Conejo Valley Lifestyle and Entertainment

Newbury Park director/writer Cole Claassen filmed part of his movie in Thousand Oaks on Monday.

They may be recipe-contest newbies, but Olivia Smith of Oxnard and Winona Krieger of Agoura Hills are far from beginning-level cooks. When she showed up for the California Strawberry Festival Berry Blast Off recipe contest semifinals early this month, Smith ...

The Titanic, naturally, has drawn a boatload of nautical attention this year as people the world over mark the 100th anniversary of the ship's tragic loss at sea.

George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's "The Man Who Came to Dinner" can't hide its vintage. Precious few contemporary comedies would involve a cast of two dozen, some in multiple roles, and a playing time including two intermissions.

Things are in a stew at ¡Loteria! Grill, newly open at the food court in The Promenade in Thousand Oaks. The grill chain's particular approach to Mexican food is to make a group of guisos, traditional regional stews, and serve ...

If variety is the spice of life, then variety might not have enough spices in the rack to keep up with all the worldly sounds that emanate from Luis Conte's drums. The Cuban-born percussionist, who has called Thousand Oaks home ...

Thousand Oaks resident Tony Ferrari has realized a dream by releasing his first full album to the iTunes store, where his debut album has gained a surprising measure of success for the 20-year-old college student and novice songwriter.

When Ariella Seltzer, Lisa Uchiyama, and Danna Darma were high school students, they dreamed about one day going to fashion school and making it in the highly-competitive fashion industry. So far the dreams of these three young local women are ...

Canadian pianist Anton Kuerti, guest soloist with the New West Symphony tonight through Sunday, should feel right at home in the U.S. during this political campaign season: In 1988 he was a National Democratic Party candidate for Canada's Parliament. Lucky ...

About 175 children with special needs were invited Friday morning to come and enjoy the carnival at Conejo Valley Days in Thousand Oaks.

The event, which features live entertainment and carnival rides and games, has been a fixture in the Conejo Valley for 56 years.

California neophyte Alexander Schimpf deserves better. The 29-year-old German pianist is on his first trip ever to the state this week (the farthest west he's been in the U.S. is Mississippi). Like many international guests, the first thing he'll see ...

This is no rumor: Lindsey Buckingham is going his own way. No, he's not leaving Fleetwood Mac. He's simply hitting the road, by himself, to play a series of one-man shows in support of his 2011 album "Seeds We Sow." ...

With India second only to China in the world population count (the U.S. is a distant third), it's not just another foreign country we can think of as "somewhere over there." Indian people and culture are "here," too, in the ...

For Donna Deutchman of Thousand Oaks, a pivotal moment in her life came when she realized that her once-satisfying job at a university no longer offered her the chance to fulfill her personal or professional goals. She walked away, switched ...