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This week rying to peg what’s happening with one Every week
specific part of an ecosystem is like trying
cover to jump on a merry-go-round after it’s news art
Morro Bay faces News ............................. 4 Artifacts ..................... 22
an eco-challenge............................ 12
already spinning. It’s not easy and there are a lot
Strokes & Plugs ............ 14 Starkey....................... 26
of moving parts. So, when it comes to figuring Club Listings .............. 30
news out what happened to Morro Bay’s population of Split Screen................ 32
Los Osos residents
LEARNING
eelgrass—which has lost more than 95 percent of opinion Reviews and Times ... 32
behind on sewer hookups ..............9 its foothold in less than a decade—the Morro Bay Hodin ..........................16
CURVE The
Grover Beach’s cannabis zone ...... 10 Morro Bay This Modern World .....16
National Estuary Program knows it’s going to take
National Estuary
a collaborative effort. The flowering underwater
Letters ........................17 the rest
opinion Program is
leading a series
Street Talk...................18 Classified ................... 49
The cost of California’s of walk and talks,
plant is one of the foundations of the estuary’s Rhetoric & Reason .....19 Real Estate ................ 49
new fuel tax .................................... 16 like an April 13 ecosystem. For this week’s cover story, I spoke with Shredder .................... 20 Brezsny’s Astrology... 55
tour of the salt
flats near the
scientists, hunters, and other stakeholders that are
arts State Park Marina, teaming up with the estuary program to do what
KIDS’ ART: Creative education in light of the
recently released they can to ensure its survival [10].
at Studios on the Park ....................22 Events calendar
KIDS’ BOOKS: Tweenage angst .....24
2017 State of the Also this week, you can read about Los Osos
Bay report. Hot Dates .................... 42 Sports & Wellness ........47
residents who are behind the deadline to hook
flavor up to the area’s new sewer system [9]; how a
Special Events ............. 42 Farmers Markets ..........47
Stage ........................... 44 Lectures & Learning .....47
The beauty of a proposed marijuana zone is pitting the new industry against longtime Film & TV ..................... 44 Fundraisers .................. 48
plant-based menu ..........................38
businesses [10]; Studios on the Park and its effort to keep students Music ........................... 44 Support Groups ........... 48
creating [22]; a Los Osos author’s tweenage novels [24]; and Writers & Literature ..... 45 Volunteers ................... 48
the plant-based restaurant that just landed in meat-loving downtown Art ................................ 45 Holiday Events ............. 48
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Bob Rucker, Alex Zuniga who died after complaining of shoulder pain raised concerns
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Camillia Lanham while in custody at the jail on April 13. It had about the jail’s
ARTS EDITOR been roughly four months since another inmate, ability to handle
Ryah Cooley
CALENDAR EDITOR 36-year-old Andrew Holland, died of a blood mentally ill
Trever Dias clot shortly after spending nearly 48 hours in inmates, some of
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Glen Starkey a restraint chair. Parkinson said he called on whom are held
STAFF WRITERS the SLO County District Attorney’s Office, as in the jail due to
Chris McGuinness, Peter Johnson,
Karen Garcia well as the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, to a lack of space
INTERNS investigate the most recent death as well as any ANOTHER DEATH Sheriff Ian Parkinson (pictured) adressed concerns over
Katrina Borges, Kristine Xu, in state and
other past deaths at the jail that they believe deaths in the county jail at an April 13 news conference.
Erica Hudson county mental
PHOTOGRAPHER warrant an investigation. health facilities.
Jayson Mellom
“I need to assure the public that we are an McLaughlin’s autopsy would be conducted by
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Andrea Rooks
Holland, who had been declared mentally the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office.
open book,” Parkinson said. “We are not trying incompetent to stand trial four different times,
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to hide something or hold back information.” The change comes as the State Medical
Leni Litonjua, Jordan Dunn had been waiting for a transfer to the county’s
MARKETING & Since 2000, there have been 21 deaths at the Board seeks to suspend or revoke the license of
EVENTS COORDINATOR mental health facility at the time of his death.
Giselle Armstrong SLO County Jail. More than half of those deaths Dr. Gary Alan Walter, the county’s contracted
At the press conference, Parkinson estimated
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Eva Lipson elected. During his press conference, Parkinson misdemeanor DUI arrest and conviction last
in the jail awaiting transfer to a state or
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Eva Lipson, Geneé Toy, county mental health facility, but couldn’t be
Ellen Fukumoto a suicide, a drug overdose, and an inmate who and ruled the cause of death as natural,
ACCOUNT MANAGER transferred due to a lack of available space.
Colleen Garcia died of terminal cancer while awaiting trial, Parkinson described the jail as a “de facto” received three years of probation after pleading
ADVERTISING EXECUTIVES among others. mental health unit. “no contest” to the DUI charge in May 2016,
Rhonda O’Dell, Tracey Joyner Scuri,
Katy Gray, Kimberly Rosa, Jason Gann, “There’s been no distinct pattern of deaths,” “We have a facility that is not equipped according to court records.
Jennifer Herbaugh
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he said. “I think that’s important.” to deal with inmates suffering from a severe In an email to New Times, McLaughlin’s
Patricia Horton Parkinson also said the SLO County Jail illness, both medical and mental health, yet we former attorney, Matthew Guerrero, said he
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT wasn’t alone in experiencing an uptick in approved of his late client’s autopsy being
Cindy Rucker are forced to do it,” Parkinson said.
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE jail deaths. He pointed to statistics from the conducted by an outside agency.
Michael Antonette When asked if he believed the current
Department of Justice that showed an increase “Given the recent medical board action as
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT medical and mental health staffing at the jail
Rachelle Ramirez in total jail deaths across the state since 2011. well as questions about his prior findings and
was adequate, Parkinson said he was going
CONTRIBUTORS That’s the same year that California’s prison trial testimony, we support this decision,”
Russell Hodin, Rob Brezsny, to leave that up to the recommendations of
Hayley Thomas Cain, Al Fonzi, realignment initiative was signed into law. Guerrero wrote.
Michael Latner the investigations.
Parkinson said realignment changed the jail’s Acknowledging the myriad issues that
CIRCULATION MANAGER “I’m not a health care professional,” he said.
Jim Parsons population by placing inmates with longer may have contributed to the deaths in the
DISTRIBUTION “I’m not a mental health care professional.”
José Vasquez, Kevin Reed, sentences in county jails instead of state prisons. jail, Parkinson promised during the press
John Somies, Russell Moreton, Because of realignment, Parkinson said that Even as investigations begin, some changes
Michael Plureda, Barbara Alvis, have already occurred in the wake of the two conference to address any problems the
Tom Falconer, Carmen Parsons,
investigations revealed.
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Misty Lambert, Gary Story, most recent deaths. A sheriff’s spokesman
Ingrid Roessler, Dennis Flatley
confirmed April 17 that Parkinson had “Our acceptable number of jail deaths is zero,”
New Times is published every Thursday for suspended any use of the restraint chair until he said. “That’s what we want.” ∆
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policies like the inclusionary housing program,
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which requires developers to build affordable
New Times is available on microfilm at is headed for a special election. The City Council units into housing projects or pay in-lieu fees that
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Pkwy., Ann Arbor, MI 48106, as part of the initiative outright on April 18. policies deemed at risk were a mobile home park
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guide to arts and entertainment on the report by City Attorney Christine Dietrick. the initiative’s proponents, discarded Dietrick’s
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©2017 New Times states that the city “shall not discriminate saying that the inclusionary housing program
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NEWS from page 4 likely collected and spent more than the and everybody.”
$9,294 for things like “advertisements, The former
attorney Dan Knight and former City mailings, and literature.” Grover Beach
Councilmember Dan Carpenter. “It’s all dark money,” Rice said to New police officer who
“It’s been a real privilege to be a Times. owned the dog that
proponent of this,” Jenkins said at the The landowners behind the Shandon- attacked Fear, Alex
council meeting. “This is an opportunity San Juan Water District, however, said Geiger, faces two
for you. … Apologize now for the prior that all their expenditures were made felony charges in
council’s violation of the First, Fourth, and simply to comply with the Local Agency connection with the
Fifth Amendments of residents, renters, Formation Commission’s (LAFCO) December attack.
and owners.” requirements in applying to start a Geiger pleaded
Because the initiative garnered some district, and therefore the data was not not guilty to the
5,400 signatures (more than 15 percent of reportable. charges, and is due
the city’s registered voters), under election “The complaint filed by Mr. Rice is to appear in SLO
law, the council’s only two options were to completely without merit,” a statement County Superior
adopt the initiative untouched, or to call a from the Shandon-San Juan Water Court May 22 for a “As of September 2016, Cal Poly’s
special election. That election is estimated District read. “By law, no committee pre-preliminary hearing. practice has been not to charge student
to cost the city about $150,000. formation or reporting was required.” —Kristine Xu clubs for additional security costs related
All five councilmembers said they weren’t The parties appearing in the complaint to protests and similar free expression
willing to expose the city’s existing policies to are Shandon farmers and water district activities,” Lazier said in an email. “As
Poly pays
legal challenges by adopting the initiative. board members Steve Sinton, Will Cunha, the university has previously stated, there
“There’s no way I’m willing to gamble on and Marshall Miller, as well as PRAAGS
security fees for was not a double standard regarding the
our inclusionary housing. To put that at and Young Wooldridge. Muslim Student Milo event and the MSA West conference.”
risk—I can’t do it,” Councilmember Aaron The Shandon-San Juan Water District Association event —Karen Garcia
Gomez said. covers 136,000 acres and is one of two new Cal Poly’s taken a small step toward
“It leaves us with really no choice but water districts forming over the sprawling changing the way it supports vulnerable
to move this to a ballot,” Mayor Heidi
Arroyo Grande’s
Paso Robles Groundwater Basin. An groups on campus.
Harmon added. application to form an Estrella-El Pomar- That’s according to religious studies
crowdfunding
Council members also said they didn’t Creston Water District was approved by professor and advisor to the Cal Poly for new police dog
believe residents who signed the petition LAFCO on April 6. An election for that Muslim Student Association (MSA), The Arroyo Grande Police Department is
really understood the replacement clause, water district is likely to be held in Stephen Lloyd-Moffett, who has been looking to add another K-9 officer to it roster
but rather they just wanted a repeal of the the fall. calling out the university since Milo and is turning to a popular fundraising
rental housing inspection program. In the same PRAAGS 2016 disclosure Yiannopoulos spoke at the university website to ask the public for help.
“I do think thousands of community form, the committee gave $18,589 to the in January. Cal Poly didn’t charge The department started an online
members wanted us to make this change,” Estrella-El Pomar-Creston Water District the College Republicans club, which crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe to
Councilmember Dan Rivoire said. “What Formation Group. That group started an organized the event, for the event’s raise $30,000 to purchase the dog, a male
I don’t think the community wanted us official political action committee on April security fees ($55,400). But the university German shepherd named Tig.
to do was expose the city to undue risk. 10 but has yet to disclose any financial data. had charged the MSA more than $4,000 “Neither our department nor our city
… It does seem the risks are grave and —Peter Johnson in security fees for a conference it held on government have these funds available,”
absolutely is not what the people signing campus in 2016. a statement from the department on the
that petition intended.” Grover Beach Lloyd-Moffett started an online GoFundMe campaign webpage said. “So,
City officials indicated that the all-mail petition in February that attracted nearly
special election will be held either in late
approves memorial as in the past, our success will depend
1,300 signatures requesting that the
July or August 2017. for man killed administration pay MSA back for those
entirely on contributions from those
—Peter Johnson in dog attack who want to be a part of keeping Arroyo
security charges.
Grande safe.”
“Hero,” is how David Fear’s family But in a recent email to New Times,
According to Arroyo Grande K-9 police
Fledgling Shandon remembers him. Lloyd-Moffett changed his tune.
officer Jeff Corrall, the department decided
water district under The word stood out on the backs of the He said both Cal Poly President Jeff
white T-shirts they wore to the April 17 Armstrong and Vice-President Keith to acquire Tig after one of its two longtime
FPPC investigation Grover Beach City Council meeting; Fear’s Humphrey have attended recent MSA K-9s, a male German shepherd named
The dust just refuses to settle in North face was printed on the front. meetings and offered their support to the Gregor, was medically retired from duty
County water politics. The man who died in December 2016 association. last year after six years of service. If the
Less than a week after 68 landowners after being critically injured while “They acknowledge the perception of a fundraising campaign is successful, Tig
around Shandon held an election to form protecting Betty Long, his 85-year-old double standard regarding the security will join the department’s remaining K-9,
the Shandon-San Juan Water District, neighbor, from a dog attack will soon costs as well as the struggles the students Daghan. Corrall said Tig would be trained
the California Fair Political Practices be remembered as a hero by everyone of color feel on campus,” Lloyd-Moffett said. for common K-9 duties such as protection;
Commission (FPPC) announced on April who walks by his surfboard. A concrete The administration says it will cover searching buildings; and helping find
17 that it was opening an investigation replica of the board is destined to become the security fees for TED Talk speaker evidence, suspects, and missing persons.
into whether the proponents of that a memorial bench accompanied by a sign and Muslim studies scholar Dalia In addition, Corrall said he hopes to have
water district violated campaign laws reading, “Our hero salty dog David Fear,” Mogahed to come to the university later Tig specialize in the more rare skill of
by not reporting financial receipts and at the end of Nacimiento Avenue near the this month, a gesture Lloyd-Moffett bomb detection.
expenditures leading up to the election. Meadow Creek Open Space. On April 17, believes has to do with the apparent “There are very few bomb detection dogs
The investigation stems from a the City Council unanimously approved double standard regarding Yiannopoulos’ in California,” Corrall said. “He’s going to
complaint filed by Kevin P. Rice, a San installation of the memorial at the site, security fees. be pretty active.”
Luis Obispo resident. In the complaint, which is public property. Mogahed will give her talk titled Corrall said the money will not only pay
Rice claims that proponents of the “That will be his actual surfboard he Islamaphobia: A Threat to All at a free for purchasing and training Tig, but will
Shandon-San Juan Water District and rode, and I think it’s a great location, MSA event on April 29 in the Chumash also cover the dog’s medical fees, food, and
the Paso Robles Agricultural Alliance for because we hang out there all the time. It’s Auditorium from 3 to 5 p.m. ongoing support and maintenance. The
Groundwater Solutions (PRAAGS)—a the perfect resting site,” David’s brother, “It will be the best single opportunity GoFundMe campaign began in January,
now-defunct committee that backed a Steve, said. our community has to learn about Islam,” and has raised $4,200 so far.
previous water district effort and had The Five Cities Men’s Club will be Lloyd-Moffet said.
members who own land in the new “It’s been wonderful. We’ve had great
responsible for all the costs associated with Despite Cal Poly’s waiving seurity fees
district—didn’t follow proper campaign support from the community,” Corrall said.
the bench and sign, including construction, for Mogahed’s visit, the university is not
finance procedures. “We’ve even gotten support from outside
installation, and long-term maintenance changing its stance on the technicalities of
Rice’s main accusation is that the water and repair. the prior security fees. [Arroyo Grande] and even outside
district leaders should have formed a Fear’s wife, Terry Lopez, thanked The Cal Poly MSA paid $4,888 in the state.”
political action committee and released the community of Grover Beach during security fees for a three-day, two-night Arroyo Grande isn’t the only police
financial disclosure forms under the the meeting. conference on campus in January 2016 department to turn to online fundraising
Political Reform Act. “David was my husband for 25 years. that hosted several MSA chapters across to help itself acquire a K-9. According
PRAAGS financial disclosures from We lived there on our street for 18 years, the West Coast. Cal Poly spokesperson to the GoFundMe website, police
2016 indicate that it gave $9,294 to and we said when we moved there that Matt Lazier told New Times that at the departments in Clinton, Conn.; Pawnee,
Bakersfield-based law firm Young we were going to die there. Not this early, time, the university’s policy was for the Okla.; Hanford and Arcata, Calif.; and
Wooldridge LLP between July and but it happened,” Lopez said. “I just think campus club to pay for security fees. That several other American cities, are also
November “for the benefit of Shandon-San that right now he is so proud to see that policy changed nine months later, around using the site to raise money to start or
Juan Water District.” the community would do something like the same time the College Republicans expand their K-9 programs. Δ
Rice asserts that the district petitioners this for him. He’s always helped anybody club invited Yiannopoulos to campus. —Chris McGuinness
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income (equaling $48,900 for a household ineligible for assistance.
of two). Julie Olson is one Los Osos homeowner
For nearly a year, the program who was declared ineligible for subsidies,
was held up because HUD initially but not because she didn’t need them. Olson
determined that the construction work doesn’t live in Los Osos—or SLO County—
Hundreds of Los Osos Connecting to the sewer involves
choosing and hiring a contractor to build
called for prevailing wages (a higher set
of wages required for public projects).
since she suffers from a physical disability
and can’t afford to live in the area. As an
properties are not yet a lateral pipe and decommission the septic
tank. The contractor must survey the
That would’ve dramatically increased
the cost of the work, but the county
absentee landowner who rents out the
house, Olson said she was disqualified for
connected to new sewer property first and obtain a permit from
the county.
recently convinced HUD to change that
determination, since a lateral sewer pipe
the financial assistance programs. She
decided to take out a loan to pay for the
I
f everything went as planned in All in all, the laterals are costing benefits one private property owner. lateral work.
