Screening a Sommelier Film A special advanced screening of “Somm” will be held at Montage Laguna Beach on Saturday, June 15 from 6 until 9 p.m. The film takes viewers into the court of master sommeliers. To purchase tickets for the screening and wine tasting, advance tickets are required at http://somm-montage.eventbrite.com. Space is limited. The [...]
Maro Welcomes the King of the Grill Maro Wood Grill, 1915 S. Coast Highway, offers brunch this Father’s Day, Sunday, June 16, served from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Guests have the choice between Maro’s regular menu and their prix fix brunch. The special prix fix three-course brunch, includes complimentary beverages. For more information or [...]
Losing Paradise On the Lam Laguna Beach Books welcomes Andrew Lam, author of “Birds of Paradise Lost,” on Friday, June 14 at 6 p.m. at 1200 S. Coast Hwy Suite 105. This event is co-sponsored with the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association, and will take place at the store. There is no charge for [...]
The waiting period for the 50th Brooks Street Surf Contest begins on Friday, May 31. The surf contest, touted as the oldest surfing classic in the world, is open to Laguna Beach residents only. This year, the contest “window” will include Fridays in addition to the weekend to increase the likelihood the event will occur. [...]
Laguna Beach police released video images Friday of suspects in two separate break-ins of local businesses, including one that occurred the previous night. They are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspected culprits. More than $8,000 worth of tools and other items were taken in a midnight burglary at Ganahl Lumber, 1765 Laguna Canyon [...]
Art Sleuth Retraces Payne’s Steps Laguna Art Museum will host “Art Sleuthing Edgar Payne’s Paintings,” a free talk with art consultant and Laguna Beach resident Eric Jessen in Thursday, May 30, at 7 p.m. Jessen, a consultant on the Payne exhibition to the Pasadena Museum of California Art, will share the detective work that went into solving [...]
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 [...]
There is one more opportunity to donate quality apparel and accessories for women, men, teens and children before the Boutique Benefit event. The collection drive is scheduled for Saturday, May 11 at the Neighborhood Congregational Church, 340 St. Ann’s Dr. from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. All donations to the Boutique Benefit are tax-deductible. The annual [...]
By Pat Chatlin The day the Laguna Beach Garden Club announces that Lower Lombardy Lane is going to be “a point of interest” on its prestigious Spring Garden Tour is a mixed bag for some of us. My husband’s nine-foot tall welded “Nature Totem” sculpture will be featured in the guidebook. At first, visions of [...]
Editor, I’d like to throw in my two cents regarding the recent debate on the worthiness of the blue and white shuttles. My wife and I frequently take the last shuttle down from our house on Friday or Saturday evenings, and take a cab back up the hill. We spend hundreds of dollars at local [...]
Editor, Thank you for the wonderful article featuring the Laguna Beach Lifeguard Tower in last Friday’s issue of the Laguna Beach Independent. “Restoring The Town’s Sentimental Sentinel” provided excellent insight and information on the importance of preserving the city of Laguna Beach’s historic icon and the commendable efforts of the city’s Public Works Department. I look forward to [...]
More than 60 people filled a room in the Community Center to capacity to participate in a committee meeting drafting a revised view ordinance in Laguna Beach on Tuesday. Committee members first shared their observations about 11 sample sites they’d visited and how rules under consideration needed stronger enforcement tools to remedy conditions, where in [...]
Laguna Beach’s City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to explore options to close a growing deficit for operating transit services, but stopped short of imposing fares for the free summer trolley during its 10-week festival run. Instead council members approved spending $50,000 to hire an expert consultant to analyze transit services, whose costs have escalated 22 [...]
Museum Vibrates With Cello Concert Laguna Beach Live! presents David Garrett in a solo cello concert at the Laguna Art Museum on Thursday, April 11, at 7 p.m. Garrett, a longtime member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, appears frequently as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist. His program ranges from Bach to O’Connor’s Appalachia Waltz. [...]
The popular Angels Express Train that takes fans to and from Angels’ games is back again this season, beginning with the home opener on Tuesday, April 9. Service to Anaheim will be available from Los Angeles Union Station and the Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo station, departing at 5:50 p.m. for weeknight home games that start at [...]
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 [...]
