By Mark D. Crantz Laguna Beach. Another perfect day in Paradise, but oh no, there are initiatives. Earth Day. Kelp Day. Wellness Initiative. Here are mine. Snooze Button Initiatives. Ahhh…ten more minutes. Ahhh…ten more minutes. Ahhh…ten more minutes. Well, the day’s pretty shot. Burned a lot of day on my REM initiatives. The fact [...]
“Let’s stop buying that s—!” Maggie Hempen, Healthy Girl Festival founder. Like the student who stood in front of the tanks at Tiananmen Square, it is both inspiring and scary to watch a person you know dare to fail in their efforts to stop a colossal evil. Maggie Hempen and the women who put [...]
Hits, Misses & Forecasts Quarterly earnings reports fell upon a stock market ready to react. Which way to react was unclear as what seemed as favorable news sometimes provoked selling while missing estimates occasionally prompted buying. Wall Street analysts exaggerate this scenario of reports measured against estimates since they make the estimates and often have [...]
by Chris Quilter The City Council’s decision to spend $50,000 on a transportation consultant to scrutinize our local transit system could not have come at a better time for me personally. I am one of those people who believes passionately in public transportation, and I fully intend to try it some day. To [...]
By Mia Davidson and Jan Sattler Since January 2012, fishing in much of Laguna Beach is prohibited by law. Prior to that, one fish popular with anglers was the opaleye (Girella nigricans). The fish has dark olive-green backs and light undersides. Opaleye can be easily distinguished from other fish because they usually have two white [...]
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, her lover for a time. Her dramatic escape from Russia included hiding jewels in her daughter’s diapers. In the United States in 1920 she built a new career that included performances [...]
Dips And Dividends After holding a solid uptrend for most of 2013, stocks slid into a correction as the first quarterly reports disappointed. This could be the fourth straight year with market weakness developing in April and further stock price advances deferred to the fall. Despite three straight swoons in the spring, stocks then resumed [...]
“Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you got till it’s gone They paved paradise and put up new sidewalks” –with apologies to Joni Mitchell There is one thing for certain. Everything eventually comes to an end. That certainty is particularly disquieting for me as the City Council has elected [...]
By Mark D. Crantz Laguna Beach. Another perfect day in Paradise, but oh no, I missed the Art Stars Awards. This past April 7, 277 people attended the seventh annual Art Stars Awards held at Seven Degrees. Winners were chosen in seven categories. The number seven seems important. My lucky number is eight. A superstitious [...]
By Marion K. Jacobs, Ph.D We had to keep adding chairs to accommodate all the people who showed up at the Woman’s Club last Thursday night to hear UC Irvine Prof. Roger Walsh, MD, Ph.D, talk on “What The Research Tells Us About Optimizing Well Being.” The talk was jointly sponsored by AAUW-LB and [...]
By Ellen Girardeau Kempler With “trees” and a canopy that shelters a colorful variety of species, Southern California’s version of a rainforest grows just off Laguna’s shore. Environmental groups like Nancy Caruso’s Get Inspired (and many others) have helped restore giant kelp forests and beds. From its holdfast (not a root) anchored to rocks [...]
By Jane Stahlheber The answer to that question is a resounding, “Yes!” But that’s beside the point. Early in March, I went to Harbor Court on Jamboree and filed a petition asking that I be released about two weeks early from informal probation. This was the last step in cleaning up my DUI and [...]
“Slow down. This ain’t LA.” –bumper sticker seen in Laguna Beach Two men died April 2 unnecessarily in a Laguna Canyon car accident. While the police continue to investigate what caused the 4,674-pound Tesla to crush a late-model Honda Accord to nearly half its size, there is a lesson for all of us who [...]
Re: Steve Kawaratani’s column (“A Parent’s Lament,” April 12 edition.) You’ve seen them on the streets, the ones who talk to themselves. The ones who scare you with foul language. The ones you wish would just leave your beautiful town. The homeless folks. The mentally ill. If they had cancer or a broken leg, you [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