Los Osos, all 5,000 or so properties homeowners between $2,000 and On April 11, the county Board of “I am unable to afford to live in my
mandated to connect to the new Los $10,000, depending on the layout of the Supervisors sent $174,714 more in HUD house—even if I wanted to move back
Osos Wastewater Plant would have done property. For instance, if a house sits in a grant funds to the lateral assistance fund, home,” Olson told New Times. “It is
so as of a March 18 deadline. depression, the lateral may have go uphill upping the total money available to about frightening to live on credit, yet I can’t
But instead, as the one-year grace to the mainline, which would require a $600,000—or about 100 hook-ups if each one lose my house. It is the only investment
period to hook up expires, up to 700—or pricey sewage pump. cost $6,000. Hutchinson said he hopes the I have that can keep me from starving if
about 14 percent of the community— No matter the reason, if property funds will be able to cover all 98 low-income things get worse in life.”
still aren’t connected, according to SLO owners hold off for too much longer, the property owners. He said the program will Some community members told
County. Meanwhile, a State Water county could start levying fines, or the start moving forward right away. New Times long waits or problems
Resources Control Board order dating Regional Water Quality Control Board Aside from those 98 homeowners, with contractors held up the work, or
back to the 1980s continues to pressure could step in. officials are perplexed at why their data properties had environmental conditions
the same residences to ditch their septic “Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that,” said indicate that roughly 600 others aren’t that presented issues.
tanks, which have polluted the underlying Bruce Gibson, SLO County’s 2nd District connected. They aren’t ruling out some The lateral construction costs aren’t
groundwater for decades. Supervisor, who represents Los Osos. accounting errors, but the number is too the only sewer-related burdens facing Los
County officials and community high to be just that. Hutchinson said he Osos residents. A wastewater bill for a
members told New Times they aren’t sure Hooking up ain’t easy believes some are simply “overwhelmed” single-family house is projected at nearly
about the reasons for the delays. Deputy Of the roughly 700 properties not yet by the costs. $2,000 per year, for the sewer service and
Director of SLO County Public Works connected, the county knows that 98 In total, 203 property owners applied the $185 million plant construction costs.
Mark Hutchinson said the county would are low-income homeowners rightfully for financial help with the lateral Supervisor Gibson pointed out that
be sending letters to property owners awaiting financial assistance. connection, according to People’s Self- property owners who decided not to hook
to urge them to connect. He indicated a SLO County has developed a subsidy Help Housing, the organization that up to the sewer will still be paying for it.
questionnaire could be added to it to get program for the lateral connections conducted the income certification. Of “If someone is just trying to ignore the
a better sense of the reasons why some by leveraging Housing and Urban those, 59 applicants earned below the 50 inevitable, they are going to be paying for
people aren’t completing the work. Development (HUD) community block percent median income level ($38,550 sewer service and the capital assessment
“We want to really get a better sense of grants. The program will benefit the for a household of two) and were eligible anyway,” Gibson said. ∆
why folks aren’t connecting,” Hutchinson households that formally submitted for a U.S. Department of Agriculture
said. “Is it the costs? Are they absentee applications and proved that they earn grant/loan program, 98 were suited for Reach Staff Writer Peter Johnson at
owners? It’s a difficult conversation to have.” less than 80 percent of Los Osos’ median the county program, and 46 were deemed pjohnson@newtimesslo.com.
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4-1 April 12 to recommend that the City one property was selling for as much
Council approve a revised plan to create as $1,000 per square-foot, up from the
a special overlay zone for commercial average of $200 per square-foot that
medical marijuana businesses, including properties in the same area were selling
processing, cultivation, testing, for in December 2016. Three properties
distribution, and even retail sales. in the potential zone have been sold,
Initially, that zone was limited to according to Peterson’s research, with the
65 acres of land in an industrial-zoned highest sale price being $2 million.
area in the southwestern part of the Peterson also claimed that 35
city. But the City Council scrapped that businesses in the area were “displaced”
plan in February, asking city staff to as of March 2017, including 20 businesses
go back the drawing board, and expand that have reportedly moved away or
the cannabis business zone, after local will go within 45 days, and another 15
residents and business owners raised at risk for being displaced within the
concerns that longtime businesses next three months. Peterson cautioned
might be forced out in favor of against displacing current businesses for
marijuana businesses looking to swoop new ones and worried that speculation
in and buy property. and the rush to sell or lease property to
The revised land-use ordinance marijuana businesses would create an
A NEW INDUSTRY Grover Beach is one step closer to creating a special zone
expands the original zone to allow economic bubble similar to the dot-com (outlined in red) for commercial medical marijuana businesses to operate in.
commercial marijuana businesses in the boom of the 1990s.
city’s coastal industrial commercial and “When you have a boom, you usually designate a special zone for marijuana- full of blighted and empty properties that
coastal commercial zones, upping the have a bust,” Peterson said. related businesses. In July 2016, the had fallen into disrepair. Creating the
total size to 86 acres. About 15 percent Buckingham said that the city had also medical marijuana innovation zone has
city of Arcata, Calif., approved the
of that area is vacant, according to data heard concerns that business might be begun turning that around, Loya said.
creation of a “medical marijuana
from city staff. forced out, but noted that those claims “The property owners are making high
innovation zone.” The zone, located in
“Expanding the area provides more were difficult to substantiate. quality investments,” he said. “We are
an industrial area of the town formerly
land for those types of uses,” said Bruce “We are hearing some stories about getting exactly the desired result. These
Buckingham, Grover Beach’s community used by logging and mineral extraction-
displacement, but at this point it’s hard blighted properties now have money
development director. for the city staff to verify,” he said. related businesses, has now been set
aside to house commercial medical pouring into them.”
But even the additional acreage may Following the Planning Commission’s Loya said that some businesses were
not be enough to accommodate marijuana vote to expand the area where the marijuana manufacturing and limited
displaced with the creation of the zone,
businesses eager to set up shop in Grover medical marijuana businesses will be cultivation businesses.
but indicated the number was low,
Beach and the existing businesses already allowed to operate, Peterson said the new Currently, Arcata has about 23 adding the Arcata City Council was “very
operating in those three areas, according plan would take some of the pressure off, businesses looking to operate in the sensitive” to the existing businesses while
to Grover Beach City Councilwoman but still questioned whether the space specially designated zone, and three such creating the innovation zone.
Debbie Peterson. Peterson, a realtor, available would be able to accommodate businesses are already up and running, The Grover Beach City Council will
conducted her own research of the both the incoming cannabis businesses according to David Loya, Arcata’s conduct a first reading of the zoning
potential economic impact of the overlay and the current local businesses that community development director. ordinances at its May 1 meeting. Δ
zone. According to Peterson’s research, just might be displaced. “We had a lot of interest,” Loya said.
talking about creating the district led to a “Yeah, it helps,” Peterson said. “But the Unlike Grover Beach, Aracta isn’t Staff Writer Chris McGuinness can be
spike in property values and the reported crisis remains.” squeezed for space in its commercial reached at cmcguinness@newtimesslo.com,
displacement of some businesses. Grover Beach isn’t the fi rst city to marijuana zone. Loya said the area was or on Twitter at @CWMcGuinness.
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ach slow, carefully placed step forces Bay ecosystem that has declined rapidly Without eelgrass, Morro Bay would be a with the loss of eelgrass in the estuary.”
saltwater to ooze from volcano-shaped over the last decade. much different ecosystem and some of those Eelgrass is the brant’s main source of food.
holes about the size of a thumbnail. After eelgrass dies, it decays and changes are already starting to show. According to Ed Miller and Fred
Gingerly, Faylla Chapman moves the sulfur it contained is gobbled up by “It’s designated legally as an essential Harpster—respectively, the vice president
through the mud flats exposed at low tide, green bacteria, which are the basis for habitat. It really is a generator of and president of the Black Brant Group
heading toward Windy Cove’s temporary everything above them in the food chain. diversity in the bay,” Bell said. “It’s a in Morro Bay—the goose still feeds in
shoreline and trying not to lose her shoes She pointed out a dark patch of water food resource and an area of protection the thousands on coastal bays that have
in the process. The Morro Bay State Park in the bay, saying with surprise that it and habitat. It helps keep water clarity plenty of eelgrass in them. But the loss of
docent, who was once a biology teacher, looked like a new eelgrass bed that didn’t improved. … It really is a cornerstone of eelgrass in Morro Bay is troubling to them.
has her face firmly focused on what’s exist last year. It’s a sign that maybe what’s going on in the bay.” “It’s come and gone over the years,
beneath her battered beige sneakers. the brine-water loving plant—which has but nothing like this,” Miller said. “That
“What I want you to understand today
is the mud is alive,” she says. “Every hole
lost more than 95 percent of its Morro Geese and grass eelgrass ... it’s basically the nursery for
everything in that bay.”
Bay foothold in less than a decade: from One of the most visible changes related
has something living in it.” 344 acres in 2007 to merely 13 acres in The Black Brant Group has been
to eelgrass decline is the number of brant
Worms—fat, pink, soft ones; skinny 2015—has a chance for survival. around for about two decades, and it was
(also called the Western brant or black
ones with legs like a millipede; and ones The grass is a flowering underwater started as a way to push back against
brant) using Morro Bay as a feeding and
with two sharp teeth that once made plant that grows in shallow areas of the “anti-hunting pressure,” Harpster said.
resting spot on the Pacific Flyway.
a student of Chapman’s bleed—clams, estuary, where the water is clear and Waterfowl hunters used to be able to hunt
Dave Tyra, president of the Morro
shrimp, bacteria, and snails make this light is prolific. throughout the bay, but legal hunting
Coast Audubon Society, said brant, a
sticky segment of the bay home. Each “While we do not yet know the exact areas have slowly been whittled away to
goose that’s about the size of a mallard,
lives beneath a distinctly shaped hole it reasons for the decline, it is likely the result 30 percent of what they once were.
typically use the estuary as a stopover on “We just got to the point where we said if
probes the surface from. of multiple factors,” the estuary program their migration between summer nesting we give up anymore, we might as well quit.
If you could sit over the top of this mud states in the recently released report. sites in northern Alaska and Canada and You have to educate people, and that’s what
at high tide in a glass-bottomed boat, she And without knowing the exact wintering sites in Baja California. we’ve tried to do these last 20 years,” Miller
says, you could see all the creatures moving reasons for the huge losses, its hard to Tyra pointed out that the annual said. “That’s why we started it, to protect
about. But now, most of them are hiding. pinpoint what will help bring some of Christmas Bird Count pegged the number our hunters’ rights, but we’ve moved on to
“Hey!” somebody shouts a few feet away, it back and how to prevent staggering of brant hanging out in Morro Bay on more stewards of the bay.”
and Chapman rushes over, foregoing the declines from happening again. But the Dec. 16, 2006, at more than 3,000 strong. The group has spent about $450,000 on
threat of a muddied sock for the treat of a program’s executive director, Lexie Bell, By Dec. 17, 2016, that number had fallen various research projects since it started
biological specimen. said the estuary program is working with to less than 500. and raises money through its once-a-year
Half-in/half-out of a little mud volcano stakeholders, government agencies, and “That’s a snapshot. But just from an dinner. The funds have often supported
is a ghost shrimp. It’s translucent and Cal Poly to do more research that will observation standpoint, we’ve noticed a projects that study the brant (such as
the pink of its internal organs are visible. help adaptively manage eelgrass and decrease in the number of brant year over habitat changes in Alaskan nesting
She drops her hand into the briny water
Morro Bay in the future. year,” Tyra said. “And it really tracks areas), but more and more, that money is
covering the hole and gently tugs it all the
way out of its home. One paper-white claw also going to eelgrass research.
makes up half of its roughly 5-inch length. ADULT LEARNING Morro Bay State Park docent Faylla Harpster said he started hunting in
Like a group of school kids, the adults Chapman uses her binder full of maps, diagrams, and fun Morro Bay with his father in the 1950s,
on Chapman’s mud flats tour are crouched facts to educate people about the history of Morro Bay, and the bay has changed dramatically.
changes to the estuary, and all the things that call it home. “I’ve lived on that bay my whole life,”
low, peering into the water with fascination.
This April 6 walkabout is part of a month- Harpster said. “That bay used to be
long series of tours and hikes organized by covered in clams, and now there’s hardly
the Morro Bay National Estuary Program any clams. It’s funny, as hunters, we are
to go with the release of the 2017 State of pushing this bay conservation.”
the Bay report.
Earlier, Chapman had plucked a Group effort
plum-sized bubble snail from the muck— Eelgrass is also a haven and nursery
sniffing the opening of its purplish shell for fish and shellfish. It cleans excess
and wrinkling her nose at the scent. nutrients such as nitrates out of the bay.
“Sulfur,” she said as she handed it off. Its root system acts as a stabilizer for the
“Here, smell it.” bay’s soft floor, preventing sediment from
That rotten-egg smell came from deep moving around and allowing more light to
down in the mud. It’s a smell you can’t filter through the water column.
get out of your clothes for days, she said, But eelgrass is also an extremely
referring to the holes she’s bored into the sensitive species that can only grow in
muck while searching for life. According specific environments. Available light, the
to Chapman, that sulfur originates saltwater/freshwater mix, water clarity,
within eelgrass, a foundation of the Morro water temperatures, tide flows, and
s
The National Marine Fisheries Service and her team of researchers is testing.
(NMFS), a department within the National Essentially, the thought is that how much
Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, sediment—dirt, dust, mud, sand—runs
estimates that fewer than 11,000 acres to down from the watershed or blows off the
as much as possibly 15,000 acres of eelgrass dunes and where it ends up settling in
habitat exists statewide. the bay could affect eelgrass growth, as
“While among the most productive could the amount of that same sediment
habitats, the overall low statewide clouding up the water (turbidity). But all
abundance makes eelgrass one of the rarest of this research is being done after the
habitats in California,” states a 2014 NMFS die-off.
report on eelgrass mitigation policy. “The “One of the hardest parts of this
narrow depth range within which eelgrass is we’ve sort of become ecosystem
can occur further places this habitat at risk detectives,” O’Leary explained.
in the face of global climate change and sea The goal is to get a more holistic view
level rise predictions.” of the bay and use all the data they’re
Stakeholders like the Morro Coast collecting to create a map of what the bay
Audubon Society, the Black Brant Group, looks like: where sediment is deposited and
and the Morro Bay National Estuary eroding; where eelgrass is now and where
Program have pooled their resources ESTUARY GAWKIN’ On the tail end of a docent-led
walk from the salt marsh to the mud flats near Morro
it’s occurred in the past; how water moves
(money and people power) together to do in and out of the bay from land and sea.
Bay State Park on April 11, walk attendees check out the
things to try and stem Morro Bay’s rapid creatures that call a salty pond home. “The whole thing is a model that makes
eelgrass decline. Working in conjunction predictions,” O’Leary said. “If you change
with state and federal agencies such as the one thing, how does it affect everything
California Department of Fish and Wildlife, normally exists in eelgrass beds, but surviving in murky water with low light. else. … It sort of helps us understand
the group spearheaded a huge eelgrass he cautions that trying to pinpoint “Everything is interconnected in one whether or not sediment affects eelgrass.”
replanting effort starting in 2012. something as the root cause is like asking form or another. Sometimes it’s good, Eventually, that model could be used
And although the majority of those blades whether the chicken or the egg came first. sometimes it’s bad,” he said. “It’s been a to help manage the bay, re-establish
didn’t make it past year two, Bell with the He compares the eelgrass pathogen to very erratic decade to say the least. And eelgrass, and potentially prevent massive
estuary program believes the effort wasn’t the bark beetle and what it has done to eelgrass is a pretty good canary. … If die-offs in the future. Although the
for naught. The method they used, basically forests from the Rocky Mountains to the you have a rainy day, the eelgrass doesn’t research team is building off the estuary
transplanting whole plants with roots Sierra Nevada over the last few years. turn over and die; if you have a long-term program’s past efforts and has already
intact, has worked in other areas of the bay Beetles normally exist in the trend, it responds to the long-term trend, started filling in data points of their own,
before—it just didn’t necessarily take off in environment and pine trees can usually and things have been unsettled this past more research is needed. O’Leary recently
the new areas. resist their impacts, but stressors such as decade.” submitted a grant proposal to receive
“Early methods were good because it’s higher temperatures and prolonged drought That being said, Merkel did some more funding for that work.
worked in the past,” Bell said. “But it’s can decrease a tree’s strength and therefore eelgrass monitoring in the bay in early One of those grant sources will hopefully
also a good lesson in adaptive its immunity to the bark beetle. April. He noticed spots of new eelgrass be California Sea Grant, which also funds
management to say ‘alright,
Explore Merkel said the same can be said growth in areas that had initially
her position at Cal Poly. The National Sea
this isn’t working anymore.’”
