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Dr. Donald Berwick, federal chief of Medicare and Medicaid, asked insurers for their help in making health overhaul a success and to achieve common goals. Cheaper, better health care is in everyone's interest, he said.

Audio cassette tapes are selling well — even though they don't sound very good and they are not as retro cool as vinyl records.

Are all blogs just scattered rantings and mundane diaries? Reporter and critic Sarah Boxer trawled the Web for solid examples of blog writing and assembled them in a book, Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web.

Japan can call itself the world champion of baseball. The Japanese team captured the inaugural World Baseball Classic by beating Cuba 10-6 in the championship game San Diego.

Jurors have questions for former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman as well as others who advised the former president's attempts to reverse his defeat in 2020.

Last month, tech companies laid off about 50,000 workers, many of them immigrants on work visas. Now they have to find a job soon or leave the country.

Do cities destroy nature or are they part of nature? Astrophysicist Adam Frank looks at a new book attempting to answer that question — which he says could be a key to our collective future.

Romantic comedies: they’re corny, sometimes swoon-worthy and if you pay attention to movies, they’re everywhere lately. After a long dry spell, the romantic comedy seems to be coming back into favor.

Join us for The Changing Faces of Ventura County: Women Taking the Lead, a special Museum of Ventura County Zoom program on Wednesday, March 31st from 6:30-8:00 PM. This online program is free but requires advanced registration. In honor of National Women’s History month, the Museum of Ventura County will host a panel discussion with elected leaders from all 10 cities in Ventura County. At no other time in history have so many women held elected office in Ventura County. Currently, in 2021, the County has 23 women elected to serve as supervisors, mayors, and councilmembers. This panel will be moderated by Dr. Trudy Tuttle Arriaga, Associate Dean of Equity and Outreach, Program Director, Oxnard & Main Campus M.A. in Educational Leadership & Distinguished Educator in Residence from California Lutheran University and the recent co-author of Leading While Female. The discussion will provide candid observations by 10 dedicated and passionate civic leaders. City representatives participating include: Councilmember Susan Santangelo, City of Camarillo Councilmember Christina Villasenor, City of Fillmore, Mayor Janice Parvin, City of Moorpark, Mayor Betsy Stix, City of Ojai, Councilmember Vianey Lopez, City of Oxnard, Councilmember Laura Hernandez, City of Port Hueneme, Councilmember Leslie Cornejo, City of Santa Paula, Councilmember Ruth Luevanos, City of Simi Valley, Mayor Claudia Bill-de la Pena, City of Thousand Oaks, Mayor Sofia Rubalcava, City of Ventura. Join us to learn about their motivation to serve their communities, their trials, and triumphs as elected officials, and most importantly their hopes and aspirations for the future. “I am so inspired that in a time of extreme challenges, local women have answered the call to serve and support their communities through elected office,” stated Denise Sindelar, Deputy Director of the Museum of Ventura County. For more information, please email Denise Sindelar at dsindelar@venturamuseum.org.

Studio Channel Islands (SCIART) will host an artist talk by Dr. Hui-shu Lee followed with an art demo performed by Victor Wang, on June 18, 2022, in conjunction with the event Echoes of Nature: Works by Contemporary Chinese Artists.

Dr. Hui-shu Lee will present at 1-2pm giving a lecture on pre-twentieth-century Chinese art history. Lee is a Chinese art historian with a doctorate degree from Yale University, her field of specialization is Chinese painting and visual culture in the pre-modern era, with a particular focus on gender issues. She also works extensively on representations of place, cultural mapping, and garden culture.

Later that day, artist Victor Wang will be hosting an art demo from 3-6pm about his approach to figurative painting using charcoal washes. Wang’s work has been shown internationally. The figures in his paintings serve as vehicles to convey the human experience, representing the emotional tension and psychological drama of life’s turning points.

Studio Channel Islands is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving the arts in our community, providing unique and diverse artistic encounters for all ages and extraordinary opportunities for artists. Ongoing programs include open studios and arts education classes, diverse Blackboard Gallery exhibitions and performances, cultural festivals and Old Town Camarillo events. Gallery hours are Tues.–Fri., 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Located at 2222 E. Ventura Blvd., Camarillo, CA 93010. For more information, visit www.studiochannelislands.org, or call 805-383-1368.