Cover Story
Best of SLO County 2007 – 21st Annual New Times Readers Poll
The web Version of this Year’s New Times 21st Annual Best Of SLO is now available online. You can view it by clicking this link www.newtimes-slo.com/index.php?p=best #
Pop a local wheelie
Shop SLO Keep it local! That’s what the tax-hungry city of San Luis Obispo urges its residents and businesses to do. If you really cared, I mean really gave a two-cent hoot about this place, you’d never, ever, never, ever think of dropping so much as one thin dime outside these city walls. Anyone who…
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
Like his famous pop, Sean Lennon is something of a renaissance man: musician, visual artist, actor, newsmaker, socially conscious human being. On Saturday, April 28, he plays a 7 p.m. Downtown Brew show with acts Women & Children and Kamila Thompson opening (18-and-older $16.50 advance at Boo Boo’s). Born Sean Taro Ono Lennon in 1975…
Fast facts
The Sexual Assault Recovery and Prevention (SARP) center is leading “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” an awareness and fundraiser for the prevention of sexual violence, on April 28. For this event, men are invited to don high-heeled shoes for a mile-long trek around downtown SLO. The cost for individuals to participate is $20, or…
How to write like Otis
Otis Page’s recurring rants are becoming so predictable that we feel he must use a template so that he can knock them out quickly, sort of like the Mad Libs of our youth, only even more illogical (see his most-recent letter, “Democrat candidates have a lot to consider,” in the April 19 New Times). We…
Letters
Watch out for hooning Chris Shelby wished there were a law prohibiting motorcyclists from revving up their engines to ear-shattering levels (“Street Talk,” April 19). There is such a law in Queensland, Australia. “Hooning” is against the law there. When I saw that word in the newspaper, I asked for a definition. It means “making…
‘White elephant’ takes a hesitant step forward
A skeptical SLO City Council on April 24 pushed forward plans for a new four-level 445-vehicle parking garage at the corner of Palm and Nipomo streets, even as members worried out loud about whether it would get used enough to justify a more than $12 million price tag. # In a special meeting, the council…
The lost art of craft
Nicole and her husband, Walt Watson, are members of an elite and vanishing breed in America they’re craftsmen. Walt is a third-generation metal-smith who makes custom furniture, gates, or anything you can think of. Nicole has been sewing for 20 or more years, and calls her grandmother her biggest inspiration, although her clothing line doesn’t…
The dung beetle guy
This is the most important arts story in the history of San Luis # Obispo. If you don’t believe that, just ask Dale Evers, the sculptor who is hosting an opening reception for his new Paso Robles-based studio May 5 and 6. In addition to having a critical view of artistic disciplines within the education…
Deep in the tube
The local surf was strong a week or two ago, and the winds were even stronger. Combine those rugged environmental elements with water temperatures hovering in the severe-shrinkage section of the thermometer and many ocean sport addicts were exposed to a potentially deafening condition: surfer’s ear. # Though surfer’s ear or exostoses of the ear…
Peachy Canyon to appeal Molski decision
Peachy Canyon Winery plans to appeal a recent court decision in San Luis Obispo involving well-known wheelchair-bound litigant Jarek Molski, attorney Jere Sullivan said April 24. Winery owners Doug and Nancy Beckett agreed to pay a $4,000 settlement plus $1 in damages in response to a lawsuit filed by Molski claiming a violation of the…
Would-be nurses have to wait
When Cuesta College announced that it wouldn’t receive any more applications for the registered nursing program for the 2007-08 school year, a wave of disappointment and confusion spread through the campus. # Christine Kock remembers hearing the news right before walking into her physiology class to see other disappointed faces. “I was devastated. I cried…
Comfort food
No matter how weathered a neighborhood restaurant becomes, as long as it’s clean and consistently serves good food it will keep us coming back. That pretty much describes Gina’s Italian Restaurant in the old village of Arroyo Grande, which has been serving its loyal customers for 20 years. Like a well-worn La-Z-Boy, the quaint little…
Advisory group recommends against dispensary
The likelihood of a Templeton medical marijuana dispensary opening soon is still a little hazy. On April 19, the Templeton Advisory Group voted 5-2 not to support the local pot-for-patients project proposed by applicant Kent Connella. But as its name suggests, the group is only advisory in nature and can’t approve or disapprove the project…
Clear Channel makes a sale
A private investment firm recently bought a pair of local television stations. KCOY CBS 12 and KKFX Fox 11, both stationed in Santa Maria, were among the 56 television stations sold by Clear Channel Communications, Inc. to Providence Equity Partners, Inc. on April 20. The overall deal, pending shareholder and regulatory approvals, is worth approximately…
Dunes decision delayed
San Luis Obispo County supervisors had no official announcement regarding selling or leasing 584 acres the county owns in the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area after a closed-session meeting April 24. A week earlier, a lengthy Board of Supervisors meeting didn’t bring about a decision on whether to accept a State Parks offer of…