Or to say, what works over the bay of this pathogen and eelgrass,
especially in Morro Bay.
benefited from transplant efforts but
eventually died off.
Grant is run by the National Atmospheric
The Morro Bay and Oceanic Administration (NOAA).
there isn’t necessarily going “It’s a naturally occurring “I’m not sure that it is or is not related
National Estuary Individual programs are run in the 33
to work over here, because the Program has events pathogen in eelgrass beds, but to the transplants at this point,” he said.
states that touch either saltwater or the
conditions of the bay are different running through the it tends to go virulent in some “But it looks very promising.”
Great Lakes, doing research on problems
from south to north, east to west. end of April, including cases, and it appears that there
that stem from human interaction with the
Keith Merkel with Merkel an Earth Day paddle
and shoreline cleanup
are stressors that trigger its Detective work ocean, according to California Sea Grant
and Associates out of San Diego virulence,” Merkel said. “A lot To truly understand why eelgrass died in
helped with the most recent
at Tidelands Park on Director Jim Eckman.
April 22 from 8 to 11 a.m. of it probably has to do with the first place and why there are glimpses
efforts and also spearheaded The $72 million Sea Grant program
Visit mbnep.org to changing weathers.” of it returning, the estuary program feels it
the successful efforts that is on President Donald Trump’s
learn more. Things like less fog and needs to better understand Morro Bay and
took place as mitigation for chopping block as a future budget cut,
cloud cover over Morro Bay, how it works, in general.
dredging in other parts of the higher temperatures, and less as is a 17 percent cut to NOAA’s overall
As the die-off started to threaten an funding and a 31 percent cut to the
bay. Since the 1980s, Merkel has worked storm water flowing down the watershed end to Morro Bay’s eelgrass beds, the
up and down the West Coast in research, stressed out the eelgrass, lowering its Environmental Protection Agency’s
estuary program looked to Cal Poly (EPA) federal funding. Being an EPA-
restoration, and mitigation of eelgrass in immunity to the pathogen. for help finding answers. Bell said the
various bays. Currently, he’s part of a big “All of the things that we’ve got going designated National Estuary Program
relationship with the university is a first enables Morro Bay’s estuary program to
project in San Francisco Bay, which has on have sort of been a perfect storm,” he for the estuary program.
seen eelgrass declines as well. said. “And everything forward from there get funding. It receives about half of its
Jennifer O’Leary, a marine scientist money from the EPA each year.
“I would say that Morro Bay has been is a cascading failure.” who’s an adjunct professor at Cal Poly
hit worse than any other system along the All of the factors that eelgrass helped Eckman said cutting the Sea Grant
through the California Sea Grant program would save the feds about
coast, but all the systems along the coast control—keeping sediment on the bay program, is spearheading some of the
have in the past several years become floor and the water clear, sucking up extra efforts. She said they are studying a few $4 million when it comes to California
unstable relative to eelgrass distribution,” nutrients out of the water and helping to but would cost the state an additional
small plots of eelgrass they planted in $12 million to $18 million in matching
Merkel said. prevent large algae blooms—are no longer different areas of the bay, as well as the
His best guess as to why? A wasting restrained. And it becomes a vicious grants and other funding sources.
water and sediment dynamics in Morro “It would cost the state a lot of
disease caused by a pathogen that cycle, because eelgrass has a hard time Bay, oxygen levels in the water, and how opportunity lost,” Eckman said. “Federal
investment is a huge leverage.”
Eelgrass acreage Number of brant (black brant) But he’s confident that the legwork
in Morro Bay seen in Morro Bay Sea Grant has done in Washington, D.C.,
and in each of the states the program
435 3,506
touches will pay off. Eckman said there
3,400 have been letters written by senators
3,150 and representatives on both sides of the
2,951 aisle asking the budget committees to
344 2,840
2,500
maintain the Sea Grant program at its
287 2,335 current levels. He’s optimistic, but they’re
260 267 still encouraging people to make their
240 1,850 voices heard.
1,726 1,711
“It’s an attack on science. It’s a
176 1,470
165 167 minimization of the importance of
149 1,197 science,” Eckman said. “The long-
125
98 term cost of that is that you would be
537 convincing people not to go into those
17 13 fields and that would be tragic.” Δ
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DATA PROVIDED BY KEITH MERKEL OF MERKEL AND ASSOCIATES DATA COLLECTED FROM THE MORRO COAST AUDUBON SOCIETY CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT Editor Camillia Lanham dreams about
being a scientist, but didn’t do well
INTERCONNECTED As eelgrass acreage declines in the Morro Bay estuary, sightings of the brant—a goose that migrates
between Baja and Canada and feeds on the grass—are less frequent.
in high school biology. Reach her at
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Commentary
Increased cost
Not a ‘natural’ death Hell awaits
I am shocked by Sheriff Ian Parkinson’s There is currently the idea in our
statement concerning the death of culture that it is all right not to practice
Andrew Holland. The sheriff states or to believe in human birth control.
California’s fuel tax increases won’t in his report that, “though the seated That is insane.
just affect the cost of putting gas in your tank position, dehydration, and self-injury
were all possibly contributory to the
Until the last 200 years, our species
had a population less than a billion,
I
read because of Senate Bill 1, the state of California for education money cause of death, the formation of the and most of human cultures or belief
California’s tax on gasoline is going to to cover the additional cost. intrapulmonary embolism was a natural systems could seek to multiply human
be raised by 12 cents per gallon; the 6) The cost of riding buses, trains, taxis, response in the body.” numbers. But now, with massive recent
diesel excise tax will be increased by 20 and other forms of transportation will Yes, death is a “natural” response to human population growth (400 percent
cents per gallon with the sales tax on diesel increase dramatically. being inhumanely held immobile in a in 100 years) we have 7.5 billion people
increasing by 4 percent (with an inflation 7) The California State University chair for 46 hours! It is also a “natural today. If you don’t recognize the current
adjustment); and a new annual vehicle fee system has vehicles that will now cost more response in the body” to die from a crisis, project that growth 1,000 years
is going to be imposed, varying between to utilize. The same can be said for the murderer’s bullet! into the future, Earth would have a
$25 and $175 based on vehicle value (with University of California system. The sheriff’s statement is absurd and population of millions of billions. We
an inflation adjustment). 8) Education costs, alone, will show blatantly trying to deceive us from the truth. know that is impossible. So what will
Is there a study available to describe a huge increase because not only will That big clot (5 centimeters) most stop it? Either birth control or some
the impact of this action on the average transportation costs for those systems probably came from Andrew’s legs after form of hell on Earth—starvation,
citizen? I would like to locate a copy. Surely, increase, but the professors, teachers, being restrained by straps and causing disease, war, murder, extermination.
there was some debate on the issue where Lack of birth control will result in hell
employees, and administrators who have blood to pool, creating a clot, which, when
opposing viewpoints were raised. on Earth.
the higher commuting costs will, of course, he was finally released from the chair,
Offhand, I see a significant financial Moral responsibility to the future
want higher pay increases which will made its way to his right lung and killed
impact upon my life. Let me see if I can requires us to be advocates of birth
result in higher tuition costs or increased him. The clot was caused by the cruel
summarize. control. (This is not a statement about
demands upon the state education budget. torture of this young man. As an RN, I
1) The cost of commuting to work will
9) Delivery services and trucking services am appalled at the care he received. In abortion.) People who oppose birth
increase proportionately.
will have increased fuel costs, which will hospitals, restraint policies are extremely control are bringing us hell, they are
2) The cost of operating city vehicles
be passed on to the consumer through the strict—a last resort, no matter the not following God’s teaching, or being
will go up, thereby prompting an increase
merchants who utilize these services. circumstance. This young man should politically correct.
in city taxes and fees to recover the
So, I can see a cost increase for all have been at a mental health facility. Those people who say religious
increased cost.
the basic needs of every Californian, Sheriff Parkinson even calls this chair freedom allows opposition to birth
3) The cost of operating county vehicles
will go up, thereby prompting an increase including food and clothing. Everything in a “safety chair.” It might as well have control are not addressing our collective
in county fees and property taxes to recover Californian is delivered by truck, so every been an electric chair. future. They are not fighting for the
the increased cost. item will be impacted. I extend my sympathy to Andrew’s rights of the poor. They are just insane.
4) The utility company, with its hundreds This is just my initial observation, family. The family needs to take legal They may be disciples of the devil. They
of vehicles, that provides my electrical without much research. That is why I am action so this can never happen again. certainly are not “cerebral.” They are
service will have increased fuel costs that asking for a copy of any study describing The grand jury, the District Attorney, the clearly immoral when you acknowledge
I am certain will be reflected in a higher the impact of this fuel tax increase on the Board of Supervisors, and all authorities a future. People who worship the past,
electric bill. The same can be expected average California citizen. Perhaps one above the sheriff and county jail need who think moral responsibility can
for the utilities that provide natural gas of your reporters could ferret out some to investigate and hold responsible the be applied to the present and not the
service, water service, and trash pickup. information. Thanks. ∆ incompetent entities and humans who future, or think that their belief system
5) Transportation costs for children being killed this young man. makes birth control irrelevant or just
bused to school will result in increased Michael Southern lives in Santa Maria. Nancy Dahl unimportant, are part of an insane
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claimed that my questioning this February, his corruption of their
whether our constitutional work reached a peak. “You are dishonest
democracy would survive President people,” he claimed at his longest press
Trump’s authoritarianism was “absurd in conference to date, reminding supporters
the extreme.” Mr. Fonzi offered two points that “the news is fake” and that reporters
to try and substantiate his claim: 1) the are “insulting.” He followed up with the
Trump administration has largely obeyed notorious tweet that “The FAKE NEWS
a federal court’s rejection of his latest media (New York Times, NBC, ABC,
reformulation to limit immigration from CBS, CNN) is not my enemy, it is the
predominantly Muslim countries, and enemy of the American People!” Look up!
2) we are not yet experiencing massive Kid’s
Again, the president delegitimizes
food shortages or knocks on the door from attempts by reporters to hold him Zone Wave
secret police in the middle of the night. accountable by blurring the line between at the
Of course, my question would be professional journalism and partisan Hands camera!
meaningless if we were already in a hackery. Perhaps Mr. Fonzi does not see on
situation like Venezuela. We are not. that to achieve this, President Trump Science
My question is how far will we let it does not need to physically intimidate
go? Perhaps Mr. Fonzi is under the the press or censor them, rather he calls
delusion that constitutional democracy the entire institution into question,
is a set of self-correcting mechanisms, the very idea of independent judgment.
but as conservative author David Moreover, the president doesn’t need the
Frum articulated so clearly last rallies and supporters on the streets that
January in his Atlantic essay, “How autocrats of the past relied on; he has a
to Build an Autocracy,” the operation smartphone and a Twitter handle. He
of our institutions “depends upon the has armies of trolls on the internet to do
competence and integrity of those his intimidating, enough to compel some
charged with executing [the law].” reporters, including Megyn Kelly, to quit
One need only look at what the
Twitter or hire guards.
president’s team has already done to
As I write on Easter morning,
undermine congressional checks on
President Trump is using Twitter to call
executive authority to see how he has
for investigations into protests across the
diminished our democracy. White House
country, reminding us that “The Election
staff revealed classified information to
is Over!” He insists that protesters slotransit.org
House Intelligence Committee Chair (and
oppose the election results; it’s just
Cal Poly grad) Devin Nunes, who then
partisan politics, and everybody is lying.
publicly briefed the contents back to the
White House, claiming that he had new In fact, protesters want to see his tax
information regarding the committee’s returns, as an act of integrity followed by
investigation into how cooperative every president since Jimmy Carter. But
Trump’s campaign team was with this president has no use for integrity.
Worse, this corruption from above
Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
inevitably leads to corruption within.
CREATING BEAUTIFUL SMILES
Nunes eventually had to recuse himself,
but not before attacking “left-wing Even thoughtful, good people like FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES.
activist groups” for filing complaints with Al Fonzi find themselves unwitting
the Office of Congressional Ethics. surrogates of a president they did not
President Trump and congressional initially support. Fonzi now parrots the
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surrogates have thus already achieved
their goal: They have corrupted the (can you think of a less politically
investigative process by framing it as relevant group?) and “leftist mobs”
partisan wrangling. This corruption beating old women and children. He is
feeds the president’s conspiratorial joining Trump, and Nixon before him,
narrative, not just the outlandish claim with the motto: “The press is the enemy, NEW PATIENT
(refuted by the FBI) that President the establishment is the enemy, the
Obama personally tapped his phones, professors are the enemy.” This culture of S PE C I A L
but the very idea of truth and ethical cynicism, of questioning the existence of
judgment. “There is no truth here,” reads truth and public integrity, is slowly but
this narrative, “only competing attempts surely replacing a democratic culture that INCLUDES:
to grab power,” and, “everybody does has taken centuries to grow.
it.” And as Frum goes on to say, “people We must vigilantly resist Exam, X-Rays,
who expect to hear only lies can hardly authoritarianism at the national level, Standard Cleaning
complain when a lie is exposed.” at the local level, and within our own & Dentist Consult
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etitions are great. They allow Supervisors candidate Dan Carpenter and philosophy student Brandon concept to another. Can I marry
regular Joe and Jane Q. Citizen local attorneys Stew Jenkins and Dan Bartlett that equated a dog? “Love is love,” and the dog
to effect real change in government Knight for this vaguely crafted petition. the arguments defending is totally into it! Can I beat up a
when their elected officials would rather sit Now the city of San Luis Obispo is homosexuality with also defending incest: masochist? “They enjoy it.” Can I screw a
on their hands. Petitions also suck. With going to have to hold a special election and “love is love,” “they enjoy it and it doesn’t warm apple pie on my mom’s kitchen table?
enough signatures, their edicts must either put the idea to a vote, which also means hurt anyone,” “sexual taboos are just social “Sexual taboos are just social constructions
be enacted or put to a vote … sometimes an they’re going to have to educate voters on constructions anyway,” and “past societies anyway.” Can I marry three women? “Past
expensive one. why the so-called Non-Discrimination in allowed it.” societies allowed it.”
Remember the petition that demanded Housing Ordinance essentially screws over In his argument, Bartlett also Brandon, you’re a junior now! Cut out the
an end to the Rental Housing Inspection the poor who benefit from programs that unwittingly quoted from a satirical article sophomoric thinking.
Ordinance? Yeah, well it demanded more discriminate in their favor. about “laws, such as in Portland, allowing In more serious news, right after I wrote
than simply rescinding the ordinance that All this because shady landlords didn’t furries to mate and defecate in public dog about the so-called “natural” death of SLO
allowed city officials to ensure rental units want the city making them keep their parks,” which Mustang New later removed County Jail inmate Andrew Holland
meet certain standards of livability; it units up to code and because the petition because, you know, it was satire and wasn’t last week, another inmate died. Kevin
said the ordinance must be replaced with writers managed to persuade signers that identified as such, and Bartlett acted as if Lee McLaughlin, 60, died in jail after
the Non-Discrimination in Housing the inspections were unconstitutional, it actually furthered his argument, which complaining of shoulder pain. A nurse who
Ordinance, which demands that “age, intrusive, and would end up getting people is—of course—idiotic. People in animal looked at him sent him back to his cell,
income, disability, gender, race, ethnicity, kicked out of their not-up-to-code rentals or costumes aren’t allowed to screw and poop where he died of a heart attack.
sexual identity, or inability or ability to own end up raising their rents. in public and there’s clearly a big difference Obviously this isn’t the same as
a home” cannot be used to discriminate. Oh “Do you live in the city? Do you rent? Do between same-sex consenting adults retraining Holland in a Pro-Straint
my! That sounds lovely, amirite? you want your rent to go up? No? Then sign engaging in a sexual relationship and blood Restraint Chair for 46 hours, after
Well, oops-a-daisy! The problem is a lot of this petition,” signature solicitors barked relatives boning down. which he died of a blood clot, which totally
SLO city housing programs do discriminate outside of local grocery stores. Anyway, anyone could have made the wasn’t caused by being rendered immobile
… in favor of low-income or disabled people The city estimates it will drop about same mistake as Barlett of accidently for nearly two days, right? It does call
with an inability to own a home. Yeah, $150K on this special election, which thinking a satirical article was real. The into question the quality of medical care
stuff like the requirement that developers strikes me as low. More importantly, what website in question—Real News Right available at the jail.
include low-income housing units in their if the city loses? Can we kiss goodbye the Now—also has articles titled “United Was it his left shoulder, Nurse Ratched?
developments or pay into a fund that helps idea of affordable housing? Hey Carpenter, Airlines Passenger Given Parachute and Maybe pain in his left arm? I’m no doctor, but
create such units can now be challenged Jenkins, and Knight, how about you guys Ordered to Leave Plane Mid-Flight” and even I know the early signs of a heart attack. ∆
in court thanks to this poorly worded, foot this bill? “CNN Report: 1 in 5 American Voters
carelessly thought-out petition. Meanwhile over in Cal Poly Land, some Spoke to Russian Ambassador Before U.S. The Shredder has a pain in its nether
Who’s at fault? We can thank former SLO people have a bee in their bonnet. Mustang Election.” Honest mistake. regions. Send ideas and comments to
Vice Mayor and District 3 County Board of News on April 17 ran an editorial by Hey, Bartlett probably isn’t a homophobe. shredder@newtimesslo.com.
