From globetrotting to a cross-country road trip, Lisa shares the highlights of her summer vacation, and the highlights of entertainment we can enjoy this weekend.

There's differences of opinion, then there's just being mean.

With the announcement that Ariana Grande is “taking a step back from visibility” after her Eternal Sunshine tour wraps on September 1, Ed comments on the endless, ongoing public scrutiny she has had to endure.

With the latest news of yet another victory in court for local entrepreneur Mo Honarkar, Ed notes that now there are those that celebrated and capitalized on the Honarkar family’s troubles, are admitting they were on the wrong side of that dispute.

A judge has ruled on the lawsuit filed by Festival of Arts against Terra Laguna Beach, and Ed outlines the facts around the case, what the ruling entailed, and what it means.

Based on median home price versus median income, in California’s most affordable locales, around 4 years’ worth of income for an average earner would be enough to purchase the average home. In the least affordable places, home buyers would need 14 years of pretax income.

At least six children and young adults in the community have been diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, an exceptionally rare bone and soft-tissue cancer.

Ed read a recent blog by former Laguna Beach Councilmember George Weiss about current Mayor Mark Orgill, and noted that though the information in the piece is largely factual, key facts were omitted, such as the fact that Weiss was on the Council when the circumstances outlined occurred.

Ed wonders aloud if our founding fathers would be disappointed in the lack of political courage that today’s politicians show. Both sides of the aisle have shown no courage in the last several years.

Ed points the finger at 1990s garbage television as the catalyst for today’s dumbing down of American society.