Police: Two men arrested with $50000 worth of Ecstasy pills  – Two men were arrested with $50000 worth of Ecstasy pills after a Laguna Beach police investigation, authorities announced ...  Above photo Gee Kim COURTESY OF THE LAGUNA BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT

Happy Hour at the Gourmet Cheese and Wine Shop Happy Hour begins at 4:00pm...

VISION QUEST SWEAT LODGE & INDIAN SACRED RITES PEACE PIPE By Michael Webster:  There is a way to begin to heal our fragmentation in the modern world. It requires going into nature to look deep within ourselves, to discover and measure our own growth through the seasons of our lives, taking time out from our "doing" to enter "just being..."
 

Native American Beaded Indian & other Jewelry History Native American Indian Jewelry has been found in excavations of prehistoric ruins. Bead making is an ancient craft. Bead necklaces are often called heishe, from the Santo Domingo word for shell. Seashells are the most common material used for beads. Seashells used in Native American Jewelry are Spiny Oyster Shell, Mother of Pearl, Abalone, Conch and Clam. They have been important trade items in the Southwest for over 1,000 years...

 

Pre Review of  Tommy Bahama Laguna Beach Grand Opening

  'Art Brewer: A Life in the Surf' comes to New York  teen shooting local Laguna Beach surfers and freelancing for Surfer magazine. ... include Masters of Surf Photography: Art Brewer (The Surfers Journal, ...
 

Mexican Drug Cartel’s Cash is King!

By Michael Webster: Part three of a multiple part series

Many large American banks over the years have been used to launder the MDC’s cash. Just last week Wachovia bank executives admitted that the banking giant laundered millions of dollars for Mexican drug lords between 2003 and 2008...

The U.S. Gov: giving parts of Arizona back to Mexico Looking Bach By Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative reporter June 14, 2010 at 5:00 PM PDT Thousands of acres of the Sonoran Desert closed to Americans... For more related articles by Michael Webster go to: www.usborderfirereport.com

 

 

"Worst Known Pest of Palm Trees" Found in Laguna Beach A symbol of Southern California -- the palm tree -- was under attack Monday in Laguna Beach by "the world's worst pest of palm trees. ...
 

Prominent Law Professors For California's Prop 19

UFO Research Part 1 This is the first video in a series of videos portraying my research in regards to UFOs. It’s my hope that by sharing my information that I can build a network with other UFO enthusiasts and share their comments and ideas...

 The big banks' BS is starting to catch up to them. First, JPMorgan Chase announced they were halting foreclosures in 23 states. Soon followed by our largest bank "Bank Of America" they halted all foreclosures nation wide....
 

Texas Oil Barons? Don't let Big Oil mess with our law Vote NO on Proposition 23...

 

 Gay Republican weighs run for president in 2012 Laguna Beach, Calif., resident Fred Karger, 60, has formed a presidential campaign exploratory committee and is “testing the waters” by campaigning in Iowa ...
 

Adult Stem Cell Speech at UCLA

By Michael Webster:  Then, one day, I found information on adult stem cells.  Many years ago it had been discovered that every adult already has stem cells in their system. The miracle of adult stem cells is that they can go to anywhere in your body and help support the growth of new healthy cells, wherever they are needed, like a little army of engineers each with a complete toolbox containing everything needed to do any job.  I needed that badly...

Skateboard ban may not happen

Elegant Events & Fabulous Fundraisers

Laguna Beach council candidates talk business  – The three incumbents found much common ground at a City Council candidate forum Wednesday evening, citing recent ...Above photo is Candidate Emanuel Patrascu.

Scholarship Fund Setup in Partner's Memory Lee died on Sunday, September 12, 2010 in a diving accident in Laguna Beach, Calif. He was 41 years old. “He was a gifted structural engineer and he brought ...

Speedboarding involves leaping onto long skateboards and zipping down steep public streets and canyon roads at speeds of more than 40 mph Photo: GETTY  Laguna Beach, CA
An extreme sport is causing quite a controversy in a small, costal community of south Orange County California. Laguna Beach has long been known for its ...

  Three file Coast Inn appeal  Two California Coastal commissioners and a Laguna Beach gay activist have filed an appeal of the redevelopment ... 

The CLEAR ACT: They are stealing it all: Land, water, minerals and the air we breathe Those who ramble through the halls of the District of Criminals, who claim they have no time to write the bills; no time to read the bills, somehow found the time to vote to pass this federal, land, asset and natural resource grab, including water rights, through the House.  The bill now rests in the Senate, where there is little chance that the property rights of individuals or states, will survive...

NEWS BITES - from Glori Fickling Judy Garland…Lisa Minnelli…Marilyn Monroe!  Each of the world famous actresses/vocalists is among the personalities pictured here in the phenomenal guise of  beautiful Bethany Owens who will be entertaining enthusiastic audiences accompanied by the Laguna Beach Swing Band...

