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Weird but wonderful
Drive-ins are weird. Only in America with its obsessive car culture would someone come up with such a crazy idea – to pull into a parking lot and watch a movie without ever having to get out of your vehicle. The first drive-in was invented in the early 1930s by Richard M. Hollingshead, who began…
Swing and a miss
Why do SLO city leaders and folks at the Tribune hate America so much? They’ve all declared open season on baseball, which is about as anti-American as you can get. What’s next? Just to be safe, I’m going to lock up my mother and freeze my apple pies – or should that be the other…
Old is new
There’s a stuffed chicken – the post-taxidermist-visit kind of stuffed – collecting dust in a 1940s-era garage at Monterey and California streets in SLO. “We thought it was cool,” says storeowner Judy Watkins, who, along with partner Kimberly Stanier, opened the new CALA Antiques store here recently. “I guess we figured wrong on the chicken,…
West Nile fear shouldn’t discourage blood donation
Locking yourself in your house may help for a while. Screening and shuttering the windows is a good idea, to a degree. Holing up in a dry, desolate place may also save your life. But you’d be going overboard just to avoid a tiny mosquito. And just because you’ve been bit doesn’t mean you’re now…
West Nile fear shouldn’t discourage blood donation
Locking yourself in your house may help for a while. Screening and shuttering the windows is a good idea, to a degree. Holing up in a dry, desolate place may also save your life. But you’d be going overboard just to avoid a tiny mosquito. And just because you’ve been bit doesn’t mean you’re now…
There is life after Mozart
Hang around a busy concert hall some evening at about the time the musicians are taking their bows and putting away their bows. Listen. You’re going to hear a lot of satisfied concertgoers, well intentioned but off key, as they hum or whistle their way to the parking lot. If you have any knowledge of…
Judge to decide if DNA test in murder trial gets hearing
Within the next two weeks, Superior Court Judge Dodie Harmon will decide if the process state investigators used to test DNA from a 1985 murder is scientifically recognized. If she rules that it is, as she is expected to do, it will clear a major roadblock for prosecutors who have charged Peter Anthony Derks with…
What the county’s talking about this week
Some leads in Ostman death, but no suspects San Luis Obispo police have no suspects yet in the murder of Sharon Ostman, but they say they are pulling out all the stops to find the killer. “Basically where we’re at is where we’ve been. We have 10 investigators working on the case full time and…
Letters
ASH patients are treated with respect Your recent article about the pending U.S. Department of Justice investigation at Atascadero State Hospital (ASH) (“Feds investigate ASH,” June 30-July 7) illuminates the Church of Scientology doctrine as one that that strongly opposes psychiatry. However, ASH continues to maintain that the measures utilized for care and treatment are…
