Columns

The Tribes Take Over Xavier is from Puerto Rico, grew up poor, and today is a struggling young actor in Hollywood. We met by accident...

Read The Personals FOR SALE –  10 holiday tins of Young’s Plantation assorted pecans, missing all chocolate covered ones. Sorry about that (you can always fill...

Checkout Noon I tried not to panic over the Indy story “Lawsuit Contests Hotel Laguna Lease.”   Hotel operators allege being illegally forced out by the...

Laguna Refuses to Go to Pot   In 1996, California legalized medical marijuana and a majority of Laguna Beach voters supported this initiative. In 2016, 57%...

Restoring an Estuary, Healing an Environment At last some positive, even inspiring news on the environmental front. With two-dozen California wildfires now nearly contained...

Read the Personals SENIOR EXPLORERS – Club forming. Must be over-65 and own hand-held metal detector/desire to find gold. First meet-up Farmer John’s, breakfast on...

Grey Goby I was standing in a pool of brackish water in my garage when I read the Indy’s “Estuary Re-envisioned for Degraded Aliso Creek.”...

Life Outside the Bubble This past summer my number came up for jury duty. I’ve always been ambivalent about it. On the one hand, it’s...

Historical Renovation Process Is Broken As was reported in the Indy on Oct. 6,  the Laguna Beach Planning Commission unanimously rejected the latest plan for...

A New Chairman to Lead the Fed The Federal Reserve’s meeting earlier this week passed without an interest rate increase. The President nominated Federal Reserve...

Resilience   The holiday season has officially started. In our fast-paced society, it has become more difficult to let down and enjoy the small pause points...

Kilmer Was Here I really don’t want readers to think any less of me than they already do, but I have a confession to make:...

  Something Missing Here? My neighbor mentioned that the utility company was concerned about her palm tree growing up closer and closer to the wires that...

Was It My Turn?   Those of you that have been kind enough to read my columns the past couple of years may have noticed that...

People Before Parking This weekend, grab the groms and come check out Park Plaza, Laguna’s first downtown pedestrian plaza. It’s located just off Forest Avenue...