RESTAURANT NEWS

True Food Kitchen

Trendy Taste Sensations Offer Healthful Twists

 

  with Glori Fickling

  

Senator Harry Reid is working hard – but for whom? “Reid has been instrumental in blocking efforts to reform the archaic General Mining Law of 1872, a legal blank check that has allowed miners to take an estimated $408 billion worth of gold and other hard rock minerals from public lands without paying a single cent in royalties…

Official crackdown on downhill skateboarders For downhill skateboarders, the feeling of tucking your hands behind your back and bombing down one of Laguna Beach's steep canyon roads is euphoric: the ...

Jazz Wednesdays Jazz Wednesdays Great jazz inspired by the music of Cannonball and Coltrane as well as new arrangements of some classic jazz standards...

 Pacific Symphony June Concerts at Renee and Henry Segerstrom Stage –  

By Lydia E. Ringwald

Lunch With A View is Big News at Andrea Ristorante   with Glori Fickling Andrea Ristorante at the beautiful Pelican Hill Resort \in Newport Beach, is now open for lunch, a result of the huge success of the reent Mother's Day Sunday brunch...

Review of Arjia Rinpoche’s ‘Surviving the Dragon’ By Lydia E. Ringwald:  For Arjia Rinpoche, finding the Middle Path often entails compromises with political idiocy and outrageous cruelty in order to survive and endure.  Yet to remain true to the Buddhist principal of Compassion, Arjia Rinpoche embraces the challenge of feeling empathy and compassion for a spiritually   ignorant enemy that inflict s humiliating indignities not only on Tibetan traditions but also on his own family and friends...
 

Another Big One from the K’ya Regime   With Glori Fickling GHoneyWest : The savvy pair converted long-time Aegean Greek restaurant atop The Collection in downtown Laguna Beach into a mecca for delectable taste sensations... 

Beyoncé's Girls' Night Out time in the presidential suite – where they unwound with facials – and did eventually head out to shop and sightsee around Laguna Beach and Dana Point. ...
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BP oil spill planet killer He further indicated that the oil pressure coming up the oil deep water pipe was running between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI. Last night on the Coast to coast Am show Science Advisor Richard C. Hoagland commented on the oil spill in the Gulf. He warned listeners that an even worse catastrophe could be looming if a giant gas bubble that has formed at the site of the leak on the ocean floor should blow.  Hoagland said the pressure in the pipe is 100,000 or more lbs of pressure per squire inch or PSI. Both agreed that BP nor anyone else knows how to shop this amount of pressure coming from the largest and deepest underwater oil well on earth...

The U.S. Gov: giving parts of Arizona back to Mexico ByMichael Webster: A reliable informant known to us as “Duck Hunter” has told the U.S. Border Fire Report that the Mexican Drug cartels now control large areas of Southern Arizona. According to the Pinal County Sheriff large areas in Southern Arizona are very dangerous and is off limits to U.S. citizens... 

Restaurant Dining Reviews

 Boneheads at the Orchard Recalling my initial visit here months ago, my hungry trio raved over an appetizer of shrimp enveloped in creamy peri peri flavors  On this current visit, my duo was equally pleased over tasty Portobello mushroom tacos and delicious soup du juor...

OC parolee arrested on suspicion of molesting Authorities say they have arrested a parolee on suspicion of molesting a teenage girl on a Laguna Beach bus. Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino ...

Briefly In the News Laguna Beach again made the honor roll for 2010 for having straight A+'s in dry weather for the following beaches: Treasure Island, Aliso Beach North, ...

The Biggest Systematic Looting of the US Treasury in History ... Looking Back:
 
BY MICHAEL WEBSTER: INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER Sept 22, 2008. at 11:30 PM, PDT. 9/11 was the most terrifying time for Americans in modern times, but a much bigger and even more dangerous attack on America is taking place right now right ...

Laguna Beach: the anti-California beach city? In the small coastal community of Laguna Beach, CA, the city council is considering a ban of skateboarding on any city street that has a grade higher than ...

Gold to Fight Fiat Currencies for Useless Title
Daily Reckoning - American Edition
By Eric Fry 06/10/10 Laguna Beach, California – “In the land of the blind,” ... “At some levels,” reasons Brett Arends of The Wall Street Journal, “gold, ...

What happens when a New York-born fashion designer moves to the West Coast? Hailing from New York two years ago, Amy Gambacorta ventured to the West Coast on a whim.
With a background in everything from fashion editorial, public relations, fashion styling, graphic design,
photography, production, and of course fashion design,
it's no shock that her first capsule line, GAMBACORTA, was finally conceived.
 

