Local Interest

I fancy myself a bicoastal woman. The forging of this status began on a bitingly cold day in Lexington, Massachusetts in the winter of 1959 as I walked with childhood…

San Luis Obispo filmmaker Randi Barros is hoping people will say “yes” to funding her next project, a short film about life in a small Arizona border town. [caption id="attachment_4800"…

This event was scheduled December 16, 2023. Travel back in time to experience the holiday season in the 19th century when SLO County Public Libraries presents “Poetry at the Price…

A new Hollywood movie recently wrapped up filming in Morro Bay, and if you attend the 2024 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, you may be among the first to…

The application deadline for this grant program was September 1, 2023. The City of San Luis Obispo is inviting local nonprofit organizations to apply now for funds from a new…

R.A.C.E. Matters celebrated the grand opening of Texture with a ribbon-cutting June 2, 2023. Texture has arrived, and for many people of color in SLO County, the opening of this…

Peggy Rothschild and I have a few things in common. We both share a passion for writing, matched only by a deep love for animals, especially dogs. And we’ve both…

If you’re reading this, then the news is sad because it means that my friend and sparring partner Sandy Baer has died. I got the call announcing that hospice had…

Local historian and award-winning writer Jim Gregory has just completed a new video, Writing Local History—That Isn't Local. He writes that it's a kind of primer. "Because no matter how…

The view from Valencia Peak The mountains are calling, and I must go.” ~ John Muir The mountains have been calling Los Osos poet Bob Kamm for as long as…