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Public Art Restoration Paint fumes overcame me after reading the Indy’s “Public Art to Undergo Review by Experts.” I couldn’t clear my head to see how adding a layer of advising artists to city council would be helpful. First advising artist, “I suggest the city spend public...

Don’t Sell In May; Don’t Go Away Tax cut proposals took over the headlines this week. Simply putting them on the agenda sparked back-to-back market rallies that pushed the market averages ahead for April. It seems doubtful that major changes in our tax laws can take place before...

Paradoxes Prevail Since November, politics has dominated the financial news. The new Administration continues irregular progress with its campaign promises, faltering with reworking broad medical coverage. This led to reduced expectations that the tax cuts so eagerly awaited by...

Addict Nation We have become a nation of addicts. And you can see it all over Laguna Beach. It comes in three forms: illegal drugs like cocaine or heroin, legal opiates like vicodin, and social media addiction. Just in case you do not know it, social media is chemically...

We Have Everything We Need Neighbor and fellow landscape architect Sally Dunne had stage four cancer for years. Surgeries, chemotherapy, bone marrow transplants bought her time. Always cheerful and beautiful—even though bald—she’d walk past our house with her large black poodle...

Take Action at the Offshore Kelp Forest The eighth annual Kelp Fest will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Main Beach, Saturday, April 22. Supporters intend to take action by cleaning up the kelp forest offshore north of Main Beach at 1 p.m. “Hop on a board or kayak, snorkel,...

Laguna Beach Cub Scout Pack 35, for boys in kindergarten through fifth grade, invites prospective members to join their pack at an open house featuring a live magic show on Tuesday, April 25, at 6:30 p.m. at Laguna Presbyterian Church, 415 Forest Ave. Cub Scout activities include...

Denise & Mr. Wilson   I’ve changed the names in this column to protect the privacy of the people I’m writing about. My name is changed to Mr. Wilson, of “Dennis the Menace” fame. The little girl who lives next door is Denise. She refused using a boy’s name like Dennis...

Emotional Etiquette   Do you have friends or relatives that you don’t like talking to because they interrupt, invalidate, shut you down, give you quick and useless bits of unsolicited advice and, to sum it all up, are lousy listeners, emotionally violating, aggressively...

The Towering Flowering I only went out for a walk, / And finally concluded / To stay out until sundown, / For going out I found, Was really going in. — John Muir No less a color authority than Francis Albert Sinatra once remarked, “Orange is the happiest color.” If he were...

Bad News Gets Higher Ratings “Don’t sell on strike news” is one of Wall Street’s oldest adages. This appeared in the 1880’s, reflecting a period when the newspapers put labor disputes in bold headlines. The slogan persisted until about fifty years ago as strikes against...

Sponsorship, gifts, and contributions to Laguna Beach Seniors’ Legacy Ball raised an estimated $216,000, which allows the organization to continue to improve the quality of life for the seniors, said senior center director Nadia Babayi in a letter to supporters this week. “With...

New Leaders Take the Reins The Laguna Beach Community Foundation, which provides expertise and resources to assist local charities, announced hiring Nancy Christiano as its executive director. She succeeds former Executive Director Dan Pingaro, who is credited with increasing the...

Business Club Hosts Dance Director Joy Dittberner, executive director of the Laguna Dance Festival, will be guest speaker at the Laguna Beach Business Club’s Thursday, April 20, breakfast meeting. She will describe the history of the foundation, its productions past and present...

Doris Fox Marcom, 98, a 50 plus year Laguna Beach resident, passed away March 27, 2017. Born in Ballinger, Tex., and raised on a large sheep ranch, she and her husband Roy Marcom Jr. moved to Laguna Beach from Shreveport , La., in 1948 , establishing the Roy Marcom Jr. Insurance...