Ventura Lifestyle and Entertainment

The Rubicon Theatre Company has been around for 14 years, but until now, never got around to staging a play by celebrated American playwright August Wilson.

Really busy globe-trotting music guy Todd Hannigan, the finhead owner of Brotheryn Studios in Ojai, will take a break from making everybody else sound like rock stars when he does his own thing at a CD release party for his ...

Camarillo photographer Robert Diehl is both frank and earnest when he reveals one of his greatest pleasures: "Frank and Ernest." The comic strip, created by Bob Thaves in 1972, runs daily in The Star and follows the adventures of two ...

"Top Chef" star Fabio Viviani of Cafe Firenze in Moorpark and Vino V Wines of Ventura will be among the participants at the Taste of the Nation Santa Barbara.

The days are getting longer, the sun's rays are getting stronger and beach traffic is clogging the 101 on weekends. Summer must be right around the corner.

Jeff Hershey & The Heartbeats, the Ventura soul band that traveled to the South By Southwest Music Festival in March as part of the VenAustin Tour, unveiled its new music video last month. The clip, filmed at the Bombay Bar ...

While he might sound like the result of a dream date between a Smurf and Morlock, Gurf Morlix is neither of those, but rather an ever-clever singer-songwriter with a vast repertoire of songs, including many covers by the late, great ...

"Dude, let's go lay down some tracks." "C'mon, just give it a shot." "You ready yet?" Everyone in the SoCal punk band Pennywise was itching to hit the studio and record some tunes. Everyone, that is, except the band's new ...

Four musical minds in glorious sync, the Emerson String Quartet delivered a riveting performance of works by three classical icons of Europe's 18th and 19th centuries on Tuesday night in Ventura Missionary Church, then acknowledged thunderous applause with an encore ...

Alexander Schimpf, Cleveland Piano Competition winner, performed Saturday in Ventura.

Federico Mondelci's sax speaks volumes. And it sings, too, with sweeping jazz accents, delicate and insistent trills, mellow melodies and breathtaking endurance.

Of all the ways to celebrate Mother's Day, this might be the most unusual: with a beer, some hot wings and deep-fried pickle slices from Hooters.

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 ...

Will "The Best" be good enough? Ventura's Rubicon Theatre Company will find out June 3 when the Drama Desk Awards are handed out at Town Hall in New York City.