Rod Rolle and Claudia Hoag McGarry

Freelance photographer Rod Rolle talks about the honor he received from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee of Santa Barbara. Then Claudia Hoag McGarry discusses her new play, I Can …

Telephone Company Commemorative Plaques

“Mr Watson, come here, I need you,” Alexander Graham Bell said to his assistant in 1876. The first words heard, and understood, through a telephone wire. Bell summoned his assistant …

Nunsense at Ojai ACT

Actors Sindy McKay, Dianne Miller, Brianna Turner, and Assistant Producer Sven Shelgren talk about Nunsense at the Ojai Art Center Theater through July 23. 

When Real Men Wore Gloves

Walt Disney put white gloves on Mickey Mouse when he made The Opry House in 1929. Those big white gloves stop at the wrist and fasten at the back with …

Art as an Asset

Senior Wealth Advisor at Northern Trust Corporation Kelli Anderson discuses art as an asset in financial planning.  Watch Video

Melmac: A Story of Modernity

In the 1960s in St. Ann, Missouri, my favorite aunt on Dad’s side, used plastic dinnerware made in the 1950s called Melmac in her modest home. When I visited my …