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EDITOR’S NOTE

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6 FORM + FUNCTION

FEATURES PROFILE

40 Monkey Business Able and Baker blast off

NESTING

29 Beautiful on the Inside Inner space exploration

TRAVEL

18 Vintage California The way to wine country

CONVERSATION

11 Slinging Arrows Meagan Scott’s hot launch

DEPARTMENTS COMMUNITY

8 Ventura Music Festival 2012 Kickoff Concert: Spanish Harlem Orchestra

SHORT LIST

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46 A selective preview of local happenings

COVER: Ventura County’s Boys + Arrows swimwear recently went international. Local designer Meagan Scott gets down to business on page 11. Photo by Nicolas Roark

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here’s a woman on TV wearing one of those ill-fitting cones designed to prevent a dog from licking its wound. She yips and howls, caterwauling through lips so puffed with collagen it’s hard to make out her words.

She’s telling me how I should look.

This is a woman who erased herself, who kissed her own face goodbye who knows how many plastic surgeries ago. This is a “fashion authority” who started her day by pulling on a metallic jumpsuit and dog collar combo. This is the expert wagging a finger and preaching the gospel of style to millions.

Even if I’m dead wrong, if what she’s wearing doesn’t actually look preposterous, there’s no way on earth or mars she can effectively move about in that spacesuit. I think if they paraded Gisele down a Parisian catwalk wearing a potato sack, this fashion watcher would pack up her malfunctioning wardrobe and relocate to Idaho.

But who am I to judge? I own one tie and have worn it that many times. As I wrote on this page a year ago, “I don’t do fashion; I wear clothes.”

I do, however, recognize the importance of function. And when it comes to good design, I consider this is a nonnegotiable.

Ventura’s Josh Ganshorn and Jen Zahigian meld form and function brilliantly, taking a comprehensive and decidedly artistic approach to the conceptualize/design/build process. Sally Rice visited the monkeyish couple for her story on page 40, exploring their methods and getting to the bottom of their company’s simian-inspired name: ABLE + BAKER. People used to look for beauty in art. We still do to some extent,

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but nowadays we lean more toward art that is provocative or challenging. (In “Beautiful on the Inside,” on page 29, Andrea Kitay explores the home of Westside artist and agent provocateur MB Hanrahan.) Looking good isn’t good enough. It’s that way in the design world, too. The modern benchmark is design with a purpose: Apple and its eminently caressable digital products, for example.

Few things teeter between form and function as precariously as the bikini. The design question there is how to eliminate as much as possible without, well, finding yourself naked. A 20-something Ventura County entrepreneur named Meagan Scott (page 11) took on the task. With a youthful style that belies simmering business acumen, she built a swimwear brand that’s moved from local beaches into international waters, in spite of the recent economic whirlpool.

Her story makes me feel old. Not her story, per se, but my editorial interest in her story. When a guy starts thinking of bikinis in terms of business, you know he’s starting to fossilize. (Further evidence on page 18, where a 40-something father of two writes about family travel, wine country, and a five-star hotel built on a bluff where he used to camp and drink beer.)

It is interesting to consider style and design from an economic perspective, though. When consumers don’t spend, stores overflow with yesterday’s hottest design statements—which today seem excessive, even offensively superfluous.

But good design never goes away. It just moves more toward function.

— Matt mattk@ventanamonthly.com

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VENTURA MUSIC FESTIVAL 2012 KICKOFF CONCERT One of the hottest salsa bands on the Latin jazz scene today, Spanish Harlem Orchestra kicked off the 2012 Ventura Music Festival with a February 18 performance at Ventura High School.

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hen a 20-something with no experience in the industry decides to launch her own fashion brand at the bottom of one of the nation’s worst recessions, you don’t need anyone to tell you that person has an exceptional amount of gumption. But everyone who knows local resident Meagan Scott, the creator of Boys + Arrows swimwear, will tell you anyway. In just a few short years, Scott has laid the foundation for a successful company, built a brand bursting with personality, and designed a collection of bikinis right here in Ventura County that rival those of top international designers.

VENTANA: Where did the idea for Boys + Arrows come from?

MEAGAN SCOTT: I was always working more than one job, trying to figure out what I wanted to do.

I had been doing a lot of traveling—in my earlytwenties I started just buying tickets and traveling. I woke up one day and was like, ‘I want to make bikinis.’ It was kind of out of nowhere, but everything I’ve ever done has been kind of out of nowhere.

VEN: Did you have other career plans at that point?

MS: I was planning on going to nursing school …

Things got a little scary with money, with work, and nursing seemed safe; nursing isn’t going anywhere, it’s a guaranteed job. Well, right before a midterm, I jumped on a plane to Brazil. When I got home, I stopped going to school and decided to just start designing bikinis.

VEN: So even someone who is apparently fearless has to deal with fear of the unknown?

MS: Oh, yeah, absolutely. The fear always tries to creep up. Every time that happens I have to give myself a little pep talk. It definitely happens less often now. I’m more confident. I know that what I do is so pure, I truly just make things that I love.

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VEN: How much risk was involved in starting the company?

MS: Well, a lot. I was really determined, and was doing well financially when I was younger; I purchased two homes at a young age. I had high bills and no financial help. Period. None.

It was fully on me … I figured now is the time to risk it. If I had babies or a husband, it just wouldn’t be smart to take such a risk. Now is the time.

