EDITORIAL DIRECTORY
EDITOR’S NOTE - 22
COVER STORIES
Making History with Jimmy Carter - 26
By Marianne Ratcliff
A Flag for Jimmy Carter - 32
By Ilona Saari
MUSIC & THEATER
Ojai Playhouse Restored - 38
By Perry Van Houten
The Birdsong of Claire Chase
Ojai Music Festival - 72
By Agatha French
Crazy Mama - 64
By Mimi Walker
CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 80
CULTURE
A Fireman, a Councilwoman, and Three Writers Walk into a Bookstore: Why Everyone Loves Bart’s Books - 84
By Agatha French
FOOD & FARM
Weeding as Wellness Practice - 92
By John Fonteyn
From Ballet to Bread - 96
By Kerstin Kühn
Eating for Earth Day - 104
By Sharon Palmer
TRANSFORMATION & HEALING
Grief Architect, Alison Magallon - 48
By Erin LaBelle
Understanding Krishnamurti - 56
By Michael Mendizza
Unlocking Creativity - 118
By Gregg Stewart
SPORTS
Challenged Athletes - 110
By Holly Roberts
EDITOR’S NOTE - 22
COVER STORY
Jeremy Corbell takes Congress to The Outer Limits - 26
WAR STORIES:
PAST AND PRESENT
Most Honorable Son - 40
Tent City Refugees 1975 - 60
West Bank Witness -76
ART & CULTURE
Dean Martin Golddigger Suzy Cadham - 50
Ojai World Dance Festival - 86
OUTDOORS & SPORTS
Sky-Hiking - 70
VISA Soccer - 92
CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 97
FOOD & WINE
Vegan Holiday Eats - 100
ENVIRONMENT
Ojai Climate Whiplash - 106
HOME
Is Your Dream Home Factory-Built? - 114
COVER STORY:
Steve Hamhock: House Hog - 26
BIG ISSUES
Tending Sage - 36
Rewild Ojai - 44
CULTURE
The Casitas Pinstriper - 52
Ah … Fiddlesticks! - 60
ART
Ojai Art Center Turns 85 - 68
Ojai Family Photo - 81
CALENDER OF EVENTS76
FOOD & WINE
Climate Friendly Eating - 90
SPIRIT
Church of the Wild - 97
LOOKING BACK
The Pratt House - 106
HOME
She Shed Makers - 116
Volume 42 No.2
EDITOR’S NOTE - 20
COVER STORY:
Hammerin’ Hank - 26
BIG ISSUES
UnBroken, the Movie - 44
ART & CULTURE
Hawk Koch - 34
Street Typewriter Poets - 54
Junior Joiners - 70
Serendipity Toys - 118
FARM
Ojai Olive Oil - 62
Local and in Season - 90
FOOD & WINE
Pho for All - 78
Kelpful Sea Vegetables - 84
Ojai Mountain vineyard - 98
CALENDER OF EVENTS - 104
LOOKING BACK
Road House, Takin’ the Hits - 110
Volume 42 No.1
EDITOR’S NOTE - 22
COVER STORY:
Bryan Brothers at The Ojai Tournament - 28
BIG ISSUES
Common Ground movie - 34
RFK Jr. Stumps in Ojai - 44
Radioactive Rain, Santa Susana Field Lab - 60
LOOKING BACK
Bionic Duo from a Simpler Time - 52
Six Degrees of Krishnamurti - 84
EVENTS
Mitsuko Uchida at Ojai Music Festival - 72
Calendar - 80
ART & CULTURE
Jacey Clear, Renaissance Man - 94
Haunted Treasures? - 102
FARM
Totem Biodynamic Ranch - 110
FOOD & WINE
Farmer and the Cook’s Book - 118
Uncorking The Naturalist Organic Winery - 124
Volume 41 No.4
EDITOR’S NOTE - 22
COVER STORY:
Laura Dern & Diane Ladd, Honey, Baby, Mine - 28
ART
Pottery, Burt Horowitz - 38
Superpowered DC - 46
CULTURE
A Crown Wedding - 66
The Model Pastime - 120
BIG ISSUES
Man of Sorrows - 56
Demystifying the Hurriquake - 76
FOOD & FARM
Dharma Farming - 86
SPORTS
Polo Player Extraordinaire - 96
EVENTS
Calendar - 105
HISTORY
Krotona at a Century - 110
Volume 41 No.3
EDITOR’S NOTE - 20
COVER STORY
The House Cash Built - 24
ART & CULTURE
Comic Chronicles of Paula Pugh - 40
Echo Magic Music - 58
Reviving Retro Trailers - 80
BIG ISSUES
Pieces of Ukraine - 48
FOOD & FARM
The Future is Primitive - 66
Queen of Jam - 74
HEALTH & TRANSFORMATION
If a Teaching Tree Could Tell - 32
Reins of Hope - 92
Aquãtez Water Release Therapy - 100
OJAI PAST
Constable Harry Hunt - 108 Watergate Recollections - 122
EVENTS Calendar - 89
BIKE HIKES - 116
Volume 41 No.2
