Locals Win Film Festival Acclaim
Two Laguna Beach residents won top awards at The U.S. International Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles.
"Journey to the South Pacific,” narrated by...
‘Savages’ Prowl Across Main Beach
Crowding the beaches with camera equipment and A-list actors, film maker Oliver Stone brought the set of his new film “Savages” to Laguna Beach...
Wisdom Workout
Chaotic Times
There is nothing antiseptic or impersonal about politics. Each party is all about bipolar chaos. This transfers down to a societal climate of...
Correction
One of the belly dancers involved in a brawl after the Patriots Day Parade (Streetbeat, March 8) was incorrectly described as a member of...
Laguna OKs Plan to Remove Utility Poles
By Cassandra Reinhart, Special to the Independent
“We have got to start the process and start moving, or we will all be here in our...
Local Students Won Third Place in a Mathematic Competition
A team of fourth and fifth grade students from El Morro Elementary’s Math Stars Club recently won third place in the measurement / geometry section...
Underneath it all, this Laguna Beach boutique has women covered
By Barbara McMurray, Special to The Independent
“Are you Mrs. London?”
That question from shoppers never fails to tickle Elizabeth Benton, owner of women’s lingerie shop...
Does the Wet Suit You
Peter Blake placed the reformation of Design Review on the City Council’s agenda this past Tuesday. Design Review has been reformed several times in...
Budget Encourages Restraint
In a summary of Laguna Beach’s proposed nearly $80 million budgets for the next two years, City Manager John Pietig describes the city’s revenues...
Rivian theater project appealed to Laguna Beach City Council
The Laguna Beach City Council will hear a historic preservation group’s appeal of an electric vehicle dealer’s planned restoration and remodel of Laguna South...
Class Notes 4/26/13
Pancake Breakfast Celebrates TLC and BGC
The eighth annual Pancake Breakfast, marking the years The Learning Center has been a part of the Boys and...
Film Documents Laguna Beach from a Local’s Lens
In his tiny, crowded Laguna Beach studio, Douglas Miller produces two diminutive paintings per day. Small, they are nonetheless flawless likenesses of Laguna Beach’s...
Committee Rebuffs Ticket Ban
Two residents unsuccessfully argued before a city parking committee to rescind ticketing in North Laguna during street-sweeping, saying the 34-year-old policy unfairly penalizes residents of 27 streets while no other area in town is subject to similar enforcement.