At last night’s Newport Beach City Council meeting, Mayor Marshall “Duffy” Duffield proudly announced the addition of 20 EV charging stations around Newport Beach. On Tuesday, Mayor Duffield, City Council member Diane Dixon (District 1, Balboa Peninsula) and other city officials attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Newport Coast Community Center to launch the energy-efficient initiative. The…
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Each week, we’re recapping the latest Bachelor episode featuring Seinne Fleming, former Newport Beach resident and current Season 22 contestant vying for Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s love. Welcome to #SeinneScenes, everyone … It lasted only a few minutes, was interrupted by binocular-wielding contestants and a few girls speculating whether a connection would be made, but despite the disruptive…
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On Jan. 23 from 6:30 to 11 p.m., 21 Oceanfront, an exclusive beachside fine dining establishment, is hosting a three-course dinner featuring Stag’s Leap wines.
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A new lobster and seafood eatery, Hook & Anchor, is opening January 18 on Balboa Peninsula in the spot where The Beach Barrel Grill once served its Barrel Burger, homemade pesto and BBQ chicken pizza. The small restaurant is located directly next to Newport Fresh along Newport Blvd., a block east of the gas station.…
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Ho Sum Bistro is officially open. The good word arrives after more than a year of silence; in June 2016 a devastating fire shut the place down. Before its unexpected closure, Ho Sum Bistro had something of a cult following. Diners came for the Ho Sum Chicken Salad (and famed dressing) and left completely happy.…
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After an exhaustive, emotional week-long search for 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania sophomore Blaze Bernstein, who went missing Jan. 2, authorities yesterday confirmed a positive ID on a body found in Borrega Park, Lake Forest, Calif. The park, nearby his family home, is also the location where Blaze was thought to have first gone missing, after…
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There was a whole lot of trash talk at last night’s Newport Beach City Council meeting. In fact, it dominated the better part of the hour-long session, held at a half-empty room inside 100 Civic Center Drive as a slight drizzle pitter-pattered against the windows. A new agreement for refuse container collection in Newport Beach,…
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Today, Newport Beach Mayor Marshall “Duffy” Duffield, Mayor Pro Tem Will O’Neill and the Newport Beach City Council colleagues announced the City has reached a tentative agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regarding the flight paths from Orange County’s John Wayne Airport (SNA). The agreement remains subject to the approval of the FAA and…
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It’s an interesting dilemma. Not 24 hours after Hollywood stages its largest scale protest on a toppling patriarchy—expressed through the solidarity of black ball gowns and the rhetoric of a dawning, new day—ABC must air its episodic ode to one, single man. So how do those stealthy Bachelor producers, intentional or not, navigate brand-new waters, when women across the…
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Newport Beach Restaurant Week is hard. So many choices, only 14 days of culinary bliss. It’s also confusing because the week is actually not a week at all; it’s two weeks—this year happening Jan 15 to 28—when restaurants across Newport Beach and Balboa Peninsula forego their usual pricing to offer diners sweet, sweet specials on…
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