Ojai

Rhiannon Giddens is maxed out. She recently spent a weekend in Knoxville, Tenn., performing a series of concerts with Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Thile. She has a new album, her first collection of…

The Ojai Playwrights Conference, which has provided crucial support for new play development for a quarter century, announced that Jeremy B. Cohen will serve as its new producing artistic…

Here’s where to eat — and what to order — right now.The entire bakery case at the Dutchess Just after 7 a.m. on a recent Sunday morning, a line wrapped around the bakery counter at the…

As theater economics go from bad to worse, new play development programs are quietly disappearing. The Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, one of…

Potsie for ... mayor? “Happy Days” actor Anson Williams is planning to run for office in his hometown of Ojai, Calif.The actor-director, who played Richie Cunningham’s best friend, Potsie…

“But what about the pink moment?”Despite a poolside mezcal margarita, I could hear the panic in my voice as I reminded my sisters-in-law of a uniquely Ojai phenomenon. We only had 36 hours…

Like most theater, only more deliriously so, opera is not the art of happy families. But there is American Modern Opera Company — a.k.a., and for good reason, AMOC. And there is the Ojai…

Though Ojai has been a spiritual retreat for a century, material-world anxieties have never been far away. And now, as more wealthy Angelenos make the 90-minute journey to this valley at…

Baker Kate Pepper’s co-workers at the Dutchess like to call her Brigitte Bar-dough. (Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times) Brigitte Bar-dough is what Kate Pepper’s co-workers…

The laid-back enclave of Ojai, tucked within the Topatopa Mountains some 80 miles north of Los Angeles, boasts the unofficial motto, “There’s nothing to do in Ojai, and not enough time to do…