LAST FRAME: After 35 years of rackin’...

LAST FRAME: After 35 years of rackin’ them up and knockin’ them down, Conejo Village Bowl will close May 31 due to lack of funds (B5). . . . Borders Books and Music will replace 40 lanes of glossy parquet with 40,000 square feet of bookshelves. . . . Larry Janss plans a June garage sale to unload all the bowling equipment from alleys he renovated just five years ago. Says Janss, “You wanna buy a lane?”

PAYING THE PIPERS: You have got to pay your dues if you want to play the blues--or any other music--as a union member in the Ventura County Symphony (B1). . . . Members of the American Federation of Musicians pay $33 quarterly dues. In return, they can earn--at the very least--$60 per gig as backup musicians or $90 as bandleaders. But some earn a bit more. Local 581 President Michael J. Smith says, “When the Ventura County Symphony brings in Itzhak Perlman, the famous violinist, they’re not paying him union scale.”

BARRY! YIKES! On sale: Tickets for crooner Barry Manilow’s three-night stand beginning May 31 at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Cost: $62 for the “cheap seats” and $102 for the front row. . . . That makes them the costliest tickets the arts center has ever sold: “A hundred and two dollars is not a cheap ticket,” admits promoter Nick Masters. “But you could have bought 10 Barry Manilow tickets for one ticket to the Three Tenors when they played Dodgers Stadium.” Not quite. Some seats there went for $1,000.

STORY HOUR: Ventura County celebrities will share their favorite stories today in the fifth Great American Read Aloud. . . . Choreographer Patsy Swayze (actor Patrick’s mom) will open the readings at 10:30 a.m. at the Moorpark Library, Ventura County Supervisor Frank Schillo will appear at 11 a.m. at the Ray D. Prueter Library in Port Hueneme and Ventura Mayor Tom Buford will join readers at 10:30 a.m. at the H.P. Wright Library in Ventura.