2013 Rotator Archive Stories

The Mumfords salute Springsteen at the MusiCares Person of the Year gala. Photo: Getty Images As

NEWPORT BEACH – The addition of slow-moving paddleboarders to Newport Harbor's heavy summer boat traffic has led some harbor users to question the safety of having paddlers share the channels with boaters. Standup paddleboarding, often called SUP, has exploded in popularity in recent years. The influx has led to multiple SUP rental

It's that time of year again, when the snow starts to melt, and people start shifting their thoughts toward warmer beach days. The end of the snowboard and ski season is here, with local resorts either already shut down or holding their final days this weekend. Mountain High in Wrightwood shut down its resort last weekend, and Bi

VISIT SINSin Is Pretty is located at 1850 S. Coast Highway in Laguna Beach.  Find out more on their

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Photos from the weekend at Pechanga's Silk the Club March 29 and 30. Silk has a $20 cover. For VIP tables, contact Eric at 951-595-9476. The guest list is free before 10 p.m., just RSVP by 5 p.m. the day of the event via the Silk Facebook page, or e-mail your full name to 

Mick Jagger with the band at London's O2 Arena last November. Photo: Ian Gavan, Getty Images At last,

The California State Parks Foundation is seeking hundreds of volunteers to help with Earth Day cleanups and restoration projects April 13 at San Clemente, San Onofre and Doheny state beaches. Up to 200 volunteers are needed at Doheny, 75 at San Clemente and 150 at San Onofre, according to Gretchen Krueger of the Parks Foundation. Work wi

The good news is, it's still early in the year for the competitive surfing circuit. But it's been a somewhat sluggish start for some of the Orange County surfers who are on the other side of the world competing against the world's best surfers in the Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour as the second men's event – the Ri

Etnies launched its Buy a Shoe, Plant a Tree program last month, in which the company plants a tree in Brazil for every pair of shoes purchased from its men’s, wo

RA’s Sushi ShowdownSunday, April 7, 3-6 p.m.155 5th St., Huntington Beach,714.536.6390

Fashion isn't just a young man's game. At least not when it comes to customers at Newport Coast's At Ease boutique and the owners are more than happy to play along. "It's our focus to stay in the marketplace and ahead of the marketplace," Company President Steve Knutson said. At Ease has been at Crystal Cove for five years, havin

The International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC) and the Skateboarding Hall of Fame will put on the Fourth An

WonderCon returned for the second time to the Anaheim Convention Center on March 29-31. Happy crowds exceeded 2012's attendance of 40,000 and were treated to visits from leading writers, artists, movie people, and game producers. As expected, many came dressed as their favorite heroes or comic characters and were happy to pose for photographs. T

Photos from the weekend at Pechanga's Silk the Club March 22 and 23. Silk has a $20 cover. For VIP tables, contact Eric at 951-595-9476. The guest list is free before 10 p.m., just RSVP by 5 p.m. the day of the event via the Silk Facebook page, or e-mail your full name to 

Orange County's largest and longest-running film festival is getting ready to dim the lights and run the projectors once again. The Newport Beach Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 14th annual gathering, April 25-May 2. Organizers are planning to screen more than 350 films from 50 countries, including a number of world, U.S.

As I drove up and down the coast Thursday looking for waves - to which I found none - I thought about this past swell as I drove past flat break after flat break.  All I could think about was "this place was just firing a few days ago." Then I thought, "Man, there was so much going on I'm going to check it out again."

Surprisingly, on Tuesday morning, the dying swell from last weekend was still hanging around with the small NNW back-up swell hitting, putting sets head high to a foot overhead. The sun broke through the cloud bank mid-morning and made for a mostly sunny day. It would be hard to believe this swell will be around at all Wednesday and surf should

Monday beach gloom was the start to the day, but if you could see through the mist you would have seen waves pumping some 6-feet towers on the shoreline. As the day moved, on the swell backed off. By 5 p.m. there were only slight pulses of what was a great weekend swell that kept us all happy and close to, if not completely, surfed out. Next few

Got a taste for the finer things in life? Then mark your calendars for April 13th when the producers of the OC Brew Ha Ha present Gray Cloud, a premier cigar and craft beer pairing festival at Mission Viejo’s Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club. Touted as an extraordinarily personal and intimate pairing experience, this event will

This weekend was the opening weekend for what might be shaping up to be one of the strongest spring seasons in years. Sunday was the peak of the swell, with most south facing beaches hitting 4- to 6-foot surf. Lowers Sunday evening was pumping beautiful long rights and lefts up to 6 feet on the sets with very little down time in between.

The new SSW swell started filling in nicely Friday in Orange County, with most beaches showing the increase in wave heights – but you had to find the break that didn't have morning sickness if you surfed early. Newport Beach looked like another dumpy day early this morning with not much to be had until around 10 a.m. when the tide

For almost a week now, the coast has been socked in with low clouds and coastal fog, which makes for no surf photography in the early parts of the day. But there seems to be a nice little burn-off going on in the late afternoon/early evening that's been fun to surf and shoot two days in a row. Huntington Beach local Brad Ettinger was out

The mid-period swell due in Tuesday came in the evening up and down the coast. By 2 p.m. signs of the south, southwest started to roll through, bumping the surf up two or three feet and by the evening, surf was a solid 3 feet with a few 4-footers. Swell fills in Tuesday night and runs through the next day with 3- to 4-foot surf with a couple 5-f

Photos from the weekend at Pechanga's Silk the Club March 15 and 16. Silk has a $20 cover. For VIP tables, contact Eric at 951-595-9476. The guest list is free before 10 p.m., just RSVP by 5 p.m. the day of the event via the Silk Facebook page, or e-mail your full name to