New Times, Nov. 6, 2025

While some of the old vessels in Morro Bay are still operational, others fall into disrepair— something the city needs state grants to deal with [8]

BY CHLOË HODGE

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Editor’s note

With the help of a more than $15,000 state grant, Morro Bay will remove several abandoned, decaying boats from the city’s harbor—but it’s not enough to cover the number of dying vessels on Morro Bay’s target list. The city’s average cost to dispose of a boat is between $2,800 and $4,800, depending on its size, and the ones Morro Bay can’t deal with run the risk of polluting the bay or causing a navigation hazard. Staff Writer Chloë Hodge writes about it [8] Also in this issue, read about how Proposition 50 fared in SLO County [4]; Flickerhead Fridays at the Palm [22]; and a local barrel-maker speaking at the Garagiste Festival in Paso [30].

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SLO County voters say yes to Proposition 50 in early vote count

Unofficial Proposition 50 special election results point to California voters approving new congressional districts for the state.

As of Nov. 5, 63.8 percent of voters around California cast their ballots in favor of Proposition 50, while 36.2 percent of them voted against it.

Spearheaded by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the measure would authorize temporary use of new state congressional district maps through 2030, directing the independent Citizens Redistricting Commission to resume enacting district maps in 2031.

For Democrats, Proposition 50 attempts to level the playing field after state leaders in Texas redrew congressional district lines to gain five Republican seats in the U.S. House of Representatives before the 2026 midterm elections.

Initial San Luis Obispo County results showed that 56.2 percent of voters checked off “yes” on the proposition. A little more than 43 percent of SLO County voters rejected the measure, according to the early vote count.

The preliminary result comes from counting roughly 81,250 votes—44.6 percent of the 182,200 registered voters in the county.

County Clerk-Recorder Elaina Cano told New Times ahead of Election Day that the results posted soon after polls closed at 8 p.m. on Nov. 4 came from all the vote-by-mail ballots that the Elections Office received and counted over the previous 29 days.

“We will then release additional results as the poll ballots come in, typically every two hours until all precincts are counted,” Cano said via email. “We will resume counting the VBM’s on Friday, Nov. 7.”

Elections Office spokesperson Erin Clausen said they finished counting the first set of ballots at 11:40 p.m. on Nov. 4. The office planned to scan rosters and tally provisional ballots and mail ballots dropped at the polls. Clausen added that the office would post the first unprocessed ballots report, which will tell the public what’s left to count, on Nov. 6.

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SLO County Democratic Party Chair Tom Fulks said that the results of Proposition 50 signal that Democrats could recapture the House in 2026.

“We ran the board across the country last night,” he said. “This is a direct repudiation of fascism, the militarization of our law enforcement, the violence that Trump has inflicted on our country and our immigrants,” Fulks said. “The margin of victory for Prop. 50 should send a message to the world that we

Morro Bay Fire Department is buying new engine, pushes for station makeover

Morro Bay Fire Chief, Daniel McCrain responded to Mayor Carla Wixom’s concerns that the Fire Department may be taking on too much at once by saying the department can manage several major projects simultaneously.

At the Oct. 14 City Council meeting, Wixom pointed to a list of significant initiatives in motion: purchasing a new fire engine, the possible refurbishment and reopening of the long-dormant Station 54, and ongoing discussions about increasing firefighter staffing levels.

Fire Chief McCrain told New Times that it does appear as if the department is taking on a lot at the same time, but he isn’t concerned about it.

“Each of these projects does require some staff time at different phases,” he said via email. “The reality is … the time required for each project is not

are making America great again.”

The Proposition 50 election wasn’t the only race that Democrats were projected to sweep. The blue party is poised to notch victories in Virginia and New Jersey where Democrats Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherill, respectively, lead their races for state governor. New York City also elected its new mayor in Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani.

On Election Day, Newsom called on other blue states like Virginia, Maryland, New York, Illinois, and Colorado to follow California’s lead. Democrats in some of these states are already talking about redrawing their own congressional district lines while discussions about redistricting also gain steam in conservative states like Missouri, Kansas, and Indiana.

According to Fulks, the local Democratic Party chapter’s focus is more on home.

“We’re going to push back at the school board level, at the City Council level, and we’re going to defend our majority on the Board of Supervisors,” he said.

