The Newport Beach Wine & Food Festival returns October 3 to 6 with an itinerary sure to delight. Expect an opening night gala with a live auction benefiting Covenant House, a celebrity chef golf tournament, and cooking demos led by renowned chefs Richard Blais, ... More

It was a youthful whim that led Jessica Glasier to her thriving career as one of Orange County’s foremost fine art consultants. While studying in Paris, she impulsively decided to take a class that focused on Picasso. Immediately she fell in love with art history, changed her major, continued her ... More

Stroll into the just-opened Lilly Pulitzer shop in Newport Beach, and you’ll instantly be surrounded by breathtaking floral vines that rival the brand’s designs. Walk past the stunning bespoke mural frames that decorate the sales floor and head toward the fitting rooms, which are uniquely painted with Cali-inspired designs, including ... More

The Laguna Art Museum was founded back when the city, now synonymous with both luxury and Snapchat’s Endless Summer, was but a mere artists’ colony. The town’s artist population banded together to form a locus to both showcase and preserve their works. Fast-forward a hundred years to ... More

Hot off the success of Knife, his award-winning restaurant in Dallas, Top Chef veteran and culinary wonder John Tesar decided to make his way westward for his next culinary venture. When he wound up in Laguna Beach, planning the launch of Outer Reef, a surf and turf restaurant he’s opening ... More

After more than two decades of helming the kitchens of high-end dining establishments, most recently the Studio at Montage Laguna Beach, acclaimed chef Craig Strong branched out to open his very own restaurant, Ocean at Main, which feels like a love letter of sorts dedicated to the ... More

It’s only fitting that housed in the largest (and arguably most luxe) shopping plaza on the West Coast is also the largest single-level retail floor in the Americas, thanks to Louis Vuitton. The addition to the fashion house’s empire, designed by Peter Marino, officially reopened after massive ... More

Works made by California artists and pieces that symbolize the state’s way of life and history are on display at the Laguna Art Museum, which is marking its centennial with a year-long celebration. Kicking off the festivities ... More

Bob Olson, president and founder of Irvine-based R.D. Olson Development, lives on Newport Beach’s exclusive Balboa Island in a home he built to emulate a grand Nantucket aerie. Just across Newport Bay sits its jumbo-size doppelganger: Lido House Newport Beach, Olson’s latest development, which was designed in the image of ... More

With offices in Newport Beach, Beverly Hills and New York, Dr. T.Y. Steven Ip knows it all when it comes to coast-to-coast beauty. “The West Coast is more of a body culture. It’s warm, it’s sunny and people are more body-conscious—but the face work on each coast ... More