EDITOR’S NOTE - 20
COVER STORY
Logan Maxwell Hagege:
Visions of the Southwest - 24
COWBOYS PAST AND PRESENT
Ojai Cowboy, Sheb Wooley - 32
Law & Disorder, Ventura’s DA - 40
ART & CULTURE
Rhiannon Giddens - 48
Stoked Surfboards - 62
Khaled Fouad Photography - 122
FOOD & FARM
Mama Tree Farm -54
Fonteyn’s Fennel Feast - 84
HEALTH & TRANSFORMATION
Becoming Better Men - 68
Ojai Energetics - 76
OUTDOORS
Taft Gardens - 102
Ojai’s Soil Obsessives - 110
Summer Hikes - 116
EVENTS
Calendar - 90
Ojai Playwrights Conference - 94
Volume 41 No.1
EDITOR’S NOTE - 20
COVER STORY
Night Heron Farm - 24
TRANSFORMATION
Loevology Retreat - 32
ART & CULTURE
Photographing Our Land - 40
Ojai City Art Tour - 116
Poem: I Met You in April - 129
EDUCATION
Ojai to Afghanistan - 56
Krumpschmidt’s Family Adventure - 72
Lisa Marie Presley’s days in Happy Valley - 80
BIG ISSUES
On Sacred Ground, the Movie - 62
OUTDOORS
Spring Hikes - 50
The Ojai Tennis Champions - 86 Get it Done Trail Crew - 9
FOOD
Tesoro Mio Radicchio - 92
EVENTS
Ojai Earth Day - 108 Calendar - 113
GARDEN
Tomatomania - 122
Volume 40 No.4
EDITOR’S NOTE - 20
ART & CULTURE
Actor, Jon Bernthal - 24
Lessons from Ben Franklin - 104
OJAI THEN AND NOW
Elephant Life After Rollerskating - 40
OUTDOORS
Winter Snow Hikes - 50
FARM
Growing Ojai Roots - 32
Ventura Brush Goats - 62
The Forager, Steve Sprinkel - 114
FOOD
Rôtie’s Bread Mann - 86
Beato Holiday Chocolate - 98
Eating for the Holiday Season - 92
CALENDAR - 110
HOME
Grounded in Nature, Patrona Textiles - 54
The Landscape Craft of Pamela Burton - 120
BIG ISSUES
Death Midwife, Tending to Dying - 72
TRANSFORMATION
Horse & Heart Connected - 80
Volume 40 No.3
EDITOR’S NOTE - 18
BIG ISSUES
30 Days of Trash - 32
Rewilding the East End - 48
War in Ukraine hits home - 92
ARTS
The Cold War Album by Arthur Grace - 22
The Violin Maker - 56
SPORTS & OUTDOORS
Mounted Archery - 40
Four Fire Tower Hikes - 66
Nest of Kin - 76
CALENDAR - 42
CULTURE
Well Noted - 86
FOOD & HEALTH
Eating for the Season - 101
Marche Gourmet - 106
FARM
The Forager - 114
The House on Hermitage - 120
Volume 40 No.2
EDITOR’S NOTE - 18
BIG ISSUES
Mind of War - J. Krishnamurti - 56
OUTDOORS
Shovels and Sagebrush - 22
Four Far-Flung Adventures - 66
CULTURE
A Cut Above the Rest - 72
Oomph Inc: Rethinking the Internet - 86
CALENDAR - 112
FARM
Flower Farmers of Frog Creek - 40
Studio to Farm Stand - 78
The Forager - 127
ARTS
Modern Opera in Ojai - 32
The Art of Mary Neville - 48
Downtown Art Tour - 114
FOOD & HEALTH
Yoga - Jennifer Pastiloff - 120
Eating for the Season - 100
OJAI PAST
Resident Racoon - 94
The Manson Girl - 106
SPRING 2022
Volume 40 No.1
EDITOR’S NOTE - 14
BIG ISSUES ON FILM
The Seeds of Vandana Shiva - 18
Revolution Generation - 56
CULTURE
Zavier & Boop - 38
Jes Maharry - 48
OUTDOORS
Reborn in the Wild: Rick Ridgeway - 28
Life with Horses - 64
Skate Ojai - 82
Australian Natives - 104
Spring Hikes - 124
HUMOR
The Forager - 69
FOOD AND HEALTH
Earthtrine Farm - 74
Dining & Tasting - 73
Medicinal Herbs - 90
Mindfulness & Healing Directory - 97
Chakra Chai - 98
OJAI PAST
A Chumash Chapter - 114
REAL ESTATE - 120 64
Volume 39 No.4
EDITOR’S NOTE - 14
COVER STORY
Literary Omnivore - Bart’s Books - 18
CULTURE
Easing Their Pain-Dwier Brown - 26
Justin Baldoni, Man Enough for Ojai - 42
Turn! Turn! Turn! - Chris Hillman - 78
Artists & Galleries Directory - 101
HUMOR
The Forager - 68
Spelunking - Look Back in Ojai - 126
STYLE
Punk Yogi - 52
EVENTS CALENDAR -102
OJAI PAST
Mr Pittman, 20th Century Horseman - 86
Captured - Ojai’s Prisoner of War Veterans - 96
FOOD AND DRINK
Come for Kale - Community Farmers’ Market - 6
