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A Boatload Sometimes more news reveals itself between Indy stories.  Last week was an example.  I read the Indy’s “Human Smugglers Return to Crystal Cove.” Followed by “Seven Sea Creatures Return to Local Tidepools.” These news stories appear to have nothing in common, or do...

Read the Personals HELP ME PROPOSE TO MY GIRLFRIEND.  Flash mob of talented singers, dancers and musicians wanted for event at Heisler Park gazebo, Laguna Beach, Friday, rehearsal at 6 p.m.  I will propose at 7. #DaisyDaisyGiveMeYourAnswerTrue   MOCK JURY PARTICIPANTS needed...

Dow Reverses Year’s Gains This week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went negative for 2018. In contrast, the broader S&P 500 is currently up 3% and the NASDAQ 100 12%. Although becoming less representative of the U.S. economy, the “Dow” is the most popular market index and...

It Can All be Joyous “It’s fun just like Hospitality Night except it isn’t cold.” That was my unsophisticated review of last Saturday’s Fete de la Musique, where scores of bands played throughout downtown and Mexican folklorico dancers and Jheri St. James’s belly dancers...

Crank Call Those cable guys have been trying hard to get subscribers of their phone service to allow them to  install new equipment inside our homes. It needs to be plugged into an electric outlet for power and all the AV wires in the house for distribution. “It’s for improved...

A Place of Healing and Warmth “Good morning James, what can we do for you?” This is not the type of greeting that most patients arriving at a medical facility receive. Having a number of legitimate ailments, plus the fact I am somewhat of a hypochondriac, I go to several doctors,...

Designs on You I was sitting in my living room reading the Indy article  “Let Laguna Live.”  The column written by Michael Ray points out the difficulties residents have going through the city’s Design Review Board. I was halfway through when there was a knock on the do...

  Read the Personals FATHER’S DAY SPECIAL:  Give Dad a gift box filled with some of his favorites: Slinky. Rubik’s Cube, antacids, beefy jerky, Rogaine, a pocket comb, and a flashy tie (fish, birds, pineapples, coconuts, palm trees) in a handsome basket for $25. ...

The Final ‘Parts Unknown’ “But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of...

Climbing Everest It’s graduation season.  Laguna Beach High students gathered for baccalaureate service last Sunday.  Baccalaureate services have a long history, dating to the 14thcentury at Oxford University.  It’s a religious service, kept apart from school to respect our...

  Almost everyone already knows about the horrors of the city’s Design Review Board.  That is because anyone who has gone through it hates it with a vengeance, and they have good reason. That reason: to get a permit to build or remodel anything, you must endure the DRB and you...

You know that old service station on Coast Highway?  The one of ‘40s era maritime design?  Our son would take his BMW 1600 there to be repaired. It needed more work than he could afford so the relationship ended badly.  The mechanic, wary of quick fixes, offered to return his...

It was inappropriate of me to giggle while reading the Indy’s “Artist Riled Over Damaged Sawdust Festival Mural.” But I’ve been there. No I don’t mean I had anything to do with this defacement. In fact, I have an alibi. My wife and I were having free lunch samples at Cost...

From One World to Another Last Saturday we pulled into Shady Lane RV Camp just north of Barstow looking for the road to Fort Irwin. This was just one of the moments on this trip when I wondered why we had left the blue skies and cool ocean breezes of Laguna to take on a desert...

Mo Betta We owe Mr. Mo a debt of gratitude for rescuing the restaurant roof at the Festival of Arts from the stifling cocoon of kitsch that imprisoned it for decades. Now that fabulous concrete wing is free to soar in the sky again. Two more examples of this roof come to mind....