COSTA MESA — Seasons 52, a wine bar and restaurant, has opened at South Coast Plaza, opeators announced Monday.
The restaurant offers a “contemporary American menu, a fun, accessible list of wines and cocktails, a casually sophisticated ambiance and exceptional service,” according to a news release.
The South Coast Plaza location is the first in California and the first west of the Mississippi.
… Continue Reading
From the Orange County Register
Mike Ness of the band Social Distortion is selling a house he owns on the Balboa Peninsula in addition to the vintage home he put on the market in Lemon Heights.
The Newport Beach home, listed at $1,295,000, or $637 a square foot, is under contract. The 2,033-square foot house has 3 bedrooms and 1 bath.
From the Los Angeles Times
An Orange County sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing too many spiny lobsters, authorities said.
William Robb III, 39, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count each of possessing an excessive number of spiny lobsters and possessing undersized spiny lobsters, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.
… Continue Reading: O.C. deputy pleads guilty in lobster poaching case
Doris Payne is shown during her incarceration in the Denver Women's Correctional Facility. She is now being held at the Orange County Jail. (Nathan W. Armes / For The Times)
From the Los Angeles Times
In the decades she spent honing her craft, Doris Payne employed classic elegance, refined taste, Southern charm and a sleight of hand that could earn the envy of a talented magician.
Like the best illusionists, she had a knack for making things disappear.
Payne’s life as an international jewel thief is the subject of an upcoming movie, “Who Is Doris Payne?” starring Halle Berry. But given the latest events in Orange County, the filmmakers may want to consider a new ending.
The 79-year-old was arrested on a rainy Friday afternoon on suspicion of grand theft after security guards at the Saks Fifth Avenue store at South Coast Plaza accused her of taking the tags off a Burberry trench coat valued at $1,300 and walking out without paying, said Costa Mesa Police Lt. Mark Manley.
COSTA MESA — A graduate of Orange Coast College’s culinary arts program won first place this week in a contest in which four top chefs went up against one another to see who could create a chocolate vehicle that actually moved.
Award-winning Las Vegas pastry chef Chris Hanmer, a former resident of Costa Mesa, won $10,000 [...]
Marina High School football players practice Tuesday, Aug. 31 in preparation for the upcoming season.
Ocean View High School players practice Tuesday, Aug. 31 in preparation for the start of the season.
Project Self Sufficiency hosts a back-to-school celebration with free backpacks and school supplies at the Edison Community Center Monday, Aug. 30.
Weston Scott Kruger, a Newport Harbor High School graduate, was sentenced to 25 years to life Tuesday, and will be eligible for parole in 21 years because of credit for time already served.
The defense is planning an appeal based on certain jury instructions, including those to consider that a homicide occurred at the same time [...]
Newport Harbor High incoming senior Tracy Beblie won the 11th annual Safe Passage Summer Junior Open tennis tournament Thursday at the Home Depot Center in Carson, beating Jake Hoeger of Redondo Beach, 6-0, 6-4 in the final.
Beblie had knocked off No. 1-seeded Anthony Lee of Gardena in a semifinal, 6-0, 6-2.
Beblie, who played No. 1 [...]
Oktoberfest at the Old World Village in Huntington Beach will start on Sept. 5 and run through Oct. 31 on Wednesdays through Sundays.
CORONA DEL MAR — A Lynwood man was arrested this morning after police said he got behind the wheel drunk and, from a review of a police account, essentially played bumper cars down a Newport Beach street before coming to a stop on a front lawn.
Joshua Mario Muniz, 24, was arrested on [...]
COSTA MESA — Heather Ellis can’t help but get teary-eyed when talking about how it feels to wait while lawyers and judges argue over the fate of same-sex marriage rights in California.
“I don’t really know how to say it,” Ellis, 38, said. “It’s really odd that we have to go through this.”
Ellis and [...]
Subscribe to RSS