SHELLY CONE
Plump strawberries, mouth-watering tri-tip, award-winning Pinot Noir—Santa Maria is known for many things. But stuff like public art and fine galleries? Probably not on ...
COLIN RIGLEY
Workers’ compensation insurance is designed to protect people. It helps ensure that an on-the-job injury does not mean financial disaster.
In California it was importan...
Carrie Covell
The cooling breeze was a welcome one, breaking the still heat of the late afternoon. Dan DeVaul smiled and leaned back against the trunk of a eucalyptus tree, shaded and peace...
Patrick R. Barbieri
Barack Obama’s Southern California campaign staff is offering training to volunteers as part of Camp Obama, a two-day workshop on Sept. 5 and 6 at Cal Poly.
Participant...
Patrick R. Barbieri
The closure of the 2008 salmon fishing season has made SLO County one of several California counties declared a disaster area by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
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Colin Rigley
The developers of Santa Margarita Ranch are in hurry-up mode. They want the San Luis Obispo Planning Commission to make a decision on their plans, even if it means denying the...
Kylie Mendonca
Opponents of the Chinatown project, a hotel-housing-shopping behemoth proposed for downtown SLO, got a chance to raise their concerns with the project’s architect direct...
Kylie Mendonca
When Cal Poly student Jerry Miszewski first started pursuing his love of slacklining around SLO town, he thought the process seemed harmless enough.
Slacklining basically con...
JULIE RODEWALD
The presidential general election on Nov. 4 is quickly approaching, and election officials around the country are busy preparing for a voter turnout that likely will be unprec...
Ron Lapp, M.D.
History will be made if Governor Schwarzenegger signs The California Universal Health Care Act, Senate Bill 840 (Kuehl). This bill provides for a not-for-profit, single-payer ...
Juli Miller, - Interim Director - The Central Coast Autism Spectrum Center
The recent article regarding the state of autism services in our county was a pleasure to see (“Autism services are extensive, but questioned,” Aug. 14, 2008), how...
Simone Laurent
I had two uninvited, and ultimately unwelcome, visitors knock on my door recently. Their stated intentions were to “conduct a survey” about Proposition 8, the upco...
J.M. Pierce
A few nights ago I received what I consider a strange phone call. A woman, who identified herself as Gladys, said she was representing the “California Coalition of Churc...
Peter Charles Hunter
When the paved asphalt ends, so does the road. Why do trucks continue into areas where children make sandcastles and people happily run their dogs and enjoy a peaceful hike?
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Robert Parkhurst
Over the last 30 years, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman and Washington insider, Senator Joe Biden [D-Del.), has been a powerful leading influence on our foreign policy. I...
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Two cases in the news, two bail amounts. For Charlie Lynch, the owner of a medical marijuana dispensary, bail was set at $400,000. In the other case, former sheriff’s de...
What is the most important issue in the upcoming presidential elections?
Carrie Covell
They travel miles and miles every year to visit the Central Coast. They lounge on our beaches, refuse our food, and pick fights. They even mate in public. Funny thing is, we n...
ASHLEY SCHWELLENBACH
What happens when you take a parrot tulip as your subject, and apply an unlikely combination of Victorian and psychedelic aesthetics with Frankensteinian ruthlessness and curi...
ASHLEY SCHWELLENBACH
Chess Live isn’t your run-of-the-mill board-game experience. In fact, the events’ founder, Nancy Castle, who conceived the experience after a trip to Europe, doesn...
CHRISTY HERON
New Times Why the heck open a gallery in Pismo? Why not SLO or Cambria?
Janice Simich I grew up in Pismo Beach and have lived here my whole life. I went away to college and ...
Christy Heron
Yeah, we like darkness...and art
ART AFTER DARK
September 5, 6-9 p.m.
Info: 544-9251 or programs@sloartscouncil.org
Steynberg Gallery: 1531 Monterey, 547...
GLEN STARKEY
Listening to “Homesick,” a track off of Welcome Home, the soon-to-be-released CD by Each Passing Day, it’s easy to hear why the track won top honors at the W...
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Vin Diesel stars as the mercenary, Toorop, a veteran whose job is to navigate a post-Apocalyptic Eastern Europe and safely transport a woman to New York City. The woman, howev...
KATHY MARCKS HARDESTY
One week ago Domaine Alfred, one of the finest Pinot Noir producers in SLO County, held an amicable reception for their neighbors in Edna Valley to introduce the estate’...
This elegant white opens with lovely notes of pink grapefruit and Meyer lemon that highlight its delicious flavors of melon, white peach, and honey. This well-balanced wine b...
Owner/winemaker Chuck Carlson is the winemaker for Curtis Winery on Foxen Canyon Road in Los Olivos. Every year he buys Pinot Noir for his eponymous brand from his neighbors,...
Pig candy (you’ll just have to come to find out what that is), peanut butter and banana sandwiches, milkshake shots, libations, and, of course, the art. There Will Be Ba...
The Peace Library consists of a collection of handmade books containing reflections on politics, philosophy, war, peace and the state of our nation. This showing of artists&rs...
An electrifying musical tribute to Buddy Holly will come tothe Clark Center stage in the form of a “Winter Dance Party” on Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m.Winter Dance Party,...
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