VEN: What was the first step in turning this idea into an actual bikini?

MS: My first course of action was buying a single-needle sewing machine and a serger; you need two kinds of sewing machines to make a bikini. My second course of action was signing up for a sewing class. I had never used a sewing machine. I knew I’d eventually be hiring people to take over certain jobs, like sewing, but if I was going to be guiding people, I wanted to know how to do it.

VEN: And how did that work out?

MS: It was hilarious. I told the instructors I wanted to make bikinis and they laughed, because stretch fabric is the most difficult thing to sew. I ended up starting on an easier project: I made a tote bag. What’s funny is that people would be like, ‘That is the cutest tote bag I’ve ever seen,’ and before I knew it I had made twenty of them and they were for sale at a shop.

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VEN: What kinds of opposition did you face when starting the company?

MS: The biggest roadblocks were, number one, getting capital, and the fact that I worked two jobs while I was launching my brand. I was a crazy person, driving all over. Also, for so long you don’t have anybody telling you, ‘Good job,’ you’re just working toward something. Anything creative that I do drains me, because I really put everything into it. Even building my website, or coming up with a name—it took me a year-and-ahalf to come up with the Boys + Arrows.

VEN: What helped you get through the most trying times?

MS: I’ve always liked playing mental stamina games with myself, like when I’m at the gym or yoga. I’m a self-motivator.

I push myself hard. When I would get scared, it would give me motivation to keep going and just shake it off. Besides that, my sister and my mom believed in me even more than I believed in myself. Their belief pushed me through the hard times.

VEN: How have you found success in an economy where that word seems so elusive?

MS: I would thank my sister, who wasn’t afraid to give me money because she knew it would come back, and Women’s Economic Ventures (wevonline.org). They gave me a little funding and helped me put a business plan together. They taught me

I’m looking forward to expanding the brand beyond bikinis, but also keeping it real: things that I would want, not just things that will make money.

Meagan Scott, being the brand.

about affirmations. They made me realize that having fears and stress is normal. When you’re not around other people who are starting a business, you feel weak, like maybe you’re not cut out for it. But when you are around others doing it too, you realize that how you’re feeling is normal and okay.

VEN: What makes your approach unique?

MS: People ask me sometimes, ‘Who’s the inspiration behind your bikinis?’ And I kind of laugh because, believe it or not, I would say my dad, who wore his fluorescent yellow Body Glove trunks around the pool when I was eight years old. Those are the moments in my life that have inspired me—that’s where I design from, not from what’s going on around me or who’s doing what. Not what’s cool, just from the heart.

VEN: What does the future hold for Boys + Arrows?

MS: I think we’ve only seen the beginning. It’s already expanding internationally. We’ve just shipped to Japan, and we’re in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Australia. I’m really looking forward to expanding worldwide and expanding the brand beyond bikinis, but also keeping it real: things that I would want, things that I would wear, not just things that will make money. v For more information, including a complete list of retailers that carry Boys + Arrows, visit boysandarrows.com.

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vintage California To travel with children is to wade into a morass of potential pitfalls. But take heart, parents: Disneyland isn’t your only option. MATT KATZ (plus three) finds the way to wine country—and a fairytale castle by the sea.

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espite her glittery sneakers, her granite-stern countenance and fixed gaze reveal a seriousness of intent. She is three—almost three-and-a-half, she’d tell you. Her foot twitches like a quarter horse at the gate, her elbows are cocked; in a flash she’ll be amongst the vines. But before she bolts, my daughter looks back at me with an expression of unguarded delight. We had promised her an infinity of grapes, and here at last it was.

My wife and I didn’t plan this trip around our little girl’s fantasy of fruit. It’s just that, well, we have fantasies of our own, and nothing can shut down the machinery of dreams like a disgruntled toddler.

We have arrived in the Alexander Valley of Sonoma County with a simple plan: to relax and enjoy the wine country with our two children— and in spite of our two children, the little one just nine months old at the time. Instead of glitzy Napa, we’ve arranged to stay in the bucolic 19th century home of pioneer winemakers Giuseppe and Pietro Simi, whose stone cellars in nearby Healdsburg are still used to barrel age Simi Winery’s finest.

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From a wraparound porch overlooking the vineyard, I watch her dash into the rows. The surrounding landscape is wild and calm. Gnarled old oak trees covered in lichen flank the vines, which droop beneath the weight of plump cabernet grapes just days away from harvest. The sun is bright; a hawk wheels in the sky above.

“This isn’t Napa.” The smug tone of an Alexander Valley shopkeeper belies her sweetness.

I’ve arrived at her corner store just after sunset, hunting crucial provisions: bread and cheese, and more wine. “When the sun goes down,” she continues. “I go home.”

But she hasn’t. Not yet. Instead, she walks me across the gravel parking lot and reopens her shop. With grandmotherly care, she removes a loaf of bread from a wicker basket. “Here, take this,” she says, patting my hand. “It was made this morning; I wouldn’t sell it tomorrow anyway.”

I get the feeling that if you were to raise a pinky while drinking wine

in the Alexander Valley you’d be struck by lightning. Here, it seems, quaint is key. Everything comes back to the land, as country idealists, winemakers, cheese makers, chefs, and farmers converge in a sort of epicurean bohemianism.

