Who doesn’t want a tortilla dipped in consommé and filled with tender, succulent stewed beef and melty cheese? (Unless your vegetarian or vegan, of course.) Top it with some cilantro, onions, and the taquera’s choice of salsa, you really can’t go wrong. The meat falls apart, oozing its saucy origins—stewed for hours with chiles, garlic,…
The 2024 election is hurtling toward us like a runaway train. The far right has launched a full-scale attack on alleged “indoctrination” of political correctness that they claim to find throughout public education, from kindergarten through high school and especially in colleges. I’m a retired history teacher with 20 years’ experience in our local secondary…
Oscar-winning Oppenheimer fails to depict the experience of the Tewa people with the Trinity test. Using First Peoples and the land and water they protected as sacrifice for atomic testing, just weeks before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. government poisoned the air, water, and sacred land of the Tewa—communities that for more…
Works of heart The Lompoc Valley Art Association presents Pouring My Heart Out, a showcase of paintings by local artist Christine Jeszeck, which is slated to open on Thursday, May 2, and run through Sunday, May 26, at Cypress Gallery, located at 119 E. Cypress Ave., Lompoc. An artist reception for Jeszeck’s solo show will…
Get the royal treatment Visit littlekingcoffee.com for more info on Little King Coffee, located at 290 Valley Station Drive, suite 101, Buellton. The shop is open daily, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. With their newborn nestled in a stroller, a Buellton couple was walking along Valley Station Drive when an epiphany struck in late…
The Santa Maria Valley Senior Citizens Club hosts its Cinco de Mayo Senior Prom, with live music from the Riptide Big Band, at the Elwin Mussell Senior Center in Santa Maria on Sunday, May 5, from 1:30 to 4 p.m. The featured band will be accompanied by vocalists Bob Nations and Mitch Latting and band…
In May, the Vocal Arts Ensemble will host concerts in both Nipomo and San Luis Obispo in honor of Gary Lamprecht, the ensemble’s founder and former artistic director who passed away earlier this year. Lamprecht was also a prolific teacher and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Choral Directors Association. For its…
Camera What’s it rated? Not rated What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? The Fremont Theater in SLO on Monday, April 29, at 3:30 p.m. Jay Silverman (Girl on the Edge, Off the Menu, Saving Paradise) directs this poignant story—by Irish screenwriter Jamie Murphy—about nonverbal 9-year-old Oscar…
Kimberly Sheehan will be taking the helm as Santa Ynez Valley Union High School’s new principal/superintendent starting July 1 after the school board unanimously approved her contract during its April 16 meeting. “I’m just really excited to join an already established team, an already very well-run school district,” Sheehan told the Sun. “I know for…
Oil giant Phillips 66’s San Francisco Refinery in Contra Costa County no longer processes crude oil—a change that’s impacted the Central Coast. Aimee Henry, the company’s communications director, told the Sun that the transformation aligned with the state’s environmental goals and market conditions. “The Rodeo Renewable Energy Complex [formerly the San Francisco Refinery] supports demand…
The feedback from ballots recently mailed to residents of Solvang’s Skytt Mesa neighborhood will determine the fate of a proposed lighting project estimated to cost $50,000. City staff expects to tally up the mailers’ results by June 1, while the Solvang City Council will vote May 13 on a potential 2 percent maintenance fee increase…
• U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) visited the future site of more than 30 new studio apartments and a health clinic in downtown Santa Barbara, and presented a ceremonial check for $1 million, an investment he secured in this year’s federal budget to support the project, according to an April 16 statement from Carbajal’s…
Santa Maria and Lompoc families looking for free summer programs for their kids can sign up for the Junior Giants coed baseball league. The eight-week program starts in mid-June for children ages 5 to 13—with teams divided by age. The Santa Maria program registration ends April 30 with practices starting on June 6. The Lompoc…
Chosen Family What’s it rated? Not yet rated When? 2024 Where’s it showing? The Fremont Theater in SLO on Saturday, April 27, at 5 p.m. Writer-director Heather Graham (Half Magic) helms the very funny new dramedy Chosen Family, about Ann (Graham), a yoga instructor with bad luck in love and with an impossibly difficult family…
Dawn of the Dead What’s it rated? Unrated When? 1978 Where’s it showing? The Fremont Theater on Saturday, April 27, at 8:30 p.m. Written and directed by George A. Romero, Dawn of the Dead is a follow-up to his groundbreaking 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead, considered the first modern-day zombie movie. Dawn takes…
The dominos are finally beginning to visibly fall for Big Oil on the Central Coast. Dinosaurs like the Phillips 66 refinery in Nipomo are on their last legs—thanks in part to massive environmental outcry over the projects proposed to keep them humming. SLO County’s 2017 decision to deny P66 a rail spur extension on its…
