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A Pozo state of mind
# By all accounts, Pozo is a sleepy little village. It’s the kind of place where a few people still ride horses to get around, and when they do drive, they slow down for tarantulas crossing the road. So you can imagine that many of the dozen or so residents clustered around the historic Pozo…
Fast facts
The SLO Children’s Museum is hosting a 007-themed fundraiser: “Museum Royale.” Leave the guns at home, and come ready to play at the tables, bid at the silent auction, and drink martinis–shaken, not stirred. This is a fun formal event on Oct. 13, so partiers are encouraged to come in black tie attire, or dressed…
Going where the paint and surf take her
Mo Ryan is an artist who flows with the go (a favorite phase of hers). She paints tow trucks to commemorate the many times her vehicle has been hitched up to one, and she almost always features a glimpse of surf in her work. It’s the beach that creates a happy vibe in her images,…
The end of an era
It went largely unnoticed in downtown San Luis Obispo, but early one morning this summer, an era lasting almost 25 years came to a peaceful end. The story goes that many years ago, the San Luis Obispo Mission was given a special black cat whose job it was to take care of the mice “problem.”…
Cuesta votes to keep on-campus cops
The Cuesta Board of Trustees recently voted unanimously to continue their on-campus police department. The recent decision ends months of speculation, sparked by discussion at a previous meeting, that the Central Coast community college might disband the on-campus police force in favor of contracting an outside law enforcement agency such as the San Luis Obispo…
Foist today: McCarthy’s lives on!
Make new friends and keep the old. McCarthy’s new is as good as McCarthy’s old. # The legendary McCarthy’s Irish Pub reopened its doors for business on Oct. 5 following a nearly six-month hiatus. After being tucked away for 55 years in the secluded site at 1019 Court St., McCarthy’s now serves as a virtual…
Letters
Let the sheriff run his department Some time ago, during a public hearing, Supervisor Jerry Lenthall told me that the sheriff doesn’t answer to the Board of Supervisors, but to the people who elected him. So, now I wonder about the confusion over whether the board can or cannot put Sheriff Pat Hedges on administrative…
You can’t keep a good Shredder down
I was thinking of throwing my hat in the ring to become Cuesta College’s next president. After all, I’ve got the necessary qualifications, and I’m remarkably diverse to boot. My mother was a quarter Nigerian, a quarter Nicaraguan, a quarter Antarctican, and a quarter Antediluvian. My father was a quarter Irish, a quarter Welsh, a…
Ahoy, matey!
The people behind the newest wine tasting room in SLO are hoping to lure wine lovers away from downtown, but it’s smooth sailing along South Higuera to dock at Sextant. Not familiar with a sextant? It’s an Old World astronomical instrument that determines latitude and longitude at sea by measuring angular distances of the sun,…
Former New Times building scorched
An early-morning fire caused some damage to a portion of the former home of New Times on Oct. 6. At about 7 a.m. Saturday morning, San Luis Obispo Fire Department officials responded and quickly contained the blaze at the two-story building at 505 Higuera St., which now only houses Cuesta Title Company and Apex Properties.…
The Central Coast money race
Grade-school civics books don’t list any formal connection between money and power. In the real world, however, fundraising prowess serves as both a stamp of a candidate’s legitimacy and a campaign’s ticket to controlling a message through advertising. # So which presidential candidates are doing best at harvesting dollars from SLO-area residents? If dollars were…
Grieving begins,but questions remain in apparent murder-suicide
In the week since San Luis Obispo police were called to the scene of an apparent murder-suicide at the home of a local psychiatrist, they’ve remained close-lipped about exactly that they think happened while the community has made some steps toward healing. At Bishop’s Peak Elementary, second grade students were mourning the death of a…
Fishermen put a face on fish
Central Coast fishermen have launched a new marketing plan aimed at saving an endangered species of sorts: the local fishing community. Their new campaign, called The Faces of California Fishing, emphasizes the stories of the fishermen who catch the local crab, albacore, salmon, and rockfish that end up on local dinner tables. Under California’s stringent…
Take flight with the Black Crowes
The Black Crowes have come quite a distance from their 1988 genesis in Atlanta, at that time “with members not much older than the traditions they revived,” according to Rolling Stone. Back then, lead singer Chris Robinson, now closing in on 41, was a 22-year-old kid, and his guitarist brother Rich Robinson was 19. #…
Mr. Can-you-fix-it?
If you’ve got a broken string–or a broken neck–don’t fret! San Luis Obispo has a new repair shop, dedicated to all things stringed. Butch Boswell has been making music happen on the Central Coast for more than a decade as the front man for the alt/country/rock band Virgil Cane. He’s also a trusted luthier. Over…