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Croz, which has been called his best
Berline and John Hickmand. The Los playing bass in order to ensure a place in 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. this Saturday, April
solo album he’s ever made. Last year he
Angeles Times said his “racing licks the band.” 22, for the 27th annual San Luis Obispo
followed up with Lighthouse, and he’s
sounded like the fretboard equivalent Considering what a great performer County Earth Day (free; all ages). This
already got another recording set to be
of Fred Astaire dancing up, then down and storyteller Crary is, not to mention year’s theme is to Reconnect: People,
released this year called, Sky Trails.
a staircase.” the excellence of his two musical Planet, Peace, and there’ll be plenty of
This late career creative burst has been
Next Thursday, April 27, Toro Creek partners in this show, it ought to be a music, a green car show, a kids’ zone, an
something to behold.
Event Center and the Bluegrass Music hoot! BanjerDan will open the show and eco marketplace, a health center, a green
This Tuesday, April 25, at Vino
Society of the Central Coast act as emcee. building and energy hub, as well as food
PHOTO COURTESY OF DAN CRARY host Crary with Bill Evans and drink, including beer and wine. The
BLUEGRASS and Wally Barnick at Last Celebrate event follows SLO Town’s Earth Day
ICON The great Stage West BBQ (6 p.m.; all March for Science.
flatpicker Dan ages; $20 presale at 792- Mother Earth “Each participant group will share
Crary plays Last It seems like every year Earth Day
0505 or $25 at the door; food their cause, solution, or action to protect
Stage West BBQ organizer and Information Press publisher
on April 27.
and drink sold separately). and preserve our environment, create
Evans is a five-string Sandra Marshall laments the demise of a sustainable future and a balanced
banjo tour de force who’s the daylong festival, and yet every year— society,” Marshall said.
performed with the San with the help of volunteers and a lot of Performers include The Noach
Francisco Symphony and hard work—Marshall manages to pull it Tangeras Band, Mama Tumba, The
appeared on A Prairie Home off once again! Erin Inglish Band, Arthur Watership,
Companion. Wally Barnick “Like many good projects, Earth Day has Jack Cimo, Desert Coast Dance
is an inveterate performer suffered funding cuts too,” Marshall said. Performing Arts, Dance Bunkai,
and member of the Cache “We trimmed back on advertising, music The Cal Poly Comedy Club, and more.
Valley Drifters, Bluegrass, acts, and almost cut the second stage. Just Learn more at earthdayalliance.com.
Inc., and The Hay Dudes, in time, we received new additional funding In addition, Greenspace presents the
who describes himself to cover the cost of a few performers and Earth Day Concert for Science with
“principally as a singer who confirmed the second stage.” Zen Mountain Poets, presented by the
some 40 years ago took up Come to El Chorro Regional Park from Cambria Land Trust in a benefit concert
PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIN INGLISH PHOTO COURTESY OF PAUL SMITH-STEWART on Saturday, April 22, from 1 to 3 p.m.,
EARTH MAMA at the Creekside Reserve (2264 Center St.
Musician and in Cambria).
activist Erin Inglish “Celebrate the earth and honor
is one of several ecological science with the popular SLO
acts playing Earth
County band playing a wide variety
Day, on April
22 at El Chorro
of very danceable ‘psychedelic folk
Regional Park. jazz,’ perfect for our beautiful outdoor
setting,” organizers said. “Wine, beer,
lemonade, snacks, and sandwiches by
True Earth Market will be available. We
will raffle artwork, a lunch for two at
one of our favorite Cambria restaurants,
and a secret prize. Greenspace’s native
hand-raised Monterey pine seedlings
will be available for purchase, just in
time for Arbor Day! An expert will
provide information on how to plant and
care for them.”
JAZZMAN Former Still Time bassist Paul Smith-Stewart
returns to SLO Town with his jazz quintet on April 22
Tickets are $10 at the gate. Children
at the Steynberg Gallery. STARKEY continued page 28
MAY 11 2017 TH
PHOTO COURTESY OF MISSY ANDERSON all ages). It’s supposed to be clear and in reservations). The ensemble spent the accomplished and seasoned musician-
the 70s! winter bringing their gypsy swing sounds actress comediennes, who together, create
Finally, Americana act Micky & The to Santa Cruz’s venerable Kuumbwa Jazz a tour de force musical comedy theatre
Motorcars plays next Thursday, April Club to the palatial Gallo Center for the troupe,” according to organizers. “Playing
27, at BarrelHouse Brewing (6 p.m.; all Arts in Modesto, but now they’re back to their own guitars, bass, piano, and Irish
ages; $15 presale at ticketfly.com or $18 their old stomping grounds and ready to Bodhran, this hilarious renegade sorority
at the door). After 11 years and with six play for their local fans. of gal pals perform original songs and
albums, MMC has developed their own The rockin’ Kristen Black Band stories offering both poignant views and
brand of rootsy American folk rock. plays The Pour House this Friday, unbridled comedic commentary on the
April 21, from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. The joys and dilemmas of everyday life!”
Prince, pints, and singer-songwriter pens great tunes in the
See free live jazz on Sundays on the
vein of Tom Petty, and she says she’ll be
SLO’s Best Local Band unveiling some new songs that she plans
Monterey Street Terrance from 11 a.m. to
SLO Brew kicks off its week with a to record soon. “The Pour House built a 1 p.m., including the Adam Levine Trio
DJ-driven Prince tribute by Soul Dust brand new stage with lighting and a nice playing straight ahead and Latin jazz this
Productions featuring DJs Velache, dance floor—super rad!” Black gushed of Sunday, April 23. These weekly teaser
Jungle Cat, and Jason Perez behind the venue. Go get your dance on! concerts are a run-up to the forthcoming
the turn tables on Friday, April 21 (10 Pianist Scott Kirby plays a Los Osos SLO Jazz Festival on Saturday, May
p.m.; 21-and-older; $5 cover). “In addition house concert on Saturday, April 22 20, in the SLO Mission Plaza.
to music by Prince, we’ll drop covers of (7 to 9 p.m.; all ages; $20 donation; call The Famous Jazz Artist Series returns
Prince tunes, the legacy of The Star (The 528-6557 or 534-1501 for reservations to Painted Sky this Sunday, April 23,
Time, Vanity 6, etc.), and music in the and directions; or email sstern3126@aol. with saxophonist Mel Martin (6:30
spirit and vein of Prince, among others,” com). Expect ragtime, early jazz, Cuban p.m.; all ages; $20 tickets; reservations
organizers said. creole, South American tango, blues, and at 927-0179 or charlie@talsanmusic.com).
Pop-Americana act The Kenny Broadway tunes. Martin, one of the leading West Coast
Taylor Band plays Pint Night on The SLO County Jazz Federation jazz saxophonists, has worked with
Tuesday, April 25 (10 p.m.; 21-and- presents its 34th annual Jazz Piano
GOSPEL-TINGED Soulful Missy
older; free). The Minnesota native now Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy
Anderson (pictured) with her husband- Showcase this Saturday, April 22 (7:30 Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, and many
accompanist Heine plays Linnaea’s Café calls Paso Robles home, where he writes p.m.; all ages; $20 general admission,
on April 21. songs inspired by John Lennon, Dave others. The bebop proponent has been an
$15 for Jazz Fed members, or $10 for integral part of the Bay Area jazz scene
Matthews, and Ben Gibbard. students available at Boo Boo Records
STARKEY from page 26 Zongo All-Stars, voted Best Local for decades. ∆
or brownpapertickets.com), at the Unity
under 14 are admitted free. The concert Band in the New Times Best Of San Luis Concert Hall. Six pianists—Mark
Obispo County readers’ poll two years Keep up with New Times Senior Staff
follows Cambria’s Earth Day March Bocchicchio, Bob Harway, Marshall
in a row, plays on Wednesday, April Writer Glen Starkey via Twitter at twitter.
for Science. Otwell, Mark Pietri, Madison Scott,
26 (10 p.m.; 21-and-older; free). They’ll and Eric Schechter—will perform, with com/glenstarkey, friend him at facebook.
light up the dance floor with their mix rhythm provided by Dylan Johnson com/glenstarkey, or contact him at
Funk-infused jazz, of Afro-Latin, Afro-Caribbean, funk, gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.
(bass) and Darrell Voss (drums) provide
world music, and reggae, and calypso music that they call rhythm support. PHOTO COURTESY OF MEL MARTIN
Americana! “CaliCubano.” Check out Four Bitchin’ Babes—
Numbskull and Good Medicine Hormonal Imbalance v2.5, A
Presents have a hat trick of hot shows More music … Mood Swinging Musical Revue, on
lined up starting on Saturday, April San Diego’s Missy Andersen brings Saturday, April 22 (8 p.m.; all ages; $32
22, with the Paul Smith-Stewart her Soul Americana Tour to Linnaea’s to $44 tickets at 489-9444 or boxoffice@
Quintet at Steynberg Gallery (7 p.m.; Café this Friday, April 21 (7 p.m.; clarkcenter.org), in the Clark Center.
all ages; $12 presale at ticketfly.com or all ages; pass-the-hat). A two-time “The estrogen fueled fun continues!
$15 at the door). If that name sounds Blue Music Award nominee, Missy The Four Bitchin’ Babes are four
familiar, it’s because Smith-Stewart Andersen is joined PHOTO BY BRITTANY APP
played bass with Still Time for years by guitarist-husband
before moving to the Bay Area and Heine Andersen
turning his attention to jazz. for a dynamic duo
He and his quintet are touring in performance featuring
support of Transitions, his new EP with Missy’s earthy, gospel-
music inspired by the likes of Medeski, tinged vocals and
Martin, Wood, and Snarky Puppy. After Heine’s inspired blues
his stint with Still Time (2004 to 2012), guitar work.
Paul accepted the position of director of The always amazing
music at his alma mater Marin Catholic and eclectic Café
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M
arc Webb (500 Days of Summer,
The Amazing Spider-Man) GIFTED
directs this screenplay by Tom What’s it rated? PG-13
Flynn (Watch It, Second String) about What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee
7-year-old Mary (Mckenna Grace), a What’s it worth, Glen? Full price
mathematical prodigy being raised by her Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
uncle, Frank (Chris Evans), who wants Stadium 10, Park, Galaxy
nothing more than a normal childhood for
his gifted niece. When Mary’s maternal Mary’s mother died
and her uncle Frank KID STUFF
grandmother, Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan),
Roberta (Octavia
learns of her granddaughter’s abilities, she accepted caregiving
Spencer) and
works to get custody of the child to assure responsibilities. Like Mary (Mckenna
her talents aren’t wasted. The film also Mary, her mother was Grace) sing
stars Jenny Slate as Bonnie, the teacher also a math genius karaoke—a
who discovers Mary’s math prowess; and who was pushed to respite from the
Octavia Spencer as Roberta, Mary and the highest levels custody battle
Frank’s best friend. (141 min.) of achievement by over Mary.
her mother, Evelyn,
Glen Cynics beware! Gifted is a herself a math personally, getting grandmother Evelyn they, along with Roberta, take a little field
calculating weepfest designed to milk your genius who gave up her career to raise involved and messing up Frank’s plan of trip. It’s an emotional tour de force. If you
tear ducts, and the hard-of-heart may find her children. Evelyn’s unfulfilled promise a normal, quiet life for Mary—the kind of need a good cry, if you want to be reminded
the film’s overt manipulation too heavy- is first transferred to her daughter, who life his late sister never had. What ensues what it means to choose love, see Gifted.
handed. For me, however, I ate up every ultimately disappointed Evelyn, who sees is a rough battle of wills, with Evelyn Yes, it’s manipulative, and yes, Evelyn is a
clichéd moment and loved it! You’ve got another chance at math greatness in her convinced that Mary’s fate should be to bit too villainous to feel authentic, but it’s a
a precocious kid, a kind caregiver who’s granddaughter Mary. This sets up the continue the family legacy, and Frank beautifully told, heartwarming story about
out of his element and in over his head, tug-of-war over Mary’s guardianship. The believing his sister would have wanted a saving a little girl’s childhood.
a cruel matriarch who’s the math world’s question becomes, what’s best for Mary? different fate for Mary, and perhaps the Anna The custody battle airs everyone’s
equivalent of an overbearing stage mother, Anna I’m a total sucker for movies that chance to have childhood normality with dirty laundry, from Evelyn’s overbearing
and the always-awesome Octavia Spencer tug at your heartstrings, as long as they things like bike rides and Girl Scouts. and driven choices as a mother to Frank’s
as the sassy, blunt neighbor with the big do so in a way that isn’t so overreaching Does the film cloy at melodrama? Sure, beach bum lifestyle, complete with bar
heart. And for the ladies in the house, that it becomes an adventure in eye here and there. There are some very real, fights and a lack of health insurance.
you’ve got a concerned but mousy teacher rolling. Gifted hit that sweet spot, allowing rough moments as well, and the balance Evelyn only appears in Mary’s life when
who happens to score the hunky but kind imperfection in the characters and in between creates a story with an effective she shows prospects at genius. That coupled
caregiver. It’s an effective combination, their situation, and keeping the drama emotional payoff. with her hard-edged, driven personality
but certainly not an original one. The real from getting stale. I loved 500 Days of Glen The battle over Mary opens some raw make her particularly unlikeable. Frank
star of the show is Grace, who’s actually 10 Summer; it seems Webb has a knack for wounds between Frank and his mother. describes her as “very British,” a nod not
years old and already has 41 acting credits picking scripts that highlight the delicate Frank’s sister was the intellectual star of just to her accent but to her formality—
on her IMDB page. That’s a lot of work balance of relationships, whether familial the family, and it’s clear he feels abandoned when Mary calls her “grandma” she
considering she started just four years or romantic. Grace is a star as Mary— and ignored by Evelyn. He also thinks quickly corrects that either Grandmother
ago in 2013. She’s remarkable as Mary spunky, adorable, and clever. The film Evelyn pushed his sister too far, and he’s or Evelyn will do just fine. Yet even though
and delivers a very natural performance. opens up on her first day of first grade, torn between blaming his mother and her villainous side is front and center, she
As the film progresses, we discover that and the first time she’s attended school at himself for his sister’s death. Evelyn is so and Frank manage to reconnect in some
all. She proves to be a pistol in desperate to have control over another math small ways, both recognizing what the loss
the classroom, piquing Bonnie’s prodigy that she even seeks out Mary’s of Mary’s mother has done to each of them.
attention when she does math birth father, a man who has never met This is a film that had me crying with joy as
out of the realm of most adults. Mary and never had any connection to her well as sorrow; its emotional resonance has
This doesn’t make Frank life. It’s an act of desperation on Evelyn’s peaks and valleys that give the story added
happy—keeping a low profile part and shows just how far she’s willing depth and a firmer grounding in reality.
on Mary’s abilities is the only to go to control Mary’s life. This sets up the While I’m sure there are plenty of critics who
way that he can see to give her most emotionally poignant moment in the roll their eyes at the manipulative nature of
a somewhat normal childhood. film after Mary has a breakdown when the film, I think there’re plenty of people like
It doesn’t take long for the she learns her birth father was in town for me who can’t help but love a sweet, tender
principal to take notice and try the custody trial but didn’t come to meet story about love. ∆
DO RIGHT Mary’s teacher, Bonnie (Jenny Slate), to convince Frank to send Mary her. Mary acutely feels abandoned, and
and Mary’s uncle, Frank (Chris Evans), try to figure to a private school where she it’s a feeling Frank knows as well. I won’t Split Screen is written by Senior Staff
out what’s best for Mary while also navigating their
can be challenged more fully. spoil the moment for you, but Frank is able Writer Glen Starkey and his wife, Anna.
attraction for one another.
