Friendship, love, cliques and gangs, violence, drop-outs, haves and have nots, unintended pregnancy and booze keep fueling angst among teens and their parents regardless of the passage of time. These subjects set to rock ’n’ roll comprise the gist of the ‘70s era musical and movie “Grease,” performed for the first time by Laguna High [...]
Leaving Laguna, But Still Glowing By Judy Kelly After being a part of Laguna Beach’s retail community for over six years, we are closing the Laguna Beach location of Pure Light Candle Studios this Friday, Oct. 26. What may look like yet another tale of a small retailer closing up shop in Laguna is really [...]
School board incumbent Jan Vickers describes how she intends to proceed should the school-funding measure Prop. 30 fail as well as how foster parenting has increased her empathy for the necessity of early intervention.
Check out the Indy’s interview with the second opposition candidate seeking election to Laguna Beach’s school board.
After months of campaigning, an unprecedented number of debates and less than two weeks before the election, the five City Council candidates held an on-point yet almost cozy eighth and final forum Tuesday sponsored by the Top of the World and Temple Hills neighborhood associations. With the recent brush fire in the hills near Laguna [...]
The Oak Street home of Liv and Eli Taub is gearing up for the Halloween invasion next week, though local festivities begin in earnest with El Morro’s Boo Blast carnival, beginning at 2:30 p.m. today.
School board incumbent Bill Landsiedel’s characterization of challengers Tammy Keces and Dee Perry as single-issue candidates has transformed a PTA garden project into an unexpected political hot potato. Asked to support his allegation in a video interview with the Indy, Landsiedel cited as an example the proposed outdoor classroom and teaching garden at Thurston Middle [...]
Despite that South Laguna residents live within the South Coast Water District, residents have not played a role in electing its governing board since 1999 when Laguna Beach contracted with the district for services, a spokeswoman explained. Nevertheless, a South Laguna citizen’s group submitted written questions to the candidates, all of whom responded, with the [...]
Election Jitters The market stumbled recently amid uncertainties about third quarter earnings and the imminent election. Down 2% in October, it’s still up over 12% for the year. Momentum should carry to higher returns once the election is past us and we approach yearend. In most election years, by this time the probable winner has [...]
Economic optimism prevails in the Laguna Beach arts community, judging by the recent opening or expansion of four diversely specialized art galleries. Avran Art and Design, a gallery devoted to contemporary art glass, photography and jewelry, just opened its doors on South Coast Highway, and Ritual Yoga Arts, a unique enterprise combining a yoga studio [...]
Experts Give an Assist to Dancers Olympic medalist Apollo Ohno came up with his concept of living statues to be included in his dance number with partner “Dancing With the Stars” producer Karina Smirnoff. She called the experts on the subject, the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach. “We’ve got to show them something [...]
Thriller Debuts in Halloween Benefit “Mirror Image,” filmed in Laguna Beach by local resident and executive producer Joey DePinto, will premiere on Oct. 28 at South Coast Cinema in a benefit for Irvine’s Guard A Heart, a non-profit foundation whose “Know Your Risk, Inspire Life” campaign is dedicated to raising awareness of heart disease. The [...]
Dance Festival Offers Master Class Laguna Dance Festival is offering a series of master dance classes beginning with Michael Trusnovec, the most senior member of Paul Taylor Dance Company on Thursday, Nov. 15 from 6-8 p.m., in the Laguna Beach High School dance studio, 625 Park Ave. Enrollment will be limited to 40 dancers and [...]
The much-anticipated biography of flamboyant surfing legend Dewey Weber (1938-1993) is the inspiration for an exhibition that will open to the public Sunday, Sept. 30 and run through Sunday, Nov. 4 at Surfing Heritage Foundation, 110 Calle Iglesia, San Clemente. “Little Man On Wheels” is the story of the modern surf culture in Southern California [...]
by Chris Quilter A couple of Saturdays ago, Kaiser Permanente lined up 10,000 members and shot them at its Sand Canyon Drive-Thru Flu Clinic. I know this because (a) I asked, and (b) I was in the middle of a pack of thousands of cars snaking through those parking sheds by the 405—the [...]
Ill Prepared Hiker Rescued from Hillside
A sheriff’s helicopter was used to extract a hiker who suffered an anxiety attack and was unable to move from a steep trail in Laguna Beach’s open space about 6 p.m. Sunday, June 9, police said. Lifeguards in an all-terrain vehicle coordinated the extraction from thick brush and a steep slope between Alta Laguna Park [...]
