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Only a self-indulgent career politician expects to serve more than two terms in office. Resident voters seek the opportunity of term limits as a...

Last week, Billy Fried—overtourism's best friend—suggested opening the Festival of the Arts venue for increased use in his Indy column on March 1. What's wrong...

Step Up Dustin Hoffman is one of my all-time favorite actors. His career started back in 1961 and has continued to the present. He was...

The Laguna Beach Business Club has announced its March 21 meeting speaker, Daniel Mulrenin, a private investigator. The LBBC holds monthly breakfast meetings starting...

The Other Hand By Mark D. Crantz I write these columns. Send them in via Main Beach carrier pigeons. Indy places them. Then resounding silence. Every...

Decision gone wrong Three arborists sat behind the table in front of the city council last Thursday attempting to tell the story of the condition...

Unless your head is buried in the sand – or in a good book - you probably know by now that Gelson’s South Laguna...

A focus on the brain and information processing at the Susi Q this month Kristen Maahs-Kohlberg, Associate Director of the Community Outreach team at Alzheimer's...

In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden won 80 million popular votes to Trump's 74 million. In the Electoral College, Biden won 306 votes...

  At its February meeting, Laguna Beach’s Patience Wright Chapter of The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution issued its first 2024 Community Service...

Sustainability in Food, Clothing, and Shelter  On a cool February evening at the Laguna Art Museum, an audience of a hundred or so attendees were...

By Billy Fried In the last six months, we’ve experienced a significant upgrade in the cultural fabric of Laguna. Starting, of course, with the magnificent...

By Paul Freeman What a great site for affordable housing. Naturally, it would help if there were a willing seller. Or a landlord offering a...

Trees Geez By Mark D. Crantz The reason why I’ve retired to a drafty monastery way up the mountain is to tell people my loftier thoughts....

By Denny Freidenrich I knew my friend William had a Bar Mitzvah, but I never pictured him as a particularly religious person. That is, until...