Republican Party of SLO County Chair Randall Jordan told New Times that defeating Proposition 50 was an “uphill battle from the start.”

Politicians now pick their constituents, according to Jordan, instead of voters getting to select their representatives.

“Twenty-six counties voted no but unfortunately these were the rural self-sufficient counties and not the urban centers who rely heavily on government handouts and control,” he wrote in a statement. “The rational voice would tell you undermining the two-party system here in California is bad for all citizens and voters.”

The California Republican Party is already pushing back on the state’s new House maps.

creating staff time conflicts.”

On Nov. 5, the Dhillon Law group—started by U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon— announced a federal lawsuit on behalf of the state party, 18 California voters, and lead plaintiff state Assemblymember David Tangipa (R-Fresno).

“As the first Polynesian elected ever to the state Legislature, I understand the diversity and the beauty that this state has,” Tangipa said at the press conference. “What we have seen with Prop. 50, these maps, they’re completely diminishing the voices of other groups to benefit other groups.”

One of the most visible efforts is the new fire engine, which City Council unanimously approved purchasing on Oct. 28. The council authorized McCrain to sign a purchase agreement of about $670,000 for a wildland fire engine to replace Engine 5371.

Councilmember Bill Luffee said that the city already has roughly $500,000 set aside for the purchase and asked where the remaining dollars would come from.

McCrain told the council that the fire engine fund had grown over the past several fire seasons through reimbursements the city receives when its firefighters get deployed to help with incidents across California.

“Every summer when we participate in a mutual aid system responding to fires around the state, we get paid for our personnel time,” McCrain said during the meeting. “We also get paid for

our vehicle use in those incidents, and it’s done to reimburse for the wear and tear on city vehicles. … We put that money in a separate account toward replacing the engine.”

McCrain said the bulk of staff time on the engine project has already passed, and the new engine is tentatively expected next October.

“The specifications have been completed, and the order was placed,” he said. “Now, we are waiting for the vendor to build the apparatus. Department staff will do an inspection of the completed vehicle to ensure it meets the specifications before we take delivery of it.”

The Fire Department is also working toward restaffing the second fire station in Morro Bay, Fire Station 54, because of standards of cover and a desire to have a better response time.

Located east of Highway 1, the station has been unstaffed for nearly 20 years. McCrain said the

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project is currently advancing through the city’s building and development review process.

“Department staff will be working to secure funding to construct the station,” he said. Alongside that, the department is evaluating how to increase its staffing levels.

“Improving staffing at the Fire Department is something most fire agencies have to continuously evaluate as community needs and city budgets change,” McCrain said. “The fire service is constantly evolving as are the needs of our communities.”

He added that exploring these improvements should be seen as more of an opportunity than a strain.

“I think it is exciting to have opportunities to try and enhance the level of service that we are able to provide to the residents and visitors of Morro Bay,” he said. “The goal is to balance the most effective level of service a city budget can provide to meet the needs and risks of the community they serve.”

—Chloë Hodge

Revised Dana Reserve project secures final approval from SLO County supervisors

A year after the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors greenlit the old Dana Reserve housing development plan, the new iteration of the project received approval once more.

Mirroring its 2024 decision at the Nov. 4 board meeting, the supervisors voted 3-2— with 2nd District Supervisor Bruce Gibson and 4th District Supervisor Jimmy Paulding dissenting—in favor of the modified plan.

“Quite clearly the project we approved in April 2024, even as I voted against it, is far superior to the project we have in front of us today,” Gibson said at the meeting. “I won’t dwell on the flabbergasting stance of opacity in trying to get the facts of the settlement agreement in front of this board so we might make a reasoned decision. But on the matter of the merits … this is a bad deal.”

The proposed Dana Reserve development experienced stumbling blocks over the years, most recently with two rounds of lawsuits from the Nipomo Action Committee and the SLO chapter of the California Native Plant Society against the county, the Board of Supervisors, and Dana Reserve developer NKT Commercial over environmental impact concerns involving oak trees and the manzanita shrub.

Both lawsuits came to a halt thanks to a

settlement agreement between NKT, the Nipomo Action Committee, and the local California Native Plant Society chapter.

Originally, the Dana Reserve was slated to have 1,370 housing units, including 156 affordable homes spread out over two neighborhoods. The new plan calls for 1,242 units with all parties in the settlement agreement deciding to remove half of the affordable homes to make way for 3 acres of oak woodlands. The cuts to housing increased the amount of open space from roughly 55 acres to a little more than 60 acres.

