The Vivian Girls are a group of seven or more sisters with penises. They go around The Realms of the Unreal and fight evil, sadistic adults with the help of Blengins, or dragon-like protectors of children that are both terrifying and kind.
But that’s the world created by Henry Darger, an outsider with seemingly no knowledge of the female form; this is a punky shoegazy female trio on the Los Angeles based label In The Red.
“Breathing is a very important element of yoga. synchronizing breath and movement,” partial owner and instructor Steve Pittelli said to the five students seated on mats on the smooth pale wood floor in the dim sunlit studio room at Smiling Dog Yoga.
There is a place in SLO where the pace is truly slow.
For many students, weekends revolve around socializing at parties or using the time to catch up on homework, but for some Cal Poly students, the urge to escape the typical school scene and head for the outdoors causes them to forgo mundane activities in exchange for adventure.
This past week I have had the pleasure to read a truly beautiful collection of short stories. “Karma and Other Stories,” by Rishi Reddi is a delicately-written look into the Indian culture and the struggles and triumphs one community faces in their American lives.
During the month of November, Cal Poly’s Multicultural Center, along with the American Indian Student Association (AISA) and American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) will celebrate Native American Heritage Month in hopes of educating other students on campus about their culture.
Two streets from downtown, in between a church, a park and two rows of houses, lies the Emerson Community Garden. With its various wind chimes, birdbaths and tool benches, and an occasional scarecrow and pumpkin thrown in for fall, the gardens function as a sort of backyard for a city whose narrow streets leave much to be desired in terms of growing space.
Whether you enjoy the Romantic strains of Tchaikovsky or the buoyant tunes of a marching band, there is something to be enjoyed among the Cal Poly music department’s numerous bands.
Although each performs differently, their shared love of music which will bring many of the university’s band together in several upcoming performances throughout the fall quarter.
Rushing through the University Union on the way to class or studying, a student might miss a small place to escape the busy activities of life. Tucked away in the corner of the Epicenter is an art gallery especially designed for students to do just that.
The University Union Art Gallery is completely run by art and design senior Kristin Savage.
An evening filled with disguises, mischief and mayhem sounds like a typical Halloween night for a college student, but tonight the Pacific Repertory Opera presents “The Marriage of Figaro,” which will offer all of this and more.
“The Marriage of Figaro is best fit for Halloween because the entire story is about disguises and deceit,” said Brighton Hushing-Kline, assistant to the managing director at the Pacific Repertory Opera.
With all the abnormally hot weather, it may not feel much like fall. But that hasn’t stopped the Cal Poly crops club from selling pumpkins and letting the public pick their own right from the patch.
The seeds for the club’s largest fall fundraiser were planted in June.
During my freshman year, one of my resident advisors wrote a love song to a girl in my dormitory. He recorded it by himself using an acoustic guitar and presumably a computer microphone, burned it onto a CD and gave it to her. Of course, the CD got turned into an mp3 and shared on the network and we all got to hear it.