Just for Laughs
Read the Personals
HANDSOME WHITE-HAIRED GENT dining alone on patio of Las Brisas Saturday night. I am a student filmmaker and you are perfect for...
Poet Laureate’s Inaugural Efforts Win Praise
Editor,
(This letter was also addressed to the mayor.)
We would like to congratulate you on the success of the first poet laureate program in Laguna...
Schoolpower’s Strategic Options
Editor,
We all owe thanks to Robin Rounaghi for five years of upbeat boosterism in our schools ("Schoolpower Leader to Assist in Filling Her Own...
Bring the Bard to the Playhouse
Editor,
Since Laguna Beach is a hub of tourist activity in the summer, I feel the Laguna Playhouse is missing out on an opportunity to...
Chamberlain Memorial Set
Editor:
In the past year we've lost in succession, three longtime community members, Stu Staffer (May 20, 2017), John Abbott Gardiner (Oct. 24, 2017), and...
Silence Is Not Golden
Editor,
At the April 17 meeting, the City Council sat silent when discussion emerged. On “sanctuary” cities, Council members sat like mummies as Kelly Boyd...
Musings on the Coast
The Intuitive Artist
It is really hard to describe art, and even harder to describe the art of Laguna’s Jorg Dubin.
Some of his portraiture images...
Village Matters
Bully Beef
"Southerly gales, squalls, lee rail under water, wet bunks, hard tack, bully beef, wish you were here, instead of me.” This was writer...
Does the Wet Suit You
A Modest Proposal
We live in a zip code where it is easy for marketing experts to mistake most of us for the rich people...
Finding Meaning
Restrain myself?
The meaning of our life—born out of our better choices—is publicly revealed at our passing. Did you read LIz Goldner’s obituaryfor Laguna’s Mark...
Personnel File
Welcome Mat Rolled Out for New Fire Chief
A public reception was planned this week to welcome Michael Garcia, the city’s new fire chief.
The...
Bill Aims to Combat Teen Suicide
Assembly Bill 2390, which proposes to put help-line numbers on the back of student ID cards, was recently passed unanimously by the state Assembly...
Philharmonic’s House of Design Opens
The Philharmonic Society kicks off its 25thHouse of Design with a showing of the house as well as cocktails and dinner Friday, May 4,...
Pet Peeves
Art in lieu
A funny thing happened to me while reading Indy’s “Public Art May Embellish Entrance.” It put me into an induced coma. My family says...
Wisdom Workout
Relationship Literacy
Every person we meet has a story to tell. Imagine that life is like a library filled with individual books to be experienced...