Staff writer Zeke Barlow (zbarlow@VenturaCountyStar.com) will try to answer that old "Tonight Show" joke as it applies to air quality in Ventura County. The American Lung Association is coming out with its annual report that, basically, gives the county an F for air quality. Yet last year, the county Air Quality Control District says we had the best air quality in 35 years. So who's right? Zeke is find that they're both right ... it all depends on how you read the numbers. His story will be in tomorrow's Star.

The Ventura Music Festival has put Ventura on the map ... on the chamber musical map, that is. Staff writer Kevin Clerici (kclerici@VenturaCountyStar.com) will talk about the festival, now in its 11th year, for a Page One story. Meanwhile, in Time Out, staff writer Charles Levin (clevin@VenturaCountyStar.com) does a piece on the Big Phat Band, which will perform as part of the festival.

We are also looking for Page One on a story by staff writer John Mitchell (jmitchell@VenturaCountyStar.com) that talks about a most unusual meeting at a Thousand Oaks restaurant that takes the people back 60 years in time.