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Artists Opening: Christine Leong & Andrea Vargas

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in Past Openings

Christine Leong & Andrea Vargas

March 15 - May 13, 2018

Fox Fine Jewelry, Ventura, CA

Christine Leongs Mountains in Blue

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Review: FLAX’s The Dialectic of the Stars Bodies 2

By Allyson N. Adams

in Dance

Review

Dance

Beyond The 805

The penultimate evening of FLAX’s The Dialectic of the Stars Bodies2 features choreographer and dancer Noé Soulier. Fabien Danesi, the curator of the series, describes LA as “both cinematographic and paradisiac, but also artificial”. His inspiration for The Dialectic of the stars draws a star in Los Angeles: a place of contradiction, hallucination and mystery, at once “political and poetic.” I keep his portrait of Los Angeles at the forefront as he introduces Soulier.

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MAR

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8 Facts About A Remarkable Young Man.

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in Film . Music

On Wikipedia, it mentions that Ethan Bortnick has 6 occupations, they are a pianist, singer, actor, songwriter, composer, and comedian, and he is only 17 years old!! He has accomplished more things in his seventeen years than most people in a lifetime and I have a feeling that he is only just getting started.

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FEB

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Review: ETC’s The City of Conversation

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Theatre

Theatre

Review

Wrongs of the Righteous

Anthony Giardina’s timely play, The City of Conversation, now playing at Santa Barbara’s ETC, traces the story of a fictional Washington D.C. political doyen, Hester Ferris, pushing American politics Pamela Harriman-style, behind the scenes in her dining and drawing rooms, across four decades and many more presidential regimes. It is in many ways a difficult play to pull off, in spite of its many funny lines, and pertinent content.

This ETC production fairs better than most, in large part thanks to Sharon Lawrence’s superb rendering of Hester Ferris, its lead character. In a sense, the main reason to watch this play is to see Lawrence work her magic.

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FEB

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Review: This Random World

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Theatre

Theatre

Review

Steven Dietz's This Random World at SPTC

Santa Paula Theatre Center kicks off its 2018 season with a wonderfully good production of Steven Dietz's This Random World. SPTC produced Dietz's Becky's New Car last season as well; but these are two very different plays with little in common except Dietz's genius for fascinating female parts; a beautifully controlled, understated sense of humor; terrific writing; and Dietz's particularly good-hearted, slightly off-kilter somewhat philosophical bent.

Scott Blanchard (L) and Aileen-Marie (R)

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FEB

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Art Review: Vonder Gray at WAV

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Visual Arts

Art Review

Vonder Gray at WAV

Vonder Gray's exhibition of new work at the WAV is an important show for this artist, the WAV and the greater Ventura art community. Continuing her recent forays into improvisational abstraction, featuring large, sometimes unstretched, paintings on canvas, the new work is more open, expansive, confident, and larger in conception.

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FEB

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Why probiotics should be part of your routine in 2018

By BPT (sponsored editorial content)

in MIND BODY & SPIRIT

At the turn of the calendar, many people begin taking action on what they plan to accomplish in the new year. Some have resolved to take up a new hobby, to save more money, to travel and, of course, to improve their health.

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FEB

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Psst, did you hear? February 2018

By Food & Wine Staff Writer

in All Content

THE BEAR AND STAR TEMPTS CUPID WITH A ROMANTIC VALENTINE’S DAY DINNER-

Los Olivos’ The Bear and Star, serving “Refined Ranch Cuisine” inspired by the Parker family hospitality at the eponymous Fess Parker Inn, celebrates Valentine’s Day Dinner on Wednesday, February 14, 2018, with a holiday menu created by Chef John Cox and his team. The Bear and Star has quickly been embraced by food-conscious diners applauding the restaurant’s sustainable menu program. The restaurant is a pioneer in Santa Barbara County in its true ranch to table philosophy, with a commitment to sourcing most of its meats, fowl and produce from the Parker ranch and organic farm or nearby purveyors, built on Santa Barbara County’s rich ecosystem.