“We talked a lot about having a housing crisis, I don’t remember ever hearing that we have a manzanita crisis,” Gibson said at the meeting. “The approved project didn’t destroy all the manzanita that the plaintiffs seek to protect … nor does the modified project protect it all or save it all.”

Gibson was also the only supervisor at the meeting to address redactions in the settlement agreement. He previously told New Times that the redacted agreement includes payments worth over $2 million from the Dana Reserve developer to the Nipomo Action Committee and the local chapter of the California Native Plant Society.

According to the agreement, the developer’s proposed closure of Hetrick Avenue would require an undisclosed payment amount to the county—if the county approves the closure—for the construction of a cul-de-sac and striping at Ridge Road and Hetrick Avenue.

“I’m not at liberty to disclose financial amounts,” Dana Reserve attorney Andrew Fogg told Gibson at the meeting. “There will be a future application for the closure of Hetrick, and I’m sure if that was to be … approved, the funding consideration would be something that’s disclosed at that time.”

Fourth District Supervisor Jimmy Paulding, who represents Nipomo, said the new Dana Reserve project is too large and has too many impacts on the public.

He also encouraged the board to explore the possibility of rezoning a parcel of land proposed as a gift to Cuesta College by NKT Commercial’s Nick Tompkins. Cuesta is considering setting up a satellite South County campus on that property.

If Cuesta doesn’t want the land, Paulding wants a condition in place that preserves the property for other public uses like a community center for the local YMCA.

The remaining supervisors expressed support for the revised Dana Reserve project, stating the county needs more homes to quickly put a dent in its housing crisis.

Fifth District Supervisor Heather Moreno said it’s not the developer’s fault that fewer homes exist in the new Dana Reserve plan.

“CEQA [California Environmental Quality Act] is used up and down the state to prevent development from going forward, and particularly, housing development,” she said. “If [the Dana Reserve plan] goes forward, it’s going to cost more than it did a year ago. Who loses? The community, people buying those homes.”

The Dana Reserve team told New Times in a written statement that it’s proud of the final approved project despite making compromises in the settlement.

“Our goal has always been to provide a true ladder of housing, and after navigating the approval process for the past six years, we are excited to move forward and build a community that many can call home,” the statement said.

—Bulbul Rajagopal

Paso Robles sets aside housing units for proposed townhomes on commercial land

The Paso Robles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to reserve 154 housing units for a proposed Ardmore Townhouse development on land that isn’t currently zoned for residential use.

“Tonight is not an approval of the project,” Warren Frace, the city’s community development director, told the council. “We’re not really discussing the pros or cons of the project. We are looking for concurrence so we can reserve those units and then allow the applicant to move forward.”

The Ardmore Townhouses proposal, submitted by Covelop Inc. and MD3 Investments, proposes building 154 semi-attached, for-sale townhomes on a 12.9-acre parcel at the eastern end of Union Road. Because the property is currently zoned for commercial and light-industrial use, the developers will need the city to rezone it to allow up to 30 units per acre, Frace said during the meeting.

But before any rezoning request can move forward, the developers also needed what Paso Robles calls “surplus residential density units.” Associate Planner Darcy Delgado explained that these are essentially extra housing units the city is allowed to approve under its general plan but hasn’t assigned to any project yet.

When the general plan was adopted in 2003, the city set a population threshold of 44,000 and allocated most of its allowable housing density to large projects such as Chandler Ranch, Olsen Ranch, and Beechwood.

By 2013, city planners revised the general plan and discovered that the number of people per housing unit had dropped since 2003, meaning Paso Robles could add more homes while still staying below the population cap, Frace said.

The city created a pool of these units to account for that change in 2020 as part of the city’s housing element update. Paso Robles had 246 units available (before the Nov. 4 vote) and a population of 31,061, according to the staff report.

Delgado said reserving the units gives the developers a level of certainty and assurance.

“The reservation will not constitute a project approval,” she said. “If the units are not incorporated into the project, they would remain unallocated and available for other development projects.”

The Ardmore project qualifies for units because the developers have already invested in engineering, design, and technical studies, Delgado said.

Damien Mavis, principal at Covelop, said the project was shaped around the idea of “affordability by design.”

