Calling All Bakers for This Weekend’s Spring Fling at South Laguna Community Garden
I’ve written many a time about the Community Garden that brought an entire Laguna community together. What a fantastic venu of old-time neighborliness and new friendships this South Laguna Community Garden has produced. I’ve already posted about the...
California Grey Whales Hanging Out in Laguna Beach Coves
As a resident looking out over the ocean on a daily basis, even I’m surprised by the number of California Greys we have basking in the bays of Laguna Beach this week. The California Grey Whales mamas are trekking their way up the precarious coast with their...
KelpFest is Growing Into Its Own
Seeing the growth and participation in Laguna Beach’s KelpFest each year is like being a proud parent watching a toddler learn how to walk. It’s amazing that this entire festival – sprawling now from Main Beach across PCH to the street behind the library –...
KelpFest 2013 Back Bigger & Better on April 20th
If you know anything about our new fishing policies in Laguna Beach, you know that Laguna loves its kelp forests. In fact, we even celebrate our Kelp with an annual KelpFest, an Earth Day festival celebration that has mushroomed like … well, like a well-fed kelp...
White House Restaurant – Little Known Breakfast Gem
The White House Restaurant has called Laguna Beach home since 1918, and it fires on all cylinders – breakfast, lunch, happy hour, dinner and late-night live music. This review, though, is strictly about its breakfast and brunch menu. I honestly don’t think many locals...
South Laguna Community Garden’s Spring Fling Festival
A few times in this blog of mine, I’ve mentioned the “little garden that could,” a blossoming, beautiful community garden in South Laguna Beach. Perched at Eagle Rock Way and PCH on what used to be scrubby vacant lot dirt, the South Laguna...
Sundried Tomato Laguna Beach Consistently Delivers
Sundried Tomato Bistro – For the last year or so, I’ve been on a Perfect Steak Salad Hunt. It doesn’t seem that a mix of beef, greens and dressing could be such a terribly difficult thing to put together, but I can assure you – after 30 or more tries...
FEMA-Inspired Goats at Work Again in Laguna Beach
The goats have returned to Laguna Beach’s spring hillsides … all willing participants in the rather unique solution from none other than FEMA, our national Federal Emergency Management Agency. Since the early 1990s, herds of goats have been toted into Laguna...
Laguna Beach Hotel, Surf and Sand, Introduces Pancake Breakfast
The Laguna Beach Surf and Sand Resort holds a special place in my heart as it played host to me the first time I came to Laguna Beach in 1996. I still vividly remember sitting on my hotel room’s deck the next morning with the ocean waves rolling in and tossing...Get Top Quality Tomato Plants on Sale March 28th
Get that spring garden of yours rockin’ with hearty tomato plants! Tomorrow, Thurs, March 28, Ruben is at it again at his fabulous Laguna Nursery with an all-day adoration festival for tomatoes. Visit the Nursery’s upper level parking lot to participate in...