Newport Beach Film Festival Series “The Process Unlocked” Debuts with Four-Time Academy Award Nominee Willem Dafoe
The Newport Beach Film Festival is continually seeking ways to create innovative programming. The Newport Beach TV Festival, which presented its second annual festival last June, is one prime example of expanding into another visual medium. Now, in association with PBS SoCal, the Newport Beach Film Festival has launched “The Read More
Laguna Playhouse Launches New Season with World Premiere Musical ‘Wild Child’ Through October 4
Breathe in. Breathe out. Now experience “Wild Child,” created by The Breathe Project. As noted in the Laguna Playhouse program for “Wild Child,” which runs through October 4, The Breathe Project is an independent creative studio developing original stories and intellectual properties across theatre, music, visual narrative and other forms Read More
Swing for a Cause Charity Golf Tournament at Pelican Hill on October 5 Will Raise Funds for Local Children’s Hospitals
Newport Beach’s five-star, five-diamond The Resort at Pelican Hill invites golfers to hit the newly restored South Course at the award-winning Pelican Hill Golf Club for the second annual Play Yellow Charity Golf Tournament on Monday, Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. Hosted in partnership with Jack and Barbara Nicklaus and Read More
Newport Beach Entrepreneur Creates Prayer Angels with a Higher Purpose
By Sandra M. Borges | Special to the NB Independent Newport Beach entrepreneur Luann McElroy, whose business ventures include her own magazine, Damsel, and Voyagers Rentals, a Newport Beach Duffy boat experience, had talked about launching a Christian-based company, but she was unsure what that company might be. One day, Read More
Newport Beach Resident Launches Service to Help Widowed Older Adults Find Companionship
By Sandra M. Borges | Special to the NB Indy In Orange County, approximately 95,000 adults ages 65 and older live alone, and it’s not by choice. Newport Beach resident Marc Iannini identified this problem after the loss of several of his uncles, leaving their widows in a lonely state Read More
Chef Damon Cho to Debut 2 New Restaurants at OCVibe
Osen Hospitality Group, operator of the Izakaya Osen restaurants in Irvine and Silverlake, will open two new Japanese dining concepts at the OCVibe development in Anaheim. Founder and chef Damon Cho plans to launch a new concept, Osen Urban Table, which will open alongside the previously announced Best Friend by chef Roy Choi. Chef Cho Read More
Voluspa’s Growth Burns Bright
Troy Arntsen created his very first Voluspa scented candle in the kitchen of his Costa Mesa home nearly 30 years ago. He and his former partner, Traci, were initially selling batches of handcrafted slow-burning candles in local boutiques across Orange County. One day, they received a $3,000 order from luxury Read More
LAB Holding Acquires Pep Boys Site in Costa Mesa
LAB Holding LLC, owner and developer of Anaheim Packing House and The CAMP, has bought the 18,053-square-foot Pep Boys service center on Bristol Street in Costa Mesa for $10.5 million, according to CoStar records. The acquisition, which closed in August, marks one of the final pieces to the family-run firm’s Read More