With the artistic donation of a local artist, hope is rendered in Newport Beach
Cancer survivor Frank Di Bella, right, stands with contemporary abstract artist Leonardo Cruz Melo in front of an artwork created by Cruz Melo at City of Hope Newport Beach on Thursday.
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City of Hope Newport Beach is just a couple of blocks away from Fleming’s Steakhouse at Fashion Island.
The two places are more connected than one might think.
Now 40, Leonardo Cruz Melo has been working at Fleming’s since he was a teenager. The bartender is also a contemporary artist, and the restaurant displays his paintings on its walls.
After months of waiting, south LA County bakery star Colossus Bread has opened in Long Beach. The new shop at 4716 2nd Street is the second storefront for owners Kristin Colazas Rodriguez and Nicholas Rodriguez, following fresh on the heels of their popular (and much smaller) bakery in San Pedro, which opened in 2019. The Long Beach area locals have long wanted to return to LBC proper with a shop of their own, and after months of frustrating delays they’ve now opened the doors to their new Belmont Shore home.
“We’ve wanted to open in Long Beach since the beginning,” Colazas Rodriguez told Eater earlier this year. “It’s actually been a part of my business plan since the beginning.” There’s good reason too, considering Colossus’s smaller beginnings as a farmers market stand back in the day. Since then the team has not only maintained a nostalgic pull to the community, they’ve also continued to hear from customers eager to have them back.
RETAIL By Andrew Asch | Thursday, April 15, 2021
DJM, a lifestyle-retail-center developer with offices in Los Angeles and San Jose, Calif., recently announced a $70 million recapitalization of its
Lido Marina Village retail center in Newport Beach, Calif. Some recapitalization funds will be used to pay off an existing loan; more will be used to finance the renovation of a 15,000-square-foot boardwalk on the waterfront property as well as 32 boat slips along the property’s boardwalk. The financing was assembled by
Prime Finance and
Arc Capital Partners, said Neville Rhone Jr., Arc Capital Partners’ co-founder and managing partner.
“The DJM team has done an incredible job of redeveloping and remerchandising Lido Marina Village,” Rhone said. “The property is a best-in-class example of a dynamic mixed-use environment, and we look forward to its continued success as a magnet for the many people who live in and visit Southern California.”
Haitian notes in our January 2021 auction.
We are offering 53 notes from
Haiti, split between our Live and Internet sessions. These notes span from the 1820s through the 1960s, offering notes from the early Republic of Haiti, through the U.S. Civil War period, and up to more modern times.
The standout highlights are
30177. These notes stem from
Bernard Kock’s attempts to re-settle freed slaves from the American Civil War on the Haitian satellite island of
Île-à-Vache. Bernard planned to use the island as a settlement to produce cotton, with freed Blacks as workers, and secured permission from the Haitian government to do so. The island’s own currency was produced by Kock, which could be exchanged for normal Haitian
Katelyn Runck Flaunts Cleavage In A Plunging Yellow Sports Bra & Matching Leggings At Balboa Bay Resort
Katelyn Runck treated her large fan base to another sexy Instagram update that saw her in a curve-hugging ensemble. The model s December 22 post included two new photos that added some serious heat to her already fiery feed.
The first image in the deck captured Katelyn posing on an outdoor balcony. A geotag indicated that she was at the Balboa Bay Resort. She sat in a wicker chair next to a metal railing. The model was perched on a cream-colored cushion and had one hand on the chair s arm. She gazed into the camera with a slight smile, her lips parted. The next image in the series saw Katelyn rocking the same outfit. She had a plastic container from MegaFit Meals on her lap.