The Dose

Del Mar Opening Day and Summer Racing Season

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By Greer Wylder
July 17, 2017

Del Mar is gearing up for the highly anticipated summer racing season filled with concerts and events at the famous seaside track. The seven-week meet is the official kick-off to summer in San Diego with Opening Day on Wednesday, July 19, and the action continues through to Labor Day Monday, September 4. More than 40,000 fans are expected for Opening Day at Del Mar, a long-standing summer tradition in San Diego known as one of the most fabulous, fashionable and fun festivities in the west. The famous Opening Day Hats Contest will turn heads, as many fashion-forward trendsetters will strut…

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The Sweetest Letters

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By Greer Wylder
July 14, 2017

Luxury stationer, Sugar Paper Los Angeles known for its chic and upscale paper products created by the brand’s founders, Jamie Grobecker and Chelsea Shukov, will celebrate the opening of Sugar Paper at Lido Marina Village in Newport Beach on Sunday, July 16. The first 50 visitors will receive a $25 gift card to use at the boutique. Built around paper products and full of story-telling moments for any given season or occasion, the new location will feature the entire Sugar Paper assortment, including the brand’s bespoke stationery albums. There will also be an in- store monogramming station available exclusively at…

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Chef Bill Bracken Combating Food Insecurity in OC

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By Greer Wylder
July 13, 2017

There are chefs who lend their culinary talents at charity events to raise funds for important causes, but until Chef Bill Bracken came along and started Bracken’s Kitchen in 2013, there hasn’t been a chef primarily feeding the homeless high quality gourmet meals always made from scratch---no canned foods, frozen foods, always fresh--using an innovative rescued food program. Bracken, formerly an award-winning chef at the Four Seasons in Dallas, The Peninsula Beverly Hills, and The Island Hotel Newport Beach, as well as at the DivBar Smokehouse in Newport Beach, left a career in luxury hotels and restaurants to pioneer a…

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Farm Fresh Fun at The OC Fair July 14 to Aug. 13

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By Greer Wylder
July 12, 2017

The OC Fair kicks off Friday with a full lineup of Farm Fresh Fun. Get ready for 23 days and nights of entertainment, food, rides, shopping, exhibits, animals and headline performances in the Pacific Amphitheatre, nightly music in The Hangar and adrenaline-inducing events in the Action Sports Arena.  You can get free admission and parking for the first three hours on Opening Day from noon to 3 p.m. this Friday. The OC Fair runs Wednesdays through Sundays, July 14-Aug. 13 Here are some highlights: New OC Fair rides: The OC Fair is adding three new rides this year and one…

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The Best Sleep You’ll Ever Have

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By Greer Wylder
July 11, 2017

Your bedroom is a sacred place, the part of a home you spend your night in getting restful sleep to recharge after a long day. Unfortunately, many of us settle for a less than stellar mattress and compromise our sleep quality when we don’t know of better mattress options. Hadley Olivia Luxury Mattress Shoppe opened their doors a year ago in San Juan Capistrano with a simple purpose, to help Orange County get better rest. Founder Ronnie Lane curated a retail experience that unveils a selection of the world’s best mattresses to the Southern California market. Some of the mattress…

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