TV REVIEW: THE MIDNIGHT GOSPEL Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA File The Midnight Gospel in the frying-on-shrooms, late-night-dorm-room-discussion category. The surrealist animated series revolves around Clancy (voiced by Duncan Trussell), an outer-space podcaster with one listener, who uses his malfunctioning multiverse simulator to visit dying worlds and interview their inhabitants. In episode […]
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TV REVIEW: LITTLE AMERICA
TV REVIEW: LITTLE AMERICA Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? TV-14 Inspired by true stories chronicled in Epic Magazine, Little America features an anthology of eight separate tales of immigrants to the U.S.—many funny, poignant, and indicative of the complicated relationship America has with its newest arrivals. For instance, the third episode, […]
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Target practice in Santa Margarita
It’s Sunday, April 28, and my wife, Anna, and I are fixin’ to shoot some shit. We’re heading out Highway 58, just outside Santa Margarita, to visit our friends Don Lampson—a well-known local musician with a voice that sounds like rusted shovels bouncing in the back of an old pickup truck running down a dirt […]
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The Cimo Brothers win Best Live Performance at the tenth annual New Times Music Awards on Nov. 2
It’s Friday, Nov. 2, and all the beautiful people are in SLO’s Fremont Theater for the 2018 New Times Music Awards (NTMAs). There’s glitz, there’s glamour, and there’s a whole lotta music filling up the old art deco theater. The Sun and New Times welcomed musicians of all stripes from Santa Barbara and SLO counties […]
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Democracy demands a free press, by Glen Starkey
I‘ve always been proud to be a journalist. The Fourth Estate is another check and balance on government, and local journalists like those of us at the Sun and our fellow reporters at the Santa Maria Times also chronicle our community’s achievements, inform our neighbors of important news, and do our very best to be […]
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Find your tribe: There’s a place for everyone at the Live Oak Music Festival
Good morning and welcome to Sociology 101, an introduction to the study of society and social behavior among homo sapiens. Humans are social animals. We naturally create and maintain social networks. Some of us have very tight and often exclusive social circles whiles others have large overlapping networks, moving between and belonging to a number […]
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New documentary ‘Lives Well Lived’ reveals advice for a happy life
For some people, growing old is a joy. For others, it’s a curse. So what’s the secret to living a good, long life? Cal Poly professor of photography and first-time documentarian Sky Bergman set out to answer this question with Lives Well Lived: Celebrating the Secrets, Wit and Wisdom of Age, which after a couple […]
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The family behind Good Medicine Presents brings their talents to 2017’s Live Oak Music Festival
Three years ago, Todd and Korie Newman loaded up their recreational vehicle, “Marvey the RV,” and drove their kids, Rohn and Acacia, to the Live Oak Music Festival for the very first time. “We always had a concert or two or three of our own that weekend,” Korie explained. They’d wanted to go for years, […]
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‘Do the best we can!’ Fialta cleans up at the New Times Music Awards
It was all things Fialta on Friday, Nov. 11, in the Fremont Theater, where the SLO Town pop quartet took home the top prize for Best Live Performance, Best Open Song, Best Songwriter, Best Album, second in Best Rock-Alternative Song, and the Readers’ Choice Award at the eighth annual New Times Music Awards. Yeah, they […]
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Daytripper: Dinosaur Caves Park is a gorgeous gem of a park
Coastal fog enshrouds Shell Beach as my wife and I—filled with chorizo and eggs from Zorro’s Café and Cantina, naturally—make our way to Dinosaur Caves Park. It’s around 10 a.m. on a recent Saturday, and kids are playing on the playground as their parents watch. Across the green expanse of lawn, a group of people […]
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Life in transition: A transgender artist shares his journey to becoming his true self
Imagine being trapped in a body that just feels wrong, like it’s not yours. That’s how Los Osos artist RawfeyL Gene Burge felt from an early age. “I was 4 years old, and we had just moved to a new neighborhood, and since this was 1964 Texas, I could just wander the neighborhood. Well, across […]
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Film therapy: How neurologically different adults benefit from filmmaking
The lights dim and the crowd grows quiet as the whir of the projector lights up the screen, filling it with the magic of filmmaking, where drama unfolds, bad guys get their comeuppance, and heroes are made. Most Americans love movies, but cinema takes on added layers of meaning for members of Adventure Club SLO, […]
