Words can do a lot. They can make a truth or tell a lie. They can finish a story or begin one. Words are the strongest power humans have. Building on this idea, Ian McEwan’s “Atonement” is a story about the power of words and what words can do with time.
The story begins in the English countryside with a wealthy family and its housekeeper’s son, Robbie.
When journalism junior Megan Jeffrey talks about musical theater, her normal life no longer exists. Her eyes grow large as she describes her first viewing of her all-time favorite, “The Phantom of the Opera.”
As a member of student choir PolyPhonics, Jeffrey understands why people love performing and watching musicals.
From bullfighting with turkeys to dancing with Titania, Queen of the Fairies, the Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo put on a diverse show Sunday at the Performing Arts Center. Though enjoyable overall, some aspects of it worked, while some didn’t click.
The performance kicked off with an adaptation of the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” by William Shakespeare.
I’m an eco-thug; my hustle’s for that green. I don’t drive by, I bike by, if you know what I mean. You know how every year the tabloids predict the sun will turn blue or red or explode, causing Armageddon within a month, but on the date predicted it never happens? Well, they’re actually almost right.
You’re hungry, exhausted, broke and far from home. Tonight you’re playing music in an unknown town for people you’ve never met, though they know all the words to your songs.
And you wouldn’t trade it for a thing.
That’s the attitude of New Tomorrow, one of San Luis Obispo’s hardest working punk bands.
High school kids get killed en masse in “Prom Night” and Keanu Reeves takes names in “Street Kings.”
Love affairs, mistaken identity and schemes for revenge will take place in the Spanos Theater this weekend – and no, it’s not a showing of “The Hills.”
Instead, scenes from Johann Strauss’ operetta “Die Fledermaus” (translation: “The Bat”) will be performed by the Cal Poly Opera Workshop at 8 p.
For some, “blog” can be a four-letter-word (OK, it’s a four-letter word for everyone). The anti-bloggers wonder, “Why do people need to subject the rest of the world to their ‘profound’ insights regarding the universe when they could just get a roommate or a shrink like the rest of us?” Touché, blog naysayer, but not everyone has the privilege of having their “profound” insights published weekly in their college newspaper (wink).
There will be something for everyone this Sunday at the Performing Arts Center, where the Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo will perform two very different ballets: one classical, one contemporary.
The local company will first perform a ballet based on William Shakespeare’s classic comedy of errors “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
As a music director at a college radio station, I am lucky to be spoon-fed hundreds of albums a week to review, devour and share with our listening community. Of the CDs that come in – an average of nearly 200 a week – about 120 are complete garbage. Once we filter the crap to its proper holding receptacle, we have another 50 albums that are not complete crap, but half-crap.
One could call jazz drummer Mike Raynor an opportunist – he’s capitalized on where he lives in order to enhance his own musical abilities while enlivening the Central Coast music scene at the same time. Raynor has successfully done this with his City Nights Jazz concert series, a set of shows performed on a monthly basis in Morro Bay and Pismo Beach that feature some of the country’s top jazz musicians as they tour the West Coast.