Arts

While mindlessly walking amongst the chaos that is El Corral during the first week of classes, scrambling to find my textbooks like everyone else, I came across a somewhat peculiar sight: an English teacher had assigned a graphic novel as required reading for a class, but not only that, one that I own and love.

Oui! The wonderful world of crˆpes and culinary lavender has debuted in San Luis Obispo.

Higuera Street may not look like the lavender-covered region of Provence, France,but two months ago, it started to taste like it.

Crˆpes De Provence, the downtown cashier-style restaurant, is now serving up authentic artesian crˆpes at prices that are conducive to a college budget.

Everyone has seen the shirts “SLO the places you will go.” but now comes a better slogan, one more befitting of my weekly column: “SLO the places you could come.” Although it is often thought of only in a fantasy, sex in a public place gives some people that deep down excited tingly feeling, which is why the act is sometimes shown in film.

Jenny Bauer is learning to let go and allow men to take the lead; at least on the dance floor.

As vice president of Cal Poly’s ballroom dance club, Bauer has learned a thing or two about Cha Cha-ing across the floor with her partners.

“When I first started, I was leading myself the whole time and it was awful,” said Bauer, a history sophomore.

The Cal Poly Choirs’ music resonates fair and wide not just because of the vocal abilities of its singers, but also because singers themselves come together from colleges and majors around the university.

The music department’s Cal Poly Choirs consists of three vocal ensembles: Polyphonics, The University Singers and The Early Music Ensemble.

Chuck Klosterman’s new novel, “Downtown Owl,” forces us to take a break from pop culture. Go ahead, turn off your TV, throw your cell phone in the trash can, and forget that you know who The Rolling Stones are. The people of the town of Owl surely don’t care about those things and neither should you.

Students looking to escape the stress of fall quarter looked no further than Chumash Auditorium Thursday, where featured comedian Dan Smith and opening act Andy Kozel gave much needed laugh-out-loud performances.

“It’s a really good way to get rid of stress,” agricultural business sophomore Alex Gonzales said.

Cuesta College’s once seldom-used art gallery has been exposed with the help of a new gallery director and some dedicated students.

Thursday night’s faculty art show, titled Totally Exposed, featured varied pieces of art from the college’s instructors and attracted a crowd of 113 people, according to Gallery Assistant and Fine Arts Slide Librarian Pamela McKenna.

RENO, Nev. – An eclectic group of artists, architects, scientists and writers are gathering at the Nevada Museum of Art on the edge of the Sierra this week to explore how nature and culture intersect in their chosen fields at a conference on “Art and Environment.

Spoken word artist Cyn Da’Poet kicked off Latino Heritage Month and a night of spoken word poetry Wednesday when Another Type of Groove, the university’s monthly open mic night, opened to a large crowd of Cal Poly students and community members.

Another Type of Groove, which is hosted by Cal Poly’s Multicultural Center and Student Life and Leadership, gives students and members of the community a chance to be heard by allowing them to take the stage and share poetry of their own.

A few things I learned last weekend during Folk Yeah’s Festival in the Forest, an independent music festival at Fernwood Campground in Big Sur featuring Silver Jews, Beach House, Entrance Band, Port O’Brien, Little Wings, Megapuss (Devendra Banhart), and a mountain of other bands:

Big Sur during a Folk Yeah festival most likely has more people on acid per capita than any other place on the planet.