Covelop and MD3 are also working on a separate affordable-housing contribution. City staff said the project is proposing to model their affordable housing component after San Luis Obispo County’s regional housing incentive program.

“They’re using a point-based system, and it’s designed to simplify access to development incentives similar to the state affordable housing density bonus program,” Delgado said. “The applicant has proposed to contribute an in-lieu fee equivalent to two points in the county system payable to the city for use in any future tax-credit affordable housing project.”

Several residents spoke in support of adding more housing, though Paso Robles resident Linda George questioned whether any new construction can truly be affordable.

“No contractor can build a house more affordable than the next contractor,” she said during public comment.

The townhouse proposal will next head to the Planning Commission for a public hearing before returning to the City Council for a final decision. ∆

—Chloë Hodge

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Morro Bay secures grant to remove abandoned boats from harbor

The 43-foot Triton sits in Morro Bay, slowly decaying, its hull worn and waterlogged, deemed “abandoned,” “unseaworthy,” and “a threat to pollute.”

It’s not the only neglected boat in the bay gradually surrendering to the water, but the city is preparing to demolish the Triton and other abandoned vessels with the help of a state grant.

“As stewards of the harbor and ocean environment, these grants enable the Harbor Department to continue to accept surrendered vessels for demolition prior to them becoming abandoned and posing hazards to navigation or the environment,” Harbor Business Manager Lori Thompson said in an Oct. 14 staff report.

The $15,750 grant from the California State Parks’ Division of Boating and Waterways—known as SAVE, or the Surrendered and Abandoned Vessel Exchange—supports local harbor jurisdictions in demolishing abandoned boats and accepting voluntary vessel turnins before they sink or release hazardous materials into the water.

The current grant cycle covers the demolition of several boats already identified by the Morro Bay Harbor Department. Along with the Triton, four others have been surrendered by their owners: the Travel, Why Not, Starduster, and Kaifu. The vessels range from 16 feet to 41 feet and are in various states of disrepair.

Harbor staff say additional vessels may soon join the list. Two others, the El Solyo and Native Dancer, are considered likely future abandonments because of extensive past due fees. And another boat, the Grandlainie, may be voluntarily surrendered after the city determined its mooring is in “disrepair.”

For longtime Morro Bay Yacht Club member Charlie Nichols, boats in disrepair are easy to spot in the harbor.

“I’ve seen demolished boats that are old and falling apart,” Nichols said. “People get into old boats, they may run into financial issues, and sometimes they just abandon them. It’s probably an OK thing for the harbor that they remove them.”

Nichols described the demolition process in detail: At high tide, crews bring the boats in, haul them up the launch ramp and begin cutting them apart. Before demolition, fuel and diesel tanks are drained, and wood, fiberglass, and debris are loaded into dumpsters and trucked away.

“It breaks my heart to see really cool old boats just cut up,” Nichols said. “There was one huge wooden boat with a ton of bronze hardware that should have gone to a museum. I asked if I could salvage anything, and they said no. … It’s part of the program. I get why, but it’s a shame.”

Nichols said neglected vessels tend to accumulate in back bay areas near the RV park and in older mooring fields.

“Just by walking around, you can see a lot of boats that aren’t going out on the water anymore,” he said.

Thompson explained that identifying at-

risk boats starts long before they become wrecks.

“The Harbor Department identifies vessels in danger of abandonment and prioritizes removal of them by working with willing owners, as well as identifying and prioritizing vessels in probable need of future abatement,” she said in an email to New Times.

Determining when a vessel is officially abandoned can involve months of monitoring, warnings, and attempts to contact the registered owner. In cases where the owner can’t be located or there is no registration, the city must begin a legal title process with the DMV before demolition can occur.

“The average costs of a vessel that is turned in by an owner over 30 feet is $4,327 and under 30-foot vessel is $2,818,” Thompson said “Average cost for a vessel that is abandoned [and] is over 30 feet is $4,818.”

Given that the city has a projected $17,325 worth of demolitions on its plate and a grant of $15,750, the Harbor Department is already operating with a deficit.

When asked whether the funding is enough to address the backlog, Thompson simply said, “no.”

The additional funds needed, however, will be met with “in-kind costs”—such as city staff time spent administering the grants— through the department’s operating budget, Thompson said.

