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NB Indy Photo Editor Lawrence Sherwin joined thousands of comic book fans from across the globe in San Diego over the weekend for the popular Comic Con event. More than 100,000 people braved the heat to attend the annual convention, many of them dressing up as their favorite...

Newport/Mesa ProLiteracy will celebrate International Literacy Day with a special program on Sept. 14 from 10 a.m. to noon in the Friends Meeting Room at the central library, 1000 Avocado Avenue. The event celebrates literacy achievements in the community and recognizes the...

Thousands of kids and adults from Newport Beach, Orange County and beyond swarmed the Anaheim Convention Center over the weekend for WonderCon 2017. Cosplayers (costume players) strutted their stuff in outfits that fit their fantasy heroes and villains during the three-day...

Bus Accident in Newport Center The Newport Beach Fire Department responded to an incident involving an Orange County Transit Authority bus Sunday night. At approximately 7 p.m., an OCTA passenger bus was traveling on Newport Center Drive when it veered off the road and through a...

Mike Glenn Files for City Council Run Businessman and activist Mike Glenn has filed the paperwork to trigger his campaign for Newport Beach City Council, District 5. Glenn owns a software development company, and runs a website called SaveNewport.com, which generates thousands of...

Registration Open for CdM 5K Registration is now open for the 35th Annual Corona del Mar Scenic 5K, to be held June 4. The event is for both competitive runners and people looking for an exhilarating and social activity to share with family and friends and everyone in between....

Encouraging teenagers to think about their future may seem overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be with the help of a new book by Newport native and fellow teen, Justin Muchnick. Muchnick, 17, a Harbor Day School graduate and current senior at Phillips Academy Andover boarding...

News from around Newport Beach. Bachelor Book Signing at Fashion Island   Chris Harrison, longtime host of the ABC hit reality show “The Bachelor and The Bachelorette,” was at Barnes & Noble in Fashion Island last Thursday to sign copies of his debut romance novel called...

Oftentimes, while travelling through this thing we call life, we become weighed down with burdens and grief, and our human understandings and experiences are not broad enough to allow us to cope with those challenges on our own. It is during these times that many either lean on a...

The Newport Beach Public Library invites teenage readers to meet authors Jennifer Niven and Nicole Yoon on Sept. 12 at 3 p.m. in the Central Library Friends Room, 1000 Avocado Ave. Author Jennifer Niven introduces her debut novel in Young Adult fiction with her new book “All the...

A local teen has some survival tips for students interested attending boarding school. Justin Muchnick, 16, a Harbor Day School graduate and current sophomore at Phillips Academy Andover boarding school in Boston, wrote “The Boarding School Survival Guide” to give students and...

It’s easy to make New Year’s resolutions, but harder to actually start them. If you’re like me, top resolutions include getting fit, eating healthy and managing stress. Here are some helpful tips and tricks that can aid you in reaching your goals for 2014. Spa Gregorie’s Getting...

In these strange, limbo days sandwiched between Christmas and New Year’s, as we set 2013 in our rearview and ready ourselves for a fresh new page on the calendar, the perfect opportunity presents itself to prepare to set in motion all those things we’ve been “meaning to do.” The...

Skin Laundry Ever wonder why there isn’t a skin treatment that’s quick, affordable, and effective? Now there is at Skin Laundry in Fashion Island, a new spa-like facility with a laser treatment that only takes 10 minutes, with packages starting as low as $55 per session. With...

Maybe it’s because my life has been dominated by my children’s football schedule for the last three months, and I’m a little hungry for a good flick, but it seems like some really great movies are on the horizon. As we all know, a bumper crop of good movies started their...

In January of this year, 40 years after her death, a photocopied, hand-written manuscript was found tucked away in a storage unit in Texas. Believed to be the last thing she worked on before her death of cancer in 1973, that manuscript has just been released as “The Eternal...

In today’s busy world, when we are offered an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, it is the wise one who throws that stone and never looks back. On Monday, October 21, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., the Laguna Playhouse Women are serving up just such a chance when they prese...

Oftentimes life’s greatest lessons come from the most humble of places. Such is the case with local ten-year-old author Katie Hull. As a result of being born with Spina Bifida, a neurological defect that can cause myriad physical and cognitive disabilities, Katie has partial...

We have all heard the expression “if these walls could talk.” Well, what if our town could talk?  If our beaches, back alleys, and boulevards could share their stories, what would they have to say? You need look no further that the late Judge Robert Gardner’s new book, “Naughty...

Today, I worked at the book fair, a job that I gladly sign up for every year. Aside from ringing up purchases, and bagging books, my duties also include putting my rusty math skills to good use calculating tax for grade-schoolers (whose parents never remember to budget for the...