Columns

Mozambique Mozambique has been making news of late. According to Indy reports, Mozambique has been granted temporary approval to reactivate downstairs dining after its recent...

Let's take a moment to formally welcome 2014. The birthing process is over and we’ve brought the new baby home. If you listen closely, you...

I just returned from a month-long trip, which is the very best way to appreciate how good we have it here in Laguna. No...

By Gene Felder The City Council squanders money paying consultants money usually to tell us the obvious or something that doesn’t fit Laguna Beach in...

Snowflakes Here we go again. The city council is looking for parking spaces. Geez, it feels like I’m a little kid again strapped into my...

Pet Peeves: Lights Out  Laguna.  Another perfect day in paradise, but then there’s the Good Neighbor Lighting Ordinance. Oh, no! I haven’t been here a...

  When the school board called on taxpayers and voters to approve the bond issue to finance renovation and upkeep of your public school facilities,...

Fire Safety Changes Would Hold Tree Owners Hostage Under the hope-inspiring concept of “streamlining,” the Fire and Community Development Departments have come up with a...

Estee Lauder may be the matriarch of the skin care industry, her first products date to 1946, and many others have followed, including Anita...

“There is no better feeling than getting another person stoked on surfing. Truly, it does not bum me out that there are more surfers...

By Billy Fried By the time you read this, there may be as many as 1,000 comments on a “Laguna Locals” Facebook group post by...

By Carrie Stevens Being carsick was the price I paid to go to Laguna Beach each summer. My mind’s eye sees my mom turning her head...

Bye Bye Just as a container ship full of work is about to hit the City Hall dock, Greg Pfost, Laguna’s community development director, is retiring. That is...

Governing as if Environmental Factors Matter Do we replace our aging roof, or refurbish the entrance gate to our home?  We’re not always able to...

By Niki Smart   I’m counting the year 2012 among my best. I don’t live in a mansion or even a modest condo on the “inland” side...