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Songwriters and performers are invited to submit original songs about the disease. They must have an uplifting element. Prizes will be awarded. By Michael Miller, 30 July 2015 As a son who has taken care of two parents with Alzheimer’s disease, Scott Hays knows the toll that mem

The Local Television Program Features a Contingent of Interesting Guests By Donna Bunce, August 2015 OC Caravan is an eclectic mex of interviews, politics, music, and, as Producer/Host Scott Hays says, “conversations about random stuff that we find interesting.” The show broadcasts on

By Cathy Lee Taylor, Special to the Independent It’s a typical Saturday morning in Laguna Beach, where both mansions and cottages line the bluffs above the sandy coves. Driving through the main street of this resort destinat

By Shelley Murphy
Henry Kapono arrives at “The Friendship Show” on KX 93.5 F.M. in Laguna Beach, Calif. under tropical, Hawaiian-like showers carrying his signature peace sign guitar and embodying a relaxed Island demeanor. Kapono stops by on a sleepy Saturday morning before embarkin

By Michael Miller, Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot
KX 93.5, Laguna Beach's FM station, calls its Saturday morning broadcast "The Friendship Show." And like the best circles of friends, it doesn't have any particular rules about who's included.

By Shelley Murphy, South County Magazine
Laguna Beach is famous for its temperate air and legendary waves, but entrepreneur Tyler Russell hopes the seaside town will become equally well known for its airwaves. Russell, a 23-year-old Chapman University graduate, launched Laguna’s

By Michael Miller, Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot

John Batdorf and James Lee Stanley will appear on the radio Saturday in Laguna Beach to play mellow, harmony-drenched folk tunes — the kind you listen to on a lazy afternoon with a sweater, a cup of mocha and a cat napping at the foot of th

By Megan Jamerson
Just like the ‘un-predictableness’ of a jazz song, the life of one Orange County musician has taken many surprising twists Roughly 15 years ago, “Rabbi Blue,” whose real name is Dwight White, was well known in the Laguna Beach music scene, playing with his band Th

By Suzie Harrison, The Laguna Beach Independent
Powerful riffs resound through a pedestrian walkway off Forest Avenue that leads to a cobblestone alley. Fingers that dance along a guitar's neck and a voice that betrays the performer's passion accompany the aural alchemy.

By Judy Lesko

In the spirit of the season, some might choose to make a difference in their community by volunteering at a local soup kitchen or homeless shelter. For two Southland artists, giving back meant sharing their unique music and message to raise awareness for the plight of the homeless. And for both their gifts of charity began, long before this year’s holiday celebrations.

By Melanie Roberts, lariatnews.com
As a part-time instructor at Saddleback College for 12 years, Scott Hays works to help students in his English and journalism classes everyday, but his background as a journalist in the field has brought him to find projects outside of teaching.

By Jim Larkins, Orange Coast Magazine
Two of O.C.’s most talented musicians are homeless and their work can be found on “Shelter Me,” a CD just issued by Laguna Beach-based Weed Patch Productions. The project helps fund Friendship Shelter, one of the city’s havens for the homeless. We asked the CD’s creator, health-and-fitness author Scott Hays, about his unusual project.

By Judy Lesko, Coastline Pilot
For most of us, home is as much a state of mind as a physical place. Poignant lyrics for the title song from the music-documentary, "Home Again," co-written by Laguna Beach residents Scott Hays and Jason Feddy, help drive the point home.

By Judy Lesko, Laguna Beach Independent
Laguna Beach resident Scott Hays envisioned a company dedicated to the philosophy that all people have a story to share. Now, the story-telling skills he nurtured have blossomed into a marketing campaign tapped by hard-pressed non-profit groups around the county and nation to make a difference in the lives of those in need.

By Jim Larkins, OC Weekly
If you want to see David Holland droning out a live performance of his song "Rebel Without a Dime," it'll only cost you about enough to fend off his next hunger pangs. Such was not always the case for the versatile, homeless musician, who plays guitar, piano, drums and bass with equal intensity and skill. In his heyday, Holland opened for Tom Waits at Huntington Beach's famed Golden Bear and played alongside Sonny Terry, the late, blind, blues-

By Cindy Hale, Laguna Beach Magazine
“It takes a village to save a life.” That’s the philosophy dished out by Randy Kraft, director of development for Friendship Shelter, the only comprehensive, year-round shelter open to the estimated 35,000 homeless of Orange County. Operating out of a residential hotel originally erected in 1938, the crisply renovated building sits near the beachfront of Laguna and serves approximately 220 homeless adults annually. Since its inception 20 years a

By Kristen Fischer, Media Bistro
Creating a winning magazine article idea and then articulating it into a knockout query letter is challenging enough for most writers, but all that hard work can be pointless if

By Steve Ramsbottom and Scott Hays, Sports ‘n Spokes
Flexibility is measured by the range of motion at a particular joint or group of joints. A limited range of motion when pushing a wheelchair, for example, will decrea

By Andre Cooray, AsiaSpa Magazine
Even Napoleon Bonaparte was supposedly not always in the mood for ‘sexy time’, at least if the famous phrase “Not tonight, Josephine” is anything to go by. It still resonates with many men today, because like the 19th-century emperor, they have a lot on their minds. A flagging libido is often a symptom of a frenetic lifestyle. Those caught up in the rat race tend to put sex low on their priority lists and lose touch with their bodies. Stress, lac

By Joe Van Acker, Men's Journal
As many as one in three men say their romantic encounters end sooner than they'd expect (or want) – no wonder that at least one study found the average romp in the sack lasts from 10 to as few as three minutes. So don't become a statistic.

By Josh Aden. Coastline Pilot
Better sex doesn’t come from chemistry. It requires exercise. Page through Scott Hays’ new book, "Built for Sex," and you’ll see diet and exercise play a crucial part in, um, all kinds of activity. The book emerged, he says, from a survey of Men’s Health magazine readers. "The No. 1 thing they wanted to know was how to improve their sex lives."

By Bruce Miller
Better sex doesn’t come from chemistry. It requires exercise. Page through Scott Hays’ new book, “Built for Sex,” and you’ll see diet and exercise play a crucial part in, um, all kinds of activity. The book emerged, he says, from a survey of Men’s Health magazine readers. “The No. 1 thing they wanted to know was how to improve their sex lives.”