Sonoma is no secret. With premium winegrowing regions like Dry Creek Valley and Los Carneros joining Alexander Valley and ten other American Viticultural Areas, the county is one of California’s largest producers of wine grapes. Still, this area has long been a lowkey counterpoint to its lustrous neighbor Napa—a “four-letter word,” jokes one restaurateur. To be sure, there is a concerted effort amongst residents to distinguish their Arcadian home as a sort of unpretentious anti-Napa.

“One of the things that makes Sonoma County so unique is that we can grow almost anything well,” a local vintner tells me. She’s referring to wine grapes but there’s little ambiguity about where she’s headed. “Napa is more cabernet-focused. The weather and soil are factors, but also I think some of it is the price of land. It’s so expensive over there that they can’t afford to do anything except what they can sell for a hundred dollars a bottle.”

Ground zero for wine and food in the area is the charming hamlet of Healdsburg. Built around a central plaza, this is a place striving to retain its small-town character while catering to ever-increasing numbers of wine country tourists. There is, of course, no shortage of

tasting rooms. And if you’re looking for local, organic cheese made from the milk of goats raised exclusively on local, organic hay, you’ll find that too.

Sonoma County’s first tasting room—a 25,000-gallon Champagne barrel tipped on its side—was established by a woman in Healdsburg just one year after prohibition was repealed. Isabelle Simi took over her family’s winery as a teenager, in 1904, and with uncommon gumption created a legacy of women and wine that continues today, more than a century on. When Isabelle retired in 1970, Mary Ann Graf, America’s first woman winemaker, joined Simi. Nine years later, the prominent California winemaker Zelma Long led a major renovation of the winery’s fermentation and barrel rooms.

“I really try to respect that heritage, to sort of tip my hat to history,” says the current senior winemaker, Susan Lueker, a willowy blond from a farming family. “Sometimes when I don’t know what to do, I think, ‘What would Isabelle or Zelma do?’”

Over wood-fired pizzas and a sampling of Simi wines, I ask Lueker about the parallels between farming and winemaking, trying to get a sense of Sonoma County’s down-home character.

“One of the similarities is that there’s a community spirit with both,” she tells me. “If someone needs equipment, advice, or materials like yeast, filters, or corks, we are there for each other. We help our neighbors.”

Above: With more than 300 wineries and 13 distinct AVAs, Sonoma County is a fantasy of vineyards and tasting rooms.

Center top: A sort of epicurean Americana characterizes the Alexander Valley, near Healdsburg, where country stores like Jimtown offer premium local wines and thoughtfully prepared food.

Center bottom: A wraparound porch at the former home of Isabelle Simi looks onto vineyards of Bordeaux varietals, which replaced the Italian grapes planted by her father and uncle in the 1870s.

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Above: Designed to resemble a Scottish castle, the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay embraces the weatherbeaten coastal setting. Fire is a ubiquitous theme on this five-star resort where guests roast marshmallows outdoors and stroll miles of oceanfront trails.

Center: A day’s drive from Ventura County, the northern wine country of California offers a top-shelf travel experience that draws visitors from around the world.

Opposite: The property’s tasting room, ENO, is the site of an ongoing Vintner Series.

Wine education is a large part of the focus here.

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couple hours south of Healdsburg, we swing off Highway 1 and ease into the looping drive- way of the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, coming to rest behind a gleaming Aston Martin. The valet eyes my truck: a Pollock-esque splatter of bird droppings topped with a surfboard; four little eyes peer at him from the back seat. “We can wash it if you like,” he says. I shake my head no.

“Just hide it.”

The age-old nightmare—suddenly finding yourself naked in public—ends there. Turns out we are not underdressed for the party. In fact, the hotel offers a full program of kid-friendly activities, and a mellow lack of pretention prevails over any luxury resort pomposity. It could be no other way here on this bully of a coast, a forbidding maelstrom of weather and waves that could humble Donald Trump.

“They really wanted to make the hotel destination-appropriate,” Steven Holt, a Ritz-Carlton employee who commutes from San Francisco, tells me. The resort itself was designed as a sort of homage to the natural setting, he explains. “A lot of guests are weekenders from the Bay Area who come here specifically to get out of the city.”

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adjacent room, Ian Cauble, who in his early-thirties is already considered among the world’s best sommeliers, presides over a top-shelf wine program at Navio, the property’s fine dining restaurant. I point out an artistic black-and-white photo of wispy kelp blades underwater. A similar image hangs in our room. “I wasn’t expecting such contemporary earthiness from a five-star hotel modeled after a Scottish castle,” I tell him. He nods knowingly at me.

“The company is moving in a new direction. We want to provide the service culture Ritz-Carlton is known for, but without austerity.”

Below us, on a sprawling lawn speckled with fire pits, wellheeled guests wrapped in cashmere sweaters and cozy blankets converge around the flames, marshmallows in hand. Fire is another prevalent theme here, Steven tells me. It’s like summer camp—with Egyptian cotton and feather beds.

“Did you get your s’mores kit?” he asks.

On our daughter’s short list of worldly treasures, castles rate somewhere between grapes and the color purple.

Which in no small measure helped us sell her on the idea of the Ritz-Carlton.

