Dispatches

Heidi McPherson, CEO of The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo County for the last 10 years, is stepping down. Foundation Board President Kath Tompkins announced McPherson’s retirement in an email…

The Central Coast Arts Coalition is calling for submissions from local artists to help promote the Central Coast Creative Corps program, a regional collaboration to invest in artists across disciplines…

Due to popular demand, a second screening of a documentary about local singer-songwriter Craig Nuttycombe will be screened at 2 p.m. on Sunday, August 25, at the Cambria Center for…

For the first time ever, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art not one but two grants totaling more than $250,000.…

Photo by Luis Escobar, Reflections Photography Studio Powerful and moving, The Agitators is a compelling drama about the enduring friendship between Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony. PCPA brings these…

The co-owners of the now-defunct Insomniac Video, once the video store of choice for hardcore film aficionados in San Luis Obispo, are back, this time on the big screen. Bob…

The popular Central Coast Bioneers Conference, a Bioneers Pollinator event hosted by Ecologistics, is returning to San Luis Obispo on Friday and Saturday, October 4-5, at the Octagon Barn. Expanding…

A 2024 Sundance Film Festival award winner opens August 16 as one of the SLO Film Center offerings at the Palm Theatre this weekend. Dìdi is an American coming-of-age comedy-drama…

With a “fresh new take” on the beloved tale of a young woman who is transformed from a chambermaid into a princess, Wine Country Theatre presents Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella,…

One story: June, an ingenue who can’t pay her rent, is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the handsome leading man come to the rescue? Five musicals: Inspired by the…