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‘It’s about original music’ every week at Songwriters at Play

The female duo’s overlapping harmonies swirl through Bon Temps Creole Cafe, commingling with the steam piping off big, white bowls of gumbo.

Anjelah Johnson leans on popular bits at PAC show

It might not be hard to be funny in a three-minute YouTube clip, but an hour-long comedy set is an entirely different story — as Anjelah Johnson, the “prittay” nail salon comedian, demonstrated at the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Friday.

Willie Tucker is ‘The Natural’

If his life had gone according to plan, Cal Poly wide receiver Willie Tucker would be a shortstop for the Boston Red Sox right about now.

App aims to make roommate living stress-free

“Whose turn was it to buy toilet paper this month? Did you already pay me for rent? And why did you leave a sink full of dirty dishes for me to wash … again? You owe me!”

Q&A with ‘prittay’ YouTube star Anjelah Johnson

Not many people older than 30 know of comedian Anjelah Johnson, but her success from a YouTube video posted longer than six years ago still sells out arenas nationwide.

Top five slam poets who have visited Cal Poly

Aryn Sanderson asanderson@mustangdaily.net I asked George Watsky to my high school prom. I like to think he just never got the Myspace message. I wish I could say I’m low-key obsessed with slam poetry, but really I’m a slam slut.…

Clippers puts the ‘bar’ in ‘barbershop’

It’s five o’clock somewhere, and that somewhere is Clippers on Monterey Street, where you can drink a beer in the barber’s chair.

PCV defying norms with open-gender housing

Aryn Sanderson asanderson@mustangdaily.net For communication studies sophomore Ben King, the biggest adjustment to living with women was finding long, blonde hairs in the shower, he said. King is the only male in his open-gender Poly Canyon Village apartment. Continuing students…

May the odds be ever in your flavors: The Fro-Yo Games of SLO

Aryn Sanderson asanderson@mustangdaily.net When Darlene Howard went through chemotherapy in Orange County, she couldn’t keep any food down — except frozen yogurt. But when Howard tried frozen yogurt in San Luis Obispo, she got sick. San Luis Obispo’s frozen yogurt…

University Barber Shop brings old-school charm and cuts

Aryn Sanderson asanderson@mustangdaily.net Gray hairs fall to the black-and-white checkered floor. “Have you been to the gym yet today?” Eva Pierson, a barber at University Barber Shop on Foothill Boulevard, asks the man in her chair, her voice ringing out…

Ayala’s death one of ‘many enormous tragedies’ this school year

Aryn Sanderson asanderson@mustangdaily.net Sociology freshman Giselle Ayala’s death two weeks ago marks the most student deaths at Cal Poly in a fiscal year in the past six years. Ayala became the fifth student death of the 2012–13 fiscal year, which runs…