Ventura County Reporter

2 days ago | vcreporter.com | Christina Fuoco

“Circle of Peace” isn’t just a Ziggy Marley song or the name of his tour, which stops Saturday, June 28, at Surfer’s Point Live at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. The show is part of a weekend of music — dubbed Roots & Boots — that includes the Boots & Brews country music festival on June 29. “Circle of Peace” is also a movement and a message for Marley. “I have an important message and it’s about a circle of peace,” Marley said while calling from his Los Angeles home.

1 week ago | vcreporter.com | Tim Pompey

Prepare thyselves to be Shakespeareized. You like that word? Shakespeare himself inspired me. And also this play, which includes a theater full of actors quoting Shakespeare. As you may guess, “The Book of Will” is about William Shakespeare. Or rather, the gathering posthumously of Shakespeare’s writings into the first official printed volume of his plays.

2 weeks ago | vcreporter.com | Paul Moomjean

It was the summer of 2021 and I was $30,000 in debt with no way out. Student loans from a master’s program that went nowhere, a car note, Best Buy credit cards, Wells Fargo credit cards and various Klarna and PayPal loans. Then my heart went out on me, and the medical bills piled up. I was broke. Dead broke.

2 weeks ago | vcreporter.com | Tim Pompey

Welcome back, Pete! The country-rock artist who hit the scene in the mid-’90s with the album “Necktie Second,” had a smash hit with “If You Don’t Love Me (I’ll Kill Myself)” and who opened for Tom Petty in 1995 on the Dogs with Wings tour, has been lying low for the last couple of decades. But with a new album “Fade Away Blue” about to be released, Droge is making something of a comeback — only this time on his terms and minus all the usual baggage that comes with stardom and touring.

3 weeks ago | vcreporter.com | Mike Nelson

How fitting, really, that someone who grew up in the surfing-friendly community of Leucadia in North San Diego County should bring her lifelong adventurous spirit to her role as music director of the 2025 Ojai Music Festival, an institution that has thrived on adventure for eight decades.