Television game show icon Wink Martindale will entertain at the Calabasas Savvy Seniors Luncheon and Spring Class Registration from noon to 2 p.m. Wed., March 20 at the Calabasas Country Club, 4515 Park Entrada. Guests can register for Savvy Seniors spring and summer classes, lectures and excursions as well as meet class instructors, neighbors and other active seniors during the […]
2013-03-07
Incumbents Bozajian, Maurer, Shapiro reelected to Calabasas City Council
Jody Thomas a distant fourth in rancorous municipal electionOnly 15 votes separated the top two vote-getters in Tuesday’s Calabasas City Council election, yet the race wasn’t even close. Voters overwhelmingly chose incumbents Mary Sue Maurer, James Bozajian and David Shapiro in the three seats up for election. Almost 1,000 votes separated third-place finisher Shapiro and the only challenger in the race, fourth-place finisher Jody Thomas. “It feels great. […]
Young entrepreneurs charged up about their high-tech invention
Dan Friedman is a young man with an idea that he hopes will make life easier for people who need to charge their high-tech gadgets on the go. The Agoura High School graduate, now 21, and his business partners are launching a gadget called FuelBox, a self-contained charging station for phones, tablets, cameras and other devices. Friedman plans to peddle […]
Former gang member to speak
Victor Rios, an associate professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara, will speak at Cal Lutheran University at 7 p.m. Tues., March 19 in the Lundring Events Center. Rios, who dropped out of school and joined a gang at age 14, was helped by a teacher and a police officer, eventually earning a Phd from UC Berkeley. He will discuss […]
Hot Flashes
Macaroni Girls When someone forgets a punch line, one of us jumps to fill in the blanks. Well, we don’t really jump because we’d end up in the ER, but you get my drift. When we talk about an “ex,” chances are his derriere will show up on a dartboard in the near future, with plenty of darts all around. […]
Documentary to screen
Pepperdine University and the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains will show James Redford’s film “Watershed” at 7 p.m. Thurs., March 7 at the university in Malibu. “ Watershed” is executive produced and narrated by Robert Redford and directed by awardwinning filmmaker Mark Decena. The film tells the story of the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River and […]
On the Trail
The last great best hike in the world Patting his rotund middle, my hiking buddy Tiller Montalban pondered my trail map’s description of the route I’d planned. “Strenuous,” he said, enunciating every syllable in a tone one might associate with a condemned man begging for mercy as he’s being led to the gallows. Meanwhile, waiting in the car for just […]
Parapsychologist fancies discussion about UFO’s
Dr. Barry E. Taff, parapsychologist and UFO author, will speak at the next meeting of CERO International at 7 p.m., Sat., March 9 at the Thousand Oaks Inn, 75 W. Thousand Oaks Blvd. CERO is the Close Encounters Research Organization, a group that investigates reports of UFOs and encounters with their occupants. Taff has a doctorate in psychophysiology with a […]
Dance fever hits Yerba Buena
MOVIN’ AND GROOVIN’— Second-grade students from the Laurie Milgrim and Judy Sher classes at Yerba Buena Elementary School in Agoura Hills were treated to a six-week residency dance class with instructor Celena Turney. Left, Emma Oren, Merrosha Kotler, Alexandra Humphreys and Nina Nejadrasool practice one of a variety of dances they learned. Below, Trenton, Mateen, Pyrce and Ian warm up […]