Pet Peeves
Moving Day
I got the word on Saturday, which is my second favorite day of the week, right after Sunday. The PGA calls Saturday, moving...
Village Matters
Be Bold, Breathe Easy
Personalized repairs—that’s what you got at Karl Klass Electric downtown on Forest Avenue. I took my toaster there once and when...
The Slant
The Last First Day of School
Summer is slipping away. The shadows are longer and the days are getting annoyingly shorter. Soon there will be...
Musings on the Coast
Battle of the Beaches
I grew up in Corona del Mar and my family had membership in the Balboa Yacht Club where we sailed catboats....
Pet Peeves
Team 33.5
Relay Team 33.5 did it. That’s Team 33.5 Miles Across the Sea. They crossed the Catalina Channel in nineteen hours and 44 minutes....
The Kibitzer
Happy Birthday, Buzzkill
That tired and fatuous “Happy Birthday” song is about to get its comeuppance.
For years I have cringed in restaurants when staff assemble...
Guest column
Invasion of the Water Snatchers
In the 1956 classic science-fiction film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” a small town is mysteriously overtaken by aliens that...
Pet Peeves
Survey Says
I read with interest the Indy article, “Survey Takes Laguna Art Temperature.” My first thought was, is this an oral or rectal examine?...
Taking Stock
The Breezes Of August
The stock market made a strong recovery after sagging for almost two weeks, than plunged again on news that China had...
Village Matters
Yours Forever
Rolling hills and beauty in many shades of green. Woods, fields and little hamlets with landmark church steeples…my brothers and I made a...
Guest Column
Revisiting the Offshore Oil Drilling Fight
By Denny Freidenrich
Thirty years ago this month, I received the call of a lifetime. I was asked to coordinate public...
Pet Peeves
Teachers Lounge
As a student many years ago, I always wondered what went on in the teachers lounge. It was off limits to students and...
The Kibitzer
Are We Sharky Yet?
Disclaimer: I had a lot of pushback about publishing this column because of the great and largely irrational fear of the...
Shore Scene
Snails Find Home in a Tube
Deposited by the tides, a common find along Laguna’s eight-mile shore are broken off pieces of light colored irregularly...
Pet Peeves
Photosynthesis
Some subjects are off limits. I avoid topics that I know next to nothing about. Indy readers disagree. They say my columns prove that...