Story and photos by Chuck Graham
Our 4x4 vehicle was taking a pounding on the gritty washboard-riddled road toward the Kalahari Desert in northeastern Namibia. It felt like our teeth were rattling inside our heads. My marine biologist girlfriend, Holly...
By Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer
Rorberto Garcia is in many ways a pillar of his community. Born in Mexico City but a resident of Oxnard for 46 years, he has gotten to know numerous locals…through more than one generation…as the...
By Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer | Photos by Matt Titone/Indoek/Italic Studio
Artist, photographer, designer, surfer: Matt Titone contains multitudes. From a young age, the East Coast native loved art and the aquatic environment, and has incorporated both into his life...
By Alex Wilson | Photos by Viktor Budnik
When Kevin Wells and Sylvana Guidotti were married in 2000, they bonded over their affinity for the solid and welcoming feel of craftsman architecture. The hillside home they lived in, however, was...
Photos by Viktor Budnik
An exceptionally wet winter has Ventura County bursting into full bloom this spring. Nowhere is this more evident than at Ventura Botanical Gardens (VBG), 100+ acres in the foothills directly behind Ventura City Hall that are...
By Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer
Comfortable, casual and beachy — that’s very much the vibe of the Ventura fashion scene. And it’s distinctly different from what Anna Sosnicki was used to.
“Europe is different than here,” the native of Poland explains....
By Mike Nelson | Photos by Viktor Budnik
It’s not unusual, driving around greater Los Angeles, to see bright fluorescent signs attached to lamp posts or fences, with notices bearing an arrow and a code word that means, essentially, the...
By Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer | Photos by Viktor Budnik
The very things that make up modern-day living — roads, buildings, tunnels, dams, bridges, water systems, etc. — exist thanks to the efforts and expertise of civil engineers. And since...
By Alex Wilson | Photos by Viktor Budnik
Martha Cantos has proven herself as a successful downtown Ventura business owner with her charming and colorful boutique Ecugreen since opening in 2017. Her entrepreneurial path to success included years of selling...
Story and photos by Chuck Graham
The sturdy coast live oaks gently swayed during a light, southeast wind. Their crunchy leaves rattled and cracked with each wispy gust on the shaded, four-mile-out-and-back Cerro San Luis Obispo Trail, surrounded by the...
