Laser Spectroscopy and Organic Dyes is the topic of this special issue. The Review, many of the Communications, and several of the Research News articles this month are devoted to various aspects of the applications of this technology in areas ranging from the application shown on the cover and described above, nonlinear optics and optical data storage, and the study of disorder phenomena in glassy materials, to artificial light-collecting antennae mimicking, far example, photosynthetic systems. The significance and potential of organic dyes and the exploitation of their interesting optical properties are introduced.