Spoil Your Taste Buds This Weekend!

Where else can you hit up over 30 restaurants within one weekend? Tell your boyfriend to beat that.

After 22 fabulous years, Taste of Newport is continuing it's tradition by feeding over 50,000 foodies this weekend at Fashion Island in Newport Beach. Visitors will be able to taste everything while drinking from 15 of the best wineries throughout California. It's still Newport Beach though so you can't forget the ice cold brews, cocktails, creme brulees!

"Nowhere else can you find an event that has culinary and entertainment offerings like the Taste of Newport," said Jeff Parker, Vice President of the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce. "With outstanding restaurants, the great backdrop of Newport Beach and world - class live entertainment, we have something for everyone. Thanks to a great cooperative efforts with our local restauranteurs, our Sponsors and many other valuable event partners, the Taste has become a landmark event."

Of course you can't leave out the music when you have incredible food. Live performances include Gin Blossoms, Foreigner, Pat Benatar, Neil Gilarldo, and Stray Cat Lee Rocker.

General admission is $25 at the gate with free parking, and all children under the age of eight get in free!

Trust us, your taste buds will thank you.

For more information, visit www.tasteofnewport.com.

Katie Cervantes
Live OC Mag
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Hang 20 at the Surf City Surf Dog Event!

Don’t be selfish with your surfboard! Share it with the dogs of Huntington Beach for the second annual Surf City Surf Dog event on Sunday, September 19.

Get ready to see the dogs “hang 20” in surfing competitions to help raise money for the animal welfare organizations.

The event is at the Surf City USA! Huntington Dog Beach on Golden St. & PCH Huntington Beach, CA 92648 from 8 AM to 1:30 PM.

The event isn’t just great entertainment, it’s also an awesome way to benefit a handful of great causes, like the Coastal German Shepherd Rescue, Huntington Dog Beach, Orange County Humane Society, The Pet Rescue Center, and Surf Dog Ricochet – Chase Away K-9 Cancer.

You’ll get to see epic waves, the “Waimea” or “Pipeline” of dog surfing events – the forecast even calls for big swells! Dogs of all shapes and sizes will be working the surfboards by wiping out and doing tandem demonstrations.

Don’t miss the Cowabunga Costume Contest and the dog/owner look-a-like contest and free expo! There will even be an appearance from Abbie Girl, an Austrailian Kelipe, rescue dog and one of the top-medaled surfing dogs in the world.

Surf Dog Ricochet will also be there, a multi faceted SURFice dog that has raised over $47,500 and inspired millions of people with SURFice dog videos.

Judges will include Tanna Federick, an avid surfer, actress, writer, producer, and dog lover. Tanna founded both Project Save Our Surf and the Iowa Independent Film Festival.

For more information, visit www.surfcitysurfdog.com and Surf City Surf Dog’s Facebook page.

Katie Cervantes

Live OC Mag

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Movie Review: The Other Guys

Directed by: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell both star in one of this year's comedies, The Other Guys, bad humor and all. Maybe it was the unexpected pairing of the two, or maybe it was the fact that we've never seen Mark Wahlberg in an action-comedy like this one. Either way, it didn't work out.

Wahlberg and Ferrell star as two detectives, Terry Hoitz and Allen Gamble, in New York City who replace former star detectives of the city (Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson)--we won't spoil why they're replaced, but it was definitely a twist. They do what they can to catch criminals who have stolen from a billionaire businessman in Gamble's small Pruis, which Hoitz says resembles a vagina. In the meantime, Gamble is carrying around a wooden gun because his real gun is revoked after he shoots it off in the office as a joke.

So basically, the movie's plot is Hoitz and Gamble chasing around thieves in The Big Apple while making a fool of themselves and pretending they're cooler than they really are.

We told you the movie was a letdown.

Of course the movie has it's funny parts--we'll give it that. Eva Mendez plays Ferrell's wife, whom he mistreats and calls boring and plain--all while she's at his beck and call. And then there's Michael Keaton who plays the chief and admits he has a second job working at Bed Bath and Beyond. He does this just to support his son who's in college and will just end up being a DJ while trying to figure out if he's bisexual.

So although The Other Guys had it's funny parts, it still left us wondering why we cared that a billionaire had his money stolen. Or why our eyes were beginning to glaze over. Or why we were playing on our phone rather than watching the movie.

Don't even wait until it hits your city's local Redbox. Just don't see it at all.

Katie Cervantes

Live OC 

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