Columns

By Tracy Middleton The penultimate landing on the south staircase at Woods Cove offers a panoramic view of the most cherished morsel of California coastline...

“Mauli Ola put the ‘fun’ in ‘fundraiser’!” --Paul Hamilton.   Giving back doesn’t have to hurt. Mauli Ola, the local non-profit that takes young people with cystic...

Election Year And Stocks Turbulent currents continue to make the stock market work slowly upstream. Troubling news from the Euro Zone pushed stocks back this...

By Alan Boinus   The gun lobby would have us think that last week’s tragedy in Aurora, Colo., was an aberration. Just another crazed criminal that putting...

About 20 years ago, a colleague of mine, one of my favorite men in the world, called to say he was in Laguna and...

Some thoughts on the sea …Before us. Beneath us. Beyond us. The constancy. The changeability. The sea. We sit on the edge of the great Pacific Ocean, a community...

It could seem puzzling that at the low price end of the culinary spectrum we can go to a buffet and have unlimited plates...

When I was growing up, I didn’t have any famous female role models. Of course, I wanted to help people like my social worker...

Weeding And Seeding Stocks appear to be firming up as if they were going to the gym for workouts instead of to their creditors for...

By Chris Quilter When Alvie Singer was romancing Annie Hall, he bought her a copy of Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death.” At the time...

By Robin Zur Schmiede Recently, Laguna Beach locals have been reminiscing in print about infamous Design Review Board experiences. Residents and visitors alike might wonder...

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that...

By Sam DiGiovanna   This is the time of year when it is important to prepare for power outages, which can occur from a simple malfunction...

A Long, Warm Summer Midsummer arrived on schedule as did the first wave of quarterly earnings reports. The summer is hot, the reports lukewarm. First...

By Howard Hills   Our critical response to art implicates subjectivity Kant called "judgment of taste," so others obviously are free to disagree, but my wife...