Paul Gillen, president of Associated Pacific Contractors, a local marine contractor, has handled vessel disposals in Morro Bay when projects don’t go out to competitive bid. He said vessels need to be found in one of three conditions to go through the disposal process.

“One where somebody abandons their vessel and we have to go through a DMV procedure, like a lien sale, to get entitled to it so we can dispose of it. The other option is if somebody doesn’t pay their bills for storage in the marina or on a mooring, we have to go through the same procedure in order to get rid of the boat, either for disposal or resale,” Gillen said. “And then the third is if somebody just wants to dispose of their own boat and they’ll sign the title over and it gets disposed of either by the city grant, or they pay somebody to dispose of it.”

Gillen noted that large removals usually go out to competitive bid, though smaller cases are handled individually. Contractors must be capable of draining fuel and safely dismantling vessels before disposal.

“It’s probably a good thing overall,” Nichols said. “It keeps the harbor clear, and people who want to use their boats don’t have to navigate around hazards.”

Morro Bay has participated in the SAVE program and its predecessor grants for more than a decade, according to a staff report. The program began when two state efforts—the Abandoned Watercraft Abatement Fund (created in 2009) and the Vessel Turn-In Program (also created in 2009)—were merged into a single funding stream, Thompson said. Together, they help coastal agencies remove abandoned vessels and accept voluntary turnins before they become environmental hazards.

“To date, together the Harbor Department has received and expended over $203,500 in 10 separate grants,” Thompson said

The Harbor Department’s previous grants, $72,000 in combined funding (from a 2023 SAVE grant and leftover Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office allocations), were fully exhausted by year’s end, according to the staff report.

Removal work is expected to begin at the beginning of next year, when the launch ramp is less impacted. Thompson said the Harbor Department will remove as many vessels as possible with the funding available and continue monitoring other boats in danger of abandonment.

Had the city not received the funding, Thompson said the vessels would still be removed “but not in a timely fashion, increasing risk of pollution or navigation hazard.” ∆

Reach Staff Writer Chloë Hodge at chodge@ newtimesslo.com.

Bark at the park

A dog park is coming as part of a long-awaited Emerson Park revamp, but not everybody is on board

San Luis Obispo’s Emerson Park could become the city’s second spot for a dog park, but not all dog owners are happy with the possible change.

“They’re planning to split it right down the middle and turn half of it into a gated dog park, which would mean tearing up half of the grass that currently exists at Emerson Pak and replacing it with pavement and wood chips,” Buchon Street resident Carla Cary said. “I think we need more green in San Luis Obispo, not less green.”

Cary has been living in the neighborhood for a decade. Her proximity to Emerson Park and its facilities means every day looks different. She walks her dog, tends to her plot in the community garden, picnics, plays lawn games, and catches up with her neighbors. Those days could possibly transform in 2027 if all parts of the park project are greenlit.

With the help of a $2.8 million California State Parks Proposition 68 grant that SLO received in 2021, the city plans to add restrooms, water stations, safety and walkway lighting, new blacktop surfacing and seating area pathways, an instructional and educational garden zone, a redesigned and expanded playground, and an upgraded basketball court.

But it’s the planned half-acre fenced dog park for small and large dogs that’s drawn criticism from residents like Cary.

“There can be a lot of issues with reactive dogs, and people oftentimes can bring their dogs there and they don’t actually leash-train them or watch them,” she said. “We don’t go to gated dog parks anymore because my dog, he’s very docile, but he’s been attacked.”

Cary’s also concerned about the potential dog park exacerbating parking availability in the area that already shrinks every Thursday during the downtown farmers market.

Parking is on another Emerson visitor’s mind too. She requested anonymity and spoke to New Times while she was walking her dog.

“Anything that takes away grass space, I don’t think we should do,” she said. “I like this lot you can park in. This is one of the few lots that has parking spots in the shade.”

However, the SLO resident added that Emerson Park could be the best area for a dog park because she found the city’s only other dog park at Laguna Lake too small for her husky. Plus, there are several grass-filled parks in the area.

“I’m not against the homeless people in Mitchell Park, but he [her dog] barks at them,” she said. “The other parks are right near elementary schools. They already have their own fields, so why take up a big chunk of [park] fields?”

Peg Pinard, former 3rd District SLO County supervisor and SLO mayor, took to the Nextdoor app to complain about the park renovation project. She urged constituents to contact the City Council before it’s “a done deal.”

