A taste of Tuscany Call (805) 691-9794 or visit sykitchen.com for more info on S.Y. Kitchen’s upcoming Tuscan wine paired-dinner, scheduled for Wednesday, April 26, at 6 p.m. Dinner reservations are required, as seating is limited. Admission to the event is $250 per person (not including tax or gratuity). S.Y. Kitchen is located at 1110 […]
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Central Coast-based novelists unite for radio drama-style readings
Book it Coalesce Bookstore will host its book signing and dramatic reading event on Sunday, April 16, at 1 p.m. Admission to the event, held in the venue’s garden chapel, is free. The bookstore is located at 845 Main St., Morro Bay. Call (805) 772-2880 for more details. As soon as he moved to Santa […]
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Santa Ynez High paints over rainbow crosswalk during No Place for Hate week
It hurt Santa Ynez Valley Union High School senior Vera Sieck to see the school paint over a temporary rainbow-painted crosswalk she and fellow students proposed for an inclusion week at school. “I honestly took it really hard. It has not been easy growing up queer in the valley. This was the first public show […]
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Santa Maria Valley resident starts GoFundMe to purchase a thermal drone for local lost and found pets organization
Geoff Clinton spent more than 30 years of his life working as an animal control officer and was often part of search and rescue teams to help find lost animals during natural disasters such as fires and mudslides. When Clinton retired, he volunteered with Orcutt/Santa Maria Lost and Found Pets, a community Facebook group that […]
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Wildling Museum’s new group exhibit highlights the Sedgwick Nature Reserve
Art from 11 Central Coast-based artists will be on display in an upcoming group exhibition, Sedgwick Reserve: A Conservation Story, at the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature in Solvang. The exhibit is scheduled to open in the museum’s Valley Oak Gallery on Saturday, April 8, and will remain up through Monday, Oct. 16. An […]
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A Thousand and One is a stirring story of a troubled mother
A THOUSAND AND ONE Where’s it playing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria What’s it rated? R What’s it worth? Full price (Glen Starkey) What’s it worth? Full price (Anna Starkey) In her feature-length debut, writer-director A.V. Rockwell helms this love letter to mothers. Inez (Teyana Taylor) kidnaps her 6-year-old son, Terry (Aaron Kingsley Adetola), from […]
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BINGEABLE: Hello Tomorrow! (2023)
BINGEABLE: HELLO TOMORROW! (2023) Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? TV-MA Billy Crudup takes the stage as Jack Billings, a slick salesman who hocks condos on the moon. The retro-futuristic world the show makers have built for us in Hello Tomorrow! is very cool looking—vintage cars that hover off the ground, Mad […]
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Political Watch – February 16, 2023
• The Disaster Recovery Centers/Local Assistance Centers will be closing later this month in both North and South Santa Barbara County, according to a Feb. 8 announcement from the county. Santa Maria’s Allan Hancock College center will be closing Feb. 26. Direct Relief in Santa Santa Barbara’s last day in operation was Feb. 15. Santa […]
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County public school districts are taking steps ahead of a state Assembly bill to provide Narcan at school sites
Carolyn Kleinsmith lost her nephew to fentanyl poisoning when he was 29 years old. “The effects of that affect our entire family all the time. He was like a brother to my son, and he struggles deeply,” Kleinsmith told the Sun on Feb. 1. “This epidemic is like nothing we’ve ever faced, and it will […]
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‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ is smart, funny, and deeply self-reflexive
THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT Where’s it playing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande What’s it rated? R What’s it worth? Full price (Glen Starkey) What’s it worth? Full price (Anna Starkey) Co-writer and director Tom Gormican (That Awkward Moment) helms this action comedy with Nicolas Cage playing himself. […]
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Guadalupe approves its first three cannabis projects
The cannabis industry is making its way into Guadalupe as the City Council approved the city’s first two dispensaries and a processing facility during a series of March and April meetings in order to increase the amount of revenue coming into its general fund, Mayor Ariston Julian told the Sun. Guadalupe passed three ordinances in […]
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Farmers concerned about levee trail expansion
On May 17, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors is set to hear about the feasibility of a proposed Santa Maria River Levee Trail expansion to Guadalupe, a project that worries farmers who work the land along the river. In 2019, the county Public Works Department proposed expanding the 2.7-mile walking path along the […]