Columns

The Bigfoot Bar   Every year, friends and family suggest that I get out of town during the summer months to avoid the choking traffic and...

The Outdoor Antidote If there is one thing that can serve as a curative balm in these troubled times, it’s nature. And in Laguna, its...

From the Rearview Mirror The off-year elections are finally over, thankfully. It made me distinctly nauseated. Before we leave, however, let me provide a little...

Divining Water Shtick I don’t believe in coincidence. I just read two Indy articles. One was “Schools Reject Fee Hikes on New Building.” The other...

Sunbathers Cooked Who could forget the Coppertone ad with the child’s dog pulling on her bathing suit? So far, two people have told me they...

Secrets of a Special Scallop Although one has not been allowed to remove shells from the beach in Laguna for many years, finding a shell...

My first remembrance of Arnold Hano is of standing in the kitchen of the Lamont Langworthy-designed house he and Bonnie had built in Bluebird...

Seven of us dined recently at Hotel Laguna on the outside terrace, overlooking the waves. The two women in our group, aged 24, wanted...

Planning v. Spontaneity The Beautiful Wife does our planning. Writing things on the calendar gives her comfort they’ll actually get done. It often works....

By Anne Caenn, Village Laguna President The Feb. 17 edition of the Independent is not the first time Michael Ray has harshly and unfairly attacked Village Laguna,...

Who was Nina Koshetz?  This world-famous Russian opera singer performed leading operatic roles in Russia and throughout Europe, and gave concerts accompanied by Rachmaninoff,...

Freedom Isn’t Free Freedom isn’t free, someone has to pay for it. Because we’re not free to hold Laguna’s traditional Heisler Park Memorial Day...

Where The Money Is While many investors were fretting that a correction is coming, the tech-centered Nasdaq average reeled off ten straight up days, rising...

Have you noticed that if you attempt to care deeply about everyone and everything, you end up stretched so thin that you become brittle,...

Talking About Art Part 2   At the Laguna Beach Arts Alliance Art Star awards ceremony, poet Dana Gioia treated the crowd to a compelling keynote speech...