Immigration checks reported in Laguna Beach  – Border Patrol officers have been spotted on at least three separate occasions checking the immigration status of ...
 

A very interesting article The MDC's do not control the Mexican government officials through bribes, it is the other way around -- the Mexican government, through its officials, "lease" franchises (plazas) to the cartels and the cartels pay franchise fees to the government officials who pass that money up the governmental "food-chain" all the way up to the president of Mexico

National Ledger

LeAnn Rimes Confesses Cheating - Happy With out come
... a video security camera show the two holding hands and kissing on a romantic dinner date at Mosun and Club M in Laguna Beach, California on March 7. ...

Now is the time for perfectly picked apricots The apricot tree in our backyard in Laguna Beach, where I grew up, was more than a fruit tree. It was my friend and playmate. Under its sheltering branches

New York Daily News

 

 

Jason Wahler arrested and ch arged with misdemeanor battery after allegedly ... The "Laguna Beach" star was charged with misdemeanor battery after allegedly hitting a girl at a party in Hollywood. Jason Wahler seems to enjoy being ...

 ELEGANT EVENTS & FABULOUS FUNDRAISERS

Save the Whales Day draws a crowd

By Barbara Diamond. An enthusiastic crowd responded Sunday to a rallying cry to raise awareness of and to declare opposition to the resumption of commercial...

Mexican Drug Cartel’s Cash is King! By Michael Webster Part three of a multiple part series. Many large American banks over the years have been used to launder the MDC’s cash. Just last week Wachovia bank executives admitted that the banking giant laundered millions of dollars for Mexican drug lords between 2003 and 2008...

  Pacific Symphony June Concerts at Renee and Henry Segerstrom Stage –  Cultural Arts By Lydia E. Ringwald. This summer Pacific Symphony presents a series of 5 sizzling outdoor concerts at the Verizon Amphitheater beginning with the traditional July 4 concert and fireworks of magical musical Americana...

Unbelievable conditions in the Arizona desert

By Michael Webster: Part two of a multiple part series

We were able to spot the Concerned Citizens base and other camps along the choke points of the well traveled drug smugglers corridors. We also saw lots of tire tracks, heavily traveled foot trails and the trash scattered that the smugglers have come to be known for. What a shame the mess you can see from the air, what they have lift behind all over the smuggling corridors that was once a very peaceful and beautiful virgin desert  We returned to the Gila Bend airport at 13:00 hours where they let me off and they proceeded on their way...

Lunch With A View is Big News at Andrea Ristorante   with Glori Fickling Andrea Ristorante at the beautiful Pelican Hill Resort \in Newport Beach, is now open for lunch, a result of the huge success of the reent Mother's Day Sunday brunch...

Review of Arjia Rinpoche’s ‘Surviving the Dragon’ By Lydia E. Ringwald:  For Arjia Rinpoche, finding the Middle Path often entails compromises with political idiocy and outrageous cruelty in order to survive and endure.  Yet to remain true to the Buddhist principal of Compassion, Arjia Rinpoche embraces the challenge of feeling empathy and compassion for a spiritually   ignorant enemy that inflict s humiliating indignities not only on Tibetan traditions but also on his own family and friends...
 

Another Big One from the K’ya Regime  With Glori Fickling GHoneyWest : The savvy pair converted long-time Aegean Greek restaurant atop The Collection in downtown Laguna Beach into a mecca for delectable taste sensations... 

Beyoncé's Girls' Night Out time in the presidential suite – where they unwound with facials – and did eventually head out to shop and sightsee around Laguna Beach and Dana Point. ...
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I had no idea I was so damned powerful! Thank you Talking Points Memo By Marti Oakley:  I have been quoted, misquoted, loved and hated in many places by many people.  Today I was sent an article from a site called “Talking points Memo”.  It would appear because of my recent writings concerning the rise of McCarthyism via the Southern Poverty Law Center, I am now a “right-wing fanatic”.   Who knew?...

U.S. consulate bombing in Mexico Ignored by mainstream media

Michelle Obama arrived in Mexico after a surprise stopover in Haiti 

A bombing incident at a U.S. consulate in Mexico received very little news media attention and absolutely no response from President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Attorney General Eric Holder...

Monsanto…….when will the courts move to stop this threat to the world food supply  Although three lower courts have struck down Monsanto’s appeals to have GE Alfalfa approved for use, it appears an appeal to the Supreme Court scheduled for April 27, 2010 could pave the way for the use of what is widely viewed as the greatest threat to natural crops in decades...

Ten Ways For Fans To Get Over the 2009-10 Anaheim Ducks season Other suitable places to go horseback riding include Costa Mesa's Fairview City Park, Laguna Coast Wilderness Park in Laguna Beach, and Peters Canyon and ...
 