Of course we could have just bee-lined it between Ventura

and Sonoma counties. The quickest route, though, is still sevenplus hours, a straight shot along the infernal I-5 with its cow factories and rest stops. Besides, I happen to like hotels.

So we opted for a circuitous route, traveling south via the coast—and the promise of a castle—and north out of Ventura on Highway 101, spending the first night at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport. Hotels like this offer a host of package deals and site-specific conveniences. You may even find that a quick flight/rental car combo is your best option.

For us the hotel in Burlingame was an ideal launching point. Mid-morning, after the traffic crush, we breezed through the city and over the Golden Gate Bridge. By lunchtime we were hoisting wine glasses in the house where Isabelle Simi lived for more than 80 years.

Our daughter still raves about “the grapevine house.” She still brings up “the castle by the sea,” too, and wonders why the conventioneers (bankers) in the Grand Ballroom weren’t appropriately attired—not a glass slipper or ballroom gown among them.

Her little brother, meanwhile, has developed an interest in hammers. Pounding metal objects with a hammer, I should say.

And noise in general. Hammers and noise: that’s his Cinderella.

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MB Hanrahan made old things old again in her 1920s Westside abode. Linoleum and carpet hid original wooden floors; she faux finished all the walls, doors, and cabinets.

BEAUTIFUL ON THE INSIDE Inner space exploration in the universe of MB Hanrahan.

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EW ARTISTS DO IT ALL: murals, portraits, sculpture, set design and props, even T-shirt design. Still fewer are self-supporting. But Marybeth Hanrahan—arguably Ventura’s most recognizable artist—is beating the odds a few miles from the ocean on Ventura Avenue, where she lives and works on a small property dotted with avocado trees and frequented by a stray cat she fondly calls Leonitus.

Better known as “MB,” the artist is a study in contrast. It’s a mistake to make assumptions based on her bleached dreadlocks or the dilapidated exterior of the twenties-era clapboard house she shares with her boyfriend, Rick, and a ball python named Susie. In fact, the outside of Hanrahan’s self-described “white trash” home belies a thoughtful interior restoration, and her six-page resume documenting grant work, philanthropy, lectures, and work in the movie industry gives a glimpse into the depth and duration of her career.  MARCH 2012 | ventana | 29

Above: A built-in cabinet is dedicated to a collection of skulls and skeletons, ranging from original works of art to 99-cent Pez dispensers.

Top center: Permanently installed in the living room, a pair of hairdressing chairs (complete with ashtrays) combine mid-century style and timeless comfort. The skeleton Buddha between them was originally created to ride atop one of MB’s celebrated “Art Cars.”

Opposite top: A reclaimed door finds new life as a Dia de los Muertos tableau.

Opposite bottom: While the house has what MB calls a “defined décor,” the refrigerator retains the funky, layered decorating style of her earlier pads.

For MB Hanrahan, home is more than a domestic space—it’s visual eye candy, a pseudo art installation. “I think that I be in this house, and live out in the world,” she chuckles, lounging in her explosively scarlet red living room. “I’m visual, and where other people want functionality I get pleasure from seeing things set up.” One of Ventura’s original artists, Hanrahan arrived on the heels of Paul Lindhard and the wave of Art City artists more than two decades ago, settling in on the Westside where she would later create one of her most notable murals: the Tortilla Flats mural project.

Her living room—a cross between new age hair salon and Bedouin tent—is remarkable not just for the dramatic color that washes up the walls into the coved ceiling and the faded red, banana-shaped velvet couch gifted to her by an adopted grandmother, but for a set of vintage hairdressing chairs (their heating helmets were once fitted with speakers). “They’re super comfortable!” she chimes. “I’ve had these for ages and always knew I wanted to use them. This just finally seemed like the perfect place.” All of which makes sense when you realize that to Hanrahan, art is best when it’s participatory. And a reaction means success.

The rich color palette throughout the house is no accident; whatever magic it takes to make multiple colors work together, she has it. Here, all the rooms’ colors correspond to the Tibetan prayer flag: a screaming saffron covers the dining room walls where she faux finished the built-in china cabinet and woodwork, watched over by the collection of wood skeletons she fashioned into tarot cards set up in the corner. The walls of

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her “bitchin’ bedroom” are a midnight blue; its doors are painted black.

The bright studio in the back of the house feels more like a sunroom made moody with dove grey walls.

Although the property was considered uninhabitable when she bought it, for Hanrahan it was just another blank canvas, a new place to “set up.” She went to work renovating and restoring, with an eye toward both creating character and maintaining the integrity of what was original.

One could not be accomplished without the other. She pulled up worn, faded carpets to reveal oak floors patinaed by time into a rich golden hue. Plasterers repaired extensive cracks in the walls in order to retain the original plaster’s texture. And she faux-finished all the woodwork in the house—yet another marketable skill in her artistic arsenal.

The kitchen, with its original butter and spring green tile, is the most undeveloped part of the house, but it suits Hanrahan. A year after moving in, she painted an Irish Buddhist-themed mural on two adjoining kitchen walls, and today she displays her skull mask collection here, just a small part of her extensive skeleton collection. For Hanrahan, being a muralist is a form of channeling. “Painting on walls is an ancient art form, and I’ve been doing it since I was a kid,” she says. Raised by an Emmy-award winning writer father and artist mother, her artistic inclinations were encouraged early on. Today, her murals and artwork are found throughout Southern California, many of them in schools and on public buildings.

