Once in a great while, I will read a book so wonderful, that I want to share it with everyone I meet. Such a book is “Waiting for Snow in Havana, Confessions of a Cuban Boy,” by Carlos Eire. While a great portion of the book tells the story of Eire growing up in the [...]
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Waiting for Snow in Havana
September 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts, Meditations
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Homage to Jungleland?
August 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Arts, Conejo Valley, Development, Meditations, Thousand Oaks
Black lions shoot water from their mouths at a fountain adjacent to Sharky’s, at the southwest corner of Thouand Oaks Boulevard and Westlake Boulevard. The water feature is just a mile or two away from where Jungleland Park used to be, where the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza sits now. Is it a coincidence that the [...]
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Celebrating Nature with Ben Pankratz Photo
July 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Arts, Green, Meditations, Outdoors, Thousand Oaks
Ben’s photograph is of Arroyo Conejo, a year-round stream, near an equestrian trail close to the western boundary of Thousand Oaks. He took the photo in January, 2007. Ben Pankratz and his wife Lorraine have lived in Thousand Oaks since 1964. In 1990, Ben followed up a 34-year engineering career by founding and operating The Frame Gallery, [...]
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Fun in the Sun at Tropical Daze
July 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts, Conejo Valley, Thousand Oaks
I visited Tropical Daze in Thousand Oaks late this morning, billed as a Summer Music Festival. The gathering was very pleasant and laid back, with live music at the festival stage, and booths of clothing, jewelry, specialty items and food, along with civic groups. The group playing reggae onstage (and in the photo) while I was there, was listed as [...]
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Bye Bye Borders
July 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Arts, Conejo Valley, Development, Economy, Thousand Oaks, Ventura County
Is the Conejo Valley going to have only one large bookstore, starting next year? I hope not, but the 7-14 article in the VC Star about the Thousand Oaks Borders closing in January, 2011, was not encouraging. The Star reported that, in February, a variety of Ventura County clinics will be moving in to the building now housing Borders Bookstore. The [...]
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Attending the Ventura Book Festival
July 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts, Ventura County
I happily drove from the Conejo Valley, where my SUV thermometer read 88 degrees at 9:15 this morning, to Ventura, where it read 72 degrees a half an hour later. I was heading for the Ventura Book Festival, put on by the Calfiornia Literary Arts Society. Not only was the festival held in cooler Ventura, it [...]
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Local Resident Played Marc Anthony in 1934 Movie, “Cleopatra”
July 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Agoura Hills, Arts, Conejo Valley, History, Meditations
You may not know his name, but you very likely have heard of his friend, the famous director, who cast him in several large films British actor Henry Wilcoxon was plucked from obscurity by famed director Cecil B. DeMille, to play Marc Anthony opposite Claduette Colbert in “Cleopatra” (1934). Wilcoxon alsappeared in DeMille’s “The Ten [...]
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