Jennifer Hall The well-known St. Petersburg Classic Ballet is making San Luis Obispo one of the stops on its third U.S. tour this Sunday. The matinee performance will take place at the Christopher Cohan Center at 3 p.m. The ballet…
Jazz up the night with Bridgewater
Holly Burke Dee Dee Bridgewater, a Grammy and Tony award-winning vocalist, and the Hollywood Jazz Orchestra will honor jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald with a tribute concert entitled “Dear Ella” tonight at the Christopher Cohan Center. Bridgewater, whose first singing job…
Ounce of prevention = Pound of Cure
Jessica Dean and Robin Rodriguez It's almost the end of flu season, did you survive without getting sick? Although it may seem that flu season is almost over, we aren't out of the woods yet. The Centers for Disease Control…
Showtime on the Central Coast
Dan Watson For many years, life has talked to Paul Lichtman. Life told him to put the law book down. It told him to get fired. It mistakenly made him an actor, even without any prior experience. And it led…
Musician sends 'greetings' to listeners
Mariecar Mendoza Oh Boy! How the world seems to be taking to this man – from music snobs to hipsters; musicians to wannabes; Christians to heathens; Heartland Americans to urbanites; punks to emos; creamos to extremeos and club-Goers. Or, to…
Get ready to paint the town indigo
Nick Coury Cal Poly’s Christopher Cohan Center will be colored indigo on Thursday with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, known in the music industry as the Indigo Girls. I recently talked with Ray, guitarist and singer of the duo, about…
The Ghost of Writers' Past
Mariecar Mendoza Chuck Palahniuk is the go-to guy if you want to lose your lunch. He, perhaps more than any other contemporary author, is infamous for his twisted situations and shuddering attention to detail. His latest offering, “Haunted,” is ambitious…
'Hostel' delivers solid family entertainment
Ryan Chartrand The trailer for Hostel warns America that paramedics were called during certain screenings of the film in response to moviegoers’ inability to stay conscious during scenes of extreme brutality. What the trailer meant to say was, “I…
An earthly flick
Making a difference in the environment often begins in your own community. More than 20 students came to the San Luis Lounge (UU 221) on Tuesday night to watch an environmental documentary and participate in a discussion led by Tom…
'Astral Weeks' beautiful, unorthodox
Mariecar Mendoza Do you ever get down about how most albums that come into existence are extremely easy to sing along to? If not, it’s OK, this just happens to be yet another one of my sustained quirks. Sure, it’s…