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SHRIMPFEST22 at San Pedro Fish Market Long Beach

By Greer Wylder

October 13, 2022

San Pedro Fish Market Long Beach is pleased to present the second annual SHRIMPFEST22 on Saturday, October 22 from 12-6 p.m. Experience a seafood extravaganza in honor of National Seafood Month complete with live entertainment, prizes, a shrimp eating contest, and more! The celebration kicks off with a shrimp eating contest with competitive eater Raina Huang and contenders vying for the title of SHRIMPFEST22 Shrimp Eating Champion. The event continues with an afternoon of exciting entertainment, exclusive gifts and prizes, social activations, and all-day happy hour food and drink specials.The fun does not stop there—this year’s event will be documented in…

Beach, Brews & BBQ!

By Greer Wylder

October 12, 2022

The seventh Annual Beach, Brews, and BBQ returns to the beautiful Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort on Saturday, October 15, 2022, from 1-6 p.m.!The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Orange County Chapter’s Beach, Brews, and BBQ is by far the tastiest charity event of the season, featuring unlimited samples of handcrafted beers, the best BBQ in town, live entertainment, and auctions to win amazing items. Eat, drink, dance the day away with live entertainment from The Droppers, and bid on unique silent and live auction items. Come on out and find out why this event has earned its reputation as the craft beer event of…

The 2022 Newport Beach Film Festival

By Greer Wylder

October 12, 2022

The 2022 Newport Beach Film Festival will host world premieres, awards contenders, nightly special events, and compelling conversations with filmmakers. This year’s highlights include the Opening Night film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and the Closing Night film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Centerpiece films will also include All Quiet on the Western Front, Argentina 1985, Armageddon Time, Bardo, The Banshees of Inisherin, Broker, Corsage, Devotion, Empire of Light, The Good Nurse, Joyride, The Lost King, My Policeman, Mothering Sunday, She Said, Taurus, White Noise and Women Talking. The Festival Honors event will also recognize Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch: Kerry Condon (The Banshees of…

Newport Beach Film Festival 2022 Festival Honors

By Greer Wylder

October 12, 2022

The 2022 Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) proudly announces its 2022 Festival Honors, to take place on Sunday, October 16 at Balboa Bay Resort in conjunction with Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch. This year’s honorees attending the Festival Honors event include Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Ron Howard (Thirteen Lives) who will receive the Variety Legend and Groundbreaker Award for his outstanding creative leadership and impactful artistic achievements that have proved both visionary and enduring. Four honorees – Aubrey Plaza (Emily the Criminal), Jonathan Majors (Devotion), Keke Palmer (Nope) and Patton Oswalt (I Love My Dad) – will receive Artist of Distinction Awards, presented to individuals known for…

The Human Trial at The Newport Beach Film Festival

By Greer Wylder

October 07, 2022

For the past decade, I have been an Executive Producer of a documentary called The Human Trial in the hopes of one day showing the world the human side of type one diabetes, what it’s like to live with it, and why it’s so important to cure it. Life with diabetes--both type one and type two--can take an enormous physical and emotional toll on patients and their families.The Human Trial filmmakers, Lisa Hepner and Guy Mossman are partners in film and husband and wife. Lisa knows firsthand what it’s like to live with type one, she’s had it for the past 30 years,…