At the heart of her decades-long work experience are roots in formal

“I think that I be in this house, and live out in the world.”

training. She received a fine art undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz and a master’s degree from Humboldt State. But Hanrahan isn’t dreamy-eyed about art. Rather, she’s pragmatic, preferring to listen and collaborate. “I don’t impose myself when I work. I do what is needed and appropriate,” she explains. The T-shirts she designs every year for Jimmy Buffet’s annual summer concert tours, a gig that has lasted for more than a decade, are evidence: the tropical-themed designs are unlike anything in her personal space.

Although the house is nestled between what Hanrahan calls a “sister house” and a block-style warehouse/factory, she isn’t bothered in the slightest. In fact, she takes advantage of the looming white wall during the summer months, using it as an outdoor movie screen and inviting friends over for popcorn. “I’ve only lived on the Westside, and I love it here. It’s the last frontier.” v More online at mbuniverse.com At press time we learned that MB Hanrahan was involved in a motorcycle accident near Santa Ynez. Like many independent artists, she has no health insurance. A fundraiser will be held at Zoey’s Café in downtown Ventura on Sunday, March 11, with proceeds going toward necessary medical expenses.

The all-day event will include art and entertainment, food, a raffle, and an auction. Zoey’s Café is located at 185 E. Santa Clara St. For more details, call 805.652.1137.

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master suite is luxurious with amenities that include a sunken whirlpool tub set below a see through fireplace. Well suited for entertaining with a large formal dining room and incredible chef’s gourmet kitchen. The property offers endless possibilities. For the car enthusiast the motor garage is approximately 3500 square feet with room for 8 automobiles plus

enclosed RV garage with dump station. www.11094rockyhigh. com Contact Rosemary Allison for an appointment, 805-479-9229.

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Just 7 Lots From The Warm, Silvery Sands Of ‘Pierpont Village’ Is This Charming, Move-In Ready Beach Cottage, Features Include An Inviting Living Room With Vaulted Ceilings, Dark~Wood, Plank Floors, PLUS a Lovely Stone Fireplace, Great For Roasting Marshmallows!

Remodeled, Granite Kitchen! ‘Beachie-Chic’ Bathroom! Newer Paint! Newer Low-Maintenance Vinyl Windows!

Tankless Water-Heater! Large Front Deck With Peek-a-Boo

OCEAN VIEW! LARGE, Private Rear Yard With Patio, Fire-Pit, Lush Lawn With Auto-Sprinklers. Walk To ‘Local’s Only’ Shops, Eateries, Pubs, Coffee Houses & MORE! Contact Blake Mashburn, Troop Real Estate, 805-856-9350.

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GATED THOUSAND OAKS ESTATE This luxurious estate sits on 6.4 private acres and offers unobstructed, seemingly endless views of the Conejo Valley in every direction (360 degrees). Private driveway leads to a custom designed and beautifully built single story residence of over 7,300 square feet offers all the accoutrements expected of 36

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A serene, quiet setting with complete privacy. Watch the sun rise and watch the sun set from al fresco dining areas.

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Contact Ray De Silva, Troop Real Estate, ray.desilva@troop. com or call 805-444-3848.

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A great home on a 12,152 sq ft corner lot on a quiet cul-de-sac of equally beautiful homes; 3,142 sq ft of spacious living, vaulted ceilings, and lots of natural light. The first floor boasts a formal living room & dining room with a shared fireplace. A completely renovated kitchen opens to the family room with a breakfast bar perfect for casual dining. The property offers a fantastic outdoor tiled kitchen with Gagganeau appliances under a covered patio with sink and garbage disposal. A

jetted lap pool/spa with mountain views completes the outdoor living area. There are built in cabinets in the large 2 car attached garage. For a virtual tour, visit www.RodTuazon. com. Contact Rod Tuazon, Troop Real Estate, 805-890-5845

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Santa Rosa Valley French Country Estate

10 ACRE EQUESTRIAN ESTATE + 8 Car garage + RV Garage

This stunning French Country estate is located at the end of a cul de sac in Rancho Santa Rosa.

The 5,200+ square foot home boasts an immaculate interior with 6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, step down formal living room and spacious formal dining room. Chef’s delight gourmet iasland kitchen with granite countertops, cherry stained cabinetry, and stainless steel appliances. Family room, with gorgeous stone fireplace, and large bonus theater room. Huge master bedroom suite with exposed beam ceilings, rock fireplace, walk-in closet, luxurious master bathroom with sunken tub and separate shower. Resort styled rear yard complete with huge swimming pool with slide, gazebo, and an outdoor cooking center with stainless steel barbecue. Equestrian property with RV access, community arena and trails. This magnificent estate can be yours for $1,399,000.

