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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Ventura County Star Stories: Entertainment</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/entertainment/</link><atom:link href="http://venturacountystar.com/news/entertainment/" type="application/rss+xml" rel="self"></atom:link><description>Ventura County Star Stories: Entertainment</description><language>en-us</language><category>entertainment</category><item><title>Hear the L.A. band's rootsy rock in Oxnard and Santa Barbara
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/northstar-rising/</link><description><![CDATA[ The Oxnard show will feature the songwriting and harmonizing duo of guitarist Matt Szlachetka and percussionist Kane McGee. Up the coast they will be ably supported by the noisy half, keyboard player Dave Basaraba and bass player Paris Patt.  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/northstar-rising/</guid><category>entertainment/music</category></item><item><title>Locey: Pennywise wants fans to 'Believe' in America again
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/punk-politics-pennywise-wants-fans-to-believe-in/</link><description><![CDATA[ Punk rockers Pennywise and The Offspring will headline the KJEE Summer Round Up on Sunday afternoon at the Santa Barbara Bowl.  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/punk-politics-pennywise-wants-fans-to-believe-in/</guid><category>entertainment/columnists</category></item><item><title>New Beck CD due out sometime this summer
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/no-headline---g11vmusbrfsbottom15ms/</link><description><![CDATA[ Beck will return this summer with a currently untitled 10-song set produced by Danger Mouse.  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/no-headline---g11vmusbrfsbottom15ms/</guid><category>entertainment/music</category></item><item><title>3 Doors Down takes its time on new CD 
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/3-doors-down-takes-its-time-on-new-cd-the-3-self/</link><description><![CDATA[ The difference between 3 Doors Down's self-titled new album, due Tuesday on Universal Republic, and its last, the appropriately named &quot;Seventeen Days,&quot; is day and night. Or more appropriately, months and day.  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/3-doors-down-takes-its-time-on-new-cd-the-3-self/</guid><category>entertainment/music</category></item><item><title> Madonna talks about new album, helping Malawi and adoption
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/13/no-headline---le4fcmadonna13/</link><description><![CDATA[ Timbaland and the Neptunes are so dominant as producers, they can sometimes upstage the artist they're working with ... unless that artist is Madonna.  ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/13/no-headline---le4fcmadonna13/</guid><category>entertainment/music</category></item><item><title>A little buddy film that works 
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/a-little-buddy-film-that-works/</link><description><![CDATA[ Like &quot;Be Kind Rewind&quot; from earlier this year, the small comedy &quot;Son of Rambow&quot; has a love of movies and is bursting with unbridled imagination.  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/a-little-buddy-film-that-works/</guid><category>entertainment/movies</category></item><item><title>'Crystal Skull' Indy returning after nearly two decades
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/crystal-skull-indy-returning-after-nearly-two/</link><description><![CDATA[ For 27 years, Indy has stood as one of cinema's ultimate Everyman heroes, a poster boy for the idea that there are some good men you can never, ever keep down.  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/crystal-skull-indy-returning-after-nearly-two/</guid><category>entertainment/movies</category></item><item><title>Newest 'Narnia' is both darker and funnier
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/focused-fantasy/</link><description><![CDATA[ More is more in &quot;The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,&quot; the follow-up to the 2005 fantasy hit &quot;The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.&quot; It's simultaneously darker and funnier, more substantive and more engaging, more violent and more technically accomplished.  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/focused-fantasy/</guid><category>entertainment/movies</category></item><item><title>Jones takes on multiple roles for Hemingway's 'Islands'
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/jones-takes-on-multiple-roles-for-hemingways/</link><description><![CDATA[  Tommy Lee Jones is taking on the work of Ernest Hemingway, signing on to adapt, direct, produce and star in the writer's posthumously published novel &quot;Islands in the Stream.&quot;  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/jones-takes-on-multiple-roles-for-hemingways/</guid><category>entertainment/movies</category></item><item><title>'Garcia Girls' is low budget but lovely
