Alec Glasser, founder of The Drake Restaurant in Laguna Beach and Drake Gives Alec Glasser became passionate about music while attending public school programs in Queens, New York. He learned to play saxophone, clarinet and flute, but also spent summers working at The Drake Hotel on Park Avenue as an Read More
(L to R) Ed Hanley and Jeff Lefko Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors, a nationally recognized real estate brokerage and advisory firm based in Corona del Mar that specializes in retail property sales, has announced several key milestones as it enters its 20th year of operation.Hanley Investment Group President Read More
Producers Terry Corwin and Scott Hays. Photo by Aaron Regnier. A private screening of the new feature documentary “Surf-Skate Business Evolution: The OC Effect” premiered on February 27 at The Lido Theater in Newport Beach. The event attracted more than 400 guests including many surf/skate industry pioneers and entrepreneurs in Read More
Financial & Estate Literacy [FEL] announces its 2025 spring financial workshop at the Newport Beach Central Library (1000 Avocado Avenue) beginning on Monday, March 24 at 10 a.m. FEL’s It’s Your Money & Estate nonprofit workshops are geared to those 55-plus and offers the series at no charge to participants Read More
On Friday, March 7, 2025, detectives from the Newport Beach Police Department, in cooperation with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC), conducted a Minor Decoy Operation targeting clerks who sell alcohol to people under 21 years of age. The operation involved adult decoys who attempt to purchase alcohol Read More
Napa in Newport, the annual charity event that supports Newport Beach-based CureDuchenne, returned to The Pendry Newport Beach on March 1. The prestigious event brought together world-class Napa Valley vintners, celebrities, and philanthropists in support of finding a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal disease that affects thousands of Read More
Grace Leung By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager The next meeting of the Newport Beach City Council will be on Tuesday, March 25 at 4 p.m. The full agenda is available here: https://www.newportbeachca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/77123/72. Agenda items include: A 5-year agreement with Kit Coffee (operating under Kit at the Library, Inc.), Read More
Nonprofit organization Radiant Futures, formerly Women’s Transitional Living Center, Inc. (WTLC), invites guests to its vibrant Mardi Gras fundraiser, where the spirit of New Orleans comes alive as they step into a world where the extraordinary reigns, dreams soar higher than the beads, and together, a safer, brighter communities will Read More
(L to R) Donna L Kendall, Elizabeth Segerstrom, Jane Fujishige Yada. Photo credit Carla Rhea The Philharmonic Society of Orange County celebrated the launch of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra residency with a memorable Philharmonic Ball on Sunday, March 9, at The Westin South Coast Plaza. The elegant event raised funds Read More
Tennis champion Mirra Andreeva. Photo by Lawrence Sherwin Tennis fans from Newport Beach, including NB Indy photographer Lawrene Sherwin, traveled to Indian Wells last weekend to watch two new tennis champions crowned at the 2025 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. On March 16, Mirra Andreeva (6), the 17-year-old star Read More
