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HOLIDAY UNVEILS NEW LIVE MUSIC

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By Greer Wylder
October 24, 2017

Holiday, Westside Costa Mesa’s newest cocktail lounge, just unveiled a full calendar of live music and entertainment nightly Thursdays through Saturdays. Headliners performing in the intimate concert house include Bow Wow Wow on Oct. 28; The Untouchables on Nov. 4; and Missing Persons on Dec. 2.  On Thursday, Oct. 26 Holiday is hosting Country Strong, a night to benefit the Las Vegas Victims Fund with Daniel Bonte & the Bonafide with DJ Coral and Special Guest Ry Bradley. The entire schedule can be found here. Following a recent interior revamp, the art deco inspired social bar has set the stage to…

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Fall Spa Open House at Hyatt Huntington Beach

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By Greer Wylder
October 24, 2017

Pacific Waters Spa at Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa invites you to a fall spa open house on Thursday, Oct. 26 from 6 to 9 p.m. You can preview all that’s new at the ocean inspired retreat that offers seasonally-inspired therapies and exciting treatments that draw from the spas Andalusian roots. There’s also a sparkling champagne garden concept, and a menu of spa bites reflective of the coastal and Spanish influences throughout the resort. Pacific Water’s Spa fall open house will include gift bags, raffle prizes, express treatments, bites from the new spa menu and sparkling cocktails. Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach…

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MaxLove Project and The Charlie Cart Project: culinary programs to children’s hospitals

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By Greer Wylder
October 23, 2017

MaxLove Project—an Orange County nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of child cancer patients, survivors and their families—recently raised $240,000 to launch an initiative in partnership with Northern California-based The Charlie Cart Project that will put a nutritional teaching kitchen in every children’s hospital in the country. The partnership was unveiled Sept. 23 at Tanaka Farms in Irvine where MaxLove Project holds their annual Farm to Fork dinner. The Charlie Cart is a mobile teaching kitchen equipped with a sink, oven, pantry storage, kitchen supplies and more. Each cart costs $9,500, as opposed to the enormous expense of constructing a…

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Joyful Noise Music Therapy by Kalifornia Karl

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By Greer Wylder
October 23, 2017

Orange County native and musician, Karl Detken has performed since he was 13 years old in TV shows, in the film, “Duets” starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and was even a Star Search winner. Today he lives for bringing joy to retirees, seniors and hospital patients who are hurt or are healing-----with Kalifornia Karl's Joyful Noise Music Therapy.. "Each performance has something magical in it," Detken said. "Last week a daughter of one of the patients came up to me afterwards and started crying and said it was the first time she had seen her mother laugh and smile in 20 years.…

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The Mini Pink Party

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By Greer Wylder
October 20, 2017

SeaLegs at the Beach in Huntington Beach is celebrating the launch of internet sensation, The Fat Jewish’s, White Girl Wines champagne collection on Sunday, Oct. 22 at noon. The “Mini Pink Party” will take place at the beachfront venue hosted by The Fat Jewish and Alicia Whitney, owner of SeaLegs at the Beach. Guests are encouraged to wear pink to celebrate and party with The Fat Jewish and Las Vegas DJ DIG DUG. The Fat Jew got his start in the show biz world as an E! News Channel correspondent and has since gone on to create his own comedic…

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