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Oil Brings Higher Income     September’s song was a sad one for stocks as the market ended with its worst quarter since the financial crisis in...

Is the Environmental Committee Sustainable?  At Tuesday’s City Council meeting the fate of the city’s Environmental Committee hung in the balance.  Most of the committee’s...

Last Friday’s sunset definitely made McWeather’s top 10 list of dazzling sunsets. There must have been at least a couple of colors up there they have not even named yet, I swear. A plentiful stream of mid level moisture bands fanning out from the remnants of the once Category 4 Hurricane Hilary made up the set decoration for Friday’s cavalcade of color. It would be hard for any of us artists, no matter how good, to duplicate on canvas what we saw.

Isn’t there any other reason for forgetting besides getting old? It’s so depressing. How about “I just forgot.” Maybe the big forgetfulness problem with “seniors” is that they forget that they used to forget before, and choose to excuse their lapses in memory as, “senior moments.”

Midnight Encounter   It was a strangely Laguna night last Friday, but it began in Newport. There was a political fund-raiser for Suhkee Kang, who...

Laguna Beach’s Katsuya is the latest brainchild of master sushi chef Katsuya Uechi and Sam Nazarian, founder and chief executive officer of sbe, a conglomerate of real estate, entertainment and hospitality businesses. Known for hearty fare and signature cocktails, this eatery generates an LA-hip vibe that attracts patrons with a flair for panache.

These past four weeks have been a whirlwind. My youngest daughter came back from a seven-month volunteer assignment in Indonesia and just returned to New Zealand via a week in Hawaii where her new Facebook picture let me in on her newest skydiving adventure. There were many comments about her bravery and one that said: “Don’t tell mom!”

For the past week we’ve been enduring June gloom in September here at the beach with little or no clearing over the past weekend, not a good way to start autumn at all with below normal air and water temps.

Who’d have thought you had to come to Grand Rapids to become a famous artist in New York?” Glenn Rogers, on location at ArtPrize last week. Local entrepreneur and tennis legend Glenn Rogers and I were in Grand Rapids, Mich., last week for business and happened on one of the world’s largest art contests with the richest purse. Who would have thought you had to travel to the heartland to find it? It sparked some thoughts on expanding Laguna’s art horizons.

Let me state the obvious: Theme parks are fun. But do you know how to make them more fun? Go without your kids. Seriously. I went to Knott’s Scary Farm with a girlfriend and had a blast.

Blue Chips Signal Rally Ahead     The stock market remains unusually erratic. It went up five straight days, then dropped four straight days, losing 6% in...

In Search of Wall Space At Zinc's the other day, I noticed a display of elegant prints by Sheryl Seltzer, the most recent of their...

Summer Report Card! Summer 2011 report card: weather, B+; water temp, C+; surf, D. All but five days had ample sunshine, a vast improvement over...

Confessions of a Cat Parent   Nine years ago this month my husband Alfredo and I traveled to Denmark and Paris. When we got home we...

The Gain From Spain Goes Mainly To The Sane The price swings of the last few years produced emotional swings. They also have created some...