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Pride 2023: Out and proud
The Central Coast is celebrating Pride Month with events in SLO and Santa Barbara counties throughout June. ‘Celebration is resistance’ Trans Pride Weekend honors trans individuals on the Central Coast. BY ADRIAN VINCENT ROSAS Celebrate visibility Central Coast LGBTQ-plus organizations host Pride events throughout June. BY TAYLOR O’CONNER Family fun We Are Family photos celebrate…
Paso Robles dealer pleads guilty to selling fatal dose of fentanyl to local man
A Paso Robles man faces up to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal charge of selling counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl to an Atascadero resident, who then died of an overdose. Timothy Wolfe, 26, signed a guilty plea agreement with federal prosecutors on May 24 surrendering to one count of…
Paso school district debates LGBTQ-plus flags in classrooms
At a May 23 meeting, a Paso Robles school board member made it clear how he felt about a 2021 incident where local high school students took a Pride flag down from a classroom, defecated on it, and posted video of the incident on social media. “In my opinion, that [Pride flag incident] was a…
SLO cannabis regulation changes box out Dayspring
As the city of San Luis Obispo gears up to add a third cannabis dispensary in town, it recently passed a suite of revisions to its rules for the industry—including one that directly impacts imprisoned former cannabis kingpin Helios Dayspring. Revised parameters for hopeful cannabis applicants adopted by the SLO City Council on May 16…
Cambria skate park takes its next step with CSD match grant application approval
The years-long process to build a skate park in Cambria got closer to reality with the Cambria Community Service District’s May 25 vote to apply for a funding grant. “It is a historical day for Cambria recreation and children,” Juli Amodei said. “I cannot stress how grateful everyone involved with the project is to be…
R.A.C.E. Matters SLO opens Black hair salon, event space in downtown SLO
San Luis Obispo’s lack of Black cultural resources is felt in myriad areas, but one in particular is noticed by nearly all Black residents, said Courtney Haile, executive director of R.A.C.E. Matters SLO. “Where can I get my hair done?” she said. “It’s sort of a classic issue. If you ask any Black folks who…
Central Coast Film Society recognizes winners of student showcase
Students from San Luis Obispo High School, Morro Bay High School, Central Coast New Tech High School, and Ernest Righetti High School were among the winners of a recent film competition. The Central Coast Film Society announced the award winners of the 2023 Student Film and Media Arts Competition during its Student Showcase event, held…
‘Celebration is resistance’: Trans Pride Weekend honors trans individuals on the Central Coast
Get involved To see where the next Central Coast Pride Event is taking place visit slopride.com or follow @centralcoastpride on Instagram. Meadow Park in San Luis Obispo is no stranger to hosting events—but on May 27, it was host to something Ila Moncreif considers to be more impactful than just another random event. “This was…
Stilson Cellars holds macramé workshop
Atascadero-based macramé artist Lindsey Altman, of Tied + True Goods, will lead an upcoming Knot and Sip workshop at Stilson Cellars in Paso Robles on Sunday, June 11, from 4 to 6 p.m. Participants of the class will create their own driftwood plant hangers. Admission to the event includes a glass of wine. Visit my805tix.com…
Celebrate visibility: Central Coast LGBTQ-plus organizations host Pride events throughout June
Festivals, parades, performances, and resource fairs are happening up and down the Central Coast throughout Pride Month in June. Santa Ynez Valley Pride is hosting an event nearly every week; Santa Maria’s House of Pride and Equality makes a comeback with its first in-person Pride festival since the pandemic; and SLO County’s Central Coast Pride…
We Are Family photos celebrate LGBTQ-plus families across the Central Coast
See for yourself Experience the exhibit We Are Family at The Bunker (810 Orcutt Road, San Luis Obispo) until the end of June. For more information on other Central Coast Pride events, visit slopride.com or follow them on Instagram @centralcoastpride. For Laura Albers, a family photo is a powerful thing. Sometimes it’s a window into…
Silo
What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Apple TV Plus Creator Graham Yost (Band of Brothers, Justified) runs this show based on novelist Hugh Howey’s Wool series about a dystopian future where 10,000 people exist in an underground bunker called the Silo. They’ve been told the outside world is poisonous and uninhabitable, but…
Gold Land heats up the barbecue in downtown SLO
Meat and greet Gold Land BBQ, located at 570 Higuera St., No. 135, within The Creamery Marketplace in San Luis Obispo, is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information, visit goldlandbbq.com and follow the eatery on Facebook and Instagram @goldlandbbq. Chef Joshua Luce of local catering company Gold Land…
Local singer-songwriter Dulcie Taylor supports new EP with bevy of shows
When Dulcie Taylor starts singing, you know she’s going to take you somewhere. Her protagonists are often navigating difficult emotional waters or looking back on past relationships, and on her upcoming five-song EP, Edges of Silver, to be released June 30 on Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings, the journey is moving and nostalgic. The album begins with “Backbeat…
The Little Mermaid is worthy of its animated 1989 predecessor
THE LITTLE MERMAID What’s it rated? PG What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Colony, Downtown Centre, Park, Stadium 10 Rob Marshall (Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) directs this live-action version of the beloved 1989 animated The Little Mermaid film.…
Displaced visitors
Dear honorable Morro Bay Mayor Carla Wixom and City Council members, The sting of the financial impacts of Ironman weekend (May 20) have eased; however, my fiduciary duty to Dockside and my personal responsibility to my 60 staff members have caused me to question how the city of Morro Bay allowed this to happen. Some…
High Desert
What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Apple TV Plus Luckily for us, it seems everything Patricia Arquette touches is gold these days, and High Desert is no exception. Reminiscent a bit of Poker Face, Peggy is someone with mysteries to solve. She’s flawed, and her brother and sister are sick of picking…
It’s time for change, as society isn’t sustainable
It is obvious that our priorities are fundamentally profit-based, putting a price on every living, breathing being that can never compete with an entity that neither breathes nor lives. So, I must conclude that for us to regain our rightful place among the living natural world dictated by the laws of nature vs. bottom line…
How a bill shouldn’t become a law
Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he was submitting a package of bills to the Legislature and declaring an executive order establishing an “Infrastructure Strike Team,” both with the same goal: to “streamline” permitting and judicial review for infrastructure projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). CEQA is a vital process that provides…
Ungodly mess
Arroyo Grande resident Barbara Dyer is very disappointed in her city for choosing to fly a Pride flag above City Hall during the month of June. “I am a Christian, and I would love it if you waved a Christian flag for a month,” she wrote in a public comment letter to the City Council,…
Arroyo Grande approves flying Pride flag amid pushback
In a display of solidarity, the Arroyo Grande City Council collectively withstood pushback from some factions of the town and voted to fly the LGBTQ-plus Pride flag at City Hall for all of June. The five council members were vocal about visibly supporting the LGBTQ-plus community during Pride month and beyond. Each of them highlighted…
Former Allan Hancock College instructor is charged with sexual assault, manufacturing ghost weapons
A former Allan Hancock College instructor is facing criminal charges of committing sexual assault and creating ghost guns. The San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office accused Kevin Daily, 29—an engineer and one-time instructor of industrial technology at the Santa Maria community college—of rape by use of drugs and unlawfully manufacturing a firearm and an…