When he refuses, she takes it to reinforce just how loved Mary is when Comment at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.
Movies
REVIEW SCORING
FULL PRICE .... It’s worth the price of an evening show
MATINEE ........ Save a few bucks, catch an afternoon show
At the RENTAL .......... Rent it
STREAMING.... Wait ’til Netflix has it
NOTHING ........ Don’t waste your time
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST the village’s pompous braggart, pines for THE BOSS BABY turned upside down when his mom (Lisa formula that keeps them young and isn’t a bad way to spend an afternoon.
Belle’s hand while his obsequious sidekick Kudrow) and dad (Jimmy Kimmel) bring pinchable, while maintaining the brain of a Otherwise, catch the film once it’s on
What’s it rated? PG What’s it rated? PG
Lefou (Josh Gad) struggles with his home a new baby brother. grownup. And it turns out that babies have streaming sites or Red Box. (97 min.)
What’s it worth? Full Price What’s it worth? Streaming
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, conscience over his friend’s behavior. Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, But Tim thinks something is off about a mortal enemy: puppies. (I know it’s a tad —Ryah Cooley
Stadium 10, Galaxy, Park The performances were roundly Stadium 10, Park, Galaxy, the new baby. He swears his new brother ridiculous, but it’s the premise we’re given.)
arrived in a taxi and wears a suit, and that Basically a super cute puppy is about to
Pick Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters,
Dreamgirls, The Fifth Estate, Mr.
Holmes) directs this live action adaptation
fantastic! Watson is on point as Belle,
and Evans and Gad are both great as the
Fair Oaks
Going into The Boss Baby, I knew Alec
Baldwin was already capable of hilariously
baby definitely talks when Tim’s parents
aren’t around. When Tim catches him
be released by Puppy Co. and the babies
have to stop it otherwise people might
BORN IN CHINA
What’s it rated? G
infuriating duo. The Beast is largely CGI, on the phone, his “brother” introduces love puppies more than babies. Tim agrees Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
of Disney’s animated musical fairytale portraying a baby in a suit via his
but Stevens’ voice work is effective. I also himself as Boss Baby (Baldwin) and tries to help Boss Baby with his job so that he Stadium10, Galaxy
about a young prince (Dan Stevens) appearances as President Donald Trump
trapped in the body of a beast, who
can only be freed by true love, but who
thought the voice work by the enchanted
objects—Lumiére (Ewan McGregor),
on SNL, so I knew I was in for at least a
moderately good time. And while The Boss
to scare Tim into keeping his mouth shut
by claiming he can take all their parents’
love so there’s none left for Tim. (I know,
can go back to life with just him and his
parents. You can guess how the story
unfolds from there.
New Disneynature’s new True Life
Adventure film Born In China takes
an epic journey into the wilds of China
would love him in his ghastly form? His Cogsworth (Ian McKellen), Mrs. Potts Baby draws some chuckles, it may not be
improbable chance arrives in the form of (Emma Thompson), Chip (Nathan Mack), worth a full priced movie ticket. dark, right?) Given that the Warner Bros. animated where few people have ever ventured.
Belle (Emma Watson), the only woman to Madame Garderobe (Audra McDonald), and Written by Michael McCullers (Mr. But Boss Baby doesn’t really care about film Storks just came out in December, it Following the stories of three animal
visit his castle since it became enchanted, Maestro Cadenza (Stanley Tucci)—was Peabody & Sherman, Baby Mama) and things like love and family; Boss Baby has feels like DreamWorks Animation is now families, the film transports audiences to
who comes to plead for the release of her directed by Tom McGrath (Puss in Boots, a job to do. See, all babies come from a overloading the movie market with baby some of the most extreme environments on
wonderful. They were all fully formed
father Maurice (Kevin Kline)—imprisoned Shrek the Third), The Boss Baby tells the place called Baby Corp., where babies are origin stories (We know how babies are Earth to witness some of the most intimate
for stealing a single rose from the Beast’s characters. (129 min.) story of Tim (Miles Christopher Bakshi), a assigned to a family or baby management. really made guys). If you’ve got a kiddo
property. Meanwhile, Gaston (Luke Evans), —Glen Starkey happy and loved only child whose world is Supervisors like Boss Baby drink magic in your life, then watching The Boss Baby MOVIES continued page 33
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Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre,
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See Split Screen.
GOING IN STYLE
What’s it rated? PG-13
What’s it worth? Streaming
Where’s it showing? Stadium 10, Galaxy
Three New Yorkers’ golden years have
never looked so exciting in Going in Style, a
modern-day remake of the 1979 movie.
Cash-strapped, pissed off, and
desperate after their hard-earned
pensions are cut in a company buyout,
retirees and friends Joe (Michael Caine),
Willie (Morgan Freeman), and Albert
(Alan Arkin) band together to rob a bank
and take what they’re owed. On their
heels is the FBI, led by Special Agent
Hamer (Matt Dillon).
Despite solid performances from the
lead trio, Going in Style is pretty formulaic
from beginning to end and doesn’t generate
quite enough laughs to be memorable.
It’s not for a lack of effort, though. Caine,
Freeman, and Arkin didn’t just phone
it in for this comedy. Each character
is fairly well thought out with unique
backstories and personalities. Joe is about
HIDDEN British to lose his house, where his daughter
explorer Percy Fawcett and granddaughter also live, thanks to
a predatory mortgage loan. Meanwhile,
(Charlie Hunnam) Willie finds out he needs a kidney
goes searching for transplant, but lives far away from his
an undiscovered city family because of his financial ruin. Albert,
in the Amazon at the the cynic of the three, is pretty much
beginning of the 20th waiting for death until he unexpectedly
falls in love with a grocery store clerk and
century in The Lost finds a new zest for life.
City of Z. Without a doubt, this flick was first and
foremost made to have a chuckle about
three senior citizens attempting a bank
fresh enough not to wallow in horror
robbery. That’s why it’s funny, but it’s also
MOVIES from page 33 and mystery cliché. Currently, the
why it has a low ceiling. Going in Style
ONLY GOD FORGIVES Soon Julian’s sociopath mother, Crystal
(Kristen Scott Thomas), arrives from
escalate and shots are fired, quickly
leading to a full-on Battle Royale where
film has a 99 percent critic rating on
rottentomatoes.com, and I can see why.
delivers, most notably during a ridiculous
test robbery of a market that goes awry.
When? 2013 London and coerces Julian into avenging it’s every man (and woman) for themselves. I’ll remember this film. (103 min.)
The movie predictably builds towards the
his brother, which leads to a showdown —Glen Starkey
What’s it rated? R between him and Chang.
(85 min.) bank heist the whole way. Thankfully,
is brutal and swift. We discover he’s —A24 Films Going in Style offers a little more than that,
Where’s it available? DVD, Only God Forgives isn’t as good as got a love for karaoke and dotes on his GHOST IN THE SHELL reflecting on broader themes about death,
Streaming on Amazon Refn and Gosling’s earlier collaboration, young daughter, but on the streets he’s GET OUT What’s it rated? PG-13 family, legacy, and capitalism. (97 min.)
W
riter-director Nicolas Winding Refn Drive, but it contains many of the more feared than respected, and he’s as
What’s it rated? R What’s it worth? Rental —Peter Johnson
re-teams with Ryan Gosling (Drive) same qualities of stylized cinema and emotionally cold as they come—just as
What’s it worth? Full Price Where’s it showing? Galaxy
in this bloody neo-noir revenge tale, a pulsing soundtrack. It’s just much much a violent killer as Billy.
bathed in neon and gorgeously filmed in darker and more difficult to like, largely Refn is unquestionably a careful
Where’s it showing? Sunset Drive In Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the I CALLED HIM MORGAN
Huntsman) directs this screenplay by
Bangkok. Gosling stars as Julian, a drug because none of its characters are
smuggler who killed a man a decade redeemable. Julian is emotionally
filmmaker, and he makes choices for
a reason. There’s enough subtly here
Pick In his directorial debut, actor-
writer Jordan Peele (Keanu, Key co-writers Jamie Moss (Street Kings)
and William Wheeler (The Hoax, Queen
What’s it rated? NR
Where’s it showing? The Palm
earlier. Julian now runs a Thailand boxing broken, and Gosling plays him as nearly
club as a front for his operation, which he mute. He speaks perhaps 10 lines
runs with his sexually depraved and self- the entire film. We learn his mother
to bear repeat viewings—if one is
willing to witness the horrors again. The
and Peele, Rubberhead, MADtv) helms
this mystery-horror film about a young
African-American man named Chris
of Katwe) based on Masamune Shirow’s
Japanese Manga The Ghost in the Shell
New On a snowy night in February
1972, celebrated jazz musician
Lee Morgan was shot dead by his wife,
cinematography reminds me of some Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), who’s in a about Major (Scarlett Johansson), a
destructive brother Billy (Tom Burke). abused him and Billy both emotionally Helen, during a gig at a club in New York
Michael Mann films such as Manhunter mixed-race relationship with his white human who was purportedly saved
Julian’s world is upended after and sexually. Crystal is the kind of cold City. The murder sent shockwaves through
and Collateral—filled with beautiful girlfriend Rose Armitage (Allison Williams), from a horrible terrorist attack and
Billy rapes and murders an underage witch who compares her sons’ penis the jazz community, and the memory of
colors and use of light. But this is a film who decides it’s time for him to meet her transformed into the perfect soldier via
prostitute. Cold-as-ice, sword-wielding sizes in conversation. All these people the event still haunts those who knew the
that appears designed to upset people, parents—Dean (Bradley Whitford) and cyber-enhancement. Now she goes after
ex-policeman Lt. Chang (Vithaya are the worst form of humanity. Morgans. This documentary by Swedish
and Refn seems to want to emulate the Missy (Catherine Keener)—so they head the world’s most dangerous criminals and
Pansringarm), known locally as the Then there’s Chang, a stone-faced filmmaker Kasper Collin (My Name Is
career of someone like Lars von Trier, to her family’s estate. When they arrive, he terrorists, but when she meets a terrorist
Angel of Vengeance, allows the young ex-cop who clearly doesn’t care about Albert Ayler) is a love letter to two unique
whose films (Antichrist, Melancholia) also discovers the area’s black residents behave named Kuze (Michael Pitt), she discovers
girl’s father to kill Billy in revenge. due process and whose idea of justice personalities and the music that brought
upset viewers. When Only God Forgives in bizarre ways, and when he’s warned everything she thinks she knows about
PHOTO COURTESY OF SPACE ROCKET NATION them together. (89 min.)
was screened at Cannes, it was booed to “get out,” he discovers it’s not so easy herself is a lie.
—Kasper Collin Produktion
BROKEN by some audience members and given a to leave. It’s not terrible by any means, and
LIVES standing ovation by others. The gore was convincing, the acting sci-fi fans will find something to enjoy,
If you have a high tolerance for violence roundly competent, and the story but it’s also derivative and unoriginal— MOVIES continued page 35
Ryan
Gosling and you want to witness truly broken
people and the depraved world they create PHOTO COURTESY OF KASPER COLLIN PRODUCTION
stars as
for themselves, this is worth seeing. I did
Julian, a feel some sympathy for Julian because
drug-runner despite his abusive past, he still makes
who’s moral distinctions, but he loathes himself,
drawn into and trying to comprehend someone like
a revenge that is a depressing exercise. Watch at
your own peril. (90 min.) Δ
plot.
—Glen Starkey
THE PROMISE
New Tessa Connover (Katherine Heigl)
is barely coping with the end of
her marriage when her ex-husband, David
to avoid causing fear and panic, and one
by one, the little children lift their arms as
children do to be lifted up, unaware of what
What’s it rated? PG-13 (Geoff Stults), becomes happily engaged awaits them. It’s a devastating moment, a
Where’s it showing? Downtown Centre, to Julia Banks (Rosario Dawson)—not small moment, and an impossible moment to
Stadium 10, Park, Galaxy only bringing Julia into the home they endure.
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WEEKLY EVENTS
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HARDWARE Your neighborhood friends in green invite you
to a special Earth Day planting event April 22. Kids of all
COMMUNITY VEGAN POTLUCK every third Tuesday of the
ages are invited to get their hands a little dirty and plant
month through May 16. This ongoing community vegan potluck
their own seedling. 9am-noon Orchard Supply Hardware,
is free and open to all. Doors open at 5:45pm and at 6pm the
2005 Theater Dr., Paso Robles. More info: (415) 591-8406,
In celebration of Earth Day, the Central potluck begins. Short films/discussion begin 6:45-7pm, done
mrodrigues@shiftcomm.com.
by 8pm. Vegan dining is a plant-based cuisine containing no
Coast Bioneers will be offering three animal products. All are welcome. 6-8pm Unitaraian Universalist
MUSTANG EXPO Slo-Stangs Auto club and Sea Pines
Golf Resort are putting on a club Mustang Expo. Showing
Fellowship Hall, 2201 Lawton Ave., San Luis Obispo. Free. More
screenings featuring keynote speakers info: 234-7279, heyjenny@gmail.com.
cars from the 1965-2016. April 22. 11am-3pm Mustang
Expo, 1945 Solano St., Los Osos. Free. More info: 235-8616,
CHURCH SPONSORED VINTAGE AND THRIFT All proceeds
from their 2016 conference, April 25 through will go to Valley View Adventist Academy. Currently accepting
mustang09man@gmail.com, slostangs@gmail.com.
WALK A MILE - ARROYO GRANDE Join the movement and
donations of gently used clothing and furniture. Grand opening
27 in room 17 of the Bonderson Engineering April 30. 10am Treasure Barn, 2794 Halcyon, Arroyo Grande.
Walk a Mile to end sexual assault and gender-based violence
in Arroyo Grande on April 22 at Heritage Square Park. The
Center at Cal Poly. A different topic will be More info: 459-8316, Gailmitchellj@gmail.com.
HOMESHARESLO ATASCADERO HOMESHARING CHAT
event will feature celebrity walkers, vendor fair, a kid’s zone,
live music, and more. April 22. 11am- 2pm Heritage Square
covered each night from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.: HomeShareSLO brings together homeowners or renters
Park, 300 W Branch St., Arroyo Grande. More info: 226-5400
with an extra room in their home and people looking for
Ext. 308, mrivoire@RISEslo.org, riseslo.org.
Shaping Our Future Through Social Change affordable housing. Serving all of SLO county. Bring your
TASTE OF PISMO April 22. Dinasaur Caves Park, Shell Beach
questions! April 20. 2-4pm Atascadero Senior Citizens
Rd., Shell Beach. $65; designated driver for $35. More info: 773-
and Restorative Justice on April 25, Climate Center, 5905 East Mall, Atascadero. More info: 215-5474,
4382, info@pismochamber.com, pismochamber.com.
celestehomeshareslo@gmail.com, homeshareslo.org/events.
FREE COMMUNITY HORSE TACK SWAP AT RIDING
and Clean Technology on April 26, and Food SAVE OUR SCIENCE SOS Use your creativity to celebrate
WAREHOUSE Recycle-Reuse-Reduce on Earth Day at the
science by decorating a lab coat for Earth Day. April 20
and Water on April 27. Visit ecologistics.org through 22. Farmers Market and Earth Day Downtown SLO,
Riding Warehouse tack swap! Invite your friends for a day full
of deals on horse tack and fun! Seller spots fill up quick so
Farmer’s Market, San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: (310)
to learn more. 384-6912, saveourscienceslo@gmail.com, facebook.com/
reserve your spot now. Free pastries and coffee during set-
up. April 22. 10am-2pm Free Riding Warehouse Tack Swap,
groups/412280955776251/.
—Trever Dias SPRING VEGAN PRIX FIXE DINNER AT ROBIN’S
181 Suburban Rd., San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 548-
2005, info@ridingwarehouse.com, ridingwarehouse.com.
RESTAURANT Enjoy the bounty of spring on the Central
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM Congregation
IMAGE COURTESY JO ELLEN BUTLER Coast and this very popular Vegan 4-course prix fixe dinner,
Ohr Tzafon will commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day
Wild show
April 21. 5-9pm Robin’s Restaurant, 4095 Burton Dr.,
on April 23, featuring local residents Marion and Paul
Cambria. $48, $66 with wine flight. More info: 927-5007,
Wolff sharing their stories of surviving the Holocaust. The
info@robinsrestaurant.com, robinsrestaurant.com.
afternoon will also feature music and readings. 3:30pm
CAMBRIA ANNUAL CAR, MOTORCYCLE SHOW AND
Congregation Ohr Tzafon, 2605 Traffic Way, Atascadero.
CHILI COOK-OFF Classic cars, fabulous motorcycles, great
Recent rains should make for an chili, prizes, raffles, music, gourmet Beers and more. April
Free. More info: 704-4984, cfhandler1@gmail.com,
congregationohrtzafon.com.
