Columns

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%...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

  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...

You know that old service station on Coast Highway?  The one of ‘40s era maritime design?  Our son would take his BMW 1600 there...

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...

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...

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...

Sound Off I wasn’t there, but can imagine that attendees heard a pin drop at last week’s city council meeting.  A city councilperson said she...

Mini Me, My Familiar Although more than a week has passed I realized that I’m still angling the kitchen chairs to make it easy to...