John Madden Gets Hollywood Treatment
Christian Bale and Nicolas Cage in Madden The two most famous graduates of Cal Poly are arguably comic “Weird Al” Yankovic and the late NFL football coach/sports commentator John…
Jeanie Greensfelder Is a “Time Traveler”
Charting an extraordinary journey through recent history, poet Jeanie Greensfelder uses her lifetime as a lens to explore the staggering speed of change in her latest book, Time Traveler. Greensfelder’s…
Poetry: Time Travel
My ten-year-old self climbs into her time machine, aims for age twenty-four, and over-shoots the mark. In the ballpark still, but landing with me, age eighty, she pouts, wants…
Reflections: 1939 Was a Watershed Year for Films
These are my parents, Robert Wilson Gregory and Patricia Margaret Keefe Gregory. They lived then in Taft, where I was born. But I remember that painting of the Monterey cypress…
Give the Gift of Live Performance
Still have names to cross off your holiday list? Waiting til the last minute to find that perfect present for a loved one? Give the gift of live performance to…
“Botso” Screening Supports Friends of Morro Elementary
The Friends of Morro Elementary is hosting a showing of the documentary Botso, the Teacher from Tbilisi on Monday evening December 22 at the Bay Theatre in Morro Bay. The award-winning…
Downtown Cinemas First in Line for Dolby Systems
Bruce Sanborn, the owner of Downtown Centre Cinemas in San Luis Obispo, is following a pattern set by his grandfather and father: bringing the most up-to-date film technologies to the…
Fidopiastis Wins Concerto Competition
Mary Kate Fidopiastis (center) is surrounded by Youth Symphony staff members Grace Seng, John Astaire, Tanya Streder and Al Streder. San Luis Obispo High School senior Mary Kate Fidopiastis has…
Zhao’s “Hamnet” Pays Homage to “Hamlet”
Photos by Agata Grzybowska When we think of William Shakespeare, we imagine the playwright, the man from Stratford Upon Avon, the man whose words arguably changed the world. They…
Reflections: A Still Relevance
Photo by Efe Kekikciler There are mornings when I wake and notice the light before I move—steady, ordinary light, unchanged, but for the way I see it. I am…