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Featured

Apr 16, 2025

Sleeping Giants Everywhere

Apr 16, 2025

Taft Gardens’ Art in Nature residency 2025

Apr 16, 2025

Apr 4, 2025

The Figures

Apr 4, 2025

Director Nadia Szold and composer Daniel Wright bring their jazz-inflected portrait of poet and artist Geoffrey Young to life

Apr 4, 2025

Apr 3, 2025

Dog Man at Ojai Playhouse

Apr 3, 2025

A supa review by supa fans

Apr 3, 2025

Mar 31, 2025

Arts Spring 2025

Mar 31, 2025

What’s happening in the Ojai art scene April through June

Mar 31, 2025

NEW THING:

If you’re asking…

Welcome to our new advice column from Katie McQuillen. She is absolutely not your therapist, your best friend, or your moral compass, but she is extremely good
at telling it like it is.

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OJAI LOCALS ONLY (OLO):

Featured

Apr 17, 2025

Real Estate

Apr 17, 2025

Homes under $1M in Ojai, Real Estate gossip

Apr 17, 2025

Around Town

Apr 17, 2025

Openings, Closings, Arts, and Events

Apr 17, 2025

Food Scene

Apr 17, 2025

Everything going on with Ojai’s restaurants

Apr 17, 2025

Quick Takes

Apr 17, 2025

VORTEX Reacts

Apr 17, 2025

Apr 10, 2025

Did Becker Illegally Culvert a Whole-Ass Stream?

Apr 10, 2025

The Latest from the Development at Cottages/Mallory

Apr 10, 2025

Mar 27, 2025

March 25 City Council Meeting

Mar 27, 2025

The short version

Mar 27, 2025

March 25 City Council Meeting

Mar 27, 2025

The long version

Mar 27, 2025

Mar 19, 2025

March 11 City Council Meeting

Mar 19, 2025

Fireworks, Pickleball, and Legal Bills

Mar 19, 2025

Mar 6, 2025

KOJY 99.3 FM is Coming to Ojai

Mar 6, 2025

The kickoff fundraiser at Ojai Valley Brewery

Mar 6, 2025

Mar 5, 2025

Join the VORTEX Women’s Fund Group

Mar 5, 2025

Let’s make some Ojai magic (and money for a good cause)

Mar 5, 2025

Mar 3, 2025

Mallory Way Bungalows

Mar 3, 2025

Preservation or just another development?

Mar 3, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Mar 3, 2025

Ojai City Council decision regarding 2024 Arts Grants

Mar 3, 2025

Feb 27, 2025

The February 24 Town Hall

Feb 27, 2025

Ojai’s Plan to House Its Own Tent Town Residents — Here’s What You Need to Know

Feb 27, 2025

Feb 20, 2025

One Month of Trump

Feb 20, 2025

Checking in on local impacts of the new administration

Feb 20, 2025

Feb 12, 2025

The February 11 City Council Meeting

Feb 12, 2025

Cops and Creeks

Feb 12, 2025

Feb 6, 2025

The VORTEX Guide to Medellín

Feb 6, 2025

2025

Feb 6, 2025

Feb 4, 2025

The February 4 City Council Special Meeting

Feb 4, 2025

Moving the ‘Cabin Village’ forward

Feb 4, 2025

Jan 22, 2025

Hail Satan?

Jan 22, 2025

The Devil (and the details) arrive at Topa Topa Elementary

Jan 22, 2025

Jan 9, 2025

Porno for Pyros

Jan 9, 2025

Map apps keeping me (in)sane while I'm away

Jan 9, 2025

Jan 1, 2025

New Year, New Laws

Jan 1, 2025

The California 2025 legislative updates you need to know

Jan 1, 2025

Dec 19, 2024

The December 17 City Council Special Meeting

Dec 19, 2024

It’s Pickleball again!

Dec 19, 2024

Dec 12, 2024

The December 10 City Council Meeting

Dec 12, 2024

Cats, cookies, and new Council

Dec 12, 2024

Nov 26, 2024

Gymnasticsgate

Nov 26, 2024

A tumbling controversy at City Hall

Nov 26, 2024

Nov 22, 2024

2024 Election Reults

Nov 22, 2024

All the results, from Pickleball to President

Nov 22, 2024

Nov 16, 2024

Ojai Playhouse

Nov 16, 2024

A stellar soft opening and what’s coming up on the big screen

Nov 16, 2024

Nov 15, 2024

Scene and Heard

Nov 15, 2024

A toast to Ojai Film Society

Nov 15, 2024

Nov 14, 2024

Chefs Unite for Poco

Nov 14, 2024

Poco Farm’s fall fundraiser

Nov 14, 2024

Oct 31, 2024

Ojai Film Festival 2024

Oct 31, 2024

OFF celebrates local filmmakers

Oct 31, 2024

October 22 City Council Recap

Oct 31, 2024

Gymnastics, Jazz Hands, and Childish Gambino

Oct 31, 2024

Oct 21, 2024

Time for a Change?

Oct 21, 2024

Ojai Deserves Better Than Tribute Bands at Libbey Bowl

Oct 21, 2024

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HOW OJAI GREW ON DREW:

Seven Decades of Adventures, Misadventures, and Magic Through the Eyes of Drew Mashburn

Step into Ojai's vibrant history with personal essays by Drew Mashburn, VORTEX’s most prolific and insightful storyteller. Through wit and nostalgia, Drew crafts a heartfelt love letter to the place he calls home. Let his tales guide you through the essence of Ojai life.

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