Simi Valley Lifestyle and Entertainment

Steve Blanchard, a chain-saw carver, and Michael Harris, of Simi Valley, have created a reality television show, "Saw Dogs," which will air Saturday on the Discovery Channel.

The Simi Valley Senior Center's Performing Arts Group will perform "Dreaming" from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Thursday at the senior center, 3900 Avenida Simi. The performance is free.

What's very big, not too subtle, and packs a wallop? At Simi Valley's The Egg House, it's the John Wayne dish, true to its heroic namesake. A reader emailed his joy at finding the dish at the Simi breakfast-and-lunch spot, ...

Austin Janik, 13, of Simi Valley, will be performing at the Jersey Jim's Funtastic Family Magic Show on Saturday at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, which is put on by Los Angeles-area magician Jim Wells.

A Santa Susana High School senior has developed a music therapy program for preschoolers and elementary school students.

More than 500 artifacts from Disney history will be on display beginning this summer at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley.

Abby Ward stood quiet and confident as she prepared for her audition. The 11-year old Moorpark resident has been singing since before she could talk, according to her mother, Shelby Ward.

Organizer Steve Hayes wants to get one thing straight: Although the "It's a New Day" concert on Wednesday at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center is a benefit for the choir programs at Royal, Simi and Santa Susana High schools ...

Missionaries, thugs and nightclub dancers make for the stage in Simi Valley High School's upcoming performance of "Guys and Dolls." The musical, with a cast of 44 students, will be performed at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 2 and ...

Michael John, the local bluesman behind this weekend's Simi Valley Blues Festival, concedes that the blues aren't hot in Southern California, at least compared to such hotbeds as Mississippi, Memphis and Chicago, but he's trying to change the vibe and ...

Forget for a moment that Walter Trout's new album, "Blues for the Modern Daze," dropped Tuesday or that he's one of the headliners at the seventh annual Simi Valley Blues Festival on Saturday out at Hummingbird Nest Ranch.

Michael John, Simi Valley Blues Festival founder and organizer, promises the seventh annual festival Saturday at Hummingbird Nest Ranch will be the best one yet.

Artist Rita Joyce will present a watercolor workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Simi Valley Art Association Gallery at Simi Valley Town Center, 1555 Simi Town Center Way.

A guide to local gardens you might not know about: Conejo Valley Botanic Garden, Ojai Taft Garden, Gardens of the World, Charles L. Honn Botanical Garden, Seaside Gardens and the future Ventura Botanical Gardens.