Beverly Kelley

In the 1931 "Dracula" film, Bela Lugosi says, "Listen to them. Creatures of the night. What music they make." Bela Lugosi, Jr. and Boris Karloff's daughter, Beth, will be sharing the stage with music-makers "Men in Black" at the "Creatures ...

It was exactly like the opening scene in "Citizen Kane," only Orson Welles didn't drop the Austrian snow globe — I did. As it hit the wooden floor, the heavy glass shattered, the thick liquid puddled, and I'm still retrieving ...

What do Ventura's Art Walk, Santa Paula's Moonlight at the Ranch, Conejo Valley Days, Simi Valley's Cajun & Blue Music Festival, Oxnard's Salsa Festival and Camarillo's Fiesta and Street Fair have in common?

A friend of mine pointed out last month, "You are the only person I know, given these weather conditions, that's going 'toward' Washington, D.C." What weather conditions, you ask?

More than 3,000 events are held on the National Mall, but none is so well attended as the Independence Day fireworks display in front of the Washington Monument. If all goes according to plan, our family should be oo-ing and ...

"With friends like these, who needs enemies?" describes, for many in Ventura County, the relationship between Julia Brownley and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (technically not a Super PAC, but it certainly behaves like one).

While cat videos abound on YouTube and you can't scroll down your Facebook newsfeed without encountering fetching portraits of kittens, dogs are still, paws down, man's best friend.

Democrats in Washington, D.C., are giving a whole new meaning to the Aesop maxim, "Once burned, twice shy." Because they failed to anticipate outside money tilting the scales toward Republicans two years ago, they lost control of the House. Now, ...

With the Democratic Party refusing to endorse a candidate and polls suggesting that no Democrat will come in second in the 26th Congressional District primary in Ventura County, I thought I might pay attention to the fireworks detonating in the ...

We can see the Arc de Triomphe from our hotel room at Le Bristol. The massive monument — 164 feet in height — stands at the heart of a plaza presently known as Place Charles de Gaulle and serves as ...

The most obnoxious door-to-door salesman I ever met was employed by the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He pressured a pregnant woman into purchasing an expensive 32-volume set of handsomely bound books by employing Leon Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory. Now wait, you're right. ...

Nobody ever accused Joe Biden of understatement. On March 23, 2010, as President Barack Obama affixed his signature to his hard-won health care law, the vice president gushed, "This is a big (expletive deleted) deal!"

Republicans seem to be in a funk these days. At a time when the GOP should be energized at the prospect of ousting a president who hasn't lived up to the hype, they are popping anti-depressants and moaning about cutting ...

Last week, despite the enormous strides being made by the rest of the world, the United States celebrated but another Presidents Day without a female president.

If you really want to learn the truth about world politics, sometimes your best bet is the sports pages. At least that was the case in 1988, when the USSR basketball team trounced the Americans in the semifinals at Seoul ...