by Diane | Sep 2, 2019 | Best Activities
As much as we love our tourists for their economic boost, we locals can’t help but feel a bit of happy-happy joy when Labor Day creates that invisible cut off day. While our city remains much busier year-round now, it’s still a welcome relief to be able to...
by Diane | Sep 1, 2019 | Best Activities
Laguna Beach is extremely dog-friendly and it gets even friendlier in the fall and winter months. Starting on September 10th (my birthday, thank you very much. I’m sure all the dogs voted for this day) … dogs are allowed on the beaches anytime of the day as long...
by Diane | Aug 30, 2019 | Arts + Laguna Culture, Best Activities
For 11 years now, the fabulously successful Girl’s Night Out, a fundraising event for the Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach, has been hosted at the breathtaking Rockledge estate. Sadly, this will be its last year as the Rockledge homeowners have new plans...
by Diane | Aug 28, 2019 | Best Activities
While ruminating my “Fab 5” weekly e-mail recommendations for this week, I decided, instead, to tell you what I’ll be doing over the next five DAYS because … well … you can’t get any better recommendation on what to do than from the gal running...
by Diane | Aug 23, 2019 | Best Restaurants
Dear Reader, I know you don’t want to hear this, but Thanksgiving is less than 100 days away. It falls late this year, too, which can cause even greater stress for corporate event planners and family heads-of-state who want to secure a great holiday dining or...
by Diane | Aug 20, 2019 | Best Activities
Back in 1983, the Red Hot Chili Peppers came together in L.A. when high school buddies Anthony Kiedis (now infamous lead singer) and Flea (aka Michael Balary and now infamous bassist) decided it was time to create a band. During that first year, the scrappy...
by Diane | Aug 13, 2019 | Best Activities
In May this year, the Pros’ United Skim Tour began 2019’s seasonal run for the crown at a full-on gallop. The Tour hits both coasts, with Cabo San Lucas and Santa Cruz early in the season, followed by East Coast Outer Banks (NC) and Dewey Beach, Delaware...
by Diane | Aug 13, 2019 | Best Restaurants
In yet another ode to the happy, growing-up years of our childhood, Harley’s Chef Greg Daniels has created a Sunday family style “backyard BBQ” from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. If you’ve been around long enough to remember Three Seventy Common’s...
by Diane | Aug 12, 2019 | Best Restaurants
After a rare U-turn last Thursday in South Laguna, something strange caught my eye … actual PEOPLE moving around in the former Eva’s Caribbean Cafe. There were tables out front and people were SITTING at them. What the heck was going on? I called the City. Yep,...
by Diane | Aug 9, 2019 | Best Restaurants
When he was a teenager, Alec Glasser spent three summers working at the Drake Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Because his family didn’t want him traveling back and forth each day to their home in Queens, they negotiated a sweet deal: He was allowed to live at the...
by Diane | Aug 7, 2019 | Best Restaurants
This week in Laguna, our restaurant community suffered another casualty. The new Mediterrania restaurant (also called MG Laguna) closed its doors unexpectedly. Mediterrania Owner Mohamed Mamoun opened his first Mediterranean restaurant in Irvine in 2013 (Mediterrania...
by Diane | Aug 6, 2019 | Best Activities
Every now and then, I find a cool event outside of our city limits that I’ve just got to tell you about. My friend, Ali, turned me on to it, and I’m heading there this Thursday. In San Juan Capistrano, the non-profit Ecology Center offers a number of...
