Shakespeare gets lively
     THE PLAY'S THE THING- From top, Willow Geer, Gerald Rivers and Samara Frame perform "As You Like It" at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum from June 1 to Sept. 28. For ticket information, call (310) 455-3723 or visit www.theatricum.com.
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Radio troupe's programs earn awards
      Every Now and Then Theatre's 2006 Christmas radio adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story" has won an International Communicator Gold Award of Excellence. The troupe's 2007 Halloween radio adaptation of Washington Irving's "Sleepy Hollow: The Lost Diaries" has won an International Communicator Silver Award of Distinction.
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Have a good laugh at show
      A comedy benefit show for Retinoblastoma International will be held at 5 p.m. Sun., June 29 at The Canyon, 28912 Roadside Drive, Agoura Hills. Retinoblastoma International is a nonprofit organization working to wipe out the sometimes fatal retinal cancer which destroys the vision of children.
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Find the 'best of the wurst' at local Farmers Market
By Patrick Mooney Special to The Acorn
      Recently at the Calabasas Farmers Market I found a stand manned by Dixon Ridgway. He and his partner, Jim Bell, are known at the market as The Meat Guys. Ridgway told me that they frequently carry Schreiner's sausage. Schriener's has been making sausage for three generations in the traditional German style, which means they do not add nitrates.
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Library presents a night at the opera
      As a culmination to the L.A. Opera Talk series, the Friends of the Platt Library will host an evening of live opera at 7 p.m. Tues., June 17 at the library, 23600 Victory Blvd., Woodland Hills. L.A.
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