22. 10am-3pm Vet’s Hall Parking Lot, 1000 Main St., Cambria.
impressive display at the 12th Free. More info: 927-3624, bdbcambriachamber@hotmail.
CENTRAL COAST NURSE PROFESSIONALS
SLO MEETING Local start-up working toward nurse
annual Cambria Wildflower com, cambiachamber.org.
GRANDE OPENING - LAGO GIUSEPPE WINERY April
empowerment in the local community by supporting the
practice of nursing for all specialties/levels, April 23. Come
Show, April 29 from noon to 5 22 and 23. Reggae Vance Trio from Resination will be
get inspired, hear interesting topics, and network with fellow
performing on Saturday from 2-5pm and traditional Sicilian
nurses. 6-8pm Milestone Tavern, 972 E. Foothill Blvd., San
p.m. and April 30 from 10 a.m. to cuisine from the kitchen will be available for purchase.
Luis Obispo. No cost. Dinner can be purchased. More info:
11am-5pm Lago Giuseppe Winery, 8345 Green Valley Rd.,
878-9696, CCnurseprofessionals@gmail.com.
4 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Templeton. More info: 550-9199, info@lagogiuseppe.com,
YOM HASHOAH - HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
lagogiuseppe.com.
April 23. 6:30pm Congregatoin Beth David, 10180 Los Osos
Building. The show will feature an TOWN HALL MEETING WITH CONGRESSMAN SALUD
Valley Rd., San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 544-0760,
CARBAJAL The SLO Progressives are sponsoring a town
abundance of bouquets, botanists hall meeting with Congressman Salud Carbajal on April
cbdslo.org.
HOMESHARESLO HOMESHARING PRESENTATION
22. Come make your voice heard. Pacheco Elementary, 261
who can answer your questions, Cuesta Dr., San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 305-8295,
Have an extra room in your home? Seeking affordable housing?
HomeShareSLO is a local non-profit that facilitates matches
malcolm13@fastmail.com.
a wildflower café, photo contest, PLANT AND BAKE SALE The 22nd Annual Plant and Bake
between home providers and home seekers. Presentation
by Anne Wyatt, Program Coordinator. Bring your questions.
Sale in Creston takes place April 22. This year features
and more. For additional info, 1/2 wine barrels and fruit trees. Funds raised help maintain
April 27. 2-4pm Living Waters Fellowship Community
Room, 4314 Bridge St., Cambria. Free. More info: 215-5474,
email ffrpcambira@sbcglobal.net the garden. 9am Volunteer Community Garden, Swayze St.,
Creston. Free. More info: 438-3543, mustangannie1@juno.
celestehomeshareslo@gmail.com, homeshareslo.org.
EARTH DAY ~ COMMUNITY YOGA TO BENEFIT
or call 927-2856. com, crestonnews.org.
ECOSLO Celebrate Earth Day and support ECOSLO with a
EARTH DAY FEST AT SLOBG Enjoy music from popular
grounding gentle flow yoga class, followed by meditation
—T.D. local musicians, an eco-marketplace, and numerous great
and a community beach mandala. 50% to benefit EcoSlo.
exhibits. April 22. 11Aam-5pm San Luis Obispo Botanical
April 27. 5:30-7pm Holistic Movement Center, 845 Napa
Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo. Free.
Ave., Morro Bay. $20 suggested donation. More info:
PHOTO COURTESY OF RICHEL RUSCO More info: 541-1400 Ext. 303, lcollinsworth@slobg.org,
(707) 266-8945, holisticmovementcenter@hotmail.com,
education@slobg.org.
holisticmovementcenter.com/events/workshops.html.
LIGHTSHARE UNION GRABOVOI NUMBERS PROJECT
submit your PRESENTATION On April 29 project volunteers will
present various concentration exercises upon numerical
listing online sequences that address themes specific to Source, Gaia,
and humanity’s salvation and liberation. No registration is
For a complete list of special events, required. Donations are appreciated. 6:30-9pm Lightshare
art listings, support groups, lectures, and Center, 22701 El Camino Real, Santa Margarita. Free. More
more please visit New Times online at info: 305-7595, wendy@lightshare.us, lightshare.us.
newtimesslo.com/calendar.php where you WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES Join the movement and
can submit events to be included in the walk a mile to end sexual assault and gender-based violence,
Gone golfin’
New Times calendar, browse for upcoming April 29. The event will feature celebrity walkers, a vendor
events, or check out what’s happening fair, a Kid Zone, live music, and more.! Mission Plaza, 989
today in your neighborhood. Chorro St., San Luis Obispo. More info: 226-5400 Ext. 308,
Submissions are edited and approved mrivoire@RISEslo.org.
by Calendar Editor Trever Dias who can BREW AT THE ZOO Party with the animals for this special
Help raise funds for local nonprofit Achievement House at its 2017 Charity Golf be reached at calendar@newtimesslo. event! Tickets includes commemorative beer glass, sampling
of craft breweries, cider, and wine. April 29. 5:30-8:30pm
Tournament, April 29 at Laguna Lake Golf Course in SLO. The funds will go com. To be included in print, please
Charles Paddock Zoo, 9305 Pismo Ave., Atascadero. $30.
include specific dates in the description
More info: 461-3490, tbanish@atascadero.org.
toward a new computer lab for its Activity Day Program at the Mailing & More box. Character count for the description
PASO ROBLES DANCE HALL through April 28. Join
is limited to 250 characters. Deadline for
Facility. Registration opens at 8:15 a.m. and is $50 per person, which includes submission is one week before the issue
other social dancers on a 3,000 square foot dance floor,
Friday nights from 7-9 pm. A DJ plays tunes to a variety
you want to be in. Events can appear in
a barbecue lunch. A shotgun start will begin at 9 a.m. Go to achievement.org print up to 10 days before they happen. For
dance styles. $9 per person. 7pm Paso Robles Dance Hall,
600 Nickerson Blvd., Paso Robles. $9. More info: 835-2076,
to register. a more comprehensive list of submission
guidelines and to read how to get your
tinascarsella@gmail.com.
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space, all seating is 1st-come, 1st-served). And, please no high-backed chairs.
Children under 10 admitted free when accompanied by paid adult (one child
per adult). Rain or Shine. No Umbrellas. No pets. Beer and Wine available for
over 21 with ID. Please no outside food, drink, or cameras. Food and beverage
for purchase inside venue. No reentry after 6:30PM - will be firmly enforced
this year. Subject to search. All proceeds benefit the future Summer Jazz Work- DRUMCIRCUT
shop and SLO Jazz Festival, a 501(c)3, and all community charities it serves.
29 9:30 AM. Explore and learn about the one of the world’s best-loved musicals.
A look back
Performances will be held at Guild Hall in
estuary. Elfin Forest, Los Osos. SLO April 23 through 30. 2pm matinee;
7pm evening SLO Guild Hall, 2880 Broad
MORE EVENTS + DETAILS St., San Luis Obispo. $15 - $32. More info:
540-8817, kerikproductions@gmail.com,
The work of Los Osos artist David Jonas will be presented in an exhibit at Art Center Morro
MBNEP.ORG / STATE-OF-THE-BAY kelrikproductions.org.
ACTING ABCS THEATER CAMP For
Bay titled David Jonas, A Retrospective, through May 1. Visit artcentermorrobay.org or call
grades k through 3, April 17 through 21. 772-2504 to find out more.
9am-10am SLO Guild Hall, 2880 Broad
St., San Luis Obispo. $100. More info:
kelrikproductions.org.
A CONNCECTICUT YANKEE IN KING Film PRESENTED BY SLO COUNTY JAZZ
FEDERATION SIx of the finest local jazz
Flamenco/tropical Brazilian guitarist. 21
and up only please, and no pets. 2-4:30pm
and TV
pianists perform, April 22. 7:30pm (doors Morovino Winery, 468 Front St., Avila
ARHTUR’S COURT April 27 through
open at 7pm) Unity Concert Hall, 1130 Orcutt Beach. $12. More info: 627-1443, mrs.vino@
June 11. Hank Morgan wakes up in
Rd. (entrance on Fernwood), San Luis Obispo. morovino.com, morovino.com.
the days of Camelot and King Arthur FREE MOVIE Disney film on the landscapes, $20 general/$15 jazz Fed members/$10 DAVID STARR LIVE Songwriters At Play
ADOPT
puts hims in charge of industrializing
DON’T the kingdom due to his knowledge of
animals and people of Vancouver, New students. More info: 546-3733, botwin@att. presents Colorado’s David Starr, April 23.
Zealand’s white sand beaches, the deserts of net, slojazz.org. Starr is an Americana singer-songwriter, multi-
SHOP! technology. Great American Melodrama, Namibia, canyons of Arizona and Utah, and the MUSIC AND ALS FUNDRAISER Featuring instrumentalist, and producer. 1-4pm Sculpterra
www.sloanimalservices.com 1863 Front St., Oceano. More info: 489- Alaskan wilderness. Popcorn will be provided. bluegrass band Daily Special, April 22. Help Winery, 5015 Linne Rd., Paso Robles. Free.
2499, manager@americanmelodrama.com,
Adopt-A-Pet!
For all ages. April 22. 2:30-4pm Cambria raise funds for the local ALS(Lou Gehrig’s More info: 204-6821, stevekey57@gmail.com,
americanmelodrama.com. Library, 1043 Main St., Cambria. Free. More disease) in Memory of Chrystie (Dorr) Lose. songwritersatplay.com.
PLAY READINGS Fourth Wednesday of the info: 781-4796, mkensingerklopfer@slolibrary. 2-4:30pm Music and ALS Fundraiser, 203 E. AN EVENING WITH DAVID CROSBY
month. Audience chooses one of three plays,
PREVENT HOMELESS PETS and then volunteers to read the characters!
org, slolibrary.org.
JEAN MANN LIVE April 24. A jazz-tinged
Branch St., Arroyo Grande. Free. More info:
602-2212, rberguia@gmail.com.
AND FRIENDS April 25. 7:30pm Vina
Robles Amphitheatre, 3800 Mill Rd.,
Spay & Neuter! April 27. 7 -9pm Pewter Plough Playhouse, Americana artist. 6:30-9pmm Morro Bay GREENSPACE EARTH DAY CONCERT FOR Paso Robles. $50-65.50. More info: 286-
828 Main St., Cambria. Free Admission. More Wine Seller, 601 Embarcadero, Morro Bay. SCIENCE WITH ZEN MOUNTAIN POETS
info: 400-4737, rjbstage@aol.com. 3680, amphitheatre@vinarobles.com,
Angel #213360. Sweet & More info: 204-6821, stevekey57@gmail. April 22. Raffle, dancing, wine, beer, and
STAGED READING: FROZEN SLO Little vinaroblesamphitheatre.com.
eager to please, 5 yr old com, songwritersatplay.com. food by True Earth Market. 1-3pm Greenspace THE KW COMBO LIVE April 25. 5:30pm
brown Pitbull mix, med Theatre’s Ubu’s Other Shoe Staged Reading FREE MOVIE SCREENING Disney film Creekside Reserve, 2264 Center St., Cambria.
presents Frozen, a substantial, daring, Courtyard Marriott San Luis Obispo, 1605
energy, great w/kids, on the landscapes, animals and people $10/children under 14 enter free. More info: Calle Joaquin, San Luis Obispo. Free. More
warmhearted show about sorrow, vengeance, of Vancouver; New Zealand’s white sand 927-2866, connie@greenspacecambria.org,
most dogs, but no cats/ mercy, and bearing the insufferable, April info: (831) 601-3793, integritykt@yahoo.com.
beaches; the deserts of Namibia; canyons greenspacecambria.org.
chickens, 50lbs, leash/ Angel 21 and 22. Fri.: 7pm; Sat.: 2 and 7pm San of Arizona and Utah; and the Alaskan SLOMA CONCERTS: DIRTY CELLO April
BLUEGRASS CONCERT WITH DAN
CRARY, BILL EVANS, AND WALLY
house/obed. Luis Obispo Little Theatre, 888 Morro St., wilderness. Popcorn will be provided. All 22. Meet the artists after the performance.
San Luis Obispo. $15. More info: 786- BARNICK Bluegrass guitar pioneer
Bandit #910793. Easy- ages. April 27. 3:30-5pm Oceano Library, 7pm San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Dan Crary performs with banjoist Bill
2440, boxoffice@slolittletheatre.org, 1551-17th St., Oceano. Free. More info: 781- Broad St., San Luis Obispo. $20 general
going, mellow, sweet 9 yr slolittletheatre.org. Evans and Central Coast favorite Wally
4796, mkensingerklopfer@slolibrary.org, seating. More info: 543-8562, info@sloma. Barnick on bass, April 27. 6pm Toro Creek
old B/W Schnauzer/Shih SPRING THEATRE PRODUCTION with slolibrary.org. org, sloma.org/events/upcoming-events.
Tzu w/underbite, 9lbs, guest director, Don Stewart, May 5 through Event Center at The Last Stage West,
php?event=1269. 15050 Morro Rd., Atascadero. $20 in
7. Fri. and Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2pm Cuesta
Music
leash/house/lap, scared FAMOUS JAZZ ARTIST SERIES San
of cats, loves kids & dogs. Bandit College Culturual and Performing Arts Center, Francisco saxophonist Mel Martin appears
advance/$25 at door. More info: 792-0505,
eventbooking@torocreekeventcenter.com,
CA-1, San Luis Obispo. $15. More info: 546- at the Famous jazz Artist Series with Dylan
Rocko #217157. Shy 6 yr 3198, cpactickets.cueata.edu. torocreekeventcenter.com.
CHARLIE SHOEMAKE LIVE Famed jazz Johnson, Darrell Voss, co-producers Charlie
old tri-color Aust Shep WHEN BUTTER CHURNS TO GOLD RAY BARBEE MEETS THE MATTSON 2
pianist Charlie Shoemake performs music and Sand iShoemake. April 23. 6:30-
through April 23. Orphaned farm girl Ray Barbee Meets the Mattson 2 will play
mix is sweet once he from The Great American Songbook for 8:30pm Painted Sky Studio, 7i5 Main St.,
Constance Goodwin tries to save the dining every Friday and Saturday through their unique brand of surf-jazz to benefit the
knows you, would love Cambria. $20. More info: 927-0179, charlie@
family from the villain Friedrich von May 26. 6-8:30pm Harmony Cafe, 824 Main Cambria Education Foundation on April 29.
to be an only dog, leash/ talsanmusic.com, Charlie Shoemake.
Fouler. Great American Melodrama, 1863 St., Cambria. More info: 924-1219, charlie@ Doors open at 5pm; show at 6:30pm Hearst
SLO CO BAND SPRING CONCERT
house/basic obed, 60lbs,
loves his walks.
Rocko Front St., Oceano. More info: 489-2499, talsanmusic.cpm. Director Leonard Lutz has assembled this
Ranch Warehouse, 442 SLO San Simeon
Rd., San Simeon. $50. More info: 305-7838,
manager@americanmelodrama.com, THE MICHAEL CALLAN DUO LIVE April concemt program with a variety of music
americanmelodrama.com. 21. The Wine Seller, 601 Embarcadero, Morro info@cambriaeducationfoundation.org,
Tinker #217123. Adorable that challenges the band while being very
MET LIVE IN HD: TCHAIKOVSKY’S Bay. None. More info: (760) 401-1104, mc@ cambriaeducationfoundation.org/upcoming-
tiny red/w Chihuahua girl pleasing to the audience. April 23. 3pm
EUGENE ONEGIN Deborah Warner’s callan.tv. events.html.
Methodist Church, 275 N. Halcyon Rd.,
is 1 yr old, about 3lbs, production, April 30. 2pm Christopher Cohan CAFE MUSIQUE LIVE April 21. 8pm DIRTY CELLO CONCERT AT SLOMA
Arroyo Grande. $10 donation requested.
good on leash, likes other Center, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo. $12- D’Anbino Vineyard and Cellars, 710 Pine St., From China to Italy, and all over the U.S.,
More info: 773-0323, CountyBand.Info@
dogs, she dances when $22. More info: 756-4849, calpolyarts.org. Paso Robles. $15 ($10 for club members). Dirty Cello brings the world a high energy
gmail.com, slocountyband.org.
happy, super cute! Tinker More info: 227-6800, carmine@danbino.com, BENEFIT CONCERT - ARTS FOR LIVING
and unique spin on blues and bluegrass.
