SLOIFF World Premiere Doc Features Melodrama Folk
A "hybrid" documentary featuring cast and crew members from a local professional theatre company gets its world premiere at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival on Monday, April 27…
“Voices” Brings Danny Gans Back to SLO
With its final film festival screening in San Luis Obispo this month, Voices: The Danny Gans Story returns to where his legacy first took root—Cal Poly SLO. The film, the…
SLOIFF Review: “Voices: The Danny Gans Story”
An Honest and Human Portrait You don’t need to know who Danny Gans is to be pulled into Voices: The Danny Gans Story. I didn’t, and if anything, going in…
SLOIFF Review: “The Strawberry”
Photo by Sean Tuck © Slabtown Studios / Hidden Creek, LLC An Unexpected, Emotional Journey On his 80th birthday, Herb Kaplan (Mike Farrell) receives some unwanted news from his…
SLOIFF Review: “That’s So Drag”
We need more safe spaces. For art. For creativity. For self-expression. Spaces that encourage us to take risks, push boundaries, and challenge the norm, because that's how progress happens. Those…
SLOIFF To Honor Industry Pros Osment and Lower
Actors Haley Joel Osment and Britt Lower are set to receive special "Craft in Focus" awards at the 2026 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival in separate ceremonies during the festival…
Local Poetry Wanted for SLO “Poetry Walk”
The City of San Luis Obispo's Public Art Program is partnering with the SLO County Arts Council and SLO County Poet Laureate Caleb Nichols to create a new walkable art…
Avast, Ye Theatre-Goers—It’s “The Piratess”
Ben Abbott has done it again. The local playwright has written a funny, fast-moving, crowd-pleasing melodrama that will delight all the lords and ladies, lads and lasses—and pirates (arrgh!)—in the…
Five Nonprofits Receive Arts & Culture Grants
Amid growing competition for philanthropic funding and changes to federal support for public media, five San Luis Obispo County nonprofits collectively will receive $140,000 over the next two years from…
Victory for Live Music in Downtown SLO
After a recent public administrative review of the use permit for Libertine Brewing Company in downtown San Luis Obispo, one message clearly resounded during the hearing. Don’t mess with our…