Stinson Beach News

WASHINGTON D.C. , May 13, 2013 - The Marin County coast beckons with a simplicity and beauty all its own, somehow unscathed by the modern age, and captured forever in the mind from the moment you experience it.

* What: Jaron Lanier discusses "Who Owns the Future?" an examination of the negative impacts of network technologies on the economy and the middle class.

In its first report on libraries in more than a decade, the county's independent watchdog said the financially strapped Marin County Free Library must develop clearer plans of how to fund its operations and do a better job consulting with its employees and the public about how it spends taxpayer money.

A burglary suspect was chased down the street by an impromptu posse Tuesday in Stinson Beach, setting off a multi-agency coastal manhunt for a naked man with a red purse, the sheriff's department said.

Back to Point Reyes, the little slice of paradise to our north. Two weekends in a row - very different trips, but the same overwhelming awesomeness of place.

Stan Adler is a strategist, writer-at-large, author of cult favorite "The Zen of Selling" and writer of fiction.

You'd be hard put to find a nicer place to take your mom or other special woman for a Mother's Day walk than in Volunteer Canyon of Audubon Canyon Ranch near Stinson Beach, CA.

* What: Start with a dance lesson and then try out new moves to classic big-band music at an all-ages Stinson Beach community swing dance.