Not many people can say they have been bitten by a shark and lived to surf again. Communication studies sophomore Nick Wapner was attacked by a shark at Montaña de Oro State Park off Sandspit Beach in Jan. 2019. Both…
A Year After Blackface: Continuing the Conversation
Quinn Fish is a journalism and ethnic studies senior and Mustang News Managing Print Editor. The reviews represented do not necessarily reflect those of Mustang News. I’m Quinn Augusta Fish and I’m a journalism and ethnic studies senior at Cal…
Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Color Run, Poly Royal Rodeo: Your guide to SLO’s happenings this Open House weekend
Friday Luna Noche SLO’s newest and hottest 21+ nightclub is the perfect way to let loose for the night. Luna Red 10 p.m. Free cover Flosstradamus Missed EDM DJ Flosstradamus at ASI’s Spring Stampede in 2017? Now’s your chance to…
How a Marine Corps vet turned his passion for surfing into a program to get people with disabilities on the water
Surfing requires a lot of patience and endurance in order to learn; now imagine ripping waves while missing a limb. Dana Cummings is a Marine Corps veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He faced gunfire and death, but came…
San Luis Obispo’s very own Sprouts Farmers Market now open
San Luis Obispo’s Promenade shopping center has seen megastores like Gap and Forever 21 come and go, but now the space has been filled by Sprouts Farmers Market. This 30,000-square-foot specialty chain grocery store, stocked with a range of organic…
Cal Poly is gouda making cheese: Student-run creamery takes home 2 national awards
The Cal Poly Creamery beat some of the nation’s top cheesemakers in an esteemed competition that attempts to find the perfect cheese. Cal Poly was one of the only colleges to enter the 2019 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest, which happened…
Meet the Cal Poly student with Asperger’s whose side hustle is being a pro wrestling referee
It is a cloudless, bright Saturday morning in Pismo Beach and psychology sophomore Matt Reed is headed right to his car. However, the Pismo Beach native is not going to the beach. Instead of going to the coast and soaking…
Your guide to see Southern California’s super bloom
Blanketing the surrounding mountains in Southern California are beautiful, bright flower species. In the past, Super Blooms have occurred around once a decade, but just occurred in 2017 due to favorable temperatures, heavy rainfall and a lack of damaging winds,…
Art After Dark, Iliza Shlesinger stand-up and ghost tours: Here’s what happening this weekend in SLO
From PolyCultural Weekend to clothing swaps, learn about what is happening in SLO this weekend.
This industrial designer is turning SLO’s littered cigarette butts into surfboards
It may be common knowledge that smoking cigarettes is harmful — but what about using them to make surfboards? Cal Poly Surfrider Club teamed up with San José State alumnus Taylor Lane and put discarded cigarette butts from San Luis…
Inmates find their voice through college radio
“Music lets you change your mindset, be in a different element, maybe nostalgia. I can help these people or be like a friend to them even though we don’t know each other.”