Amy Asman
Greka President Andrew DeVegvar said the energy company has been the victim of a “political overreaction” in the final days of 2008. He made the statement at a Dec...
Colin Rigley
OMG, it’s no LOL-ing matter. As of Jan. 1 California drivers will have to keep their thumbs on the steering wheel and off their cell phones.
Since July, it has been i...
Patrick Howe
You may have seen the warnings. The roughly 17 million Americans who get their television via analog signals, they warned, will see their screens go dark on Feb. 18 when telev...
Colin Rigley
The Santa Margarita Ranch project has been approved, but the fight is far from over; project opponents are gearing up to sue.
Nothing is on paper yet, but members of the sm...
In the Dec. 25 cover story, “Devil Winds,” Mark Somerville’s name was misspelled.
BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SIERRA CLUB SANTA LUCIA CHAPTER
Editor’s note: This is the fifth of five monthly Sierra Club commentaries devoted to policy recommendations for the incoming County Board of Supervisors.
When t...
On Tuesday, January 6, the SLO City Council intends to push through paving a vital part of our only downtown park in order to gain 12 parking spaces for seniors at a cost of $...
Please forgive me for not feeling too sorry for Eddie Tolosko, the homeless guy portrayed in your oh-so-sympathetic story about his tent being “destroyed” by park ...
As my commentary, “Let’s Return to Nature” (Dec. 20) stated, Dean Runyan Associates found that tourism brought a billion dollars to our county in 2006; but a...
The letter from John Gajdos (December 25), saying essentially that if you lie down on the beach at Oceano you should expect to be run over by a gasoline-powered vehicle, is st...
I read in New Times that Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area brings money to Pismo Beach (“Offroaders bring prosperity,” Dec. 25). So what? Pismo got rid ...
In regard to Mark Jansen’s letter about serving alcohol to kids at family dinners (“Parents should teach children how to drink,” Dec. 25)—ummm, I don&r...
With our nation in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Congress must be willing to take bold, decisive action to spur a housing and economic recovery. Unless...
After waking to the first day of Christmas vacation, we saw an ugly reminder that, although most ignorance and bigotry has been bred out and the Deliverance recessive gene poo...
I am taking a crash course in politics 101. Now, how to act as fellow countrymen and see the good in each other: Is that possible while still being effective?
Where is that...
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You’ll have to forgive any errors in this column. I’m txting the entire thing to New Times, on deadline, Gonzo-style, while driving back from Tijuana on the Cinco....
What were the best and worst events of 2008?
AARON GAUDETTE
Freshly out of Cal Poly in 2003 with a degree in business finance, Peter Imai faced a challenge familiar to many new alumni upon entering the job market: how was he going to p...
BY ASHLEY SCHWELLENBACH
Growing Grounds is a place of peace in San Luis Obispo’s bustling—not by city standards perhaps, but certainly from a rural perspective—downtown. Spanish her...
BY ANNA WELTNER
In the country that fell in love with the automobile, public transport systems serve a cross-section of the population. The very old sidle in next to the very young, the homel...
BY CHRISTY HERON
New Times What is your history in the art world around town?
Helms I’ve been, well I don’t know if you’d call me a professional artist, but I have produci...
Curtis Pendleton, Festival Mozaic’s executive director, has a few words for all you Mozart lovers out there:
“Since our closing concert in July, Festival Mozaic...
BY GLEN STARKEY
Reid Cain’s voice sounds like a corrugated tin roof being ripped from its rafters by a dustbowl twister. Calling it twangy is an understatement akin to calling cow patti...
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In the 1951 original, an alien named Klaatu and his giant robot Gort visit earth to determine if its human inhabitants are worth saving. After being shot by a jumpy soldier, G...
BY KATHY MARCKS HARDESTY
I’m so grateful it’s January because there’s no month I look forward to more for dining out around SLO County. Surprised? Well, this is the time of year when...
Pipestone Vineyards owners and winemakers Jeff and Florence Pipes said this special wine was hand-picked from the rockiest, most difficult growing areas in their 11-acre viney...
From one of my favorite wineries in Sonoma County, this is only the second vintage of their premier blend and it’s beautifully-crafted. Made of the five noble Bordeaux v...
Pipestone Vineyards owners and winemakers Jeff and Florence Pipes said this special wine was hand-picked from the rockiest, most difficult growing areas in their 11-acre viney...
It has been years in the making. Monument Board Shop in Arroyo Grande presents their seminal skateboarding film titled Monumental, with a debut screening at Downtown Brew in S...
The groundbreaking theatrical masterpiece by legendary writing team Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice is coming to San Luis Obispo, and Ted Neeley—the star of the influen...
That is what Norman Lear asked about her. Mos Def touts her talent and loveliness as well. The subject of all of this hype is the unstoppable top-ranked poet, musician, and ac...
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