Reflections: Don’t Hurt the Horses—OR David Niven
You would think that since Casablanca is my favorite film, I would give its director, the Hungarian expatriate Michael Curtiz, the praise he deserves. Nope. That’s because I watched The…
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…
Reflections: “American Nations”
I love that Arroyo Grande—especially Branch Street Arroyo Grande—has an independent bookstore. My ego is happy because Monarch Books carries my books. We were waiting for a table to open…
SLOIFF Review: “Bring Them Home”
The San Luis Obispo International Film Festival has given SLO Review the opportunity to preview some of the narrative and documentary films on the festival's April 24-29, 2025 program schedule.…
SLOIFF Review: “Mozart’s Sister”
The San Luis Obispo International Film Festival has given SLO Review the opportunity to preview some of the narrative and documentary films on the festival's April 24-29, 2025 program schedule.…
Reflections: Spoiled by Computer-Generated Orcs
Since the weeds in the back are getting really tall, I avoided pulling them by watching the 1944 film Passage to Marseille, or at least the last half, the other day.…
Video: People of Honor
Behind Barbed Wire, a look at Central Coast Japanese American life during World War II, was held on January 31 at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande. The program included…
Local History: Patrick Moore Believed in Education
[caption id="attachment_7634" align="alignleft" width="275"] Patrick Moore, center. After Sarah died, Moore married Mollie O’Connor, at right. At left is Annie Gray, later Annie Gray Shannon. Photo Courtesy Michael Shannon.[/caption] Irish-born…
Local History: Political Diversity in AG
One in a series of historical nuggets that local author, historian, and teacher Jim Gregory has mined from our rich, robust, and sometimes rowdy past here on the Central Coast of…
Local History: The Exotic Merchants of Arroyo Grande
One in a series of historical nuggets that local author, historian, and teacher Jim Gregory has mined from our rich, robust, and sometimes rowdy past here on the Central Coast of…