Word: newports
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Sure, it’s largely shot in L.A., and is set in only a sliver of Orange County’s coast—Newport Beach—that in no way represents the true nature of my beloved county. And true, wafer-thin Marissa Cooper annoys the hell out of everyone, while Ryan Atwood’s cold stare isn’t so cold when it’s used for every single emotional facial expression. But that doesn’t matter when Seth Cohen talks to his horsie Captain Oats about his girl problems...
...monitors Surfline more closely than Bill Sharp, who conceived the Billabong Odyssey 100-ft.-wave project and runs it from his office in Newport Beach, Calif. If conditions look right, Sharp, 43, is ready to fly a team of the four best surfers available at the time along with four support personnel wherever in the world big waves are developing. "Big waves need a big storm with winds preferably over 70 m.p.h., and you want it to last two to three days, ideally blowing toward you," he says. The best waves come from fierce winter storms in the north Pacific...
Yada said his school district in Newport, Ore., was so poor that school was cancelled on Fridays his senior year in high school. But he said teachers made a big impact on him by volunteering their Fridays to teach out of their own homes...
...separately. Individual artists make breakthroughs that push fields forward - for example, W.C. Handy, who called himself the "Father of the Blues", was one of the first to use "blue notes" (flatted thirds and sevenths) in a published composition, and Bob Dylan, when he plugged in his instruments at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, helped create a fresh, electrified form of folk-rock. But neither Handy nor Dylan created their fields; a lot of other artists helped shape their genres as well. It takes a village to raise a child; it also takes a village, usually, to launch a musical...
Died. Larry Capune, 61, long-distance paddleboarder who logged 16,063 miles along America's coastlines during eight epic solo trips from 1964 to 1987; of cancer; in Newport Beach, Calif. The Hollywood-born lifeguard's longest journey was a 4,255-mile trek from Portland, Maine, to Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the years, he was bitten by a sea turtle, a bluefish and a dog; hit by a tanker once and by freighters twice; and smacked in the head by a Coke bottle thrown by a pier owner who said Capune was scaring the fish...