“Emerson Park has the only field within walking distance in our neighborhood. It’s where kids (and everyone else) can run around, play soccer, softball, etc.,” she posted on Oct. 29. “Every mental health study speaks to the importance of having open space for kids to run around—needed even more as our neighborhood gets more densely populated. Am I alone in thinking taking away the neighborhood’s only playing field is a bad idea?”

City Parks and Recreation Director Greg Avakian told New Times that Emerson Park is due for an update since the last set of major improvements took place roughly 20 years ago. The most recent change happened in 2022 when the fitness equipment got a makeover using grant money from the California Parks and Recreation Society.

“The portion of the turf area that’s currently at Emerson Park is in really bad shape—it doesn’t have good irrigation and it’s not a regulation athletic field,” Avakian said. “Because it used to be a school site, it was more like a PE or just outdoor area to run around.”

Emerson Elementary School used to sit at 1341 Nipomo St. until 1983. The land was converted into the park after the school shuttered and the building was demolished.

Avakian said that Parks and Rec staff is concerned about the loss of field space to make way for the dog park, but they hope

that bigger and better fields are on the horizon for the community thanks to two proposed parks—Righetti Community Park and Avila Ranch Park.

Until then, he recommended people enjoy the grassy outdoors at Meadow Park and Santa Rosa Park.

“Currently, we do have a lot of people who utilize this current Emerson grass area as a dog area,” he said. “Offleash dogs run around out there despite the municipal code and the county code saying you’re not supposed to have dogs off leash, and there’s no fenced area to make it safe. … That’s the one reason we moved forward with the Laguna Lake Dog Park improvements that just opened up.”

After years of multiple virtual and inperson community forums, including online and physical surveys sent to residents living within 300 feet of the park, the city is done with rounds of public engagement, according to Avakian.

The project will go before the City Council next year for the request for construction proposals process. Parks and Rec anticipates that the new park will be open to the public in early 2027.

With costs escalating, the project now has a price tag closer to $3.5 million. The city plans to close the funding gap by drawing $1 million from the Park Improvement Fund.

For Friends of SLO City Dog Parks, Emerson getting a dog park is the culmination of a long effort.

“There’s no other place for dogs to go currently downtown,” Friends President John McKenzie said. “There are many other places where people can enjoy green, grassy areas, even though it may be further away, but still within walking distance.”

Friends came into existence during the pandemic when a group of concerned dog

owners found out that city was updating its Park and Recreation Element and that the old version simply said that dog parks were an unmet need.

Since then, the 170-member nonprofit has been advocating for a safe, clean, offleash enclosed dog park. Some of the money it raised through fundraisers went into building agility equipment at Laguna Lake Dog Park. Their advocacy also resulted in a half-acre lot being conceptually approved for a dog park at the proposed Righetti Community Park, according to McKenzie. “If our group hadn’t gotten involved in the Parks and Rec plan, we still would have no dog parks in the city of San Luis Obispo,” he said. “They also recognized my mention of the fact that one sixth of all tourists that travel in their car are taking their dogs with them. They’re always looking for places where they can take their dogs, whether it be a hotel or out and about. Having enclosed dog parks is a draw in that way as well.” ∆

Reach Staff Writer Bulbul Rajagopal at brajagopal@newtimesslo.com.

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Spun and woven

D’Elin Lohr’s fascination with weaving began in high school. It was the late 1960s when there was a resurgence of the craft. Lohr then took classes with a friend at UC Santa Barbara, further developing a love for textiles and fashion.

“It just started my whole journey into weaving, spinning, and dyeing,” Lohr said about the classes. “I did it all for years and years.”

The Santa Maria native has been president of the Central Coast Weavers Guild for almost seven years, overseeing the more than 130 members in the group. Meetings are usually held in San Luis Obispo or Santa Margarita, but Lohr said weavers travel from as far north as Paso Robles and Cambria and as far south as Solvang and Buellton.

“When you walk around Santa Maria, there’s not that many weavers. So, I love getting together with people that are interested in what I’m interested in,” she said.

This year marks the guild’s 18th annual sale and showcase but is the first time Lohr is running it herself. More than 40 sellers will gather at the Strawbale Barn Weaving Studio in Atascadero on Nov. 7, 8, and 9. Attendees will likely see clothing, toys, household goods, finger puppets, and more at