From the monthly archives:

June 2010

EAT: A photographic obsession with food!

by Myrna Cambianica June 18, 2010

The 7th Annual Ojai Center for the Arts Photography Branch exhibition “EAT” is currently on view at the Ojai Art Center. The exhibit features 55 photographs that celebrate food and eating and includes photojournalism, agrarian landscapes, food still lifes and photomontage.

Marlene Rimensberger, past president of the Ojai Camera Club, initiated the…

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How to Survive Your Next Remodeling Project

by ecologiclife June 18, 2010

Ventura, CA – June 23rd, 2010 – This free workshop, presented by Allen Associates General Contractors and co-hosted by EcoLogic Life – green design build showroom, is open to homeowners and business owners considering a remodeling project.

What is the surest path to a stress-free remodel? Meticulous organization and planning. This “Surviving…

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100+ Year Old Letterpress Finds Home with Tegan’s Art

by Tamara June 18, 2010
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Tegan Hope-Duffy, originally from Santa Barbara, CA and by now a bonafide “Ojai local” has been an artist throughout her life.  As a painter, jewelry designer, and graphic designer she is a recognized name within Ojai being  part of “Ojai Style”  since it started in 2007.  …

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Ojai Valley Museum’s “Bowled Over” Auction

by Myrna Cambianica June 18, 2010

These five examples of embellished Libbey Glass bowls are just a small sample of 50 unique altered bowls that will be auctioned on June 27 at a private home. The Ojai Valley Museum has created this fundraising event as a benefit for Ojai’s “Save Libbey Bowl” campaign. Local artists and artisans…

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Learn to Properly Use Your Body When You Garden – Workshop This Weekend

by DK Crawford June 18, 2010

as published on FoodSavant

“Lift with your legs!” Your legs, not your back!” “Stop!!” “There you go again, lifting with your back!” my father yelled at me almost daily when I worked alongside him on our farm. I was young and only half-listened, even though he’d had more than one hernia…

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Salute! Drink Excellent Beer For a Good Cause This Weekend

by SPK June 18, 2010

OBC – Salute!

Salute! is a beer & food lifestyle event whose success is born from the quality samples generously donated by our invited purveyors of finely crafted beer & food with 100% of the proceeds to benefit FOOD Share of Ventura County

Click here for Chris Wilson’s write up on the event.

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Narcotics Arrests

by Tyler Suchman June 18, 2010

from the VCSD Special Services Bureau / Narcotics Unit:

(S)uspects, (V)ictims, (W)itnesses            City of residence        …

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Food Films at the Los Angeles Film Festival 2010!

by DK Crawford June 17, 2010

Mr. Okra/ film still from LA Film Festival Website

As posted on FoodSavant

Nothing better than vittles on the big screen and this weekend in LA 6/17-6/27, there are a handful of great films being served up at the Los Angeles Film Festival!

Also, for those food-inclined, La Restaurants are having all sorts of…

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If you don’t ask, the answer is “No.”

by Jodi Womack June 17, 2010

If you don’t ask, the answer is “No.”

Photo by Whitney Hartmann

Photo by Whitney Hartmann

That’s the lesson I re-learned at the Women’s Business Social last week.

I overheard someone asking Alli from GuS (Grown-Up Soda) how she was able to have a booth at the Social. Alli joked that she & I have known each…

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Skate Park Fence and citizen access to Ojai Schools

by Tyler Suchman June 17, 2010

A guest editorial from Pat McPherson:

If you are like me, I have concerns about the 8 foot fence that is being proposed at the front of the skate park. On one hand Ojai is written up in tourist magazines about the “honor system” for selling fruit in the community, but…

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