Columns

By Billy Fried OK, I was more than skeptical when Rivian rode into town (silently) and bought our beloved South Coast Cinema after an interminable...

AYSO Soccer in Laguna Beach  The history of our town is like a patchwork quilt, each stitched piece a story. As new pieces are added,...

By Denny Freidenrich With the 2021 spring training season underway now, I can't help but think about all those great baseball rookies, like Willie Mays...

Loophole Undermines City’s View Rules My name is Joseph Risi and I am the owner of 1283 Skyline. A very unfortunate incident has occurred which...

Your Own Family History Life is a fast-moving stream—chaotic, ever changing, uncertain. To find real meaning amidst the turbulence, check those who have finished this...

Time Traveler Husband Synchronicity is creepy. The concept first introduced by the analytical psychologist Carl Jung holds that events are meaningful coincidences, if they occur...

By Chris Quilter               In my parents’ heyday, the social whirl revolved around throwing and going to cocktail parties. Suddenly, or at least when my...

Choices, Time, and Consequences Life is a wondrous experiment in free agency. After the fun, the hard reality is our choices have consequences. Quick consequences...

Tourism in the COVID-19 Era By Tyler Russell McCusker Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the damage to our economy and the effects on peoples’ willingness to...

Party Hardy I was surprised to find a note sticking out from the edge of my front doormat. For one, I’ve never gotten a note....

by Chris Quilter   Reader beware: this could be one of my morbid columns. It's about an old friend who died recently, causing me to ponder...

  Reconsider please… Not enough funds to maintain “The Sunbathers” sculpture? The two semi-abstract figures lounge in Nita Carman Park behind the high school baseball field....

 Hopefully an army of Californians was out picking up trash along the Golden State’s 1100 miles of coastline on the morning of Sept. 21. ...

Dips And Dividends After holding a solid uptrend for most of 2013, stocks slid into a correction as the first quarterly reports disappointed. This could...

The Miracle of Trees On a recent trip to Mexico City, I was stunned by the tranquility of many urban zones in this writhing metropolis...