NEWPORT BEACH blog

Newport Beach Wine & Food Festival is a world-class epicurean lifestyle event taking place Sept. 29 and Oct. 1. Festivities include one-of-a-kind dinners by celebrity chefs and local masters; taste bites from 40 different top restaurants with their executive chefs;…

Local Mike Estrada grew up beside the waves of Newport Beach, taking up boogie boarding when he was 5, and surfing a few years later. He spent his teen years, along with his brothers, traveling and surfing competitively. Mike’s love…

Growing up on Balboa Island, Robert “Sticky” Shaw says he felt different — weird — compared to other kids at school. He wore all black and struggled with dyslexia and had separate interests from his peers. “Newport Beach is a…

In honor of Father’s Day, we’ll be sharing profiles of Newport Beach dads and their kin throughout the week, who share their cherished family traditions, words of wisdom and mutual admiration. Charles “Ed” Lowe, 64 A treasured tradition: “Since Veronica…

“In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.” Winter Bonnin says she has lived by this Baba Dioum motto her entire career as…

Since 2008, Newport Beach’s style savviest women have coasted down to nearby Laguna to meet all of their closet needs under one wooden shingle roof. Owned and curated by surf industry design doyens Dana Marron and Laura Hart, Laguna Supply…

You know the feeling: You’re introduced to someone or someplace for the first time and immediately there’s a connection. A familiarity. A comfort. It seems this new person or place has always been there, or was meant to be. You’ve…

“Springtime is the season in which we re-open our homes to indoor–outdoor living,” says Brooke Wagner, interior designer and founder of Brooke Wagner Design in Corona del Mar, which specializes in custom residences on the California coast. The first few…