San Luis Obispo

Theater Issue 2013: Why Be a Playwright in L.A.?

Serious Drinking: The 2012 California Wine Harvest

The 2012 harvest looks like a return to normal for California growers statewide. After a pair of unusually cool seasons in 2010 and 2011, vintages which resulted in lower than average yields and lower than average ripeness levels, 2012 looks relatively trouble free, with good-sized yields and excell ... More >>

Cooking With Artisans: Stone Fruit Jam Tips From Amy Deaver of Lemon Bird Handmade Jams

If you haven't tasted this year's stone fruit crop -- peaches, apricots, any of them -- you must. It really is some of the best we've tasted in years. And an open invitation to make jam. A requirement, actually, when you finally resign yourself to the reality that you cannot possibly eat your way th ... More >>

10 Sickened by Raw Milk in California

Ten California residents have come down with food poisoning -- Campylobacter bacteria infections, to be exact -- after consuming raw milk produced by Fresno County-based Organic Pastures. Raw milk, raw skim milk (non-fat), raw cream and raw butter produced by the dairy have been recalled and are s ... More >>

American Idol Meets Arts Journalism, in KCET's Artbound

Ever been inside a disco ball-esque "steam egg" with a bunch of sweaty, half-naked strangers? Talked to Filipino inmates who wrote, directed and starred in their own musical, filmed within prison walls (and that went viral with more 50 million YouTube views)? Writers for KCET's new arts journalism ... More >>

Froodles: What People Are Eating in Antarctica

What exactly is a Froodle? Well, the next time you're at the farmers market, bemoaning the certainty that those colossal summer peaches will never arrive, take a moment to think about what (cold) scientists are eating at this very moment at McMurdo, the largest research station in Antarctica. In t ... More >>

Chucho Valdes and Poncho Sanchez - Walt Disney Concert Hall - 2/16/11

Christina Limson O'ConnellPoncho and Terence channel Chano and Dizzy​ Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Band Chucho Valdes & the Afro-Cuban Messengers Walt Disney Concert Hall 2-16-12 See also: *Poncho Sanchez Played the Weekend Wedding Circuit, Until a Gringo Changed His Luck *Marlon Brando R ... More >>

5 Local Farmers Who are Doing it Right

Felicia FriesemaThe Hollywood market earlier this year.​After reading Beth Barrett's piece about farmers markets this week, it might be tempting to hang up the locavore hat and head out for an angsty and cathartic mouthful at the local McDonald's. We're envisioning an army of market goers as ... More >>

Beverly Hills to Gift Floundering City of Bell $10K in Restructuring Advice

Beverly Hills City Manager Jeff Kolin feels bad for Bell.​Cities don't come more opposite than Bell and Beverly Hills. The former is 90 percent Latino, with an average household income of $30,000 per year. Its city government is drowning in an impossible pile of debt, and residents are still ... More >>

Q & A with Bludso's BBQ Kevin Bludso: Smoke, Termination, and HTTPs

J.H. StarrKevin Bludso and his pit​ Does Kevin Bludso make the best brisket in town? There are certainly a lot of people who think so. The Compton man with Texas roots opened Bludso's BBQ about three years ago, and his small shop was quickly discovered and pushed through the cycle of Internet ... More >>

Nine Things You Didn't Know About Weird Al

​Piece by Sam Bloch An Evening With "Weird Al" Yankovic The Grammy Museum 7-25-2011 Better Than... A lost evening on Wikipedia. After 30 years in the music industry, Lynwood's own "Weird Al" Yankovic sat down yesterday at LA Live's Grammy Museum for a candid look back at his career. Talking ... More >>

Jimenez Family Farm: For "Thrifty" Lamb Necks And Whole Rabbits How To Cook Them

JgarbeePre-Roast Pet Rabbit Guilt​The Jimenez Family Farm motto, "everything under the sun," is more than apt for this Santa Ynez-based family business that offers up an assortment of produce (check out the gorgeous blueberries and boysenberries this time of year), salsas and preserves, and ho ... More >>

Lies Abound About Why Senate Bill 18, to Limit and Ban Gifts to California Legislators, Was Killed by those Legislators

madashelland.comCalifornia legislators were awash in lies as they killed another gift-giving reform.​Remember the names Kevin de Leon, Fran Pavley, Curren Price and Ted Lieu among California legislators who helped kill Senate Bill 18, which would have banned their sleazy acceptance of luxury g ... More >>

