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Exploiting humans: Local officials and nonprofits work together to assist survivors of human trafficking
Services and info • Victim Witness Assistance: Assists victims and families that are affected by crime, (805) 781-5437. • RISE SLO: Assists victims of domestic violence, sexual assualt, and sex trafficking, (855) 886-7473 (crisis line) or riseslo.org. • Stand Strong: Provides support and resources to end domestic violence, (805) 781-6400 (crisis line) or standstrongnow.org. •…
Bingeable: Street Food
When? 2019 What’s it rated? TV-G Where’s it available? Netflix My husband and I have devoured every episode of Netflix’s Chef’s Table and Ugly Delicious, glasses of wine in hand. Sometimes, though, a 45- to 60-minute episode would be too much of a full meal for a weekday evening. So when the streaming service/studio launched…
Midweek romance: Tolosa in Edna Valley features its sister winery, Perinet, every third Wednesday after work
Take a staycation Perinet After Hours occurs the third Wednesday of every month from 5 to 7 p.m. at Tolosa Winery, 4910 Edna Road in San Luis Obispo. Reservations can be made by phone at (805) 782-0500 or by email at concierge@tolosawinery.com. The other night, my husband, Greg, and I attended an overcast Wednesday Perinet…
Film Listings, 5/30/19 – 6/6/19
Editor’s note: Listings for Paso Robles’ Park Cinemas were not available. Visit parkcinemas.com or call (805) 227-2172 for films and show times. ALADDIN What’s it rated? PG What’s it worth? Full price Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Galaxy, Stadium 10, Sunset Drive-In Pick Co-writer and director Guy Richie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch,…
Morro Bay enters new agreement with Project Surf Camp
A two-year agreement between the city of Morro Bay and Project Surf Camp is ending, but the city voted to enter into a new one-year agreement with the nonprofit on May 28. John Taylor, education teacher and local surfer, formed Project Surf Camp in the fall of 2007. The camp’s mission is to help create…
Burning, Bad & Cool release their EP ‘On the Gospel Highway’ at Painted Sky Studios on May 31
If you had a chance to see a Palm Theatre screening of Amazing Grace—the documentary of rediscovered footage of Aretha Franklin’s incredible 1972 performances at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles—you’ve had a recent reminder of the power of gospel music, which laid the groundwork for R&B and rock ‘n’ roll. You…
Choices
Viva freedom of choice! BarrelHouse Brewery in Tin City (3055 Limestone Way, Paso Robles) pulled some strings to give us a fistful of food trucks for 805 Food Truck Night on Thursday, May 30, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Cubanissimo will be selling Cubano sandwiches, yucca fries, and tostones (fried plantains); Feed my Seoul will…
Memorial Day takes us down Memory Lane to Tolo, our favorite North County winery and picnic spot
Sip for yourself Tolo Cellars, located at 9750 Adelaida Road in Paso Robles, is open Thursday through Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit tolocellars.com for more information. We could not have asked for better holiday weather. It’s about 1:30 in the afternoon on Memorial Day, May 27, and I’m relaxing with my daughters…
Baseball advocates introduce campaign to renovate Sinsheimer Stadium
Talking parks The San Luis Obispo Parks and Recreation Department is holding three, one-hour public workshops on Wednesday, June 5, at 4, 5, and 6 p.m. in the Ludwick Community Center. Parks staff is seeking input on residents’ needs, wants, and desires for future parks amenities, as it develops the city’s next parks and rec…
The ‘dunes of death’?
After reading the opinion piece by Robert Cuddy regarding the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area (“Long overdue,” May 23) over my leisurely breakfast out, I was immediately stricken with a terror so profound and visceral that I had no choice but to scurry home and hide under my bed, whimpering, while I awaited an…
Causes
Feel-good eats: On Friday, May 31, from 4 to 8 p.m. the Atascadero Optimist Club will be at Sylvester’s Burgers selling fundraising cards—for $20 you get two Sylvester’s 1/2 pound burgers and a basket of fries, a 20 percent savings (6455 El Camino Real, Atascadero) … The first ever SLO Grilled Cheese Festival is coming…
Right to choose
What does bright blue California have in common with deep red Alabama? Not a heck of a lot, you might say, considering the ever-widening chasm between “progressives” and “conservatives” threatening to tear this nation in two. If that’s your thinking, you may be surprised by how closely aligned their politics really are. Here’s the dirty…
Savor the flavor
New name, new menu: Piemonte’s Italian Delicatessen at 1234 Monterey St., suite 120, in SLO is now Monterey St. Market. Deli customers will still see Piemonte’s popular Italian sandwiches, meats, and cheeses, but the owners are rebranding themselves. Starting this summer, they will be adding a bar with local wine tasting and cider in addition…
The ‘chasm’
I try to turn away, ignore, go on with my life, but I just can’t help it. So here I am, writing again. Really, Al! In times like these, your biggest fear is “Progressive tyranny?” (“An intellectual chasm,” May 23). I’d say, “You’ve got to be joking!” but sadly, I know this is not the…
Cherry-pit-filled pillows bring relief to local hospice clients
J’Nelle Holland has cold feet, but not in the sense that she’s apprehensive—far from it. Her feet get really cold at night, making it kind of hard to sleep. She decided to do some research on alternative ways to solve her problem. What Holland found were small pillows stuffed with cherry pits that are used…
Valuable space
I can’t believe that New Times continues to run columns by Al Fonzi, presumably in an attempt to present an alternative, conservative voice for local readers. With his stilted prose, his nearly incoherent arguments, and his rambling discourse, Fonzi is hardly worthy of a weekly column in any newspaper. In his last piece he touched…