Eating with the Season
Chef Robin Goldstein - 76
Dining & Tasting Directory - 72
TRANSFORMATION & HEALTH
Meditation Mount - 108
Mindfulness & Healing
Directory - 107
OUTDOORS
Fall Color Hikes - 36
REAL ESTATE - 116 26 108
Volume 39 No.3
EDITOR’S NOTE - 14
COVER STORY
Ojai Music Festival Turns 75 - 18
STYLE
Canyon Kids - 48
OUTDOORS
Mule Trains Reopen the Trail - 26
Ojai’s View, Beyond the Coastal Range - 34
Far-flung Summer Hikes - 44
ART & CULTURE
The Art of Jeffrey Lancaster - 54
Artists & Galleries - 62
The Way of Story - 63
That MOTown Feeling - 66
Barefoot in Ojai - 105
Events Calendar - 72
OJAI PAST
Centennial City - 78
Too Late to be Busted - 142
FOOD AND DRINK
Seafresh - 87
Eating with the Season - 90 Mandala - 94
Dining & Tasting - 100
BIG ISSUES
Catching Carbon with a Goddess - 120
Soil Cyclers - 128
HEALTH AND FITNESS
Mindfulness & Healing - 110
Disc Golf - 112
The Goat Walk - 136
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REAL ESTATE - 132 78
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Volume 39 No.2
EDITOR’S NOTE - 14
STYLE
Cover story:
Ride or Dye - 18
Homestyle Ojai- 28
BIG ISSUES
Wild in the Wilderness - 36
Heroes with Cables, Search and Rescue - 62
ART & CULTURE
Mr. Willis Goes to Washington - 44
Impressed by Life, the Art of Linda Taylor - 54
Artists & Gallery Directory - 58
Rock-less Roll, a COVID Concerto - 72
Calendar - 77
FOOD AND DRINK
Eating with the Season - 86
Dining & Tasting - 80
HEALTH AND FITNESS
Rose Valley Hikes - 92
Living Sane, Aubrey Balkind - 96
Ojai Goat Yoga -104
Mindfulness & Healing Directory - 111
OJAI PAST
Unearthing Ojai - 112
Look Back in Ojai: Memorable Trees - 122
44 Years in a Shoebox - 128
Architect Paul Revere Williams - 134
REAL ESTATE - 131
FALL 2020
VOLUME 38 No.3
EDITOR’S NOTE - 12
ARTS & CULTURE
Non-essential Art - 24
Weddings Reimagined - 66
Artisan Parfumes - 30
Artists & Galleries Directory - 27
BIG ISSUES
Ojai’s Lorax, Alasdair Coyne - 16
Cover story:
Kiss the Ground Released - 58
FOOD & DRINK
Bonito Coffee Roasters - 36
Eating with the Season - 44
Art in a Bottle, Majestic Oak
Winery - 48
Dining & Tasting Directory - 54
OUTER LIMITS
Extraterrestrial Ambassador Mark Simms - 74
TRANSFORMATION
Deborah King, Your Heart Never Lies - 86
HEALTH
Making Friends with your Microbiome - 92
Mindfulness & Healing Directory - 97
EVENTS - Calendar - 72
HISTORY
Celebrating Ojai Suffrage - 100
The Great Walls of Ojai - 110
Look Back in Ojai - 127
HUMOUR
Lonely Heart Will Travel - 80
OUTDOORS
Hiking Trails for the Fall - 120
REAL ESTATE - 115
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ARTS & CULTURE
Faces of Silver - Photography of Ben Winkler - 18
Artists and Galleries Directory - 25
SHOPPING
Cattywampus Crafts - 28
FOOD & DRINK
Seven Women Chefs - 36
Small On Purpose, Ojai Valley Brewery - 48
Dining & Tasting Directory - 52
EDUCATION
Parenting Without Power Struggles - 56
MUSIC
Cover Story -The Discoteca of Perla Batalla - 62
Mattius Pintcher Directs the 2020 Ojai Music Festival - 70
EVENTS
Ojai Calendar - 76
TRANSFORMATION
Becoming Nobody - 82
Sonic Butterfly - 92
Rikka’s Adventures in Oneness - 100
Mindfulness & Healing Directory - 104
BIG ISSUES
Four-Legged Firefighters
A Shepherdess Comes to Town - 108
The Kale is Ready ...The Kale is Ready! Regenerative Agrigiculture - 116
PAST & PRESENT
History’s First Draft - The Story of Ojai’s Newspaper - 159
Look Back in Ojai - Old Gray - 159
OUTSIDE
A Bird-friendly Garden - 136 Perry’s Trails, Spring Flower Hikes - 148 Classic Spring Trails - 154
REAL
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