Columns

Surrounding The Art I'm a lucky woman.  I have artists in my life who are also my friends. The kind of friends to whom I...

Laguna Beach is a great place to vacation. Three to 4 million visitors come annually to get a reprieve from their every day lives...

War on Skateboards “I sat there with SNAG. This has nothing to do with children's safety anymore. They are only concerned about winning a...

Gifts that Keep on Giving   ‘Tis the season of giving … you can feel it in the air. Storefronts are festooned with glittering lights and enticing...

Local Chef-Owner’s Chop Delivers a Knockout Sunday Night Chef Fights was a bout to remember for our local hometown hero Chef Lindsay Smith-Rosales of Nirvana...

Debt Default-The March Of Folly Investors today are battered with headline news of breaking events. The natural response is to react to these bulletins by...

Updated to reflect the correct number of permanent supportive housing units that the County voted to fund. - Ed. Women’s History Month, Sober Living Homes,...

Truth and Reconciliation Honor Dilley’s Legacy “No legacy is so rich as honesty” - Shakespeare, “All’s Well That Ends Well” Upholding a high standard of journalistic...

Laguna. Another perfect day in Paradise, but then there is the “December to Remember Sales Event” commercial jingle. Oh, no! Unless you’re clinically dead or Ted Williams, there is no way you could avoid seeing these Lexus TV commercials. In case you are Ted Williams and you don’t get around much, let me describe them. Cut to a homey Christmas living room where the wife opens a beautiful music box that plays the Lexus jingle. Several bars into the music, she thinks what a crappy gift and I should have left him in June. Suddenly it dawns on her that the tune signals there’s a brand new Lexus in the driveway.

By Russ Gerber Soon after departing Houston International Airport, we hit severe turbulence. The pilot came on to warn that because we had to pass...

There was a lively discussion that was in full swing by the time I got my coffee and sat down with some friends. The...

By Billy Fried I'm high over the Pacific, returning home from a three-week visit to Japan with my daughter. It was my first time back in 41...

Fresh Faces Ahh, I don’t think I’m the right guy to write about that. I’m old. My face is older. How’s that possible, you ask?...

Hop on the Trolley Tour During Heritage Month By Hunter Fuentes and Jon Stordahl May is Heritage Month in Laguna. A free trolley tour of architecturally...