HUNTINGTON BEACH A circle the size of a football field made up of surfers stretched across the ocean near the Huntington Beach Pier. In what many say is the biggest memorial tribute ever held for a surfer in Huntington Beach, friends, family and the surf community gathered on Sunday to pay respects to Surfline founder [...]
Beachwood BBQ is different from other barbecue joints in Orange County in one big way: It’s not just a barbecue joint.The Seal Beach restaurant has 23 craft beers on tap, a long list of vintage bottle beers and a menu to rival the gastropubs popping… Sourced from: The Orange County Register – News Headlines : Restaurant [...]
The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana is free the first Sunday of every month, thanks to a grant from Target.That includes this coming Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012. (Yes, it’s really the second Sunday, but they were closed on New Year’s Day.) Free opening hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. so get out there and [...]
By: Writer/Photographer: Chris MacDonald, The Local News Columnist More than 700 people, including 36th District of California Congresswoman Janice Hahn, and Los Angeles Fourth District Council Member Tom LaBonge, ran into the 57 degree water at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro to celebrate the New Year. Hundreds of spectators cheered and waved at the annual [...]
It has been a slow start to the winter swell season, but with the biggest waves in a long time expected to hit this weekend, we thought it would be fun to see how our readers capture the action along the O.C. coast. Break out your cameras for the “January Big Wave Photo Contest” and submit [...]
A group of about a dozen orcas has been spotted all week from Orange County to the Palos Verdes Peninsula, and whale-watchers saw five of the so-called killer whales harassing a gray whale Wednesday morning. “These are the same ones that we had for the past two days,” said Alisa Schulman-Janiger, head of the [...]
This weekend has almost everything to make the 2012 Seal Beach Surfing Championships perfect. The National Weather Service is predicting 10-foot waves Saturday along with sunny warm weather for early January, and this weekend marks the opening of the contest’s waiting period. But Surfline founder Sean Collins, the man who helped initiate the contest more than [...]
So much food, so little time.Looking back at the last year of Food Frenzy, it’s amazing just how much food we tasted – and how many restaurants remain untested on our ever-growing list of places to try. Here are 25 of the stand-outs from the… Sourced from: The Orange County Register – News Headlines : Food
The Register documented more than 60 restaurant closures in Orange County in 2011 — a list that included landmark institutions, critically reviewed restaurants and stale casual-dining chains.CLICK HERE to view the biggest restaurant failures of the… Sourced from: The Orange County Register – News Headlines : Food
It was a hazy start to the New Year – not because of all the alcohol consumed the night before, but because of the thick fog blanket that lingered on the sand. But just as noon approached on Sunday the thick fog disappeared, allowing more than a hundred revelers to plunge into a sunny New Year [...]
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