Audience invited to sing with chorale
Christmas-themed performance includes hand bells
      As it begins its 30th anniversary season, Los Robles Master Chorale will offer Sounds of the Season at 8 p.m. Sat., Dec. 8 and 4 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9 at the Main Stage of the Performing Arts Center at Moorpark College, 7075 Campus Road.
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Community Band plans concert
      The Camarillo Community Band will present at Christmas concert at 3 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9 in the auditorium at Camarillo Community Center, 1605 Burnley St., Camarillo. The concert is free, and Santa Claus is scheduled to make an appearance.
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Camarillo Christmas Parade marches into town tomorrow
By Eliav Appelbaum eliav@theacorn.com
      Even in retirement, Fernando Vargas has to stay on his toes. The former boxing champion will be the grand marshal of the Camarillo Christmas Parade this Saturday.
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Lighting up lives
      HOLIDAY CELEBRATION- Young musicians, above, perform holiday songs with the Pleasant Valley School District Intermediate After-School Band at the Hospice of Camarillo Tree of Life Lighting and Holiday Celebration at Constitution Park on Friday evening. Brady Morris, 8, and Enzo Roul...
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Art exhibit center's last of '07
      The Camarillo Art Center will host the last show of the year through Dec. 16 at 3150 Ponderosa Drive, across from the old library. This show will present paintings that have won awards during the year. Gallery hours are 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. The center will be closed for the Christ...
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Tasting to feature 30 vineyards
      The Camarillo Custom Crush Winery and Tasting Room will host a holiday open house from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sat. and Sun., Dec. 8 and 9 at 300 S. Lewis Road, Ste. C., Camarillo. Participants may bring a picnic lunch to enjoy with their wine tasting.
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Comedy still has chops
One leaves the theater with a very real moral lesson that succinctly defines what it is to be an American: the value of freedom to do as you please.
By Cary Ginell soundthink@aol.com
      Despite the fact that its first performance took place more than 70 years ago, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's comic masterpiece "You Can't Take it With You" wears its age quite well. It is being presented by the Conejo Players in a run that continues through Dec. 15.
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'Blithe Spirit' remains a witty war of words
By Sally Carpenter sallyc@theacorn.com
      If you're tired of battling the crowds at the mall or bored with TV reruns, enjoy some silly ghostly fun at the Conejo Players Theatre with Noel Cowards' small-cast farce, "Blithe Spirit," part of the Conejo Afternoon Theater program.
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