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Best Birthday Rate!

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By Greer Wylder
July 05, 2010

Here’s a screaming deal that you need to know about. The Tides in Laguna Beach, a great spot and a fantastic value for families, couples, and business travelers is offering a birthday treat through June 2011! The last two digits of your birth year is your rate on your birthday. A two-night minimum stay is required; standard rates apply on additional room nights. Here’s how it works: if you were born in 1969, your rate will be $69 on your birthday night. My favorite is the guest who got a room night for $12 on her 98th birthday from her…

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Tickled Pink!

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By Greer Wylder
June 29, 2010

Pinkberry is now offering a new limited-time summer flavor: watermelon. And stop by Pinkberry’s special Watermelon Happy Hour daily, from 5 to 7 p.m. and you will receive 50% off any size serving of watermelon Pinkberry, including swirls and side by sides. Pinkberry is OC at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, Bella Terra in Huntington Beach, The Irvine Spectrum, Santa Ana, Tustin and Fullerton. For the nearest OC Pinkberry, check here.

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Triple Savings: Passport to the Arts

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By Greer Wylder
June 27, 2010

Laguna Beach’s world-renowned outdoor summer art festivals— The Festival of Arts, Sawdust Art Festival and Art-A-Fair —are offering a passport that allows unlimited admission to all three festivals for the entire season. You can purchase a triple value Passport to the Arts just $19 (a $36 value, which includes a one-time all-day free parking with each ticket). That’s one pass and three art festivals all summer long! The festivals feature more than 500 artists, 300 hands-on workshops, 200 musical performances, dozens of special events, and an array of restaurants and other food purveyors. Additionally, selected retailers and merchants throughout Laguna…

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Taste For Change

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By Greer Wylder
June 23, 2010

David McKinley’s affair with wine began when he was growing up in Canada’s greatest wine growing region, the Okanogan Valley. He first sunk his feet into a barrel of grapes at the young age of six. When he turned 21, he immediately began work within the wine industry. However, in comparison to his new nonprofit, Taste for Change, wine seems largely unimportant to David. Around the same time that he was harvesting the sloped Okanogan vineyards, David lost his younger brother, Daniel, due to complications from Down syndrome. “He was just the most beautiful child,” McKinley said. “I begged my…

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Poker for NAP Africa

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By Greer Wylder
June 17, 2010

Care to help out a good cause? All you have to do is play poker. Really. At Bootlegger’s Brewery this Saturday from 5:30 to 10 p.m. you can join a charity poker event with proceeds benefiting an NAP Africa, an OC based non-profit based working to set up a medical clinic and preserve the Jabulani Village in Zimbabwe, Africa. The Ndebele Art Project (NAP) is an organization made up of local O.C. women endeavoring to aid the villagers’ struggling community, which has been embattled with political unrest and economic devastation. The Jabulani villagers of tradesmen and women are known worldwide…

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