Monday, March 15, 2010     Volume: 24, Issue: 32
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Rollin', rollin', rollin' -- keep those film reels rollin'!

Cover Story

Rollin', rollin', rollin' -- keep those film reels rollin'!

BY ASHLEY SCHWELLENBACH

This year’s King Vidor Award for Excellence in Filmmaking is being presented to Alan Arkin, an Oscar and Screen Actors Guild award winner who doesn’t put much stock in trophies. With more than 80 films to his credit, including The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (1966); Wait Until Dark (1967); The Heart is a Lonely Hu... [ Read More ]

Top 5 Articles

News: Pedaling to new heights
News: Shame on everyone
Strokes & Plugs: Saltwater sisters shred the waves
Commentary: Tenure institutionalizes bad behavior
News: Arson suspected at Cabo
 

News

Washed away

BY COLIN RIGLEY

Bill Bookout is a man consumed by the legal battles he’s waged. In May 2006, he sued Caltrans, San Luis Obispo County, Union Pacific Railroa...

Arson suspected at Cabo

BY ROBERT A. McDONALD

The fire that destroyed the Cabo San Luis restaurant and damaged the Kona Deli on March 3 was likely started intentionally, said San Luis Obispo fire...

Pot returning to Morro?

BY MATT FOUNTAIN

Morro Bay leaders are taking great pains to avoid past problems as they continue to draft regulations for the operation of medical marijuana dispensa...

Death Angels lurk

Wild ’shroom pickers be warned: A killer is sprouting on the Central Coast. An Arroyo Grande man learned that lesson the hard way, but thanks to the ...

Supes say, 'Hold on, Diablo'

BY COLIN RIGLEY

A typical SLO County Board of Supervisors meeting can feel like a rehearsed stage show, in which there isn’t so much digging for answers as the...

A little fiber could get the town moving faster

BY MATT FOUNTAIN

A coalition of San Luis Obispo business owners and IT professionals aims to gather support in an effort to get the city selected as a test site for t...

Dust in the wind?

BY COLIN RIGLEY

SLO County health commissioners want county supervisors to do whatever they can to “stabilize” the Oceano dunes and warn residents downwi...

Shame on everyone

BY COLIN RIGLEY

Somewhere there must be a factory that belches out “shame on” whomever banners and people to hold them. It seems the only explanatio...

Pedaling to new heights

BY GENE GISIN

A group of CalPoly students is constructing a human-powered helicopter to compete for a long-standing $250,000 prize. What this group of student...

Commentary

Tenure institutionalizes bad behavior

BY DOUG SWANSON

All of us are aware of the many college students who have fallen victim to gun violence on campuses across America. Each time one of these horri...

Letters

Books should not be tossed

Marci Grant

The book sale to benefit SLO library is a much-enjoyed annual event, and the sale that just occurred was no exception. The aftermath of the sale, how...

Supervisors must reduce dunes pollution

Nell Langford

The San Luis Obispo Health Commission took a bold heroic step at its March 8 meeting, regarding the APCD Phase 2 Study.  It passed two...

Walsh mistreated animals

Shiloe George

I’m appalled by the article “Gone but not forgotten” (March 4) about Cindy Walsh. I was a volunteer when the animals were seized fr...

PFLAG fights gay oppression

Maja Toft

There still exists oppression against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) persons. Local help is available through the Central Coast chapter of PFLAG (parents, fam...

Gays don't deserve to call their unions marriage

Charlee Smith

I think many people like myself object to using the term “marriage” to describe the unions being formed by homosexuals. The English lan...

Trees should not be cut for school solar project

Julie Tacker

The Tribune (March 8) published feel-good photos of students from an ornamental horticulture class who hooked up with One Cool Earth at San Luis High...

There's no reason to change energy consumption

Dean Carlson

It’s a good thing Dave Morrow’s commentary about humans causing climate change “The evidence is clear” (March) was included i...

Climate-change evidence is real

Walter Reil

The American public and the news media seem dangerously unaware of the overwhelming solid science substantiating global warming and climate change. T...

Don't be dissuaded by climate-change deniers

Allen Root

We have heard from Matt Kokkonen and others regarding the politics of climate change. Anyone interested in transcending the politics should explore t...

No one is entitled to education

Joanie Brown

 A sign promoting the March 4 National Day of Action to Defend Education contained two statements: Education is a Human Right; and Resist, Mobil...

Shredder

I say 'meh'

How is it anywhere within the realm of infinite possibilities that John Shoals, the mayor of Grover Beach, is also allowed to shovel PR for PG&E?...

Street Talk

What is your favorite film?

Rich Hodgson Ashley Fabing Larry Royal Melissa Hodgson

Strokes and Plugs

Saltwater sisters shred the waves

BY NICK POWELL

Female surfers will converge at the Cayucos pier on Saturday, March 20 to compete in the Third Annual All Girls Contest, hosted by local surf sh...

Arts

Making the cut

BY ASHLEY SCHWELLENBACH

Even the most dedicated cinephile would find it difficult to watch every single independent film presented by this year’s San Luis Ob...

Pink-nosed melancholy

BY ASHLEY SCHWELLENBACH

A lot of my prints have a melancholy feel,” said printmaker Nick Spohrer. “There’s a loneliness and they’re about compan...

Everybody's Irish!

BY GLEN STARKEY

I already know what you’re thinking: St. Patrick’s Day at McCarthy’s is not an art event and I’m just using it as a...

King Vidor Award

BY ASHLEY SCHWELLENBACH

San Luis Obispo International Film Festival’s King Vidor Award is presented annually to someone who has made significant contributions to the f...

Music

Misty watercolor memories

BY GLEN STARKEY

The first cover story I ever wrote for New Times was about Santa Barbara wunderkinds Toad the Wet Sprocket, a band whose first self-produced alb...

Film

Alice in Boringland

Auteur Tim Burton takes on Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s tale, updating it with a new twist: Alice (Mia Wasi...

Cuisine

Celebrating Zinfandel

BY KATHY MARCKS HARDESTY

  If there is one wine-country appellation in California where Zinfandel, America’s heritage grape, is most honored, it’s P...

Kathy's Pick

MacMurray Ranch 2007 Pinot Noir Central Coast

I must tell you this is a rare buy, a tasty Central Coast Pinot Noir for only $12.99 at Trader Joe’s. I enjoyed this wine for its well-balanced flavors; it tastes o...

Hot Dates

Double steps

Peter Zaleski:  Before the Horizon is the current exhibit at the Cuesta College Art Gallery hanging from March 11-April 3 with an artist talk ha...

Comedy central

I personally promise you will laugh out loud so much your face will be burning for days. The Best of San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition is bac...

Help to Haiti

Robert Maja, a Shell Beach artist native to the Dominican Republic, and Seaside Gallery have joined as a creative force to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The “...