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Favre: New exhibit takes an unflinching look at how illegal drugs are made, sold and abused
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
The mangled, mashed metal barely resembles the car it once was, and it speaks volumes about how drugs can destroy lives. It's impossible to visit the California Science Center's new exhibit, Target America: Opening Eyes to the Damage Drugs Cause, without passing by this demolished auto. The driver of the car was high on marijuana and crashed the vehicle in Ventura County Full story »
Five things to do in Ventura County
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
Things to do. Full story »
Comedy Tonight's 'Pirates of Penzance' production plays it for laughs in Oxnard
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
With humor more attuned to belly laughs than 19th-century British wit, Comedy Tonight Productions is applying a broad brush to Gilbert and Sullivan's popular staple "The Pirates of Penzance." Comfortably set on Oxnard High School's spacious stage and benefiting from the auditorium's up-to-date technical facilities, these "Pirates" don't come in with cat-like tread, even when the lyrics say they do. Full story »
Controversial 'Take Me Out' has a lot to say about life and baseball
Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008
Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out" is a line drive into the fertile human territory of self-knowledge, isolation, homophobia and unintended consequences. It's also a quirky valentine to baseball that takes place almost exclusively in the sport's locker room and showers, with the matter-of-fact male nudity associated with those behind-closed-door settings. Full story »
'Patience' pays off handsomely for fans of Gilbert and Sullivan's wicked wit
Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008
Thanks to the Ventura County Gilbert & Sullivan Repertoire Company, local stages are occasionally graced with some of the rarer blossoms of the pair's bouquet of witty musical satires. This time around, it's "Patience," a running joke about dueling poetic aesthetics, frivolous ladies, a mismatched corps of dragoons and an impossibly innocent milkmaid. Full story »
Five things to do in Ventura County
Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008
Five ideas of what to do in Ventura County. Full story »
Ojai ACT's 'Nerd' wears his ineptitude well
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008
Larry Shue's "The Nerd," onstage at the Ojai Art Center Theater, is built around the sensible sounding but shaky premise that if someone saves your life, you'd do anything for him in return. Full story »
Five things to do in Ventura County
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008
Five ideas of things to do in Ventura County. Full story »
Janney, talented cast shine in Dolly Parton's new '9 to 5'
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008
They are women — hear them roar with attitude and sing with exuberance and finesse. With songs by the irrepressible Dolly Parton and book by the clever Patricia Resnick, the Ahmanson Theatre has helped shape the premiere of "9 to 5" as a sassy transformation of the 1980 film that featured Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda as office workers fed up with the prevailing male-dominated scene. Full story »
Favre: Multigallery show puts German artist's prolific career into perspective
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008
Curator Ann Goldstein laughed and shook her head when asked how many works are in the retrospective exhibit "Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Full story »
Play is an odd mix of family woes, soldiers and the pope
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008
Five things to do in Ventura County
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008
Ideas of things to do in the area. Full story »
Favre: Skirball exhibition examines Karol Wojtyla's role with Jews
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008
As a boy, Karol Wojtyla loved acting in the theater, played goalie on a local team and enjoyed writing. Those interests, however, took a back seat to religion after his Polish homeland was invaded in 1939, and his friends, many of whom were Jewish, were killed by the Nazis. Full story »
Conor McPherson's 'Shining City' characters work through their battered psyches
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008
With a riveting blend of minimalist and Gothic bents, Conor McPherson weaves plays from extended conversations that bit by bit lead audiences to an altered understanding of the human condition. Full story »
Favre: L.A. museum exhibits early vacation vehicles
Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008
America, founded on the adventurous spirit of pioneers, is still loaded with cross-country explorers who prefer to take their homes with them. Full story »
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