October 1, 1966
Arroyo Grande celebrated their 71st Harvest Festival last weekend. By my reckoning that makes it the second oldest celebrated festival in the county. The Harvest Festival began in 1937 and Paso Robles kicked off the first Pioneer Day in 1931. San Luis Obispo first celebrated La Fiesta de ...
It’s a month of screams at one local movie theater
Movies inspire. Movies thrill. And sometimes, movies scare the freakin’ pants off of you.
The Palm Theatre in San Luis Obispo celebrates Halloween throughout the month of October with a series of scary, creepy and downright terrifying films. It starts tonight with ...
Actor, philanthropist, anti-hero: Paul Newman always made me grin
As fate would have it, I was attending a screen-writing workshop when I discovered Paul Newman had died.
Newman, the screen legend, race car enthusiast and philanthropist behind such classics as “The Sting” and”The Hustler,” died of cancer Friday at his home in ...
Gore Vidal looks pensive as he surveys San Luis Obispo County Airport after overcast delayed his landing.
May 25, 1982
Gore Vidal is a journalist’s dream candidate because unreserved subjects make writing a story easy. Every time you look up from the notebook they say something more provoking than the last time. ...
Normally a practice reserved for popes, you don’t usually see many people dropping roman numerals and going by “the second” these days.
Cal Poly linebacker Fred Hives II is one who does. If you’ve ever wondered why, this video is for you.
If not, there’s still plenty of other good stuff. Mustangs ...
This is just a reminder that I am at the San Luis Obispo at Morro Bay High football game and I have a live blog running at
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This movie rocks! Concert Ts for your film favs
“I was in the music business briefly…. Roadie for Metallica. Speed of Sound tour. Bunch of assholes.”
– The Dude, “The Big Lebowski”
CineFile Video of Los Angeles has created the unthinkable: T-shirts that celebrate your favorite film directors, based on your ...
This week’s free game is a creepy one. But that’s OK, because we’re nearing October, the month of Halloween horrors!
Title: The Suffering
For: PC
Developed and published by: Midway
Age rating: Mature
A caveat first: “The Suffering” is the video game equivalent of a B horror movie, with all the blood and gore and ...
Visiting Cayucos area site of test drilling by state engineers are three members of the Morro Bay-Cayucos Joint Atomic-Seawater Reclamation Committee (left to right) Joe Giannini, Jack Lindemann and chairman Duval Williams.
January 9, 1966
The Atomic Age was on the march. Three years earlier Cal Poly had installed a micro ...
I bet you were not looking forward to this.
I talked to Mustangs athletic director Alison Cone today about the Cal Poly football team possibly making up a lost game with McNeese State, and she wasn’t holding her breath.
Basically, the only hope for the Mustangs could be to hope some multi-team ...