Columns

78 Tattoos Becoming Art Perhaps you’ve noticed the increase in Laguna tattoo shops. Turns out there’s a “tattoo renaissance” going on, inspired by reality TV shows...

Gobbledegook It was a good news, bad news kind of day for a Victoria Beach family. An Orange County Superior Court judge upheld a cease...

Can’t Sell This In 1952, the Laguna Beach yellow pages listed two haberdasheries, 11 women’s wear shops, three lumber yards, 15 grocery markets, one machine...

Transformational Leadership Most would agree it’s a difficult thing to be the leader of a church. I’m a keen observer of Laguna’s church leaders. These...

Two for the Road Intrepid readers will recognize Kyuri Lin, my former long-time yoga instructor. This column is about how she and her boyfriend, Szymon...

School Board’s Sloppy, Secretive Management The July 16 School Board meeting was a battle between the public, who demands to be heard, and a school...

Gotta Love The Ranch I love The Ranch. It's sorta/kinda like being at Cheers and Augusta National all rolled into one. During the summer months, I'm...

Recall the Recall A sad fact about the governance of school districts is the short-lived attention span of voters concerned about the results. Most of...

A Lost Story Went to the Pageant of the Masters the other night with the Beautiful Wife, partly because a daughter was appearing in a...

Modacious Six projects. Six flags…Amusement 4-1. A city council majority recently approved the review of projects for Mo Honarkar’s Laguna Beach Company. The projects include...

Fight Climate Change with Radical Collaboration   One thing traveling does is give you an appreciation of where we live. Summer is divinely mild here, but...

The Tapestry of Laguna Beach Most coastal communities look seaward for tsunamis. We in Laguna Beach look inland during the summer months and see a...

Expanding Our Self-Definitions As Americans, we highly value our independence. We often take our rights for granted. We expect, assert, and demand. We stand up...

By Denny Freidenrich To all my left-leaning friends in town, let me remind you what Will Rogers said decades ago: "I am not a member...

Citizens’ Climate Lobby Launches Laguna Chapter We’re just folks not willing to remain still. Moms, dads, grandparents, a retired UC Irvine physics professor, a few...