Marking the start of a highly anticipated new season in the orchestra’s 47-year history, Pacific Symphony’s Opening Night Concert and Celebration on September 18 brought together friends, patrons and lovers of music to soak in the moment with a dinner and orchestral music by Rachmaninoff and Sibelius. Hosted by the...

Surrounded by loved ones and community members, beloved children’s book author, former educator, and hospice resident Joan Pizzo read her story “Amy Avocet: the Back Bay Ballerina” a final time at The Heavenly Home, Orange County’s only nonprofit hospice residence. The emotional event celebrated Joan as “The Back Bay Queen”...

The Hutchins Consort may be an innovative violin chamber ensemble which performs on the rare and beautiful Hutchins violins, but that doesn’t mean the group sticks to classical music. Hutchins Consort celebrated Oktoberfest at Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club in Corona del Mar on Sunday, October 19 by playing German music...

Newport Beach-based CureDuchenne, a global nonprofit dedicated to funding and finding a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, hosted its second annual Ladies Luncheon Newport Beach on October 14 at the exclusive Shady Canyon Golf Club in Irvine. The event raised awareness about Duchenne muscular dystrophy and support for programs like...

Corporate volunteerism is alive and well in Orange County. Most local companies offer volunteer opportunities, but some go all out to help their local communities. One of those is Johnson & Johnson MedTech, who hold an annual event called Week of Caring, an employee-powered volunteer initiative that concentrates hands-on service...

The Corona del Mar-based Samueli Foundation has made its largest single day tranche of grant announcements in organizational history, alerting 138 Orange County-serving nonprofit organizations that they are grant recipients from the newly created Breakaway Fund. The Breakaway Fund launched in May with a $5 million budget, but the Samueli...

More than 240 guests gathered at Big Canyon Country Club in Newport Beach on September 25 for the 19th annual Keep the Promise Wine Tasting Benefit at Big Canyon Country Club in Newport Beach. As one of Orange County’s premier wine tasting benefits, the evening grossed over $400,000 for The...

Hoag celebrated a milestone in the fight against addiction and mental health challenges with the October 2 groundbreaking of the CareMar Recovery Center, a state-of-the-art facility to be built on the Newport Beach campus. According to information from Hoag Hospital, CareMar Recover Center will transform recovery care in Orange County. The...

The Gentlemen’s Haberdashery, one of Orange County’s longest running fundraisers and events, raised a record-breaking $700,000 on Thursday, Oct. 2 at the Balboa Bay Resort. Nearly 400 community members and philanthropic leaders attended the event, where Orange County’s most prominent executives and leaders took to the runway in a full...