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WINDOW PAIN? The latest flap in Laguna...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Leslie Berkman

WINDOW PAIN? The latest flap in Laguna Beach involves a proposal to put a sculpture on Main Beach. . . . Some residents will oppose the idea at the City Council tonight, arguing that art on the beach obstructs the city’s primary “window to the sea.” But the city’s staff and Art Commission recommend that the council accept the loan of Ron Taybi’s piece commemorating female emancipation in Iran. Supporters say it’s transparent and won’t obstruct anything.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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