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Passion for Fashion: Anna Sosnicki specializes in fine European style with Anja’s Boutique.

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...

Short List: March 2024

MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET March 15-24 | Thousand Oaks The Tony® Award-nominated musical “Million Dollar Quartet” offers an extraordinary twist of fate when Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis...

Park Place: Film industry parking sends LaToya Coats’ career into overdrive.

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...

Editor’s Note: Inspiring by Example

In 2024, women owning their own businesses is neither surprising nor uncommon. The National Association of Women Business Owners finds that of the 33.2 million small businesses in the...

“My desire was bigger than my fears”: Civil engineer Marta Alvarez talks about overcoming...

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...

Showing the Way: WEV helps women business owners overcome systemic barriers to entrepreneurship

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...