Newport

10th Annual Newport Beach Wine Festival This Weekend

It may be pricey, but if you're both an oenophile and are bummed out that there's no Taste of Newport this year, the 10th Annual Newport Beach Wine Festival starts tonight and runs through Sunday at the Balboa Bay Resort.

On the Line: Chris Grodach of The Corner, Part Two

He builds furniture, owns his own business, and plants gardens. And after our meeting, Chris would meet with The Corner's bartender to practice all the cocktails on their drink menu. Staying in one place is not his specialty, but we wouldn't want him any other way.Read our interview with Chris Groda ... More >>

Second Eat Chow Eatery Showing Signs of Progress

​Don't get confused by Eat Chow's next location. Their current one is off Newport in Costa Mesa. The sequel is going to be off Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach. So when you tell someone "I'll see you at Newport.", be sure to clarify which.As you can see, the PCH outpost is looking spiffy and ... More >>

Pawnshop Kings

Commonwealth Lounge

Rose Bakery Café Is the Dough-Right Man

This Corona del Mar spot looks yuppie, but makes doughnuts worthy of Anaheim

Let Me Tell You 'Bout the Birds and the Bees

Commonwealth Lounge

¡Ask a Comida Critic! A Good Mimosa Near the Coast?

​From Twitter, from a gal whose name I can't remember, whose question I can't quote verbatim because it's buried under a pile of tweets, but which went like this:Where can I find a good mimosa near the beach?Actually, she first asked about a good mimosa, period. I recommended Memphis at the Santor ... More >>

Cafe Lotus Lives La Vie Vietnamese in Newport

With great French and Vietnamese offerings, this place is better-suited for Little Saigon than the Hoag Hospital crowd

Car Burglar Targeting Surfers, Breaking Into Their Cars While They're In the Water

The suspected car burglar.​For surfers parking in Hungtington and Newport, it may not be safe to enter the water. At least, not safe for their cars and any valuables inside.​Huntington Beach police have released photos (right, and after the jump) of the man they believe has been targeting the ca ... More >>

This Week in Food: Crab Vending Machine, OC Food Contests, and Battle Deep-Dish Pizza!

Flickr user Hydro-Man​Another amazing week on this infernal, yummy blog. After the jump: the best of the best!

Join Facebook Campaign to Save Frog House

​Righteous readers who saw our post about the Frog House being endangered inform that a Facebook page has been created to save the legendary Newport Shores surf shop.You'll find the page here: Facebook.com.

Parking-Space Cadet

[Hey, You!] Patience is a virtue when you want that perfect spot

#19. Sausage at Sabatino's

Dave LiebermanJust opening the package will suffuse your senses with the smell of porky perfection.​You'll have noticed we're changing who writes this feature on a day by day basis: this is how you know we're getting close to the end of our countdown. Make sure to pick up a copy of our Best of OC ... More >>

This Week in Food

flickr user Kitchen Wench​ How to create your own liquor infusions, epicurean confessions and more of what you missed this week in food after the jump!

Today's Don't Miss: "Cypher Vision"

​This is tough, because recommending a corporate surf film goes against my, comrade Kim Jong-Il and Barack Obama's training.

Flickr Photo of the Week!: Newport Beach

Flickr user OrangeCounty_GirlNewport is a tad trashy.​ ​Got something to share with your community? Join the OC Weekly Flickr pool!

Wax On, Wax Off: Documentary on Early Newport Surf Scene

An anonymous reader was kind enough to send in this video about the early Newport Beach surf scene, circa 1950s and 60s. Apparently an early look at an enigmatic documentary project called Living it Forever  (coming in spring 2010) the clip includes conversations with a diverse selection of New ... More >>

Zombies: So Hot Right Now

Fever DragonThis zombie: Probably hot under the make-up. Hi.​If you're looking to get a head start on Halloween this week, drag yerselves over to the coast and check out the first ever Newport Beach Zombie Pub Crawl: They Came From the Beach this Saturday.Sponsored by LocalHipster.com (.....we kno ... More >>

Locals Only Extra: More from Semi Sweet!

Jenevieve Belair​Usually in Locals Only Extra, we provide you with an mp3 from the local band spotlighted, so you can actually have some aural accompaniment to whatever nonsense we come up with. But this week's band, Costa Mesa's Semi Sweet, have already done us one (or several) better: all four s ... More >>

Meet Winemakers of Bodegas M.

Wine Lab Newport

Taste of Newport Begins Today

​A reminder that among other events going on this week, (ahem, OC Restaurant Week), the 21st Annual Taste of Newport is happening today, tomorrow, and Sunday in Fashion Island.

Tim and Liza Goodell To Open 25 Degrees in 2009

Tim and Liza Goodell (of A Restaurant and others) has a plan for the space vacated by Ristorante Max in Newport's Westcliff Plaza. Early next year, they're going to open their third outlet of 25 Degrees there. The other two 25 Degrees already in operation are in China and L.A. I haven't been to e ... More >>

Hops to It

World Class Beer 
Tasting Wednesdays

OC Weekly Holiday Party

It was hard to top last year’s party on that beautiful boat in Newport, but this Saturday the OC Weekly Holiday Party & Fashion Show hit an all-time high with one of the best parties of the holiday season (if I do say so myself). Britney Spears may have been a no-show, but that didn’t seem to ... More >>

To Do Tonight - 11/13

Monday's Headlines

History for sale: Items salvaged from the dismantled Pride of Newport riverboat are on eBay starting today - the proceeds will go to the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum. Pieces up thus far: a door to the riverboat's restaurant, the grand staircase chandelier (pictured), several smaller antique table ... More >>

Chow Time

Taste of Newport

Monday's Headlines

That's ambitious: A Long Beach city councilman hopes to "once again make our beaches a destination." Good luck cleaning up all that shit, buddy. Adios, Laguna: MTV's shipping out of Laguna Beach and pulling into Newport for the next installment of the 'Real OC.' Poached? The Register has an interes ... More >>

Wednesday's Headlines

Dismantled Pride: The Pride of Newport, a replica riverboat that's been a local landmark for 43 years, has been sentenced to death by dismantlement — which started yesterday. Back from the border: A "career criminal" deported around a month ago is back and already stirring things up — allegedly ... More >>

The Zeitgeist

OCNYE

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Pinocchio

Toll Road Decision Delayed; Newport Beach Freezes Over

Okay, Newport's fine, but there must be Satanic snowballs somewhere. Today, the Transportation Corridor Agencies announced a 30-day delay on their choice of alignments for the Foothill-South toll road extension. The TCA board voted 12-3 for the delay mere hours after its staff received a letter from ... More >>

The Sex Machine

Or: I survived the attack of the ass crack

Get a Little Weird

This week in nightlife and more
Sept. 15 - Sept. 22

Before and After

Just south of Fremont Street, Las Vegass past and future collide

Best of OC 2004: Part 3

Episode 25

Fox on Box Shocks, Rocks!

TVs The O.C. best captures whats really real about our town

Episode 5

Episode 3:

Each year, its a little less wonderful

David Weddles Newport Beach

Chase Corum

As American as Apple Pie Shot

Holidays behind the bar

Kids

Doing the darnedest things

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Drugs Are Bad, Mmmmkay?

People I want to fight!

Newport Beach

The town that whines

Taxi Driver Confessions

Are you flirtin with me?

Guilty Pleasures

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