There are vanishing tigers and sawed-in-half women. There are levitations and card tricks and feats of mind-reading. Magic can be presented on a massive scale or in an intimate setting. It’s versatile, unpredictable, and fun. Kind of like New Times’ annual Best Of.
When I first tapped local magician Rich Ferguson to help illustrate this year’s Best Of... [ Read More ]
Sand mines proposed for the Salinas River near Paso Robles and San Miguel are dredging up core differences in the community’s bedrock values: private property rights ver...
The San Luis Obispo City Council voted 3-2 on May 6 to pave a section of Mitchell Park, intending to ease parking at the senior center. The vote came after two-and-a-half ho...
A new passenger train route connecting San Luis Obispo County with downtown San Francisco—known as the Coast Daylight—is on track for service within a few years, t...
Congresswoman Lois Capps is a super delegate. Basically, that means she’s part of an elite group that could decide the Democratic presidential nominee for 2008—b...
Thirteen Cal Poly business students will try to recruit Cuesta students for careers in the U.S. Navy on May 14, in a campaign they created as their senior project in marketing...
Flushing waste into a household septic tank may become a more expensive act under new regulations due for consideration by the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control B...
Every year, there seems to be a budget battle—with our schools and children as the political football.
School district budgets must be adopted by June 30. That means if...
In view of Southern Methodist University’s rejection to host your Presidential Library, we, the Friends of George, World Association for Recognition committee (FOG-WAR),...
Former county supervisor Jerry Diefenderfer does not speak for me when he said, regarding the Topaz Solar Farm, “People see this as a less objectionable alternative.&rdq...
Why is the year-old failed attempt to designate Carrizo as a U.N. World Heritage Site now a hot topic in the supervisor races? Far from being the benign “Nobel Prize for...
Four years ago, I moderated a forum at which Jerry Lenthall debated his opponent for District 3 Supervisor. Since, I’ve watched his votes and compared them to his earlie...
Letter writer Morgan Edwards implies Third District supervisor candidate Adam Hill has been “bad-mouthing” incumbent Jerry Lenthall for not “believ[ing] in [...
I wonder if people who write such hate letters (“Start the impeachment proceedings,” May 1) cry when our flag passes by in a parade? I wonder if they salute or ple...
Obama has presented himself since his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech as a leader who can unite America across the political and racial divides. Obama’s long ...
Proposition 98 on the June 3 ballot would only deepen the water crisis that threatens California’s economy now and in the future. Either intentionally or through neglige...
I want to be a super delegate. Mainly so I can wear a cape and tights. I do look good in tights.
Actually, I don’t really know what a super delegate is. I’m no...
In Christmas of 2006, Joyce Romero, president of Passionflower Paper, decided to stop buying gift wrap in an effort to help protect the environment. Instead, she used the comi...
One artist calls her work “stitched drawings.” Another prefers the term “art quilts.” And if you asked the 23 other artists who contributed to the Cal ...
Eric Taylor’s got grit and heart and soul dripping out of every song he sings—melancholy narrative tales richly rendered by his spare guitar and rustic voice. He s...
In this comic book adaptation, Robert Downey, Jr. plays Tony Stark, an industrial titan whose Stark Industries is a major weapons manufacturer. While demonstrating a new mis...
While I was shopping at Scolari’s in Pismo Beach early this week, Cindy, one of my favorite checkers, called me out to me: "Kathy, I can’t wait to tell you ab...
This blend is titled "the power of four" because these four varieties from their Huerhuero estate vineyard delivered a wine that was more delicious than its parts. ...
Twenty-five years ago, The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize their bosses. Today, they represent 62 years of collective House and Senat...
B-W Gallery and Bookstore invites the public to a benefit for the North County Humane Society to be held Mother’s Day weekend, May 10 and May 11, from noon to 5 p.m. eac...
Nature's Splendor is the latest exhibit by Templeton resident Anne Carpenter Fitzpatrick and will show through May 29 at Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero #10 in Mor...
