BY COLIN RIGLEY
Is it a sign or a mural? Is art a sign? What is a mural? If you live in Atascadero, these are tough questions to answer—and for at least o...
BY ROBERT A. McDONALD
Who says there’s nothing to do in unincorporated Arroyo Grande on a Sunday morning?
Police raided an alleged cockfighting tournament sout...
BY ROBERT A. McDONALD
The San Luis Obispo City Council advised the Downtown Association to compromise with the Farmers’ Association and allow the farmers to have som...
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
In an anti-climatic ending to perhaps the juiciest scandal to hit the county in 2009, the Board of Supervisors authorized the settlement of a lawsuit...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
A revised plan to open San Luis Obispo County to bear hunters has done little to stop criticism since the California Department of Fish and Game firs...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
Richard Etzler and his wife Phuong (pronounced “Foon”) had never had a gun pointed at them before. But on Jan. 8 while trying to pas...
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
Two days after announcing they will scale back summer school this year, Cuesta College officials may have more bad news to report—that&rsq...
BY RAY WEYMANN
Local media recently published commentaries skeptical of global warming and climate change. The gist of these comments amounts to two assertions...
Stephen Mattson
Matt Kokkonen’s semiliterate and facile interpretation of a few snippets of neighborhood temperature data as proof that “The foundation f...
Penny Lancaster
Not all data relating to climate change may be as dubious as those presented in Matt Kokkonen’s commentary (“Bad data underlie global war...
Steve Ela
I was mildly surprised New Times would serve up Matt Kokkonen’s stale, half-baked “commentary” denying global warming (“Bad data underlie global warmin...
Ken Highfill
My Republican friends who think climate change is not being caused by human activities (“Bad data underlie global warming claim,” Jan. 21...
Doug Bates
I have been thinking about the debate in this country over climate change. Considering both sides, I come back to one basic question: what if they&rs...
Andrew Christie, Director
Stop the presses: Oil has been leaking out of fissures in the ocean floor (“Resume drilling,” Jan. 28) for thousands of years! The drill-...
Terry Mohan
Robert McDonald was right on in his reference to the movie Chinatown in his story about the unnecessary overabundance of water coming to SLO town (&l...
George Jackson
The Nipomo City Council should be more worried about gangs from L.A. that have invaded than someone from L.A. who wants to bring relief to the infirm...
Rebeka Levin
I am tired of hearing how gay marriage threatens family life (studies show only a third of families live the two-parent mom/dad model anymore), or ho...
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What is your Motto?
BY DYLAN BAUMANN
Take a date and laugh hysterically at “The Big Laugh” comedy showcase on Valentine’s Day at the Atascadero Lake Pavilion. The ...
BY ASHLEY SCHWELLENBACH
Looking at the assembly of handmade Valentines at ARTS Obispo—paintings, photographs, sculptures, and jewelry with a handful of less easil...
BY ASHLEY SCHWELLENBACH
Josephine Crawford’s series of face paintings began when a restaurant owner in Phoenix, a fan of her work, asked her to sketch faces onto ...
BY GLEN STARKEY
As I look around at all the beautiful people filling up Native Lounge, I can’t help but think I must look like a turd in a jewelry box.
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Art After Dark
Feb. 5, 6-9 p.m.
Anam-Cre’ Pottery Studio: 570 Higuera #140 (SLO Creamery) 544-1850. Empty Bowls Throw Fest, benefits the Food...
BY GLEN STARKEY
Bob Marley would be turning 65 on February 6. Like John Lennon, fans are left to wonder what more he might have accomplished had he not died an ...
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Boston homicide detective Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) loves his activist daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic), so when she’s...
BY KATHY MARCKS HARDESTY
Everyone loves classic Italian cuisine; whether served in a setting called trattoria, pizzeria, or ristorante. Restaurants offering such fare fl...
This tasty Chardonnay offers simple but flavorful notes of tart green apple, lemon, and spicy vanilla. An easy-sipping wine, it’s also good with food, thanks to sub...
This was my favorite of the two wines from this brand. Tasty and well- balanced, it offers tangy cherry, strawberry, and plum flavors with nuanc...
Johann Strauss’ 1874 operetta, Die Fledermaus, (meaning “The Bat”) weaves the stories of three characters—the zany Eisenstein...
A San Luis Obispo Symphony Classics Concert features Conductor Michael Nowak and David Singer on Clarinet performing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto...
The Gallery at the Network is pleased to feature internationally known ceramicist Bill Shinn through March 31. In 2009, Shinn showed his work as a gu...
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