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Psst did you hear? THE BEAR AND STAR S.Y. KITCHEN The Cave The Lark

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JAN

25

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CREATING COMMUNITY

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in SOCIETY PAGES

It was a festive night of eating, drinking and community at Ventura County’s first and only public market, The Annex, the evening January 11th for a private VIP Celebration, which recently opened at The Collection at RiverPark in Oxnard.

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JAN

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5 Skincare Misconceptions Debunked By A Dermatologist

By BPT (sponsored editorial content)

in Beauty

Figuring out what's best for your skin can feel like solving a difficult mystery — everyone’s condition is unique, there are countless treatment options and people will do almost anything for a clear complexion.

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BEAUTY TIPS OF THE WEEK - 5 Tips to make a body beautiful.

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in Beauty

Winter time can be harsh to ones' body, here are 8 tips to help you through the rest of winter.

Why reinvent the wheel if it's already working, that's our new philosophy for beauty tips, there is so much information on the internet already why come up with new tips. We decided to create lists showcasing some of our favorite tips that are already out there on the internet biosphere.

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JAN

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Ligia Lewis' minor matter at REDCAT

By Allyson N. Adams

in Dance

Dance

Beyond The 805

The dance starts and ends with black, the absence or complete absorption of visible light. What happens in between is red; as the second installation of a three part performance, minor matter is a fervent outpouring of joy giving life to rage, rage to joy.

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JAN

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Wilderness Course For All

By John Hankins-_Guest Writer

in LIFESTYLES

Creek help CROP Danielson Monument Photo by Cara Pedan

Creek help, Danielson Monument Photo Credit: Cara Pedan

The local Sierra Club’s annual Wilderness Basics Course promises adventure, friendships, confidence, beauty, weather, inspiration, knowledge, tasty food and hardy health.

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Psst, did you hear? January 2018

By Food & Wine Staff Writer

in All Content

Did you hear the city of Camarillo is having their first ever Camarillo Restaurant Week to showcase their local culinary scene.

During this citywide one-week dining event, restaurants will showcase their best dishes and/or add a special item to their menus. Participating restaurants will offer dishes priced under $20 for lunch and $33 for dinner. Menus for participating restaurants can be found at VisitCamarillo.com/RestaurantWeek with more to be added.

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NOV

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Psst, did you hear? November 2017

By Food & Wine Staff Writer

in All Content

Here is a list of restaurants in the 805 that are offering Thanksgiving menus, a perfect opportunity to get out of the kitchen this year.

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NOV

13

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Review: Perlmutter’s Directing Hamlet

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Theatre

Review-

First, let us hear it for doing new theatre, new scripts, producing local playwrights’ new plays, or more courageously yet, workshopping new plays. Plays do not bloom, full-grown, out of the head of Zeus. As they say in Silicon Valley, if you are not doing something new, you have no future.

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NOV

13

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Review: Taking Sides

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Performing Arts

Review-

Rubicon Theatre in Ventura’s downtown cultural district is doing Sir Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides through 12 November 2017. Harwood did The Pianist and has repeatedly shown interest in World War II-related moral dilemmas. Taking Sides fits right in. It’s basically a military tribunal “trial” by the American occupation command in Berlin of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the great German conductor who stayed in Nazi Germany throughout the Nazi era and World War II.

Patrick Vest as Major Arnold, Tara Donovan as Emmi Straube and Peter Van Norden as German composer Wilhelm Furtwängler in Taking Sides by Academy Award-Winner Sir Ronald Harwood and directed by Ovation Award-winner Stephanie Coltrin.
Photo Credit: Josh and Veronica Slavin

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NOV

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Art Review: Chagall at LACMA

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Visual Arts

BEYOND THE 805

Art, Theatre, and Costume Design

Chagall at LACMA

The exhibition Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA] on view until 7 January 2018 is a special kind of exhibition. It deals with Chagall’s involvement with specific dance performances during his mature years when he was at the height of his powers drawing from long-held connections to music, stage, and dance. Due to the difficulty of exhibiting this type of material, it is probably, unfortunately, a once-in-a-lifetime experience and may never be repeated.

Installation view, Marc Chagall designed costume for the Magic Flute opera, Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through 7 January 2018, copyright 2017 Artists Rights Society [ARS] New York / ADAGP Paris. photo: Copyright Fredrik Nilsen.