BY MATT FOUNTAIN
In a move that shocked many locals, the city of San Luis Obispo has reinstated a firefighter who remains in legal hot water.
John Ryan Mason, a 10-year veteran of the fi...
BY RHYS HEYDEN
Though there’s a clear front-runner, no official word came down at the June 11 Atascadero City Council meeting on the city’s choice to replace departing city manager...
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
Another U.S. nuclear power plant has gone offline for good. This time, it’s Diablo Canyon’s sister to the south, Southern California Edison’s embattled San Onofre ...
BY PATRICK M. KLEMZ
A Democratic supermajority and budget surplus—at least relative to recent years of aggressive cuts—allowed Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders to barter a deal ...
BY CAMILLIA LANHAM
In addition to the programs and positions the Lucia Mar Unified School District Board of Trustees voted to restore in May, all district employees will receive a two perc...
BY RYAN MILLER
New Times founder Steve Moss had a way with words. He had a way with people. But he especially had a way with people who had a way with words.
After his death in 2005, ...
BY PATRICK M. KLEMZ
A $17.5 million project to connect the Nipomo Mesa to an outside water supply withstood a recent legal challenge by a citizens’ group.
On June 5, Judge Martin Tangeman d...
BY PATRICK M. KLEMZ
You don’t have to be a circus performer or cartoon bear to ride a unicycle. In fact, quite a few people play polo or hockey on unicycles. An even more select fe...
It’s been more than five years since the state’s proposal to buy 584 acres of county-owned dunes land for recreational vehicle use crossed county planners’ desks, ...
BY CHRIS WHITE-SANBORN
The weekend after this column comes out, June 15 and 16, will find people walking across the stage—people I care for and have grown accustomed to seeing, who I might ne...
BY PATRICK M. KLEMZ
A slab of concrete near my house in San Luis Obispo contains the following nugget of Stengelese wisdom: The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing. This mes...
Michael Larrea
Yo Shred, my mother is a “grandma who watches Fox news” (“I told you so,” June 6). Why don’t you and I meet up for a beer at Firestone, or a bar of your choosi...
Gary Wechter
The Lord’s Prayer: Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily b...
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THE SHREDDER
It’s officially official. It is with great sadness, glee, melancholy, and a little more glee that I inform you that this esteemed column is about to lose one of its lo...
What is the corniest joke your dad has told?
BY ALICIA CANALES
Tricia Harbour and her family left her gourmet popcorn shop, SLO Pop, and headed to their stations during a recent Thursday Farmer’s Market in downtown SLO. Tricia ...
BY ANNA WELTNER
The human body has always had the ability to repulse and excite. Perhaps in equal measure. Perhaps even at the same time. And as long as humans have existed, it seems, w...
BY ANNA WELTNER
A description of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape reads, “A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life in Eight Scenes.” A comedy, I wonder, for whom? Certainly, the...
BY MAEVA CONSIDINE
It’s a foggy and dreary day in Avila Beach when I pull my car around to the golf course on Sunday, June 9, for the first-ever Blarney at the Beach—a food, music, and...
BY ANNA WELTNER
The theater has long been a place to pose life’s biggest questions, such as, why do fools fall in love?
At least, that’s the central question of the kickoff show of...
BY GLEN STARKEY
Full festival camping passes for the 25th Annual Live Oak Music Festival set for Friday through Sunday, June 14 to 16, at Camp Live Oak off Hwy. 154 near Santa Barbara (...
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Actress (and now writer-director) Sarah Polley helms this personal story about the discovery that she isn’t the daughter of actor Mark Polley, and that in fact her mot...
BY KATHY MARCKS HARDESTY
With the announcement of yet another winemakers’ dinner, you may be thinking it’s the same old thing; sometimes I do, too, but I discovered this time that I h...
If you have a pulse and have been alive sometime in the last 60 years, you’ve probably heard about a little musical production that’s become … kind of popular. I...
My mother used to lament that I was an untamable child. From the moment I woke up to the moment I went to bed, I would be exploring the boundaries of the poor woman’s ...
I’ve always maintained that wine glasses are too gentrified and thereby spoil the wine guzzling experience. Thank goodness someone created the “Roll Out the Barrels ...
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