Bella Canyon Ranch in Santa Rosa Valley is a unique Tuscan newer estate home located in a unique pastoral setting. This ranch provides the beauty and grace of the country lifestyle in a gated estate development. Newly completed residence encompasses over 6,000 square feet. Every room offers something amazing with incredible attention to detail. The master suite is luxurious with amenities that include a sunken whirlpool tub set below a see through fireplace. Well suited for entertaining with a large formal dining room and incredible chef’s gourmet kitchen. The property offers endless possibilities. For the car enthusiast the motor garage is approx. 3500 square feet with room for 8 automobiles plus enclosed RV garage with dump station. Reduced to only $2,899,000

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Santa Rosa Valley gorgeous custom villa w/custom wrought iron electric gate in prestigious Hidden Meadows. Almost 7,200 square feet “under roof” and features just over two flat acres. Main house 5 bedrooms & 4.5 baths. 4 bedrooms upstairs, incl master bedroom which is grand in size and includes a sitting room with fireplace and private balcony in addition to 3 additional bedrooms, state of the art huge dedicated professional home theater room complete with 110” drop down viewing screen and additional bedroom downstairs. The guest studio/caretakers apartment over the maain garage and is equipped with a kitchen, bath, dining area. Outdoor kitchen with expansive counter space and oversized island that includes a 2nd sink, oversized gas cook top, pot filler, built-in BBQ, trash compactor, dishwasher and for the final touch, imported straight from Italy, an authentic wood burning pizza oven! For the garage enthusiast, there is a 7 car attached garage, incl a 26 foot long boat garage, a 41 foot enclosed RV garage with mechanics pit, full hook-ups, and RV dump station. Offered at only $2,337,400

Just reduced Camelot 1 Story home over 5,500 square feet. Great opportunity to purchase a sprawling Mediterranean estate in sought after Camelot Estates. Soaring ceilings, 5 bedrooms, plus bonus room, 4.5 baths, swimming pool and spa. Needs some TLC. Gourmet island kitchen with granite counters and stone flooring. Family room with full room length wet bar with granite counter. Master bedroom suite with huge walk-in closet. This property can be a showplace! Reduced to only $1,299,000

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Mrs. Allison is now ranked in the top one half of 1 percent of the more than 1 million REALTORS® nationwide.

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Monkey Business In Ventura, a simian-inspired couple takes a comprehensive approach to the design/build process. words and principal photography By Sally Rice principal photography by Gaszton gal

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pring is in the air. So is the sweet smell of sawdust that oozes through the woodshop and into the studio where photographer Jen Zahigian, wearing a sexy red dress that looks ‘oh so Marilyn,’ is busy matting images.

Out back, the buzz of a sander pulsates an easy rhythm as her husband and business partner, Joshua Ganshorn, preps wood for an executive desk he’s building from scratch. Together, the duo known as ABLE + BAKER combine skills to create statement—making functional art that is both bold and inspirational.

Jen, alias BAKER (the title has nothing to do with cooking), kneels down and pulls a custom designed cabinet drawer from their collection. The face of the drawer looks like a section of vintage books. It is a virtual high relief made of literary spines of antique covers sandwiched together in unison across the façade of the drawer.

Simply irresistible.

The designer couple moved to Ventura from Northern California two years ago to be closer to family. Before that, they lived in Oakland, where Josh was the project manager for a large architectural firm, supervising multi-million dollar remodels and new construction, while Jen worked in administration after receiving an English degree from Berkeley.

But creativity and marriage have a way of melding and molding lives together, and before long, the two muse-driven characters needed a space of their own to execute their artistic dreams. They founded ABLE + BAKER. Now settled in their Ventura studio, this design team is in fifth gear on the innovation highway.

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tion of an old idea, and the second is creating a new, organic original. Although the couple has more innate talent than seems fair in the celestial distribution of such gifts, a project that earned well-deserved coverage was their revamp and renovation of a vintage Airstream trailer. It’s still on the hot plate of creative design for this industry classic.

In the remodel project, ABLE + BAKER morphed the otherwise Flintstone interior to one that was progressive functional and edgy while maintaining the esthetic and critical design elements.

“When I’m given a remodel, I’m given all these guidelines and parameters that I have to follow,” Josh says, tossing a tape measure from hand to hand, anxious to get back to the task of finishing wood. “You can’t just inject your own ideas. You have to pay attention to its inner voice and inherent [design] qualities. If you mess with that, you screw everything up. I mean, you wouldn’t put a Craftsman home in the middle of the block with Spanish Colonial architecture.”

The new and improved Airstream, after receiving much literary and photographic publicity, has taken on new life as a guesthouse parked in the backyard of a residential property designed by the famous Greene & Greene architectural firm.

After design restoration, ABLE + BAKER finds true passion in the ethereal, the unknown, the designs and artistic impulses that have yet to be created, as they only exist in the imagination of the artist. But conceptually, the projects—in the areas of architecture and functional art—are already complete.

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Above: Josh Ganshorn, hands-on in the Ventura woodshop.

Top center: A spinning, vintage globe protrudes from the curved-door walnut cabinetry of a renovated Airstream. The original “Control Panel” below it now operates modern upgrades including an automated futon.

Opposite top: The couple designed and built this contemporary live/work loft in a century-old warehouse. A canopy ceiling and whimsical features like an illuminated curio in the kitchen island highlight the space.

Below: A work in progress, this bath vanity for a local mid-century modern home will blend birch, stainless steel, porcelain, and concrete.

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ing his approach to sculpture: There is nothing contained in a block of marble that is not already a finished piece; it is the artist who must free the idea that is waiting to be released.

And so it is with Josh, alias ABLE. Josh sees these images in his head as completed projects. “I am driven by a desire to create things that don’t yet exist,” he says. “I have visions of designs that I don’t see anyone else doing. This is my ego talking, but there are buildings I want to see built. There are places I want to be that don’t exist, chairs that I want to sit in that haven’t been designed.”