Laguna Beach City Manager Ken Frank is retiring LAGUNA BEACH – City manager Ken Frank announced he would retire in November after overseeing day-to-day operations and advising the City ...
 

Collateral Murder WikiLeaks posted the video at http://www.collateralmurder.com. Collateral Murder 5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video allegedly depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff...

 Group Releases Classified Video of 2007 Baghdad Attack The Pentagon concluded that “WikiLeaks.org represents a potential force protection, counterintelligence, OPSEC and INFOSEC threat to the U.S. Army” — or, in plain English, a threat to Army operations and information...

The New Fine Art Gallery in Your Neighborhood TheArtGallerist.com, LLC is headquartered in the beautiful seaside artist community of Laguna Beach, California. As...

Alert 3:57 PM PDT Easter Sunday

7.2 EarthQuake centered near Mexicali Mexico near the U.S. Mexican Border at approx 3:44 PM Easter Sunday. Tsunami alert for the Pacific Basin has been issued. Will have more details as they come in. The earthquake was felt as far away as Phoenix and Las Vegas. NOAA is reporting swarms of earthquakes and after shocks are occurring in both Southern California and Northern California...

Its estimated that more than 20 million people felt the quake...

4:10 PM Malibu California 4.1 trigger earthquake...

Power outages are being reported all along the U.S. Mexican border area from east of Mexicali to San Diego...

5:10 PM. Wide spread damage is being reported in Mexico on and near the U.S. Mexican Border...

5:42 PM 4.1 aftershock same area

High ranking U.S. Government official is double agent and member of the Mexican Drug Cartels  Looking Back: by Michael Webster; Cramer, as a high-ranking U.S. anti-drug official, held front-line posts both in the United States and in Mexico in regards to the War on Drugs. Cramer was into drug trafficking as a full partner in Mexico’s MDC'S murderous drug lords. According to records made available to the U.S. Border Fire Report/Laguna Journal, he led an office of two dozen agents in Arizona and others as the attaché officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Guadalajara Mexico and worked with the U.S. Mexican Embassy in Mexico City and U.S. Consulate offices in Guadalajara and other Mexican cities...

Congress Please Don?t Do it : Looking Back.
BY MICHAEL WEBSTER: INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER Sept 22, 2008 at 2:00 PM PDT. Opinion included: The Treasury Department's sweeping bailout effort is sounding more like a $700 billion dollar mugging of the American tax payers...

 Laguna beaches erode after El Nino storms The erosion of beaches in Los Angeles and Orange Counties is the worst in a decade after powerful storms hit the Southern ...

Mexican border town on High Alert as Mexican Drug Cartels threaten to start killing children by Michael Webster: Mexican Drug Cartels have reached across the international border into the United States to kill people including Americans and their reach extends North, East and West across our nation. MDC'S have ordered the killings of drug dealers, American gang members, U.S. Consulate employees, a Detention Officer with the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, DEA agent, ICE informant and U.S. Military personal. MDC'S are also responsible for many kidnapping's of Americans on American soil and have taken Americans to Mexico to be tortured, maimed and murdered...

The Right To Petition for Redress After a very positive one-on-one meeting with constitutional expert Judge Andrew Napolitano last Thursday, Bob was invited right back to New York City yesterday for an interview with Napolitano for “Freedom Watch.”  Click here to view the segment.  Napolitano has taken a real interest in the RIGHT TO PETITION Government...

Murder of an Arizona rancher has outraged Americans Authorities now admit that Robert Krentz, 58, was likely shot to death by Mexican drug smugglers...  

What is a “Belligerent”? It would appear that the corporate United States is in fact an Enemy Belligerent, having waged multiple undeclared wars of aggression against non-threatening countries and now openly has declared war against the American public under this bill...

Treasures from the Other Side of the World An Exhibition of ‘Silk Road’ Art and Artifacts at the Bowers Museum The Xinjiang Uyghur areas of China adjacent Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan may seem to us obscure now, but once it was the center of the world, a flourishing culture, a   cross-roads of civilization where traders with silk and other exotic wares, from China and the Middle East traversed across the globe exchanging merchandise, culture, inventions and ideas...
 

Montage Hotels & Resorts Names Ali Kasikci Vice President of Strategic ... Montage Laguna Beach, the company's flagship oceanfront resort, opened in the vibrant arts community of Laguna Beach, California, in 2003. ...

Teen Airlifted After Falling Off Laguna Beach Cliff The boy's friend reported the fall near McKnight Drive at 3:33 p.m. in the Emerald Bay area, said Marty Driscoll of the Orange County Fire Authority...

Jason Wahler Sprung From Mexican Jail Cell, Then Arrested Again For DUI Back ... Former Laguna Beach and Hills star Jason Wahler was arrested last week for allegedly driving under the influence, having just been sprung from jail in ...