Led by vivacious cross-over cellist, Rebecca
AUDITIONS danbino.com/events. UNITED CEREBAL PALSY A benefit
Roudman, Dirty Cello is cello like you’ve
For more information please call the NUNSENSE AUDITIONS April 23. TAP ROOTS LIVE April 21. Tom Walters concert featuring the San Luis Obispo County
never heard before. April 22. 7pm San Luis
NUNSENSE will run July 27 through and Nico Cass perform original contemporary
shelter volunteer line at 781-4413 Aug. 20. Video submissions accepted at Americana and jazzy originals. 7pm- 9:30pm Porch
Trumpet Alliance, benefiting Arts for Living
and United Cerebral Palsy. April 23. 3pm Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San
Adoption fees are: Cats $81, Dogs: $105 + $27 license fee. lyricsandmelodiesdl@gmail.com until April Cafe, 22322 El Camino Real, Santa Margarita. St Timothy’s Church, 962 Piney Way, Morro Luis Obispo. $20 general seating. More info:
Fee includes spay or neuter, all shots & microchip. 24. 4pm Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre, Free. More info: 204-6821, stevekey57@gmail. Bay. Fre, donations accepted. More info: 550- 543-8562, info@sloma.org, loma.org.
SLO County Animal Services 1350 Main St., Cambria. More info: 203-
5072, ccatbarb@gmail.com.
com, songwritersatplay.com.
34TH ANNUAL PIANO JAZZ SHOWCASE
1192, wbalfour@mac.com.
JOHN STEPHEN LIVE April 23. Nuevo MUSIC continued page 45
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THE MIND OF MOZART April 23. Blvd, San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: stulberg8@gmail.com. Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St, San Luis creates 2-dimensional, multifaceted,
Orchestra Novo’s Discovery Series is 439-4316, rhonda@milestonetavern. SOUTH COUNTY POETRY Featured Obispo. admission is free, donations colorful paintings. Cambria Library,
and
an invigorating blend of exploration com, milestonetavern.com. reader is current poet laureate, Jeannie appreciated. More info: 543-8562, 1043 Main St., Cambria. Free. More
and artistry, a multi-sensory event that TRAIN WRECK FRIDAY: LULU & THE Greensfelder, followed by open mic, April jkociss@sloma.org, sloma.org. info: 927-4336, ocstaff@slolibrary.org,
COWTIPPERS LIVE Bring a picnic, 23. 5:30pm South County Poetry, 301 MIDDLE SCHOOL ART through May 3. slolibrary.org.
Literature
will nourish your mind and uplift your
heart. 4pm San Luis Obispo United food to grill, or purchase dinner from Trinity Way, Arroyo Grande. Free. More Features artwork from Flamson and Lewis M.L. BURDICK EXHIBIT A selection
Methodist Church, 1515 Fredericks Steins BBQ and Catering. Free wine info: 473-0230, evycole@inbox.com. and Middle Schools. Studios on the Park, of abstract ink and mixed media works
St., San Luis Obispo. $25. More info: tasting from 5-7pm. Wine available BOOK OF THE YEAR DISCUSSION A 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. More info: by local artist M.L. Burdick will be on
Art
441-6688, zette@orchestranovo.com, for purchase. No outside alcohol or discussion of The Immortal Life of Henrietta 238-9800, sasha@studiosonthepark.org, display through June 1. Noon-8 pm
orchestranovo.com/virtuosos-discovery- pets please. Children 6 and under Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Part of the Cuesta studiosonthepark.org. STAX Wine Bar, 1099 Embarcadero,
series-from-the-mind-of-mozart/. admitted free. April 21. 5:30pm Pomar Book of the Year program. For adults. April JUMP FOR JOY: VINTAGE EUROPEAN Morro Bay. Free. More info: 772-5055,
Junction Vineyard and Winery, 5036 20. 6:30-7:30pm Los Osos Library, 2075 ART EXPLORATIONS An in depth look at POSTERS through April 23. Showcasing staxwine@yahoo.com, staxwine.com.
FESTIVAL MOZAIC WINTERMEZZO
S. El Pomar Rd, Templeton, CA. $15, Palisades Ave., Los Osos. Free. More info: the permanent collection of the museum, posters from ther Belle Epoque, Art Deco,
CODA: THE CHOPIN PROJECT In
2010, pianist Jocelyn Swigger set out free for club members. More info: 238- 781-4796, mkensingerklopfer@slolibrary. held the last Sunday of each month. 3pm and Modern periods. Studios on the Park, SPECIAL ART
on a journey to learn all 27 Chopin 9940, denise@pomarjunction.com, org, slolibrary.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. More info: EVENTS
etudes. In this multimedia program and pomarjunction.com. MORRO BAY BOOK DISCUSSION St., San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 543- 238-9800, sasha@studiosonthepark.org, 15TH CALIFORNIIA SCULPTORS
performance, she’ll discuss how her FOUR BITCHIN’ BABES: MUSICAL GROUP 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 8562, info@sloma.org, sloma.org. studiosonthepark.org. SYMPOSIUM SHOW IN CAMBRIA
life and her musicianship transformed REVIEW - HORMONAL IMBALANCE through May 17. Download ART AT HIGH NOON: JESSICA FORTE, PAUL SIMMONS, A showcase of sculpture by the
as she learned this notoriously difficult April 22. The Four Bitchin’ Babes the booklists to find out what CONTEMPORARY CALIFORNIA AND BRAD TUCKER EXHIBIT artists attending the 15th California
music. April 29. 3pm Paso Robles Inn, are four accomplished and seasoned book is discussed each week at PHOTOGRAPHY WITH LANA Z. through April 30. Left Field Gallery, Sculptors Symposium, April 29.
1103 Spring St., Paso Robles. $40. More musician-actress comediennes, who morrobaybookdiscussiongroup.org. CAPLAN May 4. Noon San Luis Obispo 1242 Monterey St. #110, San Luis Come see the sculptors at work and
info: 781-3009, tickets@festivalmozaic. together, create a tour de force musical 10am-noon Morro Bay Library, 625 Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. More info: 543-9633, enjoy a day at Camp Ocean Pines
com, festivalmozaic.com. comedy theatre troupe. They fill the Harbor St., Morro Bay. Free. More Obispo. More info: 543-8562, info@ leftfieldgallery.com. in Cambria. BBQ available for $15.
NORTH COUNTY CHORUS AND stage with whimsical songs and shtick. info: 772-9268, karen@live-now.org, sloma.org, sloma.org. KIDS ART SMART April 27 through 10am-5pm Camp Ocean Pines, 1473
ORCHESTRA: SONGS OF OUR 8pm Clark Center, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., morrobaybookdiscussiongroup.org/. SPRINGTIME SUCCULENCE 30. Featuring artwork by students from Randall Dr., Cambria. Free. More info:
FOREFATHERS May 7. Cassandra Arroyo Grande. $32-$44. More info: MYSTERY READERS GROUP Each through May 2. Come see art that Templeton Elementary and Vineyard 636-7522, francine.kirsch@gmail.com,
Tarantino’s graduate choral conducting 489-9444, dave@clarkcenter.org, 2nd Wednesday read and discuss a expresses the ripeness of spring. Art Elementary Schools. Studios on the Park, californiasculptorssymposium.org.
concert. 3pm Atascadero Lake Pavilion, clarkcenter.org. wide spectrum of mysteries, thrillers, Central Gallery, 1329 Monterey St., 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. More info: SPRING INTO ART YOUTH ART
9315 Pismo Ave., Atascadero. $10-$15. TRAIN WRECK FRIDAY: RICKY and suspense novels, through May San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 747- 238-9800, sasha@studiosonthepark.org, CAMP through April 21. For 5-6
Free for veterans.. More info: 546-3198, MONTIJO AND THE MOJITOS 10. 10am-noon Morro Bay Library, 625 4200, artcentral93401@gmail.com, studiosonthepark.org. year-olds. 9am-noon San Luis Obispo
cpactickets.cuesta.edu. May 5. Bring a picnic, food to grill, or Harbor St., Morro Bay. Free. More info: artcentralslo.wordpress.com/. KIDS ART SMART May 4 through Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis
MARY ANNE ANDERSON LIVE Jazz purchase from Steins BBQ or Choco’s 772-9268, karen@live-now.org. THE ART OF THE KIMONO through 7. Featuring artwork by students from Obispo. $175-$195, includes materials.
singer Mary Anne Anderson appears Mexican Grill. Free wine tasting 5-7pm. AN AFTERNOON WITH T.C. BOYLE April 30. Featuring historic and Virginia Peterson and Monterey Road More info: 543-8562, info@sloma.org,
with guitarist Adam Levine on the third Wine available for purchase. No May 7. Limited VIP pre-show meet Contemporary kimonos. San Luis Obispo Elementary Schools. Studios on the Park, sloma.org.
Thursday of the month. A refreshing, outside alcohol or pets. Lawn chairs and greet at 1:30pm, available for Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. More info:
smooth jazz singer with loads of recommended. 5:30pm Pomar Junction an additional $40. 3pm Christopher Obispo. More info: 543-8562, info@ 238-9800, sasha@studiosonthepark.org, OPENINGS AND
personality in her vibrant performances. Vineyard and Winery, 5036 S. El Pomar Cohan Center, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis sloma.org, sloma.org. studiosonthepark.org. RECEPTIONS
April 20. 7:30-10pm Pewte Plough Rd., Templeton. $15. More info: 238- Obispo. $16-$45. More info: 756-4849, FOLDED AND FLAT: SHIBORI BY DIRTY PICTURES May 4 through 29. SPRING JURIED ART SHOW through
Playhouse, 828 Main St., Cambria. More 9940, denise@pomarjunction.com, calpolyarts.org. ANA LISA HEDSTROM Ana Lisa Abstract expressionist landscapes by Tom April 30. Cambria Arts Center hosts
info: 400-4737, rjbstage@aol.com, pomarjunction.com. Hedstrom is a world-renowned textile Peck and other artists. Studios on the annual juried art show for paintings,
pewterploughplayhouse.org. YESTERDAY AND TODAY: POETRY artist best known for her contemporary Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. More photography, 3D artwork, etc. Juror is
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light. Reflections, sources, symbology and wave at passing trains. 10am-4pm
all pull you into the artists’ worlds, SLO Railroad Museum, 1940 Santa
through May 1. Noon-7pm Studios on Barbara St., San Luis Obispo. $3 and
The Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. under. More info: 548-1894, media@
Free. More info: 238-5473, president@ slorrm.com, slorrm.com.
The Cambria Education Foundation presents jazz musician and skateboarder Ray Barbee and surf-jazz musicians
pasoroblesartassociation.org, SLOMA EXHIBITION: SIX SQUARED
pasoroblesartassociation.org. The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
The Mattson 2 (pictured) for a concert to benefit the Coast Unified School District, April 29 at 6:30 p.m. at the
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traditional print media by the Central
Hearst Warehouse in San Simeon. The show is 21-and-over, tickets are $50, and can they can be purchased at
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Gallery at Marina Square presents
Coast Printmakers on view in the
McMeen Gallery from through May
Cambria school libraries, or at cambriaeducationfoundation.org.
featured artists Ardella Swanberg
with her fine art watercolors and Don
28. 11am-5pm San Luis Obispo Museum
of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.
slolibrary.org.
CHILDREN AGE 4-6 AIKIDO CLASS
More info: 896-6197, anamcre.ss@
gmail.com, anamcre.com.
search for food, and cope witha rain
storm. For all ages. April 22. 2-3:30pm The
Outdoors
Doubledee with his fine art drawings, Admission is free, donations welcome. Youngsters ages 4 to 6 have fun and SLOMA SPRING BREAK ART Atascadero Library, 6555 Capistrano,
through April 29. 10am-6pm Gallery at More info: 543-8562, info@sloma.org, express healthy energy as they learn CAMPS FOR KIDS AND TEENS Atascadero. Free. More info: 781-4796,
Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero Ste. sloma.org. mind body skills, social skills, and through April 21. Spring into art with mkensingerklopfer@slolibrary.org,
10, Morro Bay. free. More info: 772- SLOMA EXHIBITION: NEW VISIONS peaceful power. Aiki-Mites class is SLOMA’s Spring Break Art Camps. slolibrary.org. SUNDAY HIKES through June 11. 1-2
1068, greg@galleryatmarinasquare.com, The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art derived from the peaceful martial art Discover the arts of Japan! All materials ENGINEERING FOR KIDS Cal hour flat, easy hike, every Sunday. No
galleryatmarinasquare.com. and Central Coast Photographic Society Aikido. Pre-registeration required. included. Scholarships available. Class Poly’s Society of Women Engineers nicotine, no intoxicants, no unruly pets.
#PEOPLEWATCHING An exhibit by are pleased to announce”New Visions: April 25 through May 30. 3pm Budo descriptions at sloma.org. Kids 9am– will provide a hands-on engineering 3pm The SLO Mansion, 2746 Reservoire
Julie Frankel featuring observations California Juried Photography from Ryu, 3536 South Higuera, San Luis noon; Teens 1–4pm San Luis Obispo workshop for kids ages 5 and up. April Canyon, San Luis Obispo. More info:
from Scout Coffee, Steynberg Gallery, through May 14. 11am-5pm San Luis Obispo. $60 for one month. More info: Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San 22. 2-3pm Arroyo Grande Library, 800 (502) 777-5561, sydneysordia@gmail.
Jaffa Cafe, Port San Luis Beach, LAX, Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., 544-8866, aikidoslo@icloud.com, Luis Obispo. $165 members, $195 non- West Branch, Arroyo Grande. Free. More com.
Starbucks, and other locations, through San Luis Obispo. Admission is free, aikidosanluisobispo.com. members. More info: 543-8562, info@ info: 781-4796, mkensingerklopfer@ WHITE’S POINT VISTA WALK Enjoy
April 30. 11am-6pm 2blondes Boutique, donations welcome. More info: 543- FAMILY BINGO NIGHT Bingo ticket sloma.org, sloma.org. slolibrary.org, slolibrary.org. a walk to view the estuary, home to
1115 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. Free. 8562, info@sloma.org, sloma.org. includes 15 games and popcorn! Olive VIDEO GAME CREATION CLASSES MAKER MONDAY Last Monday of the hundreds of marine and terrestrial
More info: 541-4668, julierf@mac.com. Garden dinner will also be available through April 21. Learn to create a month. Learn by doing while creating animals. Learn about the forces
influencing this watery world. Dress
Kid Stuff
ANNUAL JURIED STUDENT for purchase. April 28. 6-8pm SLO multi-level arcade or platform style art, upcycling, experimenting, and
EXHIBITION This exhibition showcases Classical Academy, 165 Grand Ave., video game, like Super Mario, Pong, or exploring the world. Maker Monday’s for wind/weather. Meet at the Natural
student work juried by a professional San Luis Obispo. $15. More info: 548- Space Invaders, through an introductory are for kids in 1st grade and older and History Museum. Moderate walk, 0.5
artist. Student shows typically include SPRING GYMNASTICS CAMPS 8700, esantoyo@sloclassical.org, sloca. to graphical programming for computers, are limited to the first 30 participants, mi, 0.75 hr. No dogs please. April 22.
art created with photography, ceramics, Performance Athletics Gymnastics salsalabs.org/familybingonight/index.html. tablets, smartphones, or as a flash through April 24. 4-5pm Paso Robles 11am White’s Point Trailhead, State Park
sculpture, painting, drawing and 2-D will be offering a gymnastics spring game for the internet. 9:30-11:30am Library, 1000 Spring St., Paso Robles. Rd., Morro Bay. Free; all ages welcome.
design, through May 12. Harold break camp for kids 3 to 13 (toilet CREATE AND LEARN Paso Robles Community Services Free. More info: 237-3870, mbailey@ More info: 772-3834, rpass@mbnep.org,
J. Miossi Art Gallery, Room 7170, trained). Kids will enjoy gymnastics (no POTTERY CLASSES for ages 13 Department, 600 Nickerson Dr., Paso prcity.com. mbnep.org.
Cuesta College, CA-1, San Luis Obispo. experience necessary), games, crafts, and up, through May 11. Enrich your Robles. $77, plus $10 materials fee paid EARTH DAY PICKUP AND PADDLE
Free. More info: 546-3202, emma_ and outdoor time. Half day, full day, and creative young soul on the potters to instructor. More info: 237.3988, ray@ TEENS Celebrate by joining fellow paddlers
saperstein@cuesta.edu, cuesta.edu. extended care available, through April wheel or sculpt a figure out of clay. raytoons.net, eepurl.com/cvZPLf. TEEN TIME AT PERFORMANCE and participate in a shoreline cleanup.
21. 9:30-2:30pm Performance Athletics There is also a selection of pre-made ATHLETICS GYMNASTICS Boys Meet local volunteer groups working
CALL FOR ARTISTS Gymnastics, 4484 Broad St., San Luis bisque ware to glaze. Includes snacks. LIBRARIES and girls ages 12–17 of all levels are to keep the bay clean and safe. B.Y.O.
CALIFORNIA SCULPTURE SLAM Obispo. Call for pricing. More info: 547- 3:45-5:30pm Anam Cre’ Pottery, 1243 PADDOCK PUPPET PLAYERS An welcome to develop their skills in kayak/board, or rent one at 25% off.
through May 24. California Sculpture 1496, info@performanceathleticsslo. Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. $30. animal themed puppet show for all ages. this fun yet challenging gymnastics Bagels and coffee while supplies last.
