From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Overnight Thread: Matrix Ping Pong Edition

by Tyler Suchman July 23, 2009

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LA Times: Hamlet “teeming with vitality and intensity”

by Tyler Suchman July 23, 2009

Congrats to the Theater 150 crew on a great review from Philip Brandes in the LA Times. Excerpt:

Teeming with vitality and intensity, Kubzansky’s in-your-face staging bursts from both ends of the reconfigured 80-seat venue through a central runway flanked by the two audience rows. The solid ensemble performances is heightened…

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Open Thread

by Open Thread July 23, 2009

Jon Stewart clip after the jump – strange things were happening to the home page (even stranger than usual!)
Hot enough for ya?

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Ojai-Ventura International Film Festival Announces Historic Partnership with Brooks Institute

by Lisa Snider July 23, 2009

Submitted Press Release:
Brooks Institute to Serve as Festival’s First-Ever Ventura Venue; Hosting Screenings, Workshops, Panels and Special Events on Nov. 5 – 8, 2009
OJAI, CALIF. (July 21, 2009) ? The Ojai-Ventura International Film Festival, formerly Ojai Film Festival, and Brooks Institute are proud to announce that the Institute will…

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Astrella Celeste, live and free, tomorrow night

by Tyler Suchman July 23, 2009

537725-top.jpgCome on out tomorrow night, Friday, July 24th at the Ojai Women’s Club at 441 E. Ojai Avenue. The evening features a DJ, full bar and special live performance by Astrella Celeste. Doors open at 8 p.m. Entrance is free. The event is sponsored by the Ojai Beverage Company and…

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Otto Heino tribute

by Tyler Suchman July 22, 2009

a nice post on Otto Heino by Janna over at Conejo Post. short excerpt below…

I felt like I was a friend of Otto Heino. He was just that kind of person, who, if you met him a few times, you felt like you knew him. He was so greatly talented,…

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My 4th of July Bike Ride

by Suza Francina July 21, 2009

Guest Editorial by Ojai Resident Thomas Sherk
I am writing to let people know what really happened on the 4th of July.
Some time in June I saw a Letter to the Editor in the Ojai Valley News by Earth Friend Gen for the July 4th Almost Naked Bike Ride. I decided…

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A Fairy Tale

by Fred Rothenberg July 21, 2009

Once upon a time, in the kingdom of US, a great calamity fell upon the land. A pestilence so mighty that all of the people in the kingdom were afflicted.
King Bama gathered his council, lords of the kingdom, wise men, and even those with whom the Black King did not…

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Little Ojai Fire

by Heather MacGumerait July 21, 2009

I drove passed a fire in the field across the highway from Villanova (up toward Krotona Hill) on my way home at 2:19 this afternoon. Called it in to the Ojai Fire Department and they were already on their way. It is 2:52 and I can see a column of…

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The California Budget

by Tyler Suchman July 21, 2009

from Calitics on Sunday:

And so the budget drama hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion, perhaps as soon as tomorrow. Democrats have caved and given Arnold Schwarzenegger what he wanted – a cuts-only budget that does massive and lasting damage to the state of California, to the people who live here, and to…

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