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On air 50 years: KCBX has served as the Central Coast’s public radio station for five decades
Join the celebration Local NPR affiliate KCBX will celebrate its 50th anniversary at the Octagon Barn (4400 Octagon Way, SLO) on Saturday, July 26. There’s a free outdoor event starting at 11 a.m. with live music from Graybill and the SLO County Stumblers, as well as food and drink available from Choco’s Mexican Grill food…
Festival Mozaic teams with the SLO Film Center to screen music films at the Palm Theatre
Festival Mozaic and the SLO Film Center have partnered to present the Summer of Music Film Series screening at The Palm Theatre (817 Palm St., SLO) Thursday, July 17, through Saturday, July 26. “Running in tandem with the Festival Mozaic’s SLO Music Festival, this specially curated film series will … feature four compelling films that…
Central Coast Renaissance Festival returns to Laguna Lake Park July 19 and 20
Before the Renaissance, things were pretty grim for human beings. The Black Death, torture, famine, mass executions, never leaving your village, weird medical practices, human waste running down streets—the Dark Ages were no picnic! Ah, but then enlightenment! The Renaissance was a cultural movement spanning roughly from the 14th to the 17th centuries that ushered…
Superman finds Clark Kent struggling with an identity crisis
SUPERMAN What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth, Anna? Full price What’s it worth, Glen? Full price Where’s it showing? Bay, Colony, Downtown Centre, Fair Oaks, Park, Stadium 10, Sunset Drive-In Writer-director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Suicide Squad) helms this new take on Superman and other characters from the DC Universe. David…
The Mortician chronicles the macabre and unethical practices of mortician David Sconce
What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2025 Where’s it showing? HBO Max The business of death can be a lucrative one, and no one knows that better than David Sconce. His family’s funeral home in Pasadena became the subject of a scandal back in January 1987. David’s parents ran the funeral home while David took over…
My Mom Jayne paints a new picture of ’50s and early-’60s pinup and starlet Jayne Mansfield
What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2025 Where’s it showing? HBO Max Mariska Hargitay is best known as Detective Olivia Benson on the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit series, but she’s also the youngest child of 1950s and early-’60s pinup and starlet Jayne Mansfield, who tragically died in a car accident in 1967 when Hargitay…
Templeton Feed and Grain fire confirmed to be caused by illegal fireworks
Templeton’s famous Feed and Grain building was destroyed in a fire over the Fourth of July, which the town’s fire department confirmed was caused by illegal fireworks. Templeton Fire Chief Tom Pederson told New Times that an investigation into the suspects was ongoing. The Feed and Grain fire started at around 11 p.m. on July…
Le Vigne Winery named Central Coast Wine Competition’s Winery of the Year, New York International Wine Competition’s Paso Robles Winery of the Year
Wine that shines Located at 5115 Buena Vista Drive in Paso Robles, Le Vigne Winery is open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays until 6. Find it on Facebook, Instagram, and at levignewinery.com. Reservations can be made online at levignewinery.com/make-a-reservation or by calling (805) 227-4000 or emailing info@levignewinery.com. Sherry Isted has been…
Santa Barbara County supervisors comment on recent ICE activity across the Central Coast
Santa Barbara County supervisors echoed one mutual frustration while discussing the July 10 ICE raids at Glass House Farms sites in Carpinteria and Camarillo: a lack of information. “I think this the first time in 15 years that I don’t even know who to go to for information. That’s the scary thing,” 5th District Supervisor…
SLO County Supervisors deny Templeton residents’ appeal of cannabis project
A group of Templeton residents failed in their effort to stop a commercial cannabis operation from taking root in the rural town after the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors denied their appeal of the project’s permit. “From the peaceful rural residential homes in the S. El Pomar, Templeton area, to the ranches where…
Two SLO County athletes were selected to compete on USA’s dragon boating team
It was once thought that upper body exercise caused lymphedema in women with breast cancer, but a doctor proved this theory wrong in the early 2000s. In fact, the study proved the opposite was true—thus, the Central Coast Dragon Boat Association SurviveOars was created to support those whose lives have been affected by breast cancer.…
SLO County could see more urban development after state relaxes CEQA restrictions
San Luis Obispo County could see a few more urban builds in the near future now that the state’s environmental rules—aka the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)—are more permissive. CEQA has been an invisible force for decades over California lands. It’s required public agencies and developers to consider the environmental consequences of a proposed project…
We have to try
History has proved that Israel is guilty of both apartheid and genocide. “Apartheid is a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on the grounds of race.” This describes what Israel has been doing to the Palestinian people for decades. “Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation…
A proposed hazard abatement ordinance could mean improved fire safety for SLO County
Los Osos resident Patrick McGibney is worried about the future of his family’s small lavender farm in the grassy California Valley since the area isn’t protected by a hazard abatement ordinance. “After looking at the fire dangers and hazards that happened in LA, that could happen easily out here in our grasslands, most of us…
The Constitution guarantees due process for our undocumented workers
We’ve been seeing the relentless march of ICE officials toward San Luis Obispo. First, they hunted undocumented workers in Los Angeles, then Oxnard, Ventura, and Carpinteria. The workers that they are hunting are essential to our economy, often doing vital yet low-paying jobs. What’s more, they are protected by the U.S. Constitution. The Fifth Amendment…
Morro Bay appointed Andrea Leuker as its new interim city manager after suddenly firing its former city manager
Morro Bay appointed a new interim city manager after suddenly terminating former City Manager Yvonne Kimball last month, who served less than two years on the job. On July 10, the Morro Bay City Council approved appointing Andrea Leuker as the interim city manager, replacing Kimball who had served in the role since August 2023.…
We need to protect ourselves from the unimaginable
I attended the July 11 California Coastal Commission meeting to support the Mothers for Peace request for a hearing on relicensing the Diablo Canyon Power Plant. The aging plant and its radioactive waste sit atop a thrust earthquake fault. PG&E has been granted a five-year extension but is now asking for 20 more, saying five…
Twenty more years of Diablo won’t ‘protect and enhance’ our coast
As a decades-long neighbor and ratepayer of Diablo Canyon Power Plant, I have great concerns about what harm has and is being done to our marine life by the once-through cooling system used by Diablo Canyon for the last 40-plus years. Now, PG&E is applying for at least another 20-plus years of operation. The California…
The state’s new CEQA reforms will not fix California’s housing crisis
In 1970, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) was passed to “create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony to fulfill the social and economic requirements of present and future generations.” It was signed into law by Gov. Ronald Reagan. Modeled on the National Environmental Policy Act, CEQA requires…
Brace yourselves
San Luis Obispo County hasn’t really experienced a big ICE raid yet. We’ve just watched as businesses down south get swarmed, local residents push back, and California residents are handcuffed and taken away. On July 10, Glass House Farms in Camarillo and Carpinteria was targeted. National Guard troops, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, and Customs…
Come to Craig Nuttycombe’s listening party on July 20 at The Bunker
It’s impossible not to smile along to a song like “Green Shoes,” the opener of singer-songwriter Craig Nuttycombe’s new album, Limestone Wizard. I figured Nuttycombe just invented its funny little story out of whole cloth, but it turns out the song is autobiographical. “It’s a fun story,” Nuttycombe said. “Are you familiar with the brand…
