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Howling for Coyote Almost at an End
If you’re a SoLag resident, your restaurant options are few and far between. So, when Coyote Grill closed down for a purported 6 weeks of renovation, we residents here had to face some tough questions: Do we move? If we don’t move, how do we survive the 6-week...
Chef David Fune: Ready for Public Consumption
It’s no surprise that some of the most talented chefs get scooped up by the finer resorts and private clubs. Chef David Fune is such a great talent that he was “discovered” and scooped up 17 years ago. For years, Chef David operated at a high-level, top-down kind of...
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PMMC’s Martini Madness Pulls In Thousands at Cliff Restaurant
The popular annual Martini Madness party, a spring fundraiser for the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, knocked it out of the park again this year with a new location and more than 225 attendees. Initially the brainchild of Jon Madison’s Madison Square & Garden Café,...
May 1 2016 Grapes for Grads a Big Community Hit
This Sunday on May 1, our popular Grapes for Grads event returns at the Tivoli Too! location in Laguna Canyon. The annual event is a big wine tasting and scholarship fundraiser hosted by the Rotary Club of Laguna Beach and directly benefitting the students of Laguna...
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On Tuesday, Tibetan Monks sweep away the sand mandala
While the preceding five days have been rather serene, meditative moments in Laguna Beach’s Congregational Church’s sanctuary, today’s final ceremony for the Tibetan Sand Mandala was a colorful riot of people, cameras, videos and photographers on ladders …
Monday’s progress on Laguna Beach Sand Mandala
In its fifth and final day, the Sand Mandala continues to morph and transform before our eyes – still extraordinary after watching for five straight days! Closing ceremonies for the dissolution of the Mandala is Tuesday at the Neighborhood Congregational Church in Laguna Beach . . .
Sunday’s progress on Sand Mandala in Laguna Beach
As you can see, the Tibetan Sand Mandala is progressing very quickly here in Laguna Beach’s Neighborhood Congregational Church. (It’s green! Wow!) The crowds are growing thicker, too, as news of the Tibetan monks’ sand painting creation is getting out!. . . .
Saturday’s progress on Sand Mandala in Laguna Beach
Every day that I trot down to the Laguna Beach Congregational Church to see the growing Sand Mandala, I’m always surprised at how much work has been done. This is what they had accomplished by Saturday afternoon . . .
Friday’s progress on the Buddhist Sand Mandala . . .
As you probably know by now from all my blog entries, we have 5 Tibetan monks in Laguna Beach this week creating a Sand Mandala for 5 days. They’re at the Neighborhood Congregational Church at Glenneyre and St. Ann’s. This is really something you have to see. I know I’ve said it 15 times . . . . I’m going to say it at least two more times in this blog . . .
Buddhist monks have begun “Compassion Painting” in Laguna Beach
This morning (Thurs, Oct. 28), the Laguna Beach Neighborhood Congregational Church welcomed 5 Tibetan monks (all the way from India) to its sanctuary. For the next five days, these monks will be creating an original sand painting (Sand Mandala) as an expression and call for compassion in Laguna Beach and around the world. This was quite an opening event to witness . . .
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