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Battling the system: CSU faculty question both the union that represents them and the system they work within
CSU San Marcos literature and writing studies lecturer Jennifer Kady Stanton has been teaching for more than 10 years. She currently lives in a 350-square-foot studio apartment with her daughter and makes $3,780 per month from the San Diego County university before taxes. “I would love to put roots down in San Marcos, I would…
Upcoming reception showcases local artist Alex Hischier
The Bunker in San Luis Obispo is hosting an Art After Dark reception on Friday, April 5, from 5 to 8 p.m. The free event will highlight art by Central Coast-based artist Alex Hischier. According to press materials, Hischier is a local painter, sculptor, and writer whose works are influenced by abstract expressionists, such as…
Love Lies Bleeding depicts a gritty and fantastical love affair
LOVE LIES BLEEDING What’s it rated? RWhat’s it worth, Glen? Full priceWhat’s it worth, Anna? Full priceWhere’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Regal Arroyo Grande Rose Glass (Saint Maud) directs a screenplay she wrote with Weronika Tofilska about Lou (Kristen Stewart), a gym manager who falls for Jackie (Katy O’Brian), an indigent and itinerant bodybuilder hitchhiking…
The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping
What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Masked as schools with a focus on “healing troubled teens,” Ivy Ridge and its sister schools run by the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (known as WWASP) aren’t out to help teenagers become better people, they’re out to manipulate parents into spending…
The Gentlemen
What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Guy Ritchie (Snatch, Sherlock Holmes, The Covenant) created this action comedy TV series, which is a spinoff of his 2019 film of the same name, about newly minted 10th Duke of Halstead Eddie Horniman (Theo James), who inherits his father’s 15,000-acre estate only to discover…
We Heart Oceano volunteers will tidy up Oceano Park following counterparts in Arroyo Grande and Nipomo
After sprucing up parks in Arroyo Grande and Nipomo, organizer Kendra Paulding’s community beautification project will make its way to Oceano. We Heart Oceano is the latest South County addition to the original We Heart AG events where eager volunteers carry out small but significant improvements to public areas. Months after the We Heart Nipomo…
Board of Supervisors opts to keep Oceano’s airport operating, improve it
Although Oceano community members have been at odds over whether to close or renovate the Oceano Airport, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to continue operating the county-run airport and make improvements to it in the future. During the March 26 Board of Supervisors meeting, county Director of Airports Courtney Johnson…
The SLO Blues Society presents Sugaray Rayford on March 30
If you’re ready to take a one-two knockout punch of soul and blues, Sugaray Rayford will belt it out for you. Born Caron Nimoy Rayford in Smith County, Texas, Sugaray started singing and playing drums in church at age 7, and to this day, there’s an undeniable gospel influence permeating his sound. He eventually moved…
CAPSLO earmarks nearby Prado Road property for family services
Marred by years of code violation issues, the troubled property at 46 Prado Road that once belonged to San Luis Obispo resident William Sievers, will be rejuvenated as a space that helps the homeless community. The Community Action Partnership of SLO closed escrow on 46 Prado Road—the neighbor of its 40 Prado Road facility. The…
Atascadero considers local sales tax measure for November ballot
Since 2014, Atascadero has spent more than $17 million to maintain and upgrade 52 miles of roads in the city. But that funding could run dry in 2027 if the city doesn’t pass a new sales tax measure. “It’s not an additional tax measure; this one is essentially a continuation of what’s already being paid,”…
Heather Moreno wins 5th District Supervisor race
Atascadero Mayor Heather Moreno will shed her current title for a greater one: the next 5th District Supervisor in January 2025. According to election results certified on March 27, Moreno clinched 56.4 percent of final votes while her opponent, Atascadero City Councilmember Susan Funk, grabbed 43.6 percent of the total. Moreno will replace current 5th…
We want better representation
In 2023, the county revised the Advisory Council Handbook to promote consistency for all advisory council boards and procedures and set the expectation that all community councils would move toward elected membership. Accordingly, Oceano’s county supervisor, Jimmy Paulding, asked VACO to transition to an elected council by the end of March 2024. To make the…
Nuclear power’s dirty legacy
Now that the red carpet from the Oscars has been rolled up and disposed of, likely in a landfill somewhere, one wonders if the gold statues dare to whisper among themselves in their respective cabinets of why the film Oppenheimer left out so much. Oppenheimer fails to depict the experience of the Tewa people with…
Good Witch Farm in Lompoc delivers microgreens around SLO County
Micro-education Keep up with Good Witch Farm’s organic microgreens and edible flowers on Instagram @good_witch_farm. For queries, contact owner Jane Darrah at (805) 757-4120. Often forgotten about until it’s time to make a plate of food look pretty, microgreens and edible garnishes are at the forefront of Lompoc cultivator Jane Darrah’s mind. “I found microgreens…
What about conservatives?
Having read John Donegan’s recent epic “Do the right thing” (March 14), I do have to admit that I agree with a lot of what he has to say, which, as a recovering progressive, is a bit painful for me. It does seem that it takes American liberals, especially progressives, an inordinate amount of time…
SLO REP takes on emotions and deep thinking in What the Constitution Means To Me
Go see it What the Constitution Means To Me will run from March 29 through April 14, Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. SLO REP is located at 888 Morro St. in San Luis Obispo. For more information, visit slorep.org. With the nation smack-dab in the middle…
Systems suck
California State University presidents received a 7 percent raise in 2022. If you’re Cal Poly President Jeff Armstrong (aka one of the highest paid campus administrators in the entire CSU system), that means you’re now making about $38,000 more per year than you were before. That raise is almost equal to what CSU San Marcos…
Songwriters at Play hosts contest finales in Cambria and Solvang
Mid-April will mark the conclusion of two local music competitions, both organized by Songwriters at Play. The featured musicians slated to perform at the two finale events—scheduled for Saturday, April 13, at Solvang’s High Roller Tiki Lounge and Sunday, April 14, at the Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre—were juried finalists from monthly Songwriters at…
