John Urdi has traded the snow in Mammoth for Surf City sand as the new chief executive of the city’s tourism organization, Visit Huntington Beach. The newly tapped tourism leader is now using his Mammoth playbook to increase overnight and multi-day visitors to Orange County’s fourth-largest city with plans to Read More
Sam King, co-founder and chief executive of King’s Seafood Company, said he started working in his father’s restaurant as soon as he was old enough to be a busboy. Mickey King and his brother Lou began opening King’s Coffee Shops in 1945, and Sam King said that he would follow Read More
ACCOUNTING CAPATA is pleased to announce the addition of Manny M. Trelles, CPA, MBA, MBT, MSIST as Partner. With more than 30 years of experience, Trelles brings extensive expertise in tax advisory, transaction structuring, and strategic planning for real estate investors, private equity funds, REITs, family offices, and closely held businesses. Read More
This Fourth of July marks our country’s 250th Birthday, and a handful of local celebrations offer festive ways to commemorate the occasion. Lido Marina Village (July 2-3): Kick off the holiday weekend at Newport Beach’s waterfront shopping and dining destination, where guests can enjoy live performances from a Patriotic Brass Read More
Last June, the Newport Beach Film Festival launched its inaugural TV Festival, held at the Lido Theater. That star-studded event included Kate Hudson, who would go on to be nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. As impressive as that event was, the Second Annual Newport TV Festival at Read More
Where have all the Newport Beach movie palaces gone? The Balboa Theater began showing movies in the 1920s and turned into an art house showing classics and avant garde movies (including midnight showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show) until it closed in 1992. The Port Theater in Corona del Mar Read More
Gallery Sonder in Corona del Mar is proud to present “Keeping Things Whole,” a group exhibition that considers wholeness as a condition composed through the interplay of presence and absence. “Keeping things Whole” features the works of Peter Alexander, Adam Belt, Caitlin Carney, Cairo Dwek, Kaori Fukuyama, Monroe Isenberg, Anthony Read More
This summer Crystal Cove Conservancy invites families, artists, nature lovers, and lifelong learners to experience a season of creativity, exploration, and connection through a dynamic lineup of free and low-cost programs at Crystal Cove State Park. The Conservancy’s summer calendar offers a wide range of opportunities to explore one of Read More
From technology and health care to beauty, finance and consumer products, these companies help shape industries around the globe while calling Orange County home. Acorns What started as a simple idea to invest spare change has grown into one of the country’s most recognizable financial apps. Acorns, based in Irvine, Read More
Chase Wilson is a Newport Beach native who has turned a life spent in the ocean into both a professional surfing career with Quiksilver and a California-made grooming brand inspired by the timeless style of the ’50s and ’60s. His brand, Byrd, has been featured in Men’s Health, GQ, and Read More
