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...
Laguna OKs Firefighters Pact Without Raises
A spokesman for the firefighter’s union remains dismayed at the terms of a two-year contract ratified Tuesday by the City Council, which has yet...
Laguna’s Coastline Closes to Anglers Jan. 1
No-fishing restrictions along most of Laguna’s coastline will take effect on Jan. 1, fish and game officials decided last week.
The effective date, proposed for...
A Clean Sweep Over Laguna Beaches
Ten years ago Michael and Deborah Jagels were married on Main Beach and held their wedding reception at Las Brisas restaurant, overlooking Pacific Ocean ...
Laguna Receives Monks’ Blessings
Seven Tibetan monks skilled in the sacred art of sand mandala painting as well as butter sculpture, costumed dance and chanting are making a...
Curtain Rises on a New Stage
Two years after breaking ground, Soka University will at last show off its new performing arts center, beginning with an inaugural concert Saturday, Sept....
Mobile-Home Residents Make Buy-out Offer
Residents of a 130-unit mobile home park have for the first time made a formal offer of $41 million to buy the property when...
Rug Merchant Re-arrested, New Victims Come Forward
Laguna Beach police arrested the manager of a local rug store for the second time in three weeks on Wednesday, Sept. 14, for suspicion...