Academy Award Winner Alan Arkin presented Ann-Margret with the 2016 King Vidor Award at the SLO International Film Film Festival Awards Show on Saturday, March 19, 2016 at the Fremont Theatre in San Luis Obispo. PHOTOS BY DAVID MINSKY
22nd SLOIFF honors Ann-Margret
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Transparency is good for more than windows
More than once I’ve been called a nosy little bird. I think it’s more accurate to say I’m a champion for transparency. More often than not the people who object to my snooping questions are politicians. No surprise, politicians and journalists have long had a love/hate relationship. They need us in order to forward their […]
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PCPA The Pacific Conservatory Theatre announces new managing director
PCPA The Pacific Conservatory Theatre welcomes Jennifer Schwartz as the new managing director for the conservatory beginning in January. Schwartz has more than 15 years of experience as a nonprofit arts manager, according to a release from the conservatory. Schwartz’s experience includes work for the San Jose Repertory Theatre, SFJAZZ, the San Francisco Film Society, […]
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Capps announces 2016 Congressional Art Competition
Representative Lois Capps announced that she is seeking entries for the annual Congressional Art Competition for 2016. The competition offers art students in high school within the 24th Congressional District a chance to have their winning artwork hang at the U.S. Capitol for one year. Completed work and an application must be submitted to one […]
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Frame Gallery hosts Eric Okerblom Foundation fundraiser
The Frame Gallery in Orcutt hosts a special fundraiser event—An Evening with Jill Targer—for the Eric Okerblom Foundation on April 1 at the gallery. The event will include art, wine, and food in a VIP reception with artist Targer and a chance to win one of her giclee prints. The Frame Gallery is located at […]
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Flying Goat Cellars in Lompoc exhibits the mystic art of Carol Kemp
View a slideshow of Carol Kemp’s work. Some of the earliest evidence of human art is found in caves, where stony walls spring to life with the forms of various creatures, including those early people. Paleoanthropologists surmise that these representations were part of a ritualistic ceremony for our ancestors, underscoring the use of art as […]
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Wildling Museum features the coast-inspired wood block prints by Tom Killion
California’s coast has been an inspiration for visual artists of most media for generations now. Each day provides a fresh view of the Pacific churning against the beaches and eroding cliffs or hills, ending with sunsets bursting with deep and resonant hues. The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature is the first museum to house […]
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Chris Smither plays fingerstyle guitar for Tales from the Tavern
New Orleans-raised guitarist and singer/songwriter Chris Smither was part of the folk revival the 1950s and 1960s, which happened right as rock ’n’ roll surged into popular consciousness. As a youth steeped in music, he was immediately enamored with a certain style of country and blues guitar playing found not just in the South, but […]
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March Madness and chicken wings: The best places in town to eat, drink, and watch basketball around Santa Maria
I don’t know crap about sports, but I do know a little about wings and beer. I also know March Madness is a thing that happens, and sometimes while it’s happening you can find me at Buffalo Wild Wings drunkenly screaming “SPORTS!” at the TV with barbecue sauce slathered all over my face. I thus […]
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Gabriel Alcantara
Many successful athletes remember falling in love with their chosen sport at a young age—in some cases as soon as they were able to catch a football or swing a baseball bat. Sometimes, though, the story behind an athlete’s love of the game is not so romantic. Sometimes, a kid just stumbles into a sport, […]
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Final pitch: Longtime Santa Maria softball coach Matt Andree wraps up a ‘fabulous’ coaching career
Matt Andree knew, on some level, that this day was coming. The Santa Maria High School softball coach remembers one of the last conversations he had with his father before he passed away from cancer in 1996. Andree’s dad, a lifelong youth sports coach, had expressed regret over the amount of family time he had […]
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Beers up, pins down
If you don’t drink beer when you bowl, then you’re simply doing it wrong. Yes, I know there are people who don’t imbibe alcohol and I respect that. I don’t personally understand it, but I do respect it. But when I meet people who don’t drink (and I rarely meet these people because I’m usually […]