While there are a lot of things out there in the world that make Josh happy, something is missing: “I’m going to have to build the buildings I want and the home I want to live in, because I haven’t quite found the right ones yet … There are already a lot of cool car designs, so I don’t need to go figure that out.”

He explains that his design drive stems from “an innate creative need,” which he feels compelled to satisfy. “It has nothing to do with feeling like I was born to be a designer. Most of it comes from being a poor person all my life and having to make my own stuff. I can’t afford a John Lautner, and I can’t afford Ken Kellogg, and I can’t afford an Art Dyson,” he says, rattling off some of the architects he finds inspirational.

It was this insight that drove Josh to dive head first into his first large-scale architectural build. Through a connection with the architectural firm, the couple landed a sweet deal, purchasing a huge parcel of an old warehouse factory overlooking the bay in Oakland. In that space, Josh designed and built a new home, a tour de force. The only outside assistance came from a contractor who installed the fire sprinklers and a friend named Eric, who helped now and again, as pals often do.

Jen ducks into a side office and emerges seconds later with an album of beforeand-after photos. Images of a dark industrial cave piled with debris contrast with the pure visual poetry of sleek, wide-open architectural spaces with curvaceous design elements.

“It was gutted when we started. It had no plumbing, no electrical, nothing. We even had to cut windows out of concrete walls,” Josh says, smiling with pride. “We turned it into a really beautiful, luxurious home.”

“Then we moved to Ventura,” echoes Jen, giggling under her breath.

Beyond the creations ABLE produces with hammers and saws, BAKER’s artistry is found in her photography. Along the walls of the studio, rows of photographs depict a cultural landscape that is pure Americana. “As a child, my family would take road trips across the country. I sat for hours in the backseat of our station wagon just staring out the window,” she says. “I guess it made an impression.”

The images reflect the sights seen by a young girl growing up in 1970s Fresno. Framed eight-by-ten images look like retro snapshots taken with a brownie camera, as Jen’s skill with color technique produces a warm yet washed out tonal quality. “I can create a color palette for the photograph that creates a new interest, a new life, while illuminating the past,” she explains.

Jen learned photography from her grandfather, who took up the art after retiring from a career as a cable splicer in San Francisco. He became quite proficient, converting two bedrooms in his home to darkrooms: one for color, the other for black-and-white. “He taught me everything he knew, and he gave me all his hand-me-down Canons along the way,” Jen adds, grateful for the experience.

“We wanted to bring in photography to give people esthetics, to give them a more complete idea of who they are dealing with,” Josh says.

Despite their creative talent, Jen and Josh are all about humble pie; they don’t take themselves too seriously. Consider the name: ABLE + BAKER, inspired by a couple of monkeys.

They saw the duo on the cover of a 1959 issue of TIME magazine. Simians Able and Baker had traveled to outer space and returned alive, two years prior to any human.

Josh and Jen like to keep it light. After all, it can be interpreted any number of ways when you tell people you’re named after a couple of monkeys. v

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Through May 6 | California Oil Museum, Santa Paula The California Oil Museum, in collaboration with the John Nichols Gallery (johnnicholsgallery.com), will present “Memories of Cuba: Vintage and Contemporary Photographs and Art.” Rare, original photographs and maps dating from 1892 begin a visual journey through the rich history of Cuba. In addition to historic and contemporary photographs, there will be oil paintings and lithographs by contemporary Cuban artists. 1001 E. Main St., Santa Paula. More information at oilmuseum.net.

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Women as Art March 2 - 31 | Ventura Vita Art Center and Bell Arts Factory will present a two-gallery group exhibit that celebrates women as the subject of art. Artists featured include Isabella Kelly-Ramirez, Mary Carol Kenney, and Fred Ziegler. An opening reception will be held March 2 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. 432 N. Ventura Ave. Studio 30, Ventura. For more information, visit vitaartcenter.com.

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March 3 - May 30 Ventura County Agriculture Museum More than two-dozen images by famed LIFE magazine photojournalist Horace Bristol will be exhibited at Ventura County Agriculture Museum’s Reiter Affiliated Companies Visitors Center and Calavo Hall. The exhibit features not only work from his best known Grapes of Wrath series, but other selections from the 1930s, including such diverse images as a never before exhibited aerial photograph of a Santa Paula orange orchard. 926 Railroad Ave., Santa Paula. For more information, visit venturamuseum. org or call 805.525.3100.

Phoebe Sarason Solo Exhibition March 3 – 30 California State University, Channel Islands This solo exhibition by artist Phoebe Sarason is the inaugural presentation of her most recent body of work, created from 2006 to 2012. Custom-shaped, organically curved canvases become containers for dense, vividly painted surrealistic fairytales. Their dreamlike quality and physical presence invite the viewer to step into the artist’s personal narrative, where clues are left like breadcrumbs. Opening reception on March 3 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Napa Hall on the CSUCI campus, One University Drive, Camarillo. For more information, call 805.437.8570.

