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Sail into summer: The Live Oak Music Festival is just around the corner
Never been to Live Oak Music Fest? Maybe this should be your year. Even if you’ve missed the first 34 years, joining the Live Oak family is as easy as slipping on your favorite pair of jeans. “Live Oak has something special about it that’s all about community,” KCBX Director of Programming and Content Marisa…
Not in anybody’s backyard?
The overflow crowd lined the back of SLO County Board of Supervisors chamber on May 21. What, pray tell, was all the hubbub about? The lions and tigers and bears that accompany any sort of project designed to help lift people out of homelessness, of course. These projects are drug- and crime-ridden disasters, people! There’re…
Glasshead Studio holds workshop fundraiser to benefit Central Coast Beekeepers Alliance
The public is encouraged to take part in an upcoming workshop at Glasshead Studio in Atascadero. Participants of the class will create their own bee-themed garden stakes, while 50 percent of their admission fees will be donated to the Central Coast Beekeepers Alliance. The Fused Glass Bee Stake Fundraiser will be held on Wednesday, May…
Gallery at Monarch Dunes hosts Second Quarter Art Display
Twenty-two original artworks from a pool of 15 participating artists will be on display as part of the Second Quarter Art Display, a reception held at the Gallery at Monarch Dunes in Nipomo on Saturday, May 25, from 1 to 3 p.m. The show’s featured artists are residents of Trilogy at Monarch Dunes, and their…
Summer Guide 2024
This week, you can find our annual Sumer Guide! Calendar Editor Caleb Wiseblood pulled all the hot events together into one place for your pleasure—from food and wine festivals to outdoor performances, arts classes, kids camps, and more. Read the entire issue here!
Arroyo Grande’s Branch Street Deli and Pizzeria celebrates its first anniversary of a delicious upgrade
Deli development Enjoy Branch Street Deli and Pizzeria’s transformation every day starting at 11 a.m. It closes at 3 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and at 7 p.m. on Sunday. Check out branchstreetdeli.com and follow the restaurant on Instagram @branch_st_deli_and_pizzeria. Branch Street Deli and Pizzeria in Arroyo Grande has…
Back to Black chronicles Amy Winehouse’s rise to fame
BACK TO BLACK What’s it rated? RWhat’s it worth, Anna? Full priceWhat’s it worth, Glen? Full priceWhere’s it showing? Downtown Centre, Park, Stadium 10 Sam Taylor-Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey, A Million Little Pieces, Nowhere Boy) directs Matt Greenhalgh’s script chronicling British R&B singer Amy Winehouse’s (Marisa Abela) music and life from adolescence to adulthood,…
Eight-string guitar master Gary Wooten promotes Low Standards, Vol. 1 with a slew of gigs
When Gary Wooten plays, he makes it look easy, effortless really, yet mastering the eight-string hybrid guitar bass is anything but easy. The bottom two strings are tuned to the lowest two strings of a bass and the top six are tuned to standard six-string guitar tuning. He can play it like a standard electric…
WALL-E
What’s it rated? G When? 2008 Where’s it showing? The Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo on Saturday, May 25 (1:30, 4;15, 7, and 9:30 p.m.), Sunday, May 26 (1:30, 4:15, and 7 p.m.), and Monday, May 27 (7:15 p.m.) WALL-E appeared on-screen in 2008, and I remember it as a time where everyone was…
Supervisors approve Welcome Home Village along Johnson Avenue
The city of San Luis Obispo will be home to an 80-bed hamlet for the homeless who once lived in the Bob Jones Trail encampment corridor. Unanimously backed by the city’s Planning Commission, the proposed Welcome Home Village project appeared before the SLO County Board of Supervisors for approval on May 21. Supervisors authorized the…
Harvey
What’s it rated? Approved (The Hays Code) When? 1950 Where’s it showing? The Bay Theater of Morro Bay on Monday, May 27 (5:30 p.m.) Directed by Henry Koster (The Bishop’s Wife) and based on the play of the same name by Mary Chase, Harvey chronicles the misadventures of Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart), who due…
California airports stand to benefit from lawmakers and scientists’ attempts to disrupt ‘forever chemicals’
UC Riverside professor Jinyong Liu embarked on a scientific challenge as an undergraduate chemistry student when he heard people dub per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as “forever chemicals.” “I just have very strong interest in destroying these chemicals,” the associate professor of chemical and environmental engineering told New Times. “When most of the people said…
Grover Beach City Council votes to reduce water rate increase
After months of tirelessly protesting against Grover Beach’s new water rate structure, Grover H2O members finally received the answer they’ve been looking for. During a May 13 City Council meeting, council members voted 3-1 to revise their December 2023 vote that would have increased water rates by almost 20 percent over the next four years.…
Paso Robles wants to extend its half-cent road tax past 2025
Paso Robles city staff pitched extending an existing half-cent sales tax as a way to leverage a potential $56 million bond that could help chip away at more than $350 million in needed road repairs. “That includes associated utility replacements that can be up to 40 percent of the costs,” Public Works Director Freda Berman…
SLO County opts out of listing measure supporters and opponents on voter ballots
The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors became the 34th in California to opt out of a Ballot Disclose Act requirement. Joining a majority of its fellow 57 counties, SLO County will not be listing the supporters and opponents for county, city, district, and school measures on future election ballots. The supervisors exercised the…
People’s Self-Help Housing asks Pismo Beach for grant help to fix apartment complex
The Pismo Beach City Council will submit a $5 million grant application to help People’s Self-Help Housing make upgrades to an apartment complex the nonprofit was recently sued over. During a May 22 council meeting, council members voted to unanimously approve a grant application to the California Department of Housing and Community Development under the…
SLO Movement Arts Center dancers perform a multi-experience show at Cuesta on June 1 and 2
After moving to San Luis Obispo 12 years ago from the Netherlands, Maartje Lawrence decided to turn her love for dance into a studio so she can share that passion with the youth around her. “I have this love for movement and art and connection, and I feel like a lot of those things go…
Unity must prevail
The recent approval of the Dana Reserve by the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors is a milestone for our community, addressing crucial housing needs designated as a Tier 1 Priority by the county. It is the largest, most affordable housing project ever approved, includes tens of millions of dollars of currently needed infrastructure,…
Semantics and spin
When it comes right down to it folks, we are living in a most confusing time. It’s next to impossible to discern the truth of a matter and get credible sources of info on anything you may be interested in. Media sources are sometimes biased and bought, the government is all over the map, and…
