of sand, Tibetan monks visiting Laguna Beach brushed their...
Devising Live-Work Rules in Laguna Remains a Puzzle
Local artists, some of them still recouping from last December’s flood damage, started erecting new defenses this month against another threat: a proposal to...
Biker Shop Stocks Eye Candy for Men
As a 20-year-old, Troy Lee fortuitously combined his zeal for motocross racing and passion for art by painting helmets for friends. Trail grit must...
Hit-and-run Driver Snarls Laguna Traffic
Three people suffered minor injuries in two separate four-car pileups less than a mile apart that temporarily blocked lanes of Coast Highway Thursday afternoon...
Unbowed by Cancer, a Nurse Turns to Advocacy
“This can’t be cancer, because I had a mammogram,” Laguna Beach resident Sol Roberts recalled thinking when she found a lump in her breast...