High school students Damacia Shang and Kelland Hong are taking on a challenge that baffles most parents: How to get kids to eat their vegetables. The teens are launching their community service initiative by doing it remotely with a group of grammar school kids in an after-school English-learning program taught...

It’s life’s truism: the older we get, the less enthused we are to venture beyond Newport’s comfortable borders for the entertainment venues we used to find so enriching, exciting and educating. Problem solved via the Friends of OASIS Travel Department (located in the OASIS Senior Center main office). According to...

In a significant milestone for women’s health, Hoag is now the first hospital in California – and the first in the western United States – to be designated a Center of Excellence in Multidisciplinary Endometriosis Care by the Surgical Review Corporation (SRC), reinforcing Hoag’s leadership in advancing comprehensive, patient-centered...

It was a wicked night at the Pacific Symphony gala on Saturday, May 2, as the “Wicked” themed evening at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa was transformed into an enchanting “Wicked” inspired wonderland. The theatrically immersive evening transported more than 300 guests into a lush world dripping...

The world’s seas and oceans total 139 million square miles. Of that incomprehensible, undulating mass, 25-square miles belong to Newport Beach, where up to 100,000 visitors on a summer’s day come to swim, surf, and frolic on the city’s eight miles of beaches. Unfortunately, even on those placid days, too...

Every year for the past 12 years, Dotty MacDonald, 96, solicits her friends and neighbors for donations so she can purchase restaurant gift cards to donate to the Newport Beach Police Department. Ther gift cards are tokens of gratitude and appreciation to the officers and staff at NBPD for...

Via Lido Plaza in Newport Beach is welcoming summer with the addition of a coastal-inspired mural, “The Sabot Regatta,” by Newport Beach muralist Ellen Gladis. Located near the back of Via Lido Drugs off Balboa Blvd. and Finley Ave., the 8 ft. by 17 ft. artwork is based on...

It was the Gala of the Century when Carnegie Hall celebrated the 50th anniversary of its “Concert of the Century” with a once-in-a-lifetime convening of musical all-stars on May 5. Organized by famed violinist Isaac Stern, the original 1976 event brought together some of the world’s greatest musicians for a...

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Orange County (CASA OC) welcomed more than 250 supporters, philanthropists, community leaders, and advocates to its annual CASA Celebration Gala on Saturday, May 16, at Pendry Newport Beach. Inspired by The Beatles, and a call for “A Little Help From Our Friends,” the evening netted...