Robert Nicholas McGuire, Homeless Sex Offender, Busted in Apple Store When Sheriff Catches Him on Facebook

Megan's LawChild-porn connoisseur Robert Nicholas McGuire​This stupid (alleged) criminal makes his non-home way up in the San Luis Obispo boonies, but the story of his arrest -- a modern-day detective's epic -- deserves a good telling way down here in L.A. (If only so we might learn from one p ... More >>

Insurance Company Says it Doesn't Have to Pay for Fraternity Hazing Death of Cal Poly Student Carson Starkey

Carson Starkey​A little more than two years ago, Carson Starkey, an 18-year-old freshman at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, was found dead in the utility room of a fraternity from alcohol poisoning. Starkey had been pledging Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and during a ritual hazing dubbed, "Brown Bag Night," ... More >>

California Inmate Sukhjinder Basra Sues State for Threatening Him to Trim His Beard

democraticunderground.comDo prisoners have a right to beard?​We take personal freedoms very seriously in California -- as do we our right to sue the shit out of anyone who treads on our land of the free. To demonstrate, SoCal ACLU lawyers pounced on the religious-freedom case of Sukhjinder Ba ... More >>

Q & A With Jackrabbit Cheesemaker D.J. Mitchell: From L.A. To Utah And Back Again

J. GarbeeMitchell Getting Down To Important Pre-SuperBowl Business​Living in a mega-tropolis means those moments of food disassociation are daily occurrences (do you know the name of your coffee bean farmer?), other than perhaps Farmers Market days when you can actually get to know the man beh ... More >>

Vote Online Jan. 1 for Rose Parade Viewer's Choice Float: In 2010 A Weenie Cal Poly Float Won

Weenie winner: Cal Poly's 2010 Rose Float​Update Sunday afternoon: The students at Poly win again, clever things. See Viewer's Choice 2011 float on jump. You've got less than two hours to online vote or text vote for the best 2011 Rose Parade float. The Viewer's Choice has gone for two years ... More >>

Three Victims, Possibly Taggers, Dead After Amtrak Train Hits Them In Commerce

Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner.​Updated throughout. Third man confirmed dead. First posted at 11:02 p.m. Monday. Three males were dead after an Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train struck them in Commerce Monday night, according to reports. The pair might have been suspected taggers, and the area wher ... More >>

(Video) Miley Cyrus Smokes Salvia From Bong, Everyone Gives A Shit

Somebody get this girl a drink of water​Updated after the jump: One college kid traded Miley's reps his copy of the SHOCKING salvia vid for a new MacBook pro. Unfortunately, he wasn't the only one who needed paying off. Originally posted on Dec. 10 at 11:50 a.m. OK, we know, we're part of the ... More >>

Lee "Scratch" Perry's First-Ever Art Show Opens Tomorrow -- Interview with Curator Sebastian Demian

courtesy dem passwords / lee 'scratch' perry​ Lee 'Scratch' Perry is one of the all-time (ALL-TIME) greats--the producer and genius who pulled dub out of the dirt and the sky and whose recorded legacy won't ever give up all its secrets. (Just like in Kiss Me Deadly--what's IN Lee's suitcase?) ... More >>

Seven Reasons Why Bruce Campbell Is the Ultimate Convention Guest

There was a lot going on Saturday afternoon inside the Burbank Airport Marriott for this year's Weekend of Horrors convention. Artists sketched guests as creepy caricatures. The stars of Dario Argento's films signed autographs. There was a costume contest as well as a gallery featuring horror-themed ... More >>

The Melvins Attack the West Coast on New Tour

The Melvins Attack the West Coast on New Tour

Heat Wave: DWP Urges Angelenos To Conserve Power As Temps Soar

​The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is urging consumers to conserve power to avoid straining the city's electric grid. The National Weather and Service issued a excessive heat watch for parts of Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties from Thursday through F ... More >>

Make a Run for the Altar

With immigration reform stalled, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants are entering sham marriages with a little help from their friends

Chef Rich Mead's Canyon Restaurant To Open In Anaheim Hills

Rich MeadCanyon: Coming Soon​What you might not know about Rich Mead, longstanding chef-owner of Sage in Newport Beach, is that he used to work for the IRS. Ya, another tax collector goes tuna tartare. So it seems appropriate that Mead closed his other restaurant, Sage on the Coast, just two d ... More >>

