Cover Story
Locals look, but dont buy
The Johnson Gallery. L.A. Santa Fe Gallery. Exhibition Ten Twenty-Two. Gallery Machbitz. San Luis Artists’ Gallery. Compact Gallery. Art Lives Here. Arternatives. Rococo. McConnell Gallery. Ramos Gallery. Kolliner Gallery. Courtyard Gallery. Isis. Kidzart. Nature Gallery. Landon Gallery. August Editions. L’Artiste Gallery. Firewalk Gallery. What do these names have in common? They’re all San Luis Obispo fine-art…
How to get Dad to drop his pants
How do you get a guy to stop in for his yearly prostate exam? Offer him snack food and the TV remote. While that answer may sound like a punch line, it’s one that the # National Prostate Cancer Coalition hopes will save men’s lives around the state—and in San Luis Obispo. In an effort…
Petitioners seek access to suicide investigation
An online petition went into circulation June 7 demanding that the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) make public an internal investigation into the death of Marlene Braun, former manager of the Carrizo Plain National Monument in eastern San Luis Obispo County. As of press time on June 14, the petition boasted 264 digital signatures…
No head for crime
Adam Meimke, co-owner of Cloud 9 Imports at 578 California Blvd. in San Luis Obispo, doesn’t think very highly of 22-year-old Abraham Finn-Howell. After breaking through the head shop’s large plate-glass window, Finn-Howell allegedly smashed his fist into a tall smoking-pipe display case at around 2 a.m. on June 13. According to a police report,…
FAST FACTS
“I should have called it the store with the cats in the windowâ€? joked Terry Threves, owner of Tails pet boutique, “because that’s what everyone knows us as.â€? Threves is referring to the orphaned cats that she helps get adopted from the front of her shop in Downtown SLO—and the fact that her storefront sign…
Dalidio project will be on ballot—no environmental impact report required
November’s ballot will definitely include an initiative asking SLO County voters to make a decision on the proposed Dalidio shopping center off Madonna Road. But a new citizens group’s request for an analysis of the project’s impacts has been derailed by county supervisors’ summertime vacation plans. The County Coalition for Local Control asked the board…
Letters
Welcome to the party I’ve got to hand it to my fellow Los Osos resident, Ben DiFatta—now that Judge Tangeman threw out a ruling adverse to building a clean, healthy sewer system in Los Osos, and then seeing anti-sewer supervisorial candidate Judy Vick soundly beaten. Ben has a letter in the June 8 New Times…
The which of November
Speculation ran amuck in the aftermath of the recent gubernatorial primary, and the buzz circled primarily left of center. Voter turnout was low. Near subterranean. In fact, record-low tallies broke out all over the state, with San Luis Obispo County, per usual, mustering a slightly less-dismal effort. To the astonishment of some middle-of-the-road Democrats, voters…
In with the old
People come, people go. It’s as easy as that. I’d make that my philosophy if I didn’t already have one: Don’t trust anyone over 30. Or is it 40? 50? I can’t quite remember, because memory, as they say, is always the first thing to go. Or something like that. I keep pushing the age-trust limit…
Healing notion
It’s been more than a decade since Caroline Duell created “Good Goopâ€? to treat her own scrapes and burns that she regularly wore from rock climbing. Duell combined her knowledge of herbs and her love of farming to create a completely natural skin balm with herbs and oils from her own garden. # Soon, Duell…
New editor takes helm at New Times
Following the resignation of Managing Editor King Harris, New Times general manager and prospective owner Bob Rucker appointed Santa Maria Sun editor Ryan Miller to lead the editorial department of San Luis Obispo’s alternative weekly. # Shortly after receiving the go-ahead to purchase controlling shares in both the New Times and the Santa Maria Sun,…
Father’s Day? Bah! Humbug!
Along about June 1, a strange gurgling starts to bubble up from deep inside me. By June 15, my gut is tightly taut. Then the mental writhing kicks in. I start to agitate, even to fear. Thinks: “No mention this far. No furtive glances. No secretive giggles. “They’ve kept the record clean over the years…