 San Francisco Ballet U.S. Premiere of John Neumeier’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ All Fairy Tales have a lesson and Neumeier’s ‘Little Mermaid’ follow suit:   For a relationship to function, we must be loved for who we are...
 

CITY HOSTING “OPEN FOR BUSINESS” WORKSHOPS “We are reaching out to business owners, building owners, commercial realtors and other professionals to let everyone know that we want to help entrepreneurs realize their vision in Laguna Beach,” according to Mayor and Task Force Co-Chair Elizabeth Pearson...

Stellar Performance by Gillian Murphy in Festival Ballet Theater’s ‘Don Quixote’ The audience was clearly captivated as the very elegant and scintillatingly brilliant star performed some of the most difficult and intricate ballet feats performed on the Irvine Barclay Theater stage...
 

ELEGANT EVENTS & FABULOUS FUNDRAISERS Second City Comes To Orange County With World Psremiere...

Mexican-style Drug Gang “Urban Terrorism” Against Police Comes to California  Drug gang violence against the cops is no longer a Mexican phenomenon...

Virgin America Aborts OC Flights Virgin America will cancel flights to John Wayne Airport beginning in May, a year after launching service between Orange County and San Francisco. ...

Man rescued on beach in Laguna arrested LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) ― Police say one of three people stranded in a Laguna Beach cove was arrested on suspicion of cocaine possession after being ... Picture Courtesy of Kenneth & Gabrielle Adelman

Sundried Tomato American Bistro Success now Tripled Restaurant News

With Glori Fickling GHoneyWest  

Park Rangers' Dilemma: Bust Nudists or Smokers?
California lawmakers today are considering a Long Beach state senator's proposal to ban smoking at state parks and beaches, ...

Weather to turn warmer today HELLO LAGUNA: The volleyball net was a busy place on a recent afternoon in Laguna Beach. And, yes, that's kelp just off Main Beach. Photo by Gary Robbins, ...

President Barack Obama announced today that he'll divvy up his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize award money among several charities, including $200,000 to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund and $250,000 to Fisher House, which provides housing to families of patients at military medical centers. The United Negro College Fund and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund received $125,000 each.
 

Glen Beck attacks our publisher and editor Michael Webster. See video: http://beck.cnnbcvideo.com/?rc=taf&b=b|406565-wW7W27x&referred_by=8082256-K8Kndzx

Laguna Beach PD reports lewd conduct incident from last evening They learned that he had been masturbating while watching the young child play...

Radio legend to run for president? Could George Noory be a presidential candidate in 2012...?

Laguna Beach fire disrupts downtown for over two hours...

Crystal Cove Alliance Announces Second Phase of Renovation for Historic ... Crystal Cove is located on the beach side of Pacific Coast Highway, in the Newport Coast region, between Newport Beach and Laguna Beach. ...

IT IS TIME, WE THE PEOPLE, TELL CONGRESS TO LIVE UNDER THE LAWS THAT THEY PASS! I truly don't care if members of Congress are Democrat, Republican, Independent, Liberal, Conservative, Progressive or whatever.  The self-serving must stop... 

Family and all that jazz
Statesman Journal
By Barbara Curtin • Statesman Journal • February 28, 2010 jazz duet is a conversation. ... from her car while driving between Laguna Beach and Los Angeles. ...
 

Laguna Beach artist captures tranquility of Asia  Laguna Beach resident has long been involved in the Laguna Beach art scene and continues to push forward. Here's a closer look. ...

Tsunami Saturday Laguna Beach!By Donald Douglas Well, the Orange County Tea Party Patriots had an event scheduled yesterday in Laguna Beach, but it was cancelled due to weather conditions and tsunami warnings. I left the Temecula rally a little after Noon hoping to catch the tail end ...

Chef Cale Falk Wins Casa Laguna Cook-Off, Takes "Top Breakfast" Honors at ... Laguna Beach, CA, March 01, 2010 - Casa Laguna Inn & Spa in Laguna Beach, California has announced the winner of their Culinary Competition, ...

 RESTAURANT DIRECTORYRestaurant Dining Reviews Tabu Grill – Savor The Elite Epicurean Experience...

A Second Inquiry Underway in Shooting A high-profile lawyer who specializes in civil rights and product liability cases has begun an inquiry into the death of Colby Koenig, the speeding driver who Laguna Beach police fatally wounded following a six-car collision in January...

 ELEGANT EVENTS & FABULOUS FUNDRAISERS Laguna Beach Senior Legacy Ball Invitation This scintillating celebration happens again this year at Seven Degrees on Laguna Canyon Road on Friday, March 26^th.  Staring at 5 p.m. with a no host cocktails reception and “Fund a Need” opportunities, festivities will honor local icons, Al Roberts and Ken Jillson for their decades fighting HIV/AIDS in the community...

