While we’ve noisily building momentum on Facebook over the last year, SaveNewport now has over 2,800 subscribers and a weekly reach of more than 35,000 people in [mostly] Newport Beach.  Some weeks, our reach peaks over 6 figures!  As a project that I started simply to help raise awareness of our city council and management, this has grown further than I had …

“Cold Beer, Hearty Faire, Live Music, Plenty of Fun… and More Beer!” Saturday, September 27, 2014 2 pm – 5 pm For those of you who can’t make it to Germany for Oktoberfest this year, you can celebrate with the Balboa Bay Resort at their first-annual OktoberFestival – the large party will kick off the Oktoberfest season!  This will be a new, modern take …

CdM’s Coastline Classic Car Show begins today at 10am.  This classic car show benefits The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation, and will last until 4pm today.  Tickets are $15 (kids under 12 are free), and do not include parking (shuttles provided free of cost for off-site parking) Doors open at 10am, and at 11am commentators will begin. From 10am to 2pm, the event …

We are looking for photos of this weekend’s waves to be republished (with credit to you, of course!) Today the waves are going crazy, and yesterday we witnessed two boards being split within about 10 minutes of each other… always a sad sight, but what a set! Do you have photos that you’d like to share of this weekends waves– …

Don’t tell the non-adventurous, but Mavericks Gastro Pub on Balboa Peninsula is now serving vodka-infused gummybears, and they are dangerously delicious! (So are their burgers, fried chicken, and shockingly-delicious pickle chips!) Mavericks is a new Gastropub located on the corner of Palm and Balboa, at the location of the old Bubbles.

Huge numbers for blue whales sightings recently, with the warm waters of the coming El Nino pushing them up from their normal habitats.  Combined local counts in the last week (8/31 – 9/5) show: 10 blue whales, 3 Fin Whales, many thousands of common dolphin and a few dozen bottlenose dolphin spotted off Newport’s coast alone. These numbers suggest that there …

Today’s waves at the Wedge are courtesy of Hurricane Norbert. Expect 12 foot waves at the Wedge, with occasional 15 footers (or more!). High tide will be at 7pm today, just in time to begin your wave-filled weekend! High tide on Saturday will be at both 8:10am and 7:45pm. Sunday afternoon’s waves will be the peak of the sessions, with …

Newport has a set of three sirens on Balboa Peninsula, primarily designed for tsunami warnings– but can be activated for any major situation. The sirens are located as the image shows: The Wedge, by 15th and Bay, and West Newport by 60th & Seashore. The first Friday of each month (that’s today!) a test is conducted at noon. If you …

It looks a bit different now, but here’s a snapshot of Charlie’s Chili from May of 1975. That mustache is serious business! ‪#‎tbt‬ ‪#‎throwbackthursday‬ Photo courtesy Orange County Archives. Photo by Werner Weiss, from the Werner Weiss Collection, Acc#2013.6.

There will be one more big Dillman’s/Shorehouse reunion tomorrow [Thursday] at Cruisers NB, from 4-7pm. $2 off beer and $4 mixed drinks for all us old fogies. Cruisers at the same location as Dillman’s/Shorehouse was. Here’s a photo from the last one (which happened a bit too last-minute for many of us!) Tag who you’d like to, in the comments …