You know you’ve made it when you hit Nebraska. Orange County pop artist Josh Agle, better known as Shag, is the inspiration for a nightclub opening this month in Omaha. Local entrepreneur Terry O’Halloran is turning a comedy club there into “Shag, a vodka bar.” Plans call for a bachelor-pad vibe and monitors showing Agle’s art of cocktail drinking swingers from the 1950s and ’60s. Piet Agle, Josh’s brother and operator of Costa Mesa’s Shagmart, said the club was news to him. If you’re headed to Palm Springs, check out Shag’s “A Gracious Oasis: Paintings From Palm Springs” at M Modern Gallery …
OCBJ alum and Bloomberg tech reporter Peter Brennan shares this tidbit about Gateway boss and Business Journal Businessperson of the Year Wayne Inouye: The correct way to say his name is “in-OH-wee”,not “IN-oh-way” as in U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye. But Wayne doesn’t bother correcting people,even his own executives keep getting it wrong …
Public service announcement: state Sen. (and CPA) John Campbell urges 50,000 randomly selected taxpayers not to take up the state Franchise Tax Board on its offer to do their state tax returns for free: “Having the FTB do your return is like asking the other team to shoot your free throws in a basketball game” …
Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., drops in to the Pacific Club Wednesday for a fund-raiser hosted by the Lincoln Club …
There are eight Orange counties in the U.S.,and Steve Ambriz of the county Health Care Agency has contacted them all. He’s trying to organize a car-seat inspection in the OCs on May 18 for Emergency Medical Services Week. Ambriz, who has done some research, says you can get a four-bedroom house in OC, N.C., for a mere $150,000. The other OCs are in Florida, New York, Texas, Virginia, Vermont and Indiana. The Insider notes their combined population is half that of the OC …
Bragging rights for the OC office of Snell & Wilmer and partner Bill O’Hare: The firm had two of the Daily Journal’s Top 10 Defense Verdicts in California for 2004,for representing Tickets.com in a shareholder lawsuit and Allergan in the Irena Medavoy Botox case. S & W; was the only firm to earn two spots on the list. O’Hare, who handled Tickets.com and in 2003 represented chip distributor Advanced MP Technology against Samsung, was the only lawyer to repeat …
Another kudo for Montage Resort & Spa: Professional Builder magazine named its 14 beach villas, designed by McLarand Vasquez Emsiek & Partners, second in the nation in the “Best Attached Home, 9 to 19 units” category …
Hollywood ending: Struggling to support a family of six as an actor and screenwriter, Ed Blatchford six years ago decided to get a real estate license and sell homes around Tustin. How did it turn out? He recently paid $200,000 for a golf membership at Shady Canyon.
