A Worthy Tribute to Elton John
This event was scheduled July 28, 2024. Rejoice. Tribute band music, which has been going through a rather uneventful, overly-saturated period lately, finally has a legitimate star. He’s Tom Cridland,…
SLO Film Center Debuts
The Palm, that iconic movie house in the heart of downtown San Luis Obispo, began a new chapter—a sequel of sorts—on July 1. Owner Jim Dee, who first opened the…
Local History: The Face on the Wall
Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino The long hallway from the lobby to the KVEC radio studio on Sacramento Drive in San Luis Obispo is lined with memories, vintage black-and-white…
“Paul for Pete” Comes to SLO June 17
This event was scheduled June 17, 2024. A theatre director’s plunge into the 2020 presidential campaign of Pete Buttigieg is the subject of a new book and one-man show coming…
New Book Supports Palm Theatre
An entertaining new book seeks to “fix the flaws” in classic films, while also helping to keep a treasured, local movie theatre in business. Pismo Beach author and film historian…
Dalai Lama Celebrated in Book and Film
These events were scheduled May 18-19, 2024. An author and photojournalist with a deep personal connection to the Dalai Lama of Tibet visits Halcyon the weekend of May 18-19 for…
Back & Forth: Actor Beau Bridges
A little known Tinseltown tidbit about actor Beau Bridges: He was born Lloyd Vernet Bridges III two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. He was given the…
Rubin to Keynote CC Writers Conference
Author and cartoonist Leigh Rubin will serve as the keynote speaker for the 40th annual Central Coast Writers Conference, scheduled for October 5 at Cuesta College. Social media and writing…
SB Museum Director Sparks Controversy
Amada Cruz, the new director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, has abruptly canceled a scheduled exhibition over a lack of diversity among the two dozen represented artists. Cruz,…
Lyle Lovett Announces SLO Concert
This event was scheduled March 10, 2024. Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Lyle Lovett returns to the Central Coast for "An Evening with Lyle Lovett and His Acoustic Group" at the Fremont…