Ventura County Star Stories: Culture

Comedic skills are foundation of Ojai ACT's funny 'Forum'

ritamoran@earthlink.net (Rita Moran) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0000

The Ojai Art Center Theater¿s production of ¿A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum¿ is powered by a large cast salted with stage veterans who can both sing and churn out the laugh lines.

Calendar: Theater and stage

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0000

Mighty 'Macbeth' in T.O. avoids the play's plague

ritamoran@earthlink.net (Rita Moran) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0000

Curse? What curse? Despite a few gremlins attacking the sound system on opening night, the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company¿s production of ¿Macbeth¿ in Thousand Oaks was performed without any major hitches or glitches.

Big fun at The Ford

jjfavre@yahoo.com (Jeff Favre) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0000

There's big, but affordable, fun for families at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles this summer. Big!World!Fun!, the venue's eight-week series of music and dance performances geared toward families with pre-teen children, begins Saturday at 10 a.m. with a concert by Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company.

Calednar: Concert listings

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0000

Share your Woodstock memories in The Star

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0000

It was about peace, love, hippies, drugs and the counterculture. It became synonymous with the best and worst of the turbulent ’60s.

Do tell, but don't tell who you are; that's premise of postsecret.com

kgregory@venturacountystar.com (Kim Lamb Gregory) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0000

“I hate working as a janitor for arrogant rich people. So I clean their computer keyboards with a toilet brush.”

Explorer shares his Laotian journey

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0000

A behind-the-scenes artist and poet who also works for the city of Ventura, Richard Newsham is somewhat of an enigma — and for that reason, gallery curator Sarah Kalvin gave him a show.

Sheer exhilaration