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/garcia-girls-is-low-budget-but-lovely/</link><description><![CDATA[ Before she tried on a pair of magical pants or transformed herself as the award-winning star of &quot;Ugly Betty,&quot; America Ferrera appeared in the indie charmer &quot;How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer.&quot  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/garcia-girls-is-low-budget-but-lovely/</guid><category>entertainment/movies</category></item><item><title>Hit TV writer has message for his viewers
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/hit-tv-writer-has-message-for-his-viewers/</link><description><![CDATA[ Some of the most provocative writing on broadcast television can be found on CBS on Monday nights. It airs for a combined duration of about two seconds  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/hit-tv-writer-has-message-for-his-viewers/</guid><category>entertainment/television</category></item><item><title>'America's Most Wanted' notches 1,000th arrest
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/americas-most-wanted-notches-1000th-arrest/</link><description><![CDATA[ When he started &quot;America's Most Wanted,&quot; John Walsh could point to at least one thing in its favor: Society's swampland of bad people doing bad things would never run dry. On that basis, the show seems a cinch to run forever.  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/americas-most-wanted-notches-1000th-arrest/</guid><category>entertainment/television</category></item><item><title>'Sex and the City' cast says, 'Don't blame us'
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/sex-and-the-city-cast-says-dont-blame-us/</link><description><![CDATA[ The decade since &quot;Sex and the City&quot; premiered saw the transformation of New York into a real-life set for the show, with gaggles of cosmo-swigging young women chasing the lifestyle it depicts.  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/sex-and-the-city-cast-says-dont-blame-us/</guid><category>entertainment/television</category></item><item><title>Fallon to take O'Brien's chair, NBC confirms
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/fallon-to-take-obriens-chair-nbc-confirms/</link><description><![CDATA[ Jimmy Fallon's eighth-grade yearbook at St. Mary of the Snow in Saugerties, N.Y., listed him as &quot;most likely to take over for David Letterman.&quot;  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/fallon-to-take-obriens-chair-nbc-confirms/</guid><category>entertainment/television</category></item><item><title>Newly released TV shows on DVD
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/no-headline---g10vfilmtvdvd15mv/</link><description><![CDATA[ Shows now available on DVD.  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/no-headline---g10vfilmtvdvd15mv/</guid><category>entertainment/television</category></item><item><title>Best bets
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/no-headline---g42vgochill15ev/</link><description><![CDATA[Best bets of things to do.   ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/no-headline---g42vgochill15ev/</guid><category>entertainment/culture</category></item><item><title>Favre: Ex-'Wicked' star has it made in a different shade in 'Flora'
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/08/if-the-hue-fits/</link><description><![CDATA[Eden Espinosa has spent much of her professional career being green. Now she's going red.  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/08/if-the-hue-fits/</guid><category>entertainment/columnists</category></item><item><title>Five things to do in Ventura County
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/08/no-headline---g05fivebrfs08ev/</link><description><![CDATA[Suggestions of things to do in Ventura County this week.   ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/08/no-headline---g05fivebrfs08ev/</guid><category>entertainment/culture</category></item><item><title>Comic's rude, crude nursery rhymes will fly fast and furious at The Canyon
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/08/hickory-dickory-dice/</link><description><![CDATA[ Rude and crude, not for the prude, and certainly not tired after fighting with seemingly everyone, Andrew Dice Clay will take the stage at The Canyon in Agoura Hills on Saturday night.  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/08/hickory-dickory-dice/</guid><category>entertainment/culture</category></item><item><title>Host takes her bow during archery outing
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/08/host-takes-her-bow-during-archery-outing/</link><description><![CDATA[Like a cult movie, a cult hobby is an activity that is nearly unknown to the mainstream, but is followed by a small, passionate group  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/08/host-takes-her-bow-during-archery-outing/</guid><category>entertainment/culture</category></item></channel></rss>