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February 1, 2008

Big Wednesday

About 50 toll road opponents withstood wind and rain at Main Beach on Sunday to urge passersby to a Coastal Commission hearing Feb. 6, now at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Opponents believe the road, which crosses state park lands, threatens the famed Trestles surfbreak. More...

Snubbed Collector Welcomed by Sister City

By SUZIE HARRISON

Avid art collector and former resident Severin Wunderman, the genius who made Gucci the world's best selling watch, has strong ties to Laguna Beach's new sister city of Menton, France. More...

Art Walk Turns 10

By SUZIE HARRISON

From its humble but hopeful origins a decade ago in the north part of town, Art Walk grew into a citywide monthly cultural art evening. Next Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m., on Feb. More...

Upscale Makeover Planned for Gay Hotel

By ANDREA ADELSON

After months of fielding proposals from potential buyers unfamiliar with coastal development constraints, the owner of the rundown historic beachfront Coast Inn and now closed Boom Boom Room gay bar now intends to develop the property himself. More...

Local Culture Figures in Their Plot Twists

By JENNIFER ERICKSON

Combine Mary Toliver's active imagination with Harold ("Hal") Toliver's avid inclination to write and you end up with a series of mystery novels. Throw in that the Tolivers are long-time Laguna residents and it takes little sleuthing to figure out how they came up with their latest novel, "Pageant... More...

Special Anniversary Events

Laguna Beach First Thursday's Art Walk 10th Anniversary on Feb. 7 will include special events, starting with a 5 p.m. city public art dedication of "Laguna Locals" by artist Terry Thornsley at Crescent Bay Point Park. Art Walk and most artist reception take place between 6 and 10 p.m. with 40 par... More...

Looking Over Height Limits

John Montgomery, the city's community development director, will discuss the current mansionization ordinance and implications of proposed height modifications in the commercial neighborhood zone at a meeting of the Laguna North Neighborhood Association on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. in the Wells F... More...

News

•	Coinless Meter Feeding

Scott Leetch, a 25-year city employee, demonstrates operation of one of 50 newly installed credit-card parking meters on Cliff Drive between the Art Museum and Jasmine Street. The new meters, which also take coins and still charge $1 an hour, is a demonstration project by the manufucturer. More...

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Letters

•	A reminder - attend the toll road hearing next Wednesday

Editor: The California Coastal Commission meeting Wed, Feb 6 starts at 9 a.m., but the meeting location has been changed to the Del Mar Fairgrounds' Wyland Hall, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., in the city of Del Mar (just off I-5 in Del Mar at Via de la Valle exit). It holds 3,000 people so we all can... More...

•	Opposition to TCA at the Big Showdown Wednesday is a must

•	Music Festival offers a big thank you

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Street Beat

•	Street Beat

Information in the Street Beat is compiled from the public information logs of the Laguna Beach Police Department and, in some instances, through follow-up interviews. Logs are required by law to be available to the public. More...

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Town Crier

•	Making Change a Primary Concern

Watch your vote count during California's presidential primary on Feb. 5, at the BC Space Gallery, 235 Forest Ave., from 6:30 - 10 p.m., as the Laguna Beach Democratic Club kicksoff its political fundraising season with wine, food, and fun for a suggested admission of a $25 donation. More...

•	His Bag is Spotless Streets News

•	Divining Water Fact from Fiction

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Arts & Entertainment

•	Singing Sondheim

Left: Linda Haylett, left, and Pat Kollenda rehears, "If Mama Was Married", from Stephen Sondheim's "Gypsy," one of 29 pieces performed in No Square Theater's production "Side by Side by Sondheim," Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1-2, at the Artists' Theatre. More...

•	String Lovers Consort for First Sunday Concert

•	Club Turns Showcase for Kid Creativity

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School & Sports

•	Field Trip Dunks Students in Ocean Science

Thurston Middle School sixthgraders will visit the Ocean Institute in Dana Point this spring for a lesson on urban runoff and water quality. More...

•	Water Polo Coach Scores Award

•	LBHS Winter Varsity Sports Update

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Columns

•	Praise for Homeless Efforts

Guest column

While many communities are mired in negative, divisive, and costly efforts to deny, bury, or ship out the homeless, Laguna Beach and its City Council came together Jan. 22 and took an important first step in addressing the situation constructively. More...

•	Deconstruction

•	Laguna Observed

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Obituaries

•	Edward Boseker

Laguna Art Museum board member Edward H. Boseker, M.D., 71, passed away of a heart attack on Jan. 27. Ed and his wife Yvonne had a vacation house in Laguna Beach where they entertained and showed their extraordinary art collection. Boseker joined the museum board in April 2005 and was co-chair of... More...

•	Roberta Dean

•	Carol Thompson

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Laguna Home Companion

•	La Casa Del Camino, Laguna's First 'Modern Hostelry'

S aturday, Jan. 26, 2008, marked the 79th anniversary of the grand opening of the La Casa del Camino. While the current hotel's owners tout its "exquisite old-world charm," in 1929 the establishment was heralded as "Laguna's first modern hostelry," and its advent was followed with great interest i... More...

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