Tienda de quesos manchego
I’m all for creating your own private Europe here in SLO county. It’s wonderful when you can find a place that will bring you the kinds of food on the charcuterie and cheese plates of Spanish wineries in the spirit of Perinet (see this week’s Flavor column). Vivant Fine Cheese, founded by Danika Gordon, a…
Reproductive rights don’t end with anti-abortion
I find your headline, “Locals join the nationwide rally for reproductive rights” (May 23), confusing. Anti-abortion does not infringe on reproductive rights, it protects reproduction and the lives of innocent unborn children. There is no excuse in today’s society for abortion with the availability of birth control and contraceptives. That someone would be too lazy…
Subdivision shuffle
Here’s the front-page headline from the May 5 weekly update issued by the Coalition of Labor Agriculture and Business (COLAB), in all its primal screaming glory: “SICKENING TURN OF EVENTS SIERRA CLUB ACTING AS COUNTY LAND USE REGULATORY BODY KILLS EXISTING LOTS.” Furthermore: “NOW YOU’RE [sic] GREAT GRANDMOTHER’S LOTS ARE ILLEGAL! Next they will repudiate…
SLO nutritionist pens advice book for disordered eating in college
Read on Permission To Eat: A practical guide to working yourself out of an eating disorder during college, while celebrating the awesomeness that is you! by Libby Parker is available on Amazon for $24.92 in hardback and $16.99 in paperback. Food is such a basic, integral part of our everyday life that most of us…
Really SLO?
Chicken Little called me the other day. She said the sky is falling, and it’s all the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) fault—especially those fellows from the Bakersfield office. Who do they think they are? Coming to our town to listen to residents berate them for doing what their bosses asked them to do. The…
Mapping Out art show takes inspiration from cartography, exploring
On display The Mapping Out exhibit will be on display at Studios on the Park in Paso Robles through June 30. Show curator Ellen November will speak about Mapping Out during Art After Dark on June 1 from 6 to 9 p.m. In conjunction with the exhibit, Dr. Andrew Fricker of Cal Poly will teach…
Sound off
New Times readers took to Facebook to share their thoughts on our May 23 news story, “Closure of left-turns at El Campo and three other intersections will resume.”
SLO Rep presents Hello, Dolly!
The San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre holds the opening performance of Hello, Dolly! on Friday, June 7, at 7 p.m. Performances will continue through Sunday, June 30, Wednesdays through Sundays. Additional matinee performances will be offered every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. This turn-of-the-20th century musical centers on a professional meddler and matchmaker, Dolly…
Cambria residents will see water rate increases in July
The Cambria Community Services District approved water, sustainable water facility, and sewer rate increases at its most recent meeting; the new rates go into effect on July 1. The board—with the exception of district board trustee Harry Farmer, who abstained—approved raising water rates by 10 percent, water facility fees by 14 percent, and sewer rates…
Hundreds stand against drilling, fracking on public lands
The Central Coast environmental community gave federal officials a tongue lashing on May 22 in the Embassy Suites hotel in San Luis Obispo, berating the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) for its plan to grow oil and gas production on public lands across Central California. Following a rally in the parking lot of the hotel…
Arroyo Grande Oil Field poised for future drilling
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decided that 575 acres of aquifer underlying Price Canyon should be exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act, ending the limbo that Sentinel Peak Resources has been in since it purchased Freeport McMoRan’s local oil drilling operation in 2016. Freeport McMoRan applied for an aquifer exemption in the Arroyo Grande…
Jerry Scott exhibit opens at Frame Works
Beauty and the Beach, a new exhibit showcasing oil paintings by Jerry Scott, opens at Frame Works in SLO, with an artist reception on Friday, June 7, from 6 to 9 p.m. The featured paintings depict beach and summer scenes and all share a retrospective theme. The show will run through Tuesday, Aug. 27. The…
SLO Library hosts How to Read SLO Buildings Like a Book
How to Read SLO Buildings Like a Book, a presentation from architectural historian James Papp, takes place at the San Luis Obispo Library on Saturday, June 8, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Papp will present a lecture on local architecture, followed by a scavenger hunt in downtown SLO where participants can compete for a prize.…
Templeton Unified discusses finding new superintendent
Templeton Unified School District (TUSD) is working on a plan to fill the superintendent position after its current superintendent, Joe Koski, notified the district of his resignation. On May 24, Koski emailed a letter to the district and community notifying them of his decision to not pursue a contract renewal beyond July 30. Jan Nimick,…
‘Booksmart’ is lowbrow but funny and smart comedy
BOOKSMART What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Anna? Full price What’s it worth, Glen? Full price Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Galaxy In her feature-length directorial debut, actress Olivia Wilde helms this comedy about teenage besties Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein), who on the eve of their high school graduation realize they…
SLO County set to extend Paso Robles groundwater restrictions
A 6-year-old county policy requiring farmers with new crops over the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin to offset their water use is poised for another extension. San Luis Obispo County officials are concerned about a looming “gap” in regulation over the 780-square-mile basin, which has struggled in recent years with development and drought. First adopted in…
