Lido Theater in 1939. Courtesy of Sherman Library. The Lido Theater opened in 1939 as one of Orange County’s earliest art deco cinema houses. The landmark theater closed for renovation five years ago. The project was prolonged due to the pandemic and the detailed work required to add air conditioning Read More
Wendy and Greg Ekstrom’s home on Amethyst Avenue was part of the 23rd Annual Balboa Island Holiday Home Walking Tour. Photo by Sara Hall The Balboa Island Holiday Home Walking Tour, an annual event presented by the Balboa Island Improvement Association, returns on Sunday, Dec. 8 from 11 a.m. to Read More
Newport Beach Film Festival marquee at Lido Theater. File Photo by Chris Trela. A 25th anniversary is traditionally celebrated with silver, but the Newport Beach Film Festival has struck gold this year with the dazzling star power and movie premieres scheduled for the festival’s weeklong 25th anniversary run October 17-24. Read More
Scene from “Stealing Pulp Fiction.” What do you get when three Hollywood-Wannabe friends (Jon Rudnitsky, Karan Soni and Cazzie David) team up with their kooky therapist (Jason Alexander) to plot a heist to steal Quentin Tarantino’s personal 35mm print of “Pulp Fiction” from his movie theater. What else: “Stealing Pulp Read More
Scene from “Séance” By Cole Cronk | Special to the NB Indy “Séance,” directed by Vivian Kerr, has its world premiere at the 25th annual Newport Beach Film Festival. It’s a Victorian-era psychological thriller about a woman named Emma who must take shelter in her ex-husband’s mansion during a storm. Read More
By age five, only a blurry and distorted three percent of Matt Formston’s vision remained. Despite this Australian athlete’s near total blindness from Macular Dystrophy (a rare affliction that totally eliminates any central vision, leaving but a thin edge of light at the fringes of the eye), he possessed a Read More
Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson at the Blue Bird Inn in Detroit in 1958 with Kirk Lightsey on piano, Herman Wright on bass and Roy Brooks on drums. Photo credit: Jim Gallert Collection By Simone Goldstone | Soundcheck Columnist The documentary “The Best of the Best: Jazz From Detroit” certainly lives Read More
Sunset Bridge The City of Newport Beach formally dedicated the new Sunset Bridge and parking lot expansion project with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 8. The new bridge, at Superior Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway, connects Sunset Ridge Park with a larger, more convenient parking lot. The project will Read More
Grace Leung By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager The Balboa Peninsula Trolley, the free summer shuttle service presented by the City with grant funding from the Orange County Transportation Authority, will continue to serve Newport Beach residents and visitors through 2031, with improvements and potential local transit expansions over Read More
Deception started early this campaign season from two people running for Newport Beach City Council. Candidate Jeff Herdman put a picture of me in a mailer that he sent out to voters in Newport Beach. Let me set the record straight. I have not and would not support Jeff Herdman Read More