6 Charged in $650000 American Express Travelers Check Fraud ... Six people--including a boyfriend and girlfriend and mother and daughter--were charged today with stealing more than $650000 from retail stores by...
 

Chief Defends Shooting of Reckless Driver Police Chief Paul Workman defended the actions of three officers who fatally wounded a daredevil driver last month trying to flee a six-car collision as onlookers swarmed Coast Highway...
  Main stream media for morons (MSMM): pay per spew As for MSMM I personally don’t give damn what celebrity is having a drug or drinking problem, or, even who might be sleeping with whom.  I don’t particularly think I care to see anyone’s naked crotch, even if it is one belonging to a Hilton.  (I can’t imagine hers is any more interesting or attractive than anyone else’s and most of us have enough sense to remember our undies)... 

  March Light and Delight - Pacific Symphony Gala Events and Concerts – March 2010 Alain Lefevre on piano and baritone Kevin Deas contribute texture and depth to this monumental jazz tribute. It’s a thrill to experience the century’s jazz greats in one splendid evening...

New Stakeholder Group Considers NorCal Marine Protected Areas down by the California Fish and Game Commission last year, when the group selected an alternative that closed waters off Laguna Beach and Point Dume...

Police dog stops suspect after chase through neighborhood backyards A Laguna Beach man was arrested this afternoon after leading deputies on a chase through neighborhood backyards and ...

 

Televangelist Benny Hinn's wife files for divorce He lives in a multimillon-dollar home near Salt Creek Beach Park in Dana Point. And he has flown around the world in a leased Gulfstream jet to lead his "Miracle Crusades," during which tens of thousands of followers have packed stadiums and auditoriums to hear Hinn preach about the Gospel and God's healing powers...

San Onofre nuclear plant workers fear retaliation for exposing problems San Onofre has been the subject of several investigations by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the last few years for various safety issues. Facility operators say the plant is safe and that they welcome employee input...

Restaurant News A Wine Dinner Extravaganza at Prego

Dirty Foreign Money Aids Terrorism In U.S. Nearly a decade after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, large amounts of dirty foreign cash—often used to support terrorism—keep flowing into the country thanks to major loopholes in a 2001 law passed to curtail money laundering.
Corrupt foreign officials and their relatives regularly exploit the gaps in the largely ineffective post-9/11 measure to funnel millions of dollars into the United States, according to a Senate Homeland Security panel investigation. The committee issued an alarming 330-page report this week detailing how illicit foreign money regularly enters the U.S.
Corruption Chronicles...

Relatives of the 16 victims killed in a birthday party massacre in Juárez seeking asylum The brutality of the assault moved Juárez and Chihuahua state officials to offer a reward of 1 million pesos  for information about the killing. But more that 20 shooters remain at large...

 

 

 

 After 9/11, Bush gave orders to kill U.S. citizens abroad if suspected of “terrorist” links  In a striking admission from the Obama Administration’s top intelligence officer, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair announced that the U.S. may target its own citizens abroad for death if it believes they are associated with terrorist groups...

Leather vs. PVC After reading the 10 most suprising places to find petroleum, it seems that oil is the environmental villain du jour, and it's seeping more and more..

Want Sustainable Romance? Leave Valentine’s Day Out I was just listening to the radio and heard a statistic that this week, in honor of Valentine's Day, $17 billion will be spent on flowers, cards, choc...

 RESTAURANT DIRECTORY

Restaurant dining reviews Enticing “Flavor Quest” at Bayside in collaboration with Bayside’s artistic executive chef, Paul Gstrein, the elegant repast took off memorably  with a savory amuse, the oven roasted wild mushroom soup presented in a delicate demitasse, s satiny broth so exquisite our palates yearned for more.  No less enticing was the first course, a delectable crunchy crusted tempura crab fritter accented with sambal lime aioli and petit greens...

Death grip on our nation.  While I admit health care needs reforming, a tedious read of this monstrosity of a bill reveals that it has nothing to do with healthcare access, but everything to do with cementing the insurance and pharmaceutical corporations death grip on our nation... 

Chia Seeds: An Ancient American Super FoodThough we've all heard of chia pets, it's less known that the tiny black seed responsible for the chia "fur" is a bona fide nourishing food crop, on...

It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt The Economic Collapse | We will be in perpetual debt for as long as the Federal Reserve system exists.

The Art of Love "I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." -- Vincent Van Gogh The art of love ...

Investigation Chief: Swine Flu Pandemic Was A Hoax Paul Joseph Watson | Council of Europe chair says pharmaceutical companies conspired with WHO to make vast profits from fake hysteria...

GMOs and Organ Damage A recent E.U. study found that rats whose diets included different strains of Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) corn experienced kidney, liver, and...

