December 2009

BY DONNA BUNCE Register Columnist The tray-passed red cosmo and green apple martinis were a sure sign the holidays had arrived at The Fashionable Women of Chapman's annual soiree, "Christmas at The Ritz," Saturday, December 5. This year's 23rd annual holiday celebration, held at its namesake, the venerable Ritz Restaurant & Garden in Newport Beach,

Three scribes admitted to exclusive program By JON WEISMAN     Nickelodeon's Fellowship for Diverse Writers announced three new participants, who will work on live-action and animated series for the network. The honorees are poet and songwriter Jonathan Butler (a past winner of Billboard's new artist award), playwriting and screenwriting MFA grad Stacie Craig and Chapman