Parole Denied For Ailing 'Onion Field' Killer

CDCRGregory Powell.​Onion Field killer Gregory Powell was denied parole this week after nearly 47 years behind bars, despite his plea for more freedom before he dies from terminal prostate cancer. The 76-year-old reportedly told a parole board in San Luis Obispo, "I've done enough time. I'm a ... More >>

Art Clokey, Creator of Gumby, Dies at Age 89

San Luis Obispo Tribune reports that Art Clokey, creator of the classic children's television show Gumby and co-producer the series Davey & Goliath, died this morning at the age of 89. Bridget DeVries ​ Though Clokey lived in the San Luis Obispo area, his landmark claymation series, Gumby, has ... More >>

Market Report: An Abbreviated Apple Season at See Canyon

The boxes of apples at the See Canyon tables at the Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market this week were stunning: mottled Cameos, bright vermillion Red Delicious, green Winter Pearmains. Behind the crates of Jonalicious Empires and heirloom Spitzenbergs, Mike Cirone suggested that you get them whil ... More >>

Malibu Wine Classic This Weekend

Want to spend an afternoon drinking wine and eating food? You can do it this Saturday, from 1-4:30 PM at the 7th Annual Malibu Wine Classic, with proceeds benefiting Childhelp. There will be alcoholic offerings from wineries all across Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties ... More >>

Heal the Bay's "Top Ten Beach Bummers"

Heal the Bay's 19th annual report card on 10 terrible shorelines is out -- and so, apparently, are the waters around Catalina Harbor, Cabrillo Beach and the Santa Monica Pier. All but two of the guilty beaches are located in Southern California, with Pismo Beach Pier and Campbell Cove State Park tak ... More >>

Sweet Smell of Secession: Another Move to Split California

To hear Bill Maze tell it, L.A. County takes all the money generated by the rest of hard-working California and squanders it on stuff like "public services and education." Not only that, says the termed-out Assemblyman, but you've got places up north like San Francisco and Marin County that always v ... More >>

Long Winters' Michael Shilling Hits Rock Bottom With First Novel

Meet the Blood Orphans, Silver Lake should-have-beens that never actually were

Anand Jon's Defense Begins - Sort Of

The prosecution rested its case in chief today against fashion designer Anand Jon, who is charged with multiple sexual assaults against nine girls and young women between 2001 and 2007. The end came not with a bang but with the whimper of DNA testimony, provided by Sheriff’s Department senior crim ... More >>

Art Around Town: Daniel Dove, M.A. Peers and Takashi Murakami

Also, Carmine Iannaccone, Soo Kim and Sandeep Mukherjee

"Anonymous" vs. Scientology: Group Targets "Church" Headquarters

Growing movement of Internet pranksters hits the organization's heart in Hollywood

Christian Brando to Be Autopsied

The death of Christian Brando is officially a Los Angeles County Coroner's case. According to sources, the coroner's office took possession of the 49-year-old troubled son of actor Marlon Brando earlier today after Brando's mother called for a full-investigation into his death, citing “suspicious ... More >>

Fletcher's Last Ball

The death of Christian Brando is officially a Los Angeles County Coroner's case. According to sources, the coroner's office took possession of the 49-year-old troubled son of actor Marlon Brando earlier today after Brando's mother called for a full-investigation into his death, citing “suspicious ... More >>

We ♥ The Adored

Call ’em dance-punk or Buzzcocks-Jammies. Or just call ’em fun

Split Over Atoms

Who will pay for San Onofre’s rehab?

Surrender at the Supermarket

The national failure of the grocery workers’ union

The Wal-Mart Equation

It all adds up to a supermarket strike

Mozart, and Then Some

It all adds up to a supermarket strike

Endorsements

The Weekly’s recommendations in the March primary

Radiating Fear

In dire need of a plan to protect nuclear power plants

The Grapes of L.A.

Winemaking can once again be local

Poetry in Locomotion

Winemaking can once again be local

Bump, Set, Spike

South Bay Volleyball with the Best of ’em

Letters

South Bay Volleyball with the Best of ’em

Clean It Up or Kill It

Consternation at the Venice Pavilion