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Opinion: Musings from the Coast

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Saint Marina Dateline: Amaliapolis, Greece.  Amaliapolis is a village within the Pagasetic Gulf on the east coast of Greece. The Gulf is giant, roughly round and...

Get Out of the House

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Do, Don’t Pretend  About a year ago I discovered a guilty pleasure – the supermarket Fresh and Easy. The closest F & E is in...

Get Out of the House

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Family Movie Night (or Afternoon) My dad is old school in a big way. He goes to bed by 9 p.m. and wakes...

Wisdom Workout

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 Savoring Laguna   My experiences lately have brought home how privileged I feel to be a part of life in Laguna.     It started with an invitation...

Hiking Badlands for Good Health

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  For those of us who like hiking, south Laguna offers a labyrinth of scruffy, scenic trails.  Thanks to the County of Orange, the South...

Pet Peeves

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Wait a Second I’m worried. The sixth annual Art & Nature series brought to us by the Laguna Art Museum is coming up, Nov. 1-4....

Wisdom Workout

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Have a Heart   This week, as I read our letters to the editor, I noticed that our reputation as a hospitable, tolerant, free-spirited environment seems...

McWeather or Not

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It sure was a dank Monday here at the beach, but there was bright sunshine all day at Top of the World. As long as you were above about 500 feet the skies were good to go. That’s how condensed the marine layer was today. Sure it was cold and clammy at the beach, but it’s O.K because like the old saying goes, the worst day in Laguna is 40,000 times better than the best day in Pomona!

Opinion: Time to Give Thanks to the DRB Team

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By Louis Weil After three years on the Design Review Board, I want to thank the Laguna Beach community, city staff and our city council...

Are We Helpless When it Comes to the Homeless?

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By Howard Hills Homelessness has become yet another topic ironically like the weather, everyone complains about it but no one ever does anything about it. Of...

Hot Dish

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I approached my next restaurant review with a sense of apprehension. How could the amalgamation of cooking school, deli and retail wine store be a place for great food? Twice before I patronized Laguna Culinary Arts, buying cheese and eating a student created lunch. It was during the latter experience I concluded I would not dine at LCA again. Why patronize a cooking school where upcoming chefs learn to hone culinary skills? As dining establishments go, the ambience in LCA failed to stimulate any excitement for my upcoming meal. A deli counter filled with prepared foods, a selection of cheeses and meats and retail wine store dominate the dining area. My enthusiasm was further dampened after a trip to the restroom, which is in need of a serious overhaul. What happened next is a textbook lesson in expectations gone happily wrong.

Endeavors of the Heart

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RUFF’n It By Lee Winocur Field and Marion Jacobs Times in Laguna have been rough lately, even for animals. On Dec. 23, hotline coordinator Sandra Truelove-Silverman received...

Opinion: Green Light

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Laguna’s Council Exclaims “Yes” to Climate Action California is aflame. More than two million acres and counting were charred this year. Lives have been lost....

Pet Peeves

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Bedfellows Politics make for strange bedfellows. That’s why I keep waking up alone. I can’t fall asleep with all the jabbering. So, I read with...

The Kibitzer

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Love Trumps Hate What a weekend! In case you didn’t hear, there was a protest at Main Beach. A few people showed up. Couple of...