What's new this month on DVD
      Film and television author Randy Williams reviews the latest movies, television shows, documen taries and music programs now available for purchase online or at your retail store. The Last King of Scotland (Fox)- Forest Whitaker delivers an Oscar-winning performance as Uganda's brutal dictator Idi Amin. Bonus material includes a profile of Whitaker and cut scenes.
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School jazz ensembles highlight concert at Thousand Oaks High
By Cary Ginell soundthink@aol.com
      Jazz fans wondering where the next generation of musicians is coming from, take heart: It's alive and well in the Conejo Valley Unified School District, as evidenced by last week's concert sponsored by the Thousand Oaks High School jazz program.
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Mel Brooks' classic 'The Producers' staged in Thousand Oaks
By Cary Ginell soundthink@aol.com
      One of the most successful Broadway musicals came to the Conejo Valley last month when "The Producers" completed a four-day run at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Before departing for its next destination, the Theater League company left hysterical audiences in its wake, many proclaiming the show one of the funniest they'd ever seen.
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"Hot Fuzz"
      While Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have soaked up the limelight touting their parody of- excuse me, homage to- those old indie drivein exploitation shockers, along comes the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost parody of every MTVfueled, lightnin'paced buddy cop flick ever made. And doing it on one-tenth of Tarantino's budget.
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Nuevo de Mayo celebration to be held in Santa Barbara
      The Women's Culinary Arts Guild and Alex Castillo, general manager of El Cazador Del Mar restaurant, will celebrate Mexican food and culture at 6 p.m. Wed., May 9 at the restaurant, 731 De La Guerra Plaza, Santa Barbara. Hugo Valencia, the ambassador of Don Julio Tequila, will discuss the "spirit of the agave.
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