Somehow it became routine for me to go with Barbara, my best friend from Whittier High School to Laguna Beach during the Christmas season. Those first trips included our mothers, and we would take them to various restaurants: C’est La Vie, where we’d sit outside on the patio, the Cliff Restaurant, or that canopied special place called the Beach House, now gone.
A sleek new museum-style exhibition space in the middle of town will debut next week when the public is invited to get a first look at the Honarkar Foundation for Arts & Culture space at 298 Broadway.
The Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters brought ghoulish delight to Laguna Beach on Oct. 27, 28, 29 and 31 during the long-awaited return of Pageant of the Monsters. The Halloween festivities attracted sold-out crowds of over 9,000 locals and visitors – shattering the previous record set during the last event in 2018.