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VEA Newport Beach has become known as a luxe resort and spa destination that overlooks the Newport Beach Country Club and coastline beyond, but the resort also offers health and wellness activities that are open to resort guests and the public. Here’s a sample: Saturday, 4/13: Boxhaus x VEA Newport Beach Join...

Sherman Library & Gardens is hosting an evening lecture with Nelson Coates, top production designer for cinema and television, on Tuesday, April 165 at 7 p.m. Find out what's involved in creating the set design for TV shows such as The Morning Show, the feature film adaptation of Kevin Kwan's...

When it comes to wine, Italy and France always get the focus, but after visiting the Chateau Nico Lazaridis winery in northern Greece, I think there may be another contender in the Mediterranean region. Greece has not traditionally been known as a “wine production country,” but considering it is still...

A wristwatch on average weighs two ounces. Oceania Cruise Lines’ “Regatta” weighs 30,277 tons. Although an extreme David-and-Goliath comparison, they both have something in common: Should any of their “parts” fail to perform seamlessly, each could find itself literally dead in the water. While the watch tells time, a cruise...

If you like to travel for extended periods of time, you may be familiar with the room sharing platform known as Airbnb. They have been around for 15 years and pretty much created the idea of shared, short-term rentals. They started modestly when the founders came up with the idea...

On July 4, Newport Beach Independent photographers Charles Weinberg and Lawrence Sherwin captured Independence Day photos. Charles shot photos of neighborhood children interacting with Newport Beach Fire Department vehicles in the Newport Coast community of St. Laurent, while Lawrence captured images of the Old Glory Boat Parade in Newport...

Kyle Cheesborough, the Horticulture Director at Sherman Library & Gardens in Corona del Mar, has a difficult task this month: he’s one of the Garden Design judges at the 33rd annual Southern California Spring Garden Show at South Coast Plaza that runs April 19-23. The Garden Show features 35 unique...

Please excuse this piece of travel advice: Don’t ask directions to Qeqertarsuatsiaat, Qeqertarsuaq, or Ittoqqortoormiit unless you know how to pronounce them, lest you find yourself in Kitssuarasuit, Quasigniannuit or Kallaallitnunaeqqissismattaq. To that end, it may be better to book a cruise to Greenland and then let the ship’s navigator...

The term “bucket list” is almost a cliché, but whether you call it that or not, most of us have a list of things we want to do before we die. It has become such a common phrase that a movie was made about it with Jack Nicholson and Morgan...

I "live" in Turkey, and the reason that live is in quotation marks is because I really don't live anywhere. After leaving Newport Beach in February of 2019, I became a permanent nomad, traveling with my girlfriend (now my wife as of June 17) and usually staying for six weeks...