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 …

DONT VOTE for these people who have poisoned our city with bad policy, toxic spending, increased taxes, violations of Prop13, and have somehow managed to double the total debt of the city in the last 10 years– almost unbelievably more than the other 95 years of Newport’s history, combined. Members of our awful council currently up for election in November …

Not in Newport, but we feel his pain! Sealion snatches fish from fisherman. What would you do?

Yesterday, the tide washed up an embarrassing story for our city. In 1988, an inventor from France created an “artificial reef” comprised of 1,500 used tires off the coast of Balboa Peninsula. The storm caused by the hurricane blew these tires ashore. It took nearly an hour for the “gunk” to wash off of them. There was no life growing …

Newport Beach PD will be conducting a DUI checkpoint at an undisclosed location tomorrow, Friday the 29th between 8pm and 3am. DUI Checkpoints are claimed to reduce drunk driving mostly by deterrent, but also serve to actively arrest those who are driving under the influence. This is a good time remind everyone that when you drink, please call a taxi …

We will likely see over 25 foot waves at the Wedge from WED-FRI, thanks to Hurricane Marie being just 800 miles off our coast. Will this mean tubes? Not counting the “double stacked” waves at the Wedge, our other beaches will be seeing waves from 7 to 10 feet along south-facing beaches starting Wednesday, with occasional sets of 12 to …

Have you seen this strange creature before? The wind blew thousands of them across our local coastline today. Apparently, they are called “By The Wind Sailors”, and they could start stinking pretty badly if we don’t clean them up very soon! We’ve never seen them before– have you? Photo credit to Newporter Jill O’Leary More info here: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/millions-jellyfish-sailor-creatures-invade-west-coast-beaches-n170986

BREAKING: City Council Candidates Scott Peotter and Kevin Muldoon support our proposal to AUDIT our $250m city hall. Our neighbors of the same population size built their city hall for $24m, and as Irvine’s audit of $250m debacle turns into more and more of a fiasco, we will surely see more join in on the calls for an audit. We …