Columns

Last Friday, the Laguna Beach Woman's Club held its annual Woman of the Year luncheon. This year, Peggie Thomas was the deserving recipient. Gayle...

Beekeeper Charlotte Bell “Shared the Buzz on Bees” at the South Laguna Community Garden Park on Saturday. As our local bees buzzed happily on...

By Howard Hills An ad hoc coalition of evangelical church leaders is lobbying with zeal in support of legalization and public benefits for unlawful migrants....

The last one, my youngest, Harrison, graduated from Sage Hill High School. My first was Margarita Aguilar, whose whole family had come to live with...

From Corrections To Jazz The market’s uptrend momentum lost energy and the background news of anxieties about interest rates pushed it into a “correction.” This...

by Chris Quilter This edition of Patchwork got underway in the utilitarian jurors' lounge at the Santa Ana Courthouse, where solid citizens silently pray they...

By Nadine B. Hoffman   I’m sleeping a little more soundly now. But then, it’s been more than a week since I saw the dead man. Sunday...

By Mark D. Crantz Laguna Beach.  Another perfect day in Paradise, but oh no, the tourists are coming.  The tourists are coming.  Paul Revere had...

"Nothing's better for me than going out in the water with four guys , and it's so much damn fun!" --Corky Smith, Brooks Street...

Treasury Bonds Or Tesla Stock? Stocks sold off as the summer began, giving back the gains they achieved in May. Investors seemed unusually spooked by...

By Arnie Silverman June 2 marks the anniversary of the start of the Korean War.  On that date in 1950 armed forces from communist North...

Let’s talk trees – since they seem to be the target of pending city legislation that will signal their doom. The recent elimination of towering...

Before South of Mission in San Francisco there was SoHo in New York, and now NoHo and The Bowery, and every city seems to...