House Overwhelmingly Passes Cyber Security Bill Kurt Nimmo | The new law will create a mega-agency to hunt down “potential enemies” on the internet...

 

 

 

Google Re-establishes Relationship With Government Spies Steve Watson | Search engine company has a history of involvement with intelligence agencies...

Love for All  And in the end, the love we take is equal to the love we make... -The Beatles This year we prepare for Valentine's Day with the aspiration of Love ...

Public surveillance wont come to Laguna | cameras city police News ... LAGUNA BEACH – The issue of police video cameras divided the Laguna Beach City Council Tuesday night though ultimately a vote determined the city would not ...
 

A Toke a Day Keeps the Doctor Away Alone in her Birmingham, England home, a woman stirs a half teaspoon of cannabis into her hot tea. By seeking relief from pain and spasms caused by ...

Restaurant News Chateau Restaurant Lounge opening While it may have seemed nothing could surpass the invitingly warm appeal of that popular dining respite, all that changed in January with the  phenomenal grand opening of Chateaux Restaurant Lounge...

The Great Agave Nectar Debate By Becky Striepe, Green Options When I went vegan years ago, agave nectar was one of the first things on my shopping list. It's commonly used a...

 

 

 

Blueberries May Boost Memory In the first human trial assessing the potential benefits of blueberries on brain function in older adults with increased risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, Robert Krikorian, from University of Cincinnati (Ohio, USA), and colleagues recruited nine older men and women, average age 76.2 years, and asked them to consume a daily dose of blueberry juice equivalent to between 6 and 9 mL per kilogram of body weight (approximately equal to 500 mL)...

Laguna Beach Innkeeper helps arrange Marine engagement Last spring, a U.S. Marine stationed in Afghanistan contacted the Casa Laguna Inn & Spa in Laguna Beach to help with his engagement plans during a surprise visit home.

Dow 10300: Mimicking the Bounce After the Crash of '29 By Eric Fry 01/28/10 Laguna Beach, California – Let's call it a victory. Despite spending most of yesterday's trading session in the red, the Dow Jones ...

Wanted man in sexual assaults in Laguna Beach and San Diego is arrested in Austria Ali Achekzai, 32, formerly of Ladera Ranch, was one of the Orange County district attorney's “10 most wanted” fugitives..  

Mexican Cartels "tortured and cook" American in Mexico Many Americans were kidnapped in the U.S. and taken to Mexico where they were murdered. Still other Americans were abducted and slain in Mexico while visiting, others where shot gangland style in country. Dozens of U.S. citizens have been kidnapped, or held hostage, or killed by their captors in Mexico and many cases remain unsolved. Moreover, new cases of disappearances and kidnap-for-ransom and Americans being killed continue to be reported...

Laguna Beach real estate: seller's market in 2010
After months of slow sales, significant price drops, and a decidedly buyer-oriented market, Laguna Beach real estate is set to start 2010 on a more positive ...
 

Incarceration Nation The war on drugs has been a failure on all levels but most obviously on an economic level. We are on the very precipice of having the Mexican cartel bringing their drug war into the U.S. It's already here in Connecticut."

The Beach House Restaurant reviews. With Glori Fickling GHoneyWest.  Now executive chef Michael Ingino, who came aboard a year ago, has launched this new  year with a series of 3-course dinners for $30 available every day from 4:30 to closing.  These tempting bargains are over and beyond early dinner specials The Beach House inaugurated decades ago which continue 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. daily.  Opting to check out the triple course dinners, I cozied up with a dear friend on a stormy winter night, at an oceanfront table warming my frosty body over a martini while perusing the delicious array of choices...

'We Are Part Of The Terror' The stories of the many atrocities committed in the name of our misguided war on terror goes on. Whether or not Americans are aware of these stories because ...

Laguna Beach celebrates two teen heroes By CLAUDIA KOERNER LAGUNA BEACH – Friends and family celebrated with Travis Harrison and Cody Day after both teens beat their personal odds...

Could cracks in confederacy doom southern OC secession? But more important, the little cities of San Juan Cap, San Clemente and Laguna Beach  (which provide water to some 150,000 residents) would be drowned out in a new union by their enormous neighbors – the Irvine Ranch, Santa Margarita and Moulton Niguel water districts (which provide water to close to 1 million people, the vast majority of south Orange County).

Lion, Tiger, and Bear Share Lifelong Bond They were together even as tiny cubs, found in Atlanta, Ga., during a police raid on the home of a drug baron. So perhaps that strange beginning helpe...

Inside Edge –  January speaker slate offers insights for 2010 Lectures in January, feature Peter Clothier, former Dean at the Otis Art Institute and author of ‘The Buddha Diaries, on January 20 and Gay Hendricks on January 27 discussing the traits of success in his lecture’ Taking the Big Leap Into Your Zone of Genius’ for a special dinner meeting that includes a buffet, table discussion, speaker and entertainment....
 

