San Luis Obispo County's Connection to Arts and Culture
Charlotte Alexander
Charlotte Alexander is an award-winning author, editor, and publisher, with experience in media, higher education, and nonprofit settings. She has been writing reviews of local theatre productions since 2010, and her work has appeared in SLO Life Magazine, SLO Journal Plus, SLO City News, Two for the Show {Central Coast}, and most recently on her website WiseToTheWords.com. She is the co-author of "When Your Pet Outlives You: Protecting Animal Companions After You Die" (New Sage Press 2002; reprinted 2004), which won a Muse Medallion Book Award from the Cat Writers’ Association. She owns and operates C|C Imprint.
Photo by Marija Zaric SLO Museum of Art Executive Director Leann Standish today sent an urgent message to museum supporters that bears repeating to a larger audience. As SLO…
Photo by Brittany App Almost every seat was taken in Cal Poly’s Spanos Theatre on March 7 to see Clue: The Musical, a two-act raucous reenactment of the board…
Several of this year’s Oscar-winning films were reviewed by SLO Review contributing writers, thanks to the SLO Film Center at the Palm Theatre. If you haven’t yet experienced the following…
Following hot on the heels of a successful four-day Winter Music Festival, the announcement on February 24 of Festival Mozaic’s upcoming summer season was a hot ticket item. [caption id="attachment_8439"…
SLO County poets laureate Kevin Clark and Caleb Nichols Caleb Nichols is an accessible poet. [caption id="attachment_8393" align="alignright" width="175"] Caleb Nichols[/caption] And now they (Nichols prefers the pronoun “they”)…
Photos by Luis Escobar, Reflections Photography Studio When it comes to Shakespeare and his much-performed comedy Much Ado About Nothing, “I think he means to delight us—pure and simple,”…
There’s something fishy going on at The Great American Melodrama, although what’s happening seems relegated to a place far, far away—somewhere in the chilly northern wilds of Wisconsin—not in the…
Filmmakers Aaron Goffman, Sheri Davenport, and Richard Bruce Stirling [caption id="attachment_8073" align="alignleft" width="162"] "Big White Dog" screens at the Cambria Film Fest[/caption] The 2025 Cambria Film Festival’s Friday schedule was…
Central Coast Film Society representative Carlos Plummer introducing "Jack & Lou." The 2025 Cambria Film Festival’s first full day of events featured screenings of two full-length feature films in competition,…
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Photo by Marija Zaric SLO Museum of Art Executive Director Leann Standish today sent an urgent message to museum supporters that bears repeating to a larger audience. As SLO…
We Can All Relate to Turnbow’s “17 Raccoons”
So . . . you may be misled by the title of the world premiere of a production that, for one weekend only, graces the SLO Rep stage in downtown…
“Clue” Makes for an Exuberant Evening
Photo by Brittany App Almost every seat was taken in Cal Poly’s Spanos Theatre on March 7 to see Clue: The Musical, a two-act raucous reenactment of the board…
SLO Review Covers Oscar-Winning Films
Several of this year’s Oscar-winning films were reviewed by SLO Review contributing writers, thanks to the SLO Film Center at the Palm Theatre. If you haven’t yet experienced the following…
Festival Mozaic Announces Summer Lineup
Following hot on the heels of a successful four-day Winter Music Festival, the announcement on February 24 of Festival Mozaic’s upcoming summer season was a hot ticket item. [caption id="attachment_8439"…
New Poet Laureate Wants To Meet You
SLO County poets laureate Kevin Clark and Caleb Nichols Caleb Nichols is an accessible poet. [caption id="attachment_8393" align="alignright" width="175"] Caleb Nichols[/caption] And now they (Nichols prefers the pronoun “they”)…
“Much Ado About Nothing” Is Delightful
Photos by Luis Escobar, Reflections Photography Studio When it comes to Shakespeare and his much-performed comedy Much Ado About Nothing, “I think he means to delight us—pure and simple,”…
“Guys on Ice” Is Warm and Funny
There’s something fishy going on at The Great American Melodrama, although what’s happening seems relegated to a place far, far away—somewhere in the chilly northern wilds of Wisconsin—not in the…
Cambria Film Fest: Day 3
Filmmakers Aaron Goffman, Sheri Davenport, and Richard Bruce Stirling [caption id="attachment_8073" align="alignleft" width="162"] "Big White Dog" screens at the Cambria Film Fest[/caption] The 2025 Cambria Film Festival’s Friday schedule was…
Cambria Film Fest: Day 2
Central Coast Film Society representative Carlos Plummer introducing "Jack & Lou." The 2025 Cambria Film Festival’s first full day of events featured screenings of two full-length feature films in competition,…