Seinne Scenes Vol. 1: A Rose By Any Other Name

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 …  If there’s any time my friends and I resemble the precision and ritualistic exactitude of a Japanese bullet train, it’s Monday at 8 p.m.…

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Newport Beach Nutritionist April Murray Is Here for Your Resolutions

I have a definitive love/hate relationship with New Year’s resolutions. Go to the gym, eat healthier, drink more water, be kinder to your friends and family … it’s always a somewhat banal yet optimistic collection of convictions, which if adhered to with any kind of seriousness would probably make us all skinny, dewy-skinned, boring humans.…

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In 2018 We Party in Pajamas

Well, we made it. 2018. Resolutions were promised and broken, lips were kissed, champagne was slung across crowded bars as poppers exploded and confetti flew. No matter how you celebrated last night, it’s now morning. The sun is shining and beer bottles are rolling across West Balboa Blvd. in the slight breeze. It’s a glorious…

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Happy Weed Year: Legal Recreational Marijuana Now Available

It’s been over a year since California voters passed Proposition 64, allowing legal recreational weed throughout the Golden State. And when the clock struck midnight New Year’s Eve, those high hopes of California weed smokers finally became a reality. Well, kind of.

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Sidecar Doughnuts: Sweet Dreams Are Made of These

There are doughnuts and then there are Sidecar Doughnuts. While the name may make you think these ‘nuts are somehow secondary, scuttling astride something bigger or better, they’re just not. They’re the real deal, the main attraction, the big show. It’s a locally known fact Sidecar Doughnuts & Coffee offers some of the tastiest sweet…

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New Year’s Eve at The Triangle

Oh, New Year’s Eve, you tricky little thing. The fanfare, the drama, the latent expectancy, the banal collection of convictions to which we may or may not adhere … there’s just so much anticipation built into one second of one minute of one night, it’s almost impossible to live up to the exacting standards placed…

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Let’s Have a Movie Night)

Sometimes, when late December rolls around, the temperature drops below 75 degrees in Newport Beach. Under ordinary circumstances (and anywhere else in the country) that would be perfectly fine but this is Southern California, which means, as stated in the official Mother Nature’s Guide to Orange County Living, the area must be ceaselessly sunny on…

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These Balboa Peninsula Spots Are Open on Christmas

After the presents are unwrapped and the carols sung, what’s left, we ask, but to eat and drink even more on Christmas day? We’ve got the scoop on what’s open around Balboa Peninsula this joyous holiday, so if your heart is full but your stomach isn’t, here are a few festive options:

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An Open Holiday Letter to the Residents of Balboa Peninsula

Hi Friends, As the holidays dawn, we just wanted to thank you for supporting West Oceanfront Magazine in whatever form your support has taken; maybe you’ve read some of our recent articles, followed us on Instagram or commented on one of our posts. Know that you have all our gratitude and more for embarking on this journey…

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SpaceX Rocket Launch Produces Friday Night Lights Show

Stop the rumors! Those strange lights you just saw illuminate the sky above Newport Beach are the result of a rocket launched by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s personal experiment to revolutionize space technology and eventually allow people to inhabit other planets. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Vanderberg Air Force Base 9.2 miles northwest…

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