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March 17 | Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Direct from Dublin, Taylor’s Irish Cabaret is an exhilarating and unique spectacle incorporating a distinctive blend of Irish music, song, laughter, and dance. This prestigious Irish Cabaret has entertained millions for 35 years, and this year’s production is one of the highest-rated show in Britain and Ireland. Fred Kavli Theatre, 7 p.m. Single tickets $30-45 with group discounts available; available from Ticketmaster (800.745.3000 or ticketmaster.com) or the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Box Office, located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd. For more information, call 805.449.2787 or visit civicartsplaza.com.

Come Travel With Us March 17 | Spanish Hills Country Club, Camarillo Hosted by the Nancy R. Brandt Auxiliary of Assistance League of Ventura County, this program will include luncheon, silent and live auctions, and a presentation about Vietnam. Patricia Kochel and her daughter-in-law, Mai Chu Kochel, a tour planner with Vietnam Sisters Tours, will explore famous tourist sites and everyday life in Vietnam. All proceeds will support philanthropic programs of Nancy R. Brandt Auxiliary and Assistance League of Ventura County. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Spanish Hills Country Club, 999 Crestview Ave., Camarillo. Tickets $50. For more information, call 805.642.2321.

World Water Day March 22 | Montessori School of Ojai Montessori School of Ojai will host Debra Kahn, associate director of the nonprofit Amman Imman: Water is Life (ammanimman. org). The organization’s “Wells of Love” program educates students about pressing world issues such as climate change, desertification, and water scarcity, and engages them in helping bring water and other humanitarian aid to the populations served

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March 24 | Mullin Automotive Museum, Oxnard National Charity League (NCL) Juniors of Ventura will host Evening d’Elegance, a French-inspired gala featuring dinner, music, and a silent auction with more than 200 items. Funds raised will support the Children’s Cancer and Blood Disease Program at the Ventura County Medical Center (VCMC). Tickets $150, available online at ncljuniorsventura.org or by calling 805.218.7461. Mullin Automotive Museum is located at 1421 Emerson Ave., Oxnard.

Ojai WordFest March 24 to 31 | Ojai This event, sponsored by the Pacific Institute for Professional Writing (PIPW), spans two weekends and eight days and includes 100-plus literary events in Ojai. PIPW will present a day of education on Saturday, March 31, to be held at World University of Ojai. Part of the activities that day will be mentoring sessions: personalized one-on-one meetings with publishing industry professionals to evaluate a writer’s work. For more information, visit ojaiwordfest.com.

Taste of the Taft March 25 | Taft Gardens, Ojai Enjoy a day at the Taft Ojai Botanical Gardens, a spectacular array of plant life including flora from around the world as well as prominent native species and rare varietals. Guests will enjoy a unique experience of music, art, gourmet food, and wine as they explore the gardens. Tickets $100; proceeds to benefit Ventura Botanical Gardens. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Shuttles will escort guests from parking: across from the Montessori School of Ojai, located on Highway 150 just east of Lake Casitas. For more information, visit venturabotanicalgardens.com.

Ladies’ Tennis Tournament and Luncheon March 26 | Spanish Hills Country Club, Camarillo Meadowlark Service League will hold its 14th annual Charity Tennis Tournament and Luncheon at Spanish Hills Country Club. Guests will enjoy a fashion show, boutique shopping, auctions, and raffles. Tennis begins at 8 a.m. and boutiques open at 10 a.m. Tennis and lunch is $80. Luncheon only is $60. 999 Crestview Ave., Camarillo. For more information, visit meadowlarkserviceleague.com or call 805.368.4663.

David Wilcox in Concert March 31 | Matilija Auditorium, Ojai David Wilcox has been writing songs for 30 years and sold more than 750,000 albums. “Fueled by brilliantly articulate guitar, an honestly pretty baritone, and deft lyrics,” he is regarded by many as a true American treasure. Tickets are $26 for seniors (65+), $28 for adults, and $35 for VIP seating in the first seven rows. Tickets available at Ojai Coffee Roasting, online at ptgo.org, or by calling 805.646.8907. 7:30 p.m. at the Matilija Auditorium, 703 El Paseo Rd. Ojai. For more information, visit ptgo.org.

ON THE HORIZON Cinderella, the Ballet April 14 | Oxnard Performing Arts Center One of the world’s most beloved fairytales, Cinderella, will return to Ventura County, featuring an exceptional cast of professional dancers and some of the county’s top ballerinas.

The Ventura County Ballet (VCB) will share the rags-to-riches love story through the art of dance at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center during two full-scale professional productions, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets $10 to $25 ($12 for children 10 and younger); available online at venturacountyballet.com or by calling 805.486.2424.

112th Annual Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament April 24 - 29 | Western Ventura County “The Ojai” is played on more than 100 courts at more than 30 locations throughout western Ventura County. Thousands of spectators fill the Ojai Valley for four days to watch the finest in amateur tennis and enjoy fresh orange juice in the mornings and tea and cookies in the afternoon—all provided by a tennis club that has no courts of its own and no paid employees. For more information, visit ojaitourney.org.

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This is a 3.95 carat Rubellite Tourmaline that is a vibrant, sparkling, red that leans towards the pink & fuchsia tones. This gem was cut by one of my favorite lapidaries. The rough gemstone came from Brazil and was not treated in any way. It will be set into one of my original designs as shown here. The Tourmaline is a great buy at only $1200 for the gem. If set into this original pendant design along with the diamonds and the gold chain, it will be approximately $3400 for the entire piece with the chain.

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