Judge Napolitano, the Mariuana law is a waste of time A former judge and current host on Fox News has a guest from NORML on his show to discuss legalization of Marijuana...

Leading Gynecologist says some Doctors treat Menopausal symptoms without ... Dr. Liz Lyster's New Book Demystifies Menoause and Tells Women How to Balance Hormones and Reduce Suffering in Five Simple Steps Laguna Beach, CA  ...

Mendocino War by Nelson. In 1858, there were an estimated 10,000 Indians in the state. About 3,200 consented to live under the white man’s direction. The rest tried to continue their way of life. But the new white settlers built fences, and ran their cattle on areas where Indians hunted...

Dan Morain: An operative comes out of the shadows California's capital is filled with operatives who've morphed in unexpected ways, but Karger's saga is the stuff of a Hollywood script. When I first met him in 1986, I never would have suspected he was gay. Few outside his private circle had a clue.

Hopalong Cassidy Rides Again Grace Bradley Boyd, aka Mrs. Hopalong Cassidy, will sign her new commemorative book, ‘Hopalong Cassidy - An American Legend’ on January 30 at 1 pm at the Aliso Viejo Public Library...

OC Housewife Lynne avoids eviction  and her husband Frank, who have been renting a place in Aliso Viejo after being evicted from homes in Laguna Beach and Capistrano Beach last year. ...
 

 With Glori Fickling GHoneyWest  Orange County Restaurant Week Feb. 28 - Mar. 6, 2010 Restaurant News

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It Played in LA at the Geffen – Now Hershey Felder's 'George Gershwin Alone’ Comes to Laguna Playhouse By Lydia E. Ringwald Cultural Arts In a one-man show, Hershey Felder traces the creative career of 20th century music icon George Gershwin, through some of his most famous compositions, from haunting individual songs like ‘Embraceable You,’ to complete musicals the magnitude of ‘Porgy and Bess’ to orchestrated musical compositions, ‘Rhapsody in Blue...
 

How public servants became our masters In July 2009, Orange County, California, Sheriff Sandra Hutchens proposed more than $20 million in budget cuts to close the gap caused by falling tax revenue. Her department slashed 40 percent of its command staff, cut a total of about 30 positions, and made changes that affected about 200 positions through reassignments, demotions, new overtime rules, and other maneuvers. “These are services that we believe are quite important to maintaining public safety, that we’re just not going to be able to continue,” department spokesman John MacDonald told the Los Angeles Times...

What the BLM does not want to tell you about their Horse and Burro roundup! is that it fences off the wild horses from access to the sources of natural water and good forage.  The BLM has been inappropriately favoring cattle by allowing the use of our public land for grazing for over 4 million head of privately owned livestock (while at the same time reducing land and sources of water and forage for wild horses).  Isn’t this “stacking the deck?...

Officer involved shooting in car pile up Multiple Gun shots ring out this morning in the 700 block of Pacific Coast Hwy at least one person has been shot in an officer involved shooting, apparently after a police pursuit ended in a car wreck and shooting that involved four cars, police said...

ELEGANT EVENTS & FABULOUS FUNDRAISERS Festive Save the Mammals Fundraiser. The festive event on Sunday, January 24 from 4 to 6 p.m. is sponsored by Laguna Gourmet/Stephen Frank Table and Pantry which is donating the vintages, and Laguna Culinary Arts who have selected an assortment of elegant cheeses to delight discriminating palates....

FORM Athletics announces launch "We see FORM as a merger between performance and lifestyle, and we offer clothes you can wear both in competition and in everyday life...
 

Office Ally founded in Laguna Beach lands big contract The service will not eliminate face-to-face appointments, said O’Neill, 48, chief executive officer and president of Office Ally LLC, which he founded in 1999 in Laguna Beach, Calif.“ But let’s say you have strep throat. Now you can be treated over the Internet,” saving doctor and patient time, and saving money for insurance firms, O’Neill said...

Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics completes $5 million financing Headquartered in Laguna Beach, California, USA, ACT specializes in advanced irrigated cardiac catheter ablation systems with proprietary temperature-sensing ...

National Geographic covers the U.S. Mexican border drug war Now National Geographic is doing a new series depicting the lives of border agents protecting 2000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border against "smuggling, terrorism and illegal immigration" and other socially constructed threats...

Kristin Cavallari's 23rd birthday at Eve in Crystals By Robin Leach (contact) Reality TV star Kristin Cavallari of The Hills and Laguna Beach celebrated her 23rd birthday with her girlfriends at Eva Longoria ...

California budget crisis is not the only crisis in the state The budget headlines are only the tip