Columns

Saving Seals by Saving the Sea Recently my wife and I attended a fundraiser for Laguna Beach’s Pacific Marine Mammal Center. The event featured a...

Graduation Day By David Weinstein “This little light of mine, I’m goin’ let it shine. Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine” - Gospel...

Legends of Laguna   With the sad passing of Mark Chamberlain, we have lost another indelible link to Laguna’s cultural legacy in the 1960’s as a...

By Amy Schwarzstein-Capron Typical, makeshift, and wonky, but delightful and one of a kind.  Our aging Labrador sleeps curled up on a seagrass rug, keeping us...

Rachel Visits Laguna Inspired by Jim Nordstrom’s photo, “Edward Hopper goes to the Legion Laundromat,” I wondered what might have resulted if commentator Rachel Maddow...

Life Coach-Lesson 3 By Mark Crantz I’m a self-anointed life coach and I’m here to help readers through this coronavirus. Why am I qualified to give...

Getting Away to Honolulu It started with my friend Karis Wilde and me facing severe lockdown-itis. It was so bad, we decided to go somewhere...

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling   By this time, all the green beer in town has turned back to its normal color. I grew up in...

Drone On There’s been big news outside of Laguna. China stole a US submersible drone. And Pizza Hut delivered the first drone pizza in Britain....

Spring Beckons   Thanks to the recent rains the hills are green, the flowers are blooming and there is less sand on the beach. April is...

Modacious Six projects. Six flags…Amusement 4-1. A city council majority recently approved the review of projects for Mo Honarkar’s Laguna Beach Company. The projects include...

One Step At a Time When we consistently travel in the fast lane or have become too isolated and unsure of how to intelligently increase...

By Nessa Kavanagh  In 90s Ireland, gender separated our secondary schools, and the Catholic Church governed 95% of our educational institutions. Some of our teachers...

Guardian Angels I was fascinated reading the Indy article, “Devout Artist Focuses Her Lens on Heaven.”   Kerry Swank is a gifted photographer who did photographic...