SLO REP's recent one-weekend-only production of The Designated Mourner was dramatically read by actors dressed in black standing at microphones. It was the latest Ubu’s Other Shoe staged reading—the season's…
Elvis Presley has been a presence in my life since I’ve had memory to report. He’s also been a strange influential presence in the Western and global mind for decades…
Photos courtesy Steve Miller Images The Central Coast Shakespeare Festival has returned to its two-story stage and sylvan amphitheater under the oaks at Filipponi Ranch in San Luis Obispo.…
Photos by Melinda Sue Gordon © Universal Studios The excitement and controversies surrounding the ramp-up to Christopher Nolan’s epic new film and interpretation of Homer’s Odyssey is not your…
Photos by RyLo Media Design, Ryan C. Loyd SLO REP's creative presentation of a selection of songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals does more than offer up a couple…
“Ten minutes ago, you could see the entire horizon . . . now only the dusk.” So says Moritz, a teenage student full of potential in a German boys' school…
Photo by Gemma Doll-Grossman Disturbing, Compelling, and Engaging Russell Goldman’s new film Sender plays out as a confusing psychological thriller that takes viewers on a journey through the world of…
Photo by Lance Anderson The times I remember us throwing Smiley out the hatch on that plane always come two different ways. In the first, we all heave to…
“You have to always be drunk. That’s all there is to it. Not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth.…
The Cambria Film Festival is excited to premiere its first-ever Iranian film: Whisper My Name. Director Rasoul Sadrameli (The Night) gives us an engaging story about a fragmented family and…