Best Buys -- Greer Wylder

Atkinson’s Men’s Clothing is selling Reyn Spooner shirts at $15 off

the regular price for Father’s Day. The offer is good through June 15.

Atkinson’s sells fine traditional men’s clothing, shoes and accessories.

It’s in the Lido Marina Village at 3430 Via Lido, Newport Beach. (949)

673-0653.

Nordstrom is having its half-yearly women’s and kids’ sale with

savings of 20% to 40% throughout the store. Shoes, apparel and

accessories are reduced for women and kids, and there’s a ton of new

merchandise purchased for the sale. Nordstrom is at South Coast Plaza in

Costa Mesa. (714) 549-8300.

Another new Tight Assets store opened on the corner of East 17th

Street and Irvine Boulevard, next to Brueggers Bagels in Costa Mesa.

Tight Assets was temporarily at Fashion Island, and has other locations

in Palm Desert, El Paso and Carlsbad. “We specialize in workout wear,

dance wear and hip street wear,” says owner Heidi Miller. “We also

specialize in awesome customer service and really cool clothes.” Tight

Assets carries workout wear from Danskin, Pezzi, Carushka, Marika,

Everlast, Apple Green, Prairie Cotton, M. Rose and Hank, One Step Ahead

and exclusively ATO from Brazil. Dance wear is from Capezio, Barishnikov

and Danshuz. And street wear is from Vertigo (all of the recent arrivals

from France), Papillion Blanc, Ario, Kamellia, Blah Blah, Nicole Miller

and more. If you bring in a gym or dance school membership, you’ll

automatically receive a 10% discount on all purchases. (949) 646-8200.

Local photographer Julie Norton, who specializes in black and white

photography, is offering a special. If you call before the end of June to

schedule a sitting before September, the sitting fee will cost $85 and

include one 8-by-10-inch photograph. It’s a $125 value. The pricing

schedule for prints are holiday cards 4-by-6-inch (minimum order of 50,

one image) for $2 each; 5-by-7-inch prints for $40; 8-by-10-inch prints

for $60; 11-by-14-inch prints for $90, and 16-by-20-inch prints for $125.

All of Norton’s portraits are individually hand-printed on fine gallery

paper. (949) 650-5616.

Nature lovers can go on a two-hour guided kayak tour of the Back Bay

with a trained naturalist guide. The tours are offered at 10 a.m. Sundays

from the Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort at 1131 Back Bay Drive, Newport

Beach. The fee is $20, or $10 for members of the California Wildlife

Campaign and Newport Bay Naturalists and Friends. (800) 585-0747.

The Body Centre Day Spa is offering specials on spa treatments.

There’s a 90-minute relaxation massage with deep back therapy for $69, a

one-hour spa facial and one-hour relaxation massage for $99, and a prepay

package of three one-hour deep tissue sessions for $155. Other services

offered are massage therapy from $35, skin care treatments from $39, spa

and cellulite treatments, and laser hair removals. The Body Centre Day

Spa is open seven days a week. There are two locations in Costa Mesa: 660

Baker St., Suite 101 at (714) 668-9925; and 103 E. 17th St. at (949)

645-4020.

Villa Nova offers low-priced meals on their twilight dining menu

that’s served until 6 p.m. every night, excluding Saturday. Entrees are

priced from $7.95. The award-winning Italian cuisine restaurant is on the

Newport Bay at 3131 W. Coast Highway, Newport Beach. (949) 642-7880.

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