SLAM showcases current works com, performanceathleticsslo.com. More info: 896-6197, anamcre.ss@ April 20. 3:30-4:30pm Oceano Library, class. There will be a different April 22. 8-11am Tidelands Park,
by established and up-and-coming EARTH DAY CELEBRATION Celebrate gmail.com, anamcre.com. 1551-17th St., Oceano. Free. More focus every month. Please sign up South end of Embarcadero, Morro Bay.
California sculptors, providing a platform Earth Day with activities and fun. KIDS POTTERY CLASSES through info: 781-4796, mkensingerklopfer@ in advance. April 22 through May Free attendance, rentals available at
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Juror Brigitte Micmacker is the For ages 8-14. April 22. 11am-Noon and sculpting for ages 6 up. There is FREE MOVIE SCREENING In Gymnastics, 4484 Broad St., San rpass@mbnep.org, mbnep.org.
co-founder and gallerist at Sculpturesite Los Osos Library, 2075 Palisades Ave., also pre-made pottery for kids to paint celebration of Earth Day, see a film Luis Obispo. More info: 547-1496, EMPOWER AT SLO EARTH DAY
Gallery. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, Los Osos. Free. More info: 781-4796, available for all ages. Shevon Sullivan, that gives close-up views of a variety info@performanceathleticsslo.com,
1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. More mkensingerklopfer@slolibrary.org, 1243 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. of insects as they hatch from eggs, performanceathleticsslo.com. OUTDOORS continued page 47
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San Luis Obispo. $25. More info: 439- of the United Nations Association Take a journey into the flavors of the area OF READERS REFER TO OUR FOOD
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St., Grover Beach. $35. More info: 270- Take a tour of the California Sculptors Symposium’s 15th annual Sculpture Show, April 29 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at fayllac@sbcglobal.net.
5523, mindfulkindfulyou@gmail.com, VOLUNTEER TRAINING Do
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FANTASTIC FERMENTATIONS What and yourself, April 17 through 23.
is fermentation? On April 22 learn
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about proper and safe techniques for Free to visit. More info: 305-5615, 2017 Annual fundraiser to support the and Awareness Fair. A 5-week art group support from those also grieving the San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 544-
making a variety of fermented foods Vppr-1389069@toastmastersclub.org, Atascadero Police K9 program. For only workshop was held at the SLOMA. loss of a partner or spouse. 11:30am-1pm 2266, leanneprobst@hospiceslo.org,
and beverages including kombucha slomotion.toastmastersclub.org. $10, enjoy a spaghetti dinner and live View and purchase works by featured Hospice SLO, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis hospiceslo.org/services/home-support.
and sauerkraut. 10am-noon UCCE CENTRAL COAST WATERCOLOR demonstrations every half hour of by local artist Sydney Hall as well as the Obispo. Free. More info: 544-2266, CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS EARTH
Auditorium, 2156 Sierra Way, San SOCIETY MONTHLY PROGRAM officers and their K9 partners. Come creative masterworks of her Art of the tonyhuffaker@hospiceslo.org. DAY RESTORATION AND CLEANUP
Luis Obispo. $5. More info: 781-1429, MEETING Award-winning California anytime during the evening. April 22. Spectrum students. April 29. 5pm SLO GENERAL GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP April 22. Calling all volunteers!
slomfp@ucanr.edu, cesanluisobispo. Central Coast artist Kathy Miller, known 4-8pm Atascadero Elks Lodge, 1516 El Art Museum, 1010 Broad St., SLO. $65 or Every Tuesday. This group helps Celebrate Earth Day by repairing a
ucanr.edu/YouthFamilyCommunities/ for her impressionistic watercolors of Camino Real, Atascadero. $10. More 2 for $100. More info: 540-4432, Tyler@ those grieving the loss of a loved one boardwalk, treating planter beds at
Master_Food_Preserver_Program/ nature, will demonstrate her watercolor info: 461-5051, chester@atascadero. catalystcainc.com, SLOAutism.org. (i.e. friend, partner/spouse, child, the Native Demonstration Garden,
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MORRO BAY ESTUARY Learn about 25. 6:30pm: social time; 7pm: meeting/ COMMUNITY REPAIR expecting the loss of a loved one. up at calparks.org/earthday. 9am-1pm
some of the planet’s most fascinating, Montana de Oro State Park, 2828 Pecho
Groups
demonstration San Luis Obispo United CELEBRATION WITH PATAGONIA 6-7:30pm Hospice SLO, 1304 Pacific St.,
seldom seen life forms. A video- Methodist Church (Wesley Room), 1515 iFixit is hosting a repair and San Luis Obispo. Free. More info: 544- Valley Rd., Los Osos. Free. More info:
microscope will be used to look at the Fredericks St., San Luis Obispo. Free. sustainability celebration to kick off 2266, tonyhuffaker@hospiceslo.org, 458-3974, jodi.isaacs@parks.ca.gov.
life that exists in a single drop of water. More info: 439-0295, arttrekfineart@ Patagonia’s Worn Wear College Tour! GENERAL GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP hospiceslo.org. CASA INFO SESSION Learn about
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In partnership with MBNEP. April CHESS CLUB Club meets twice raffle to support Bike SLO County! those grieving the loss of a loved one Every Wednesday. This group helps those SLO County. Become an advocate for
23. 2-3pm Morro Bay Natural History per week. All levels are welcome See EventBrite for details. April 24. (i.e. friend, partner/spouse, child, grieving the loss of a loved one (i.e. friend, an abused or neglected infant, toddler,
Museum, State Park Rd., Morro Bay. and all ages. April 27 through 6-8pm iFixit, 1330 Monterey Street, relative, etc.). This group also includes partner/spouse, child, relative, etc.). This child or teen, or a mentor for a young
Free. More info: 772-3834, rpass@ June 17. Thur.: 6:30pm in SLO, Sat.: San Luis Obispo. RSVP Required. More “anticipatory grief” which means those group also includes “anticipatory grief” adult leaving foster care. Training
mbnep.org, mbnep.org. 10:30am in MB Carl’s Jr in San Luis info: 9255292571, Richard@ifixit.com, expecting the loss of a loved one. which means those expecting the loss of provided. April 26. Noon CASA office,
SEA GLASS WIRE WRAPPED JEWELRY Obispo and Embarcadero Morro Bay, eventbrite.com/e/community-repair- 5-6:30pm Hospice SLO, 517 13th St., a loved one. 5-6:30pm Hospice SLO, 517 75 Higuera St., Suite 180, San Luis
Learn basic wire wrapping to wrap genuine, 195 N. Santa Rosa, Morro Bay Blvd celebration-with-patagonia-tickets- Paso Robles. Free. More info: 544- 13th St., Paso Robles. Free. More info: Obispo. More info: 541-6542, staff@
local sea glass. All materials are included to Embarcadero. Free. More info: 781-0641, 32833167889?aff=es2. 2266, tonyhuffaker@hospiceslo.org, 544-2266, jeffwhitlow@hospiceslo.org, slocasa.org, slocasa.org.
make one necklace and two earrings. April stuckonscience@hotmail.com. WINES, PINES AND FELINES The hospiceslo.org. hospiceslo.org. 21ST STREET CLEAN UP On April 29
24. 6-8pm Cenntennial Park, Paso Robles. $47. FREELANCE YOUR WAY TO shelter celebrates 34 years with a SPOUSE/PARTNER LOSS SUPPORT NAR - ANON SUPPORT GROUP there will be a clean-up of 21st Street
More info: 286-5993, info@CreativeMeTime. FREEDOM (FREE WORKSHOP) served dinner (choice of entree), wine, Every Tuesday. This is a specific support (LET IT BEGIN WITH ME) Nar- in Paso Robles. More information and
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MOSAIC WINE GLASS Choose coach, or consultant, MCSC wants to performance by Cafe Musiq on April 26. a spouse or partner that has passed. know or have known a feeling of on the 21st Street Clean Up EventBrite
from different colors of broken china support your freedom. In this workshop Tickets available at HART, 2638 Main This support group is for adults who desperation concerning the addiction and Facebook pages. All are welcome.
plate pieces, wine related sayings and you will learn how to maintain and St or the Chamber of Commerce at 718 want group support from those also of someone very near to you. Meetings 9am-1pm Gene’s Upholstery, 841 21st
baubles to customize a fun wine glass expand your customer inflow and Main St. in Cambria. 5-9pm Cambria grieving the loss of a partner or spouse. every Sunday. 7pm St. Stephens St., Paso Robles. Free. More info: 434-
wall art piece. Great beginner project. increase your bottom-line. April 28. Pines Lodge, 2905 Burton Dr., Cambria. 5-6:30pm New LIfe Church, 990 James Episcopal Church, 1344 Nipomo St., 0396 Ext. 3190, britta.dornfeld@ccc.
Everything provided, one glass of noon-1pm MCSC Headquarters, 71 Zaca $95 per persomn. More info: 927-7377, Way, Rm. 16, Pismo Beach. Free. San Luis Obispo. More info: 458-7655, ca.gov.
wine is included. April 29. 1-2:30pm Ln., Ste. 130, San Luis Obispo. Free. susanbarghini@sbcglobal.net. More info: 544-2266, tonyhuffaker@ sallysunsetphoto@gmail.com.
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Alder Ct. San Luis Obispo, CA corporated Association Other Than Camp Ocean Pines(1473 Ran-
93401). This business is con- a Partnership./s/Andrew Martin. dall Drive, Cambria, CA 93428). 93401. San Luis Obispo County.
ducted by an Individual./s/Carol This statement was filed with the This business is conducted by John S. Rowe IV(889 Naples St,
C. Lambert. This statement was County Clerk of San Luis Obispo a Corporation./s/Camp Ocean Grover Beach, CA 93433). This
filed with the County Clerk of San on 03-27-17. I hereby certify that Pines, Crissa Hewitt President. This business is conducted by an
Luis Obispo on 03-22-17. I hereby this copy is a correct copy of the statement was filed with the County Individual./s/John S. Rowe IV.
certify that this copy is a correct statement on file in my office. Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-30- This statement was filed with the
copy of the statement on file in my (Seal)Tommy Gong. County Clerk, 17. I hereby certify that this copy County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County I. Diaz. 03-27-22 is a correct copy of the statement
Clerk, JF. Brown. 03-22-22 Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017 on 04-04-17. I hereby certify
on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy that this copy is a correct copy
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017 Gong. County Clerk, JF. Brown.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 03-30-22 of the statement on file in my of-
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017 fice. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
NAME STATEMENT Clerk, J. Goble. 04-04-22
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2017-0825
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017
FILE NO. 2017-0786 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
for
The following person is doing busi- TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
The following person is doing ness as: ROTHE CONSULTING,
NAME STATEMENT
(03/01/2017)
FILE NO. 2017-0884
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business as: PACIFIC LANDSCAPE 446 Arcadia Ave, Morro Bay, CA New Filing
CONSTRUCTION, 1355 Freder- 93442. San Luis Obispo County. The following person is doing TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
icks Street, San Luis Obispo, CA Mark Edward Rothe(446 Arca- (04/05/2017)
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business as: PRINT FACTORY,
93405. San Luis Obispo County. dia Ave, Morro Bay, CA 93442). 113 Wessels Way, Templeton, CA New Filing
Dario Jose Robles(1355 Freder- This business is conducted by an 93465. San Luis Obispo County.
icks Street, San Luis Obispo, CA The following person is do-
Individual./s/Mark Edward Rothe. Giancarolo Campolmi(113 Wes- ing business as: PEACEFUL
(1-877-768-3354) 93405) and Tyler Johanson(7394
Santa Ysabel Ave, Atascadero, CA
93422). This business is conduct-
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
sels Way, Templeton, CA 93465).
This business is conducted by an
SHIFT, 2020 Pecho Road, Los
Osos, CA 93402. San Luis
on 03-28-17. I hereby certify that Individual./s/Giancarolo Campolmi.
POTDELI.ORG for Menus, Maps , Hours ed by a General Partnership./s/
Dario Robles. This statement was this copy is a correct copy of the This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
Obispo County. Tracy Jeanne
Airth(2020 Pecho Road, Los
filed with the County Clerk of San statement on file in my office.
(Seal)Tommy Gong. County Clerk, on 03-31-17. I hereby certify that Osos, CA 93402). This business
111362.5, 11362.7, et. seq., & AG Guideline Compliant. State registered Not-for-Profit Collective. Income/Sales/Payroll Taxes Paid. Luis Obispo on 03-23-17. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct I. Diaz. 03-28-22 this copy is a correct copy of the is conducted by an Individual./s/
Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017 statement on file in my office.
copy of the statement on file in my
(Seal)Tommy Gong. County Clerk,
Tracy Jeanne Airth, Owner. This
office. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County statement was filed with the
Clerk, A. Bautista. 03-23-22 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS I. Diaz. 03-31-22
County Clerk of San Luis Obispo
Apr. 6, 13, 20 & 27 2017
MEDICAL
Mar. 30 & Apr. 6, 13, 20 2017
NAME STATEMENT
NEW Location! FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FILE NO. 2017-0826
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
on 04-05-17. I hereby certify
that this copy is a correct copy
of the statement on file in my of-
NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT
MARIJUANA
(N/A)
Medical Marijuana
FILE NO. 2017-0860 fice. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
FILE NO. 2017-0791 New Filing
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE The following person is doing TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE Clerk, A. Bautista. 04-05-22
(03/05/2017) business as: BOX’D, 648 Church (N/A) Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017
EVALUATIONS
New Filing Street, Unit B, San Luis Obispo, CA New Filing
ALL BAsic NEW New: $85 · Renewal: $70 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE New Filing FILE NO. 2017-0868 on 04-05-17. I hereby certify
(03/23/2017) The following person is doing busi- TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
ness as: LOTUS BODYWORKS AND that this copy is a correct copy
(Price of Renewal is the same no matter how long expired, New Filing (N/A)
AESTHETICS SPA SERVICES, 683 of the statement on file in my of-
& RENEWALs
The following person is doing New Filing
no matter if another doctor originally recommended) business as: GRANITE CABINETS Cobble Creek Way, Templeton, CA The following person is doing busi- fice. (Seal)Tommy Gong. County
AND MORE, 1151 Pike Lane Ste 93465. San Luis Obispo County. ness as: RITUAL MOON, 1311 7th Clerk, D. Chavez. 04-05-22
Includes 3 laminated recommendations 5, Oceano, CA 93445. San Luis Sheri Lynn Hatchard-Sandoval(683 Apr. 13, 20, 27 & May 4, 2017
$50!
Street, Los Osos, CA 93402. San
2 letter size 1 wallet size Obispo County. Michael R Fish- Cobble Creek Way, Templeton, Luis Obispo County. Paige Newell
er(1151 Pike Lane Ste 6, Oceano, CA 93465). This business is con- Gillespie(1311 7th Street, Los FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
805-481-1181 CA 93445). This business is con-
ducted by an Individual./s/Michael
R Fisher. This statement was filed
ducted by an Individual./s/ Sheri L.
Hatchard-Sandoval. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk
Osos, CA 93402). This business
is conducted by an Individual./s/ NAME STATEMENT
agpotdoc.com
Paige Gillespie. This statement was FILE NO. 2017-0895
with the County Clerk of San Luis of San Luis Obispo on 03-29-17. filed with the County Clerk of San
• Instant verification M–F 10am-2pm and 3-5pm
Obispo on 03-23-17. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
I hereby certify that this copy is
a correct copy of the statement
on file in my office. (Seal)Tommy
Luis Obispo on 04-03-17. I hereby
certify that this copy is a correct
copy of the statement on file in my
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
(01/03/2017)
New Filing
75
(03/29/2017) (N/A)
$
New Filing Corporation./s/Bergh Corpora-
65
County. Malik Ali Shaban(258
$
Marsh Street, San Luis Obispo, Cindy Gay Foresee(220 South Ma- that this copy is a correct copy
Call today!
NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT proceeding, but you are unable personal representative ap-
FILE NO. 2017-0937 FILE NO. 2017-0964 to afford counsel, upon proof of
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE
pointed by the court within the
TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE indigence, at your request, coun-
(04/12/2017) sel will be appointed to represent
later of either (1) four months
(04/10/2017)
New Filing from the date of first issuance
Rob Brezsny’s
court within the later of either (1) four
PETITION TO months from the date of first issuance Trustor: Eric Ziering, A MARRIED MAN CAUSE FOR CHANGE
of letters to a general personal repre- AS HIS SOLE AND SEPARATE PROP-
ADMINISTER sentative, as defined in section 58(b) of ERTY OF NAME CASE
the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 Duly Appointed Trustee: Western Pro-