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Cal Poly staying alive in tight Big West race

Cal Poly men’s basketball head coach Kevin Bromley acknowledged it was nothing short of incredible.

After being left for dead just over a week ago, sitting at 0-5 in the Big West Conference and hitting the road for two more conference games, things were looking grim for the Mustangs.

Titus Andronicus gives universal middle finger to life’s troubles

Full disclosure: I got “removed” from The Library this weekend and although that sounds real harsh, you have to understand that means I’ve been ejected around .01 percent of the times I’ve been there. Surprising, considering 10 percent of the time (a conservative estimate) I am unsure of how I get home from The Library.

So long Bush administration, and thanks for all the fish

January 20, 2009 will be a day dearly remembered by Americans and the world for more reasons than the intensity of swearing in the first black president of the United States.

It will be remembered for more than a re-lighting of the lamps of freedom and justice behind the doors of the Oval Office.

All Girl Summer Fun Band releases sixth-year surprise

It’s nothing new: feeling nostalgia for the present moment. So I’m not in the least surprised that, when I pop this CD in, my first thought is an idiotic, “Damn, too bad they don’t make music like this anymore,” even though the CD I’m listening to, “Looking Into It,” is brand new.

The eight-year nightmare is really almost over

The countdown clocks on every liberal Web site are happily shedding their final hours as George W. Bush prepares to walk out of the Oval Office for the last time as president. On Monday Bush held his last press conference, and for the first time since we met him he showed a reflective side that was almost endearing.

Central Coast rivals clash again

The Cal Poly women’s basketball team and UC Santa Barbara have been in a number of wars over the last few years.

The Mustangs (9-6, 2-2 Big West Conference) and Gauchos (9-6, 4-0) will get reacquainted on Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Thunderdome.

Let the battle recommence.

Theft of solar panel casts shadow over botanical garden

A big shadow has been cast over the magic of the sun. Someone stole the solar panel, control box and steel holder that powered a fountain at the San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden.

This was a project carried out by volunteers with the keen help of the children who attended Plant Family Camp.

Walsh introduced as Mustangs head coach

The nationwide search for Rich Ellerson’s replacement needed to look no further than the former Cal Poly football coach’s future destination.

Flanked by athletic director Alison Cone and Cal Poly President Warren Baker, former Army offensive coordinator Tim Walsh was named Cal Poly’s 16th head coach on Friday.

Sex, seedy bars and outer space

Over the winter break, my house rekindled our love affair with an exquisitely rad film known throughout the land as “The American Astronaut,” a space-western musical perpetrated by the band The Billy Nayer Show. Starring, written and directed by the BNS front man, Cory McAbee, the film chronicles the misadventures of Samuel Curtis who must bring a 16- year-old boy to Venus so that he may be the stud for the planet made up entirely of women.

Resistance is futile: head for middle ground

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. published an article titled “The Party of Tomorrow” Tuesday in which he discusses the state of politics in America, more specifically the future of the Republican and Democratic parties.

Both political parties are electing new chairmen and thus both stand to reinvent their party’s public discourse.

Mustangs host Titans on ESPNU

Josh Akognon has played against the world’s best basketball players. He helped his relatively unknown Nigerian national team beat defending world champion Serbia-Montenegro in 2006.

The 5-foot-11 guard, who is eighth in the nation in scoring, leads Cal State Fullerton (6-8, 0-2 Big West Conference) into Mott Gym at 8 p.