UPDATE @1:05pm: NOAA has updated to say that they believe the El Nino will be a weak one. BREAKING: Just 30 minutes ago, NOAA officially confirmed that an El Nino was a very likely event.  They expect it to begin in 1-2 months and last into the Spring of 2015. What’s that mean for us in Newport?  A winter filled with weirdness. …

Photographer Sean Olsen is a California native. From an early age, he has shown interest in graphic arts and viewing life through the lens of a camera. He is currently using a Canon T3i to shoot his images. He enjoys traveling and talking with practically anyone he meets. Sean resides in Corona del Mar and enjoys living life to the …

I will be speaking at one of the two Measure Y forums this week (I am anti-Y). Today will be a debate called “Y or Y Not” with a reception at 5:30pm in the Newport Beach Civic Center Community Room, 100 Civic Center Drive.  It will start at 6pm and last about an hour. Yes on Y will be represented by former Mayor Don …

In this photo taken just 99 years ago, we see Balboa Island as it was when Collins shaped it, with just a few homes in sight. Do you have any favorite photos of old Balboa Island?        

Tomorrow night (well, technically, super early Wednesday morning), on Oct 8, 2014, there will be a full lunar eclipse. This eclipse can be seen from the West Coast, Hawaii, and Eastern Australia Southern California eclipse times are: Eclipse START: 1:17 AM Eclipse PEAK START: 3:27 AM Eclipse PEAK MAX: 3:55 AM Eclipse PEAK END: 4:22 AM Eclipse END: 6:32am Will you be watching?

Feet to the Fire was an interesting one, this time around.  The three candidates running as a slate with Dave Ellis as their campaign manager did not bother to even show up.  However, they did provide those candidates with empty chairs with their name on them, to shame them publicly (which was well-deserved). Those candidates were the following: – Kevin Muldoon did …

“Bathing Beach and Bay at Newport Harbor, California.  Balboa Island in the background, 1944” The photo says it all– but do you know the exact location?

Most all of current council have endorsed Measure Y– with the headlining person being current councilman Keith Curry.  If that’s not enough alone to make you vote against it, then let me tell you exactly how they are attempting to bilk the public on this measure, yet again: Measure Y was written by the City Attorney’s office (who also wrote the “unbiased opinion” on …

Do you know the cool story about how Balboa Island got the Grand Canal? What do you think? Would you prefer Collin’s vision, or the way it is today? The story might be cooler than the canal itself! An excerpt from the book “Newport Beach’s Balboa and Balboa Island“ by Jeff Delaney: “The Grand Canal between Balboa Island and the …

“We’ve got to pass the bill to know what’s in it”– this is the call from nearly all of the Newport Council candidates when you ask them about Measure Y. I asked the question to candidates: “Have you read Measure Y?”  All but two said they have not.  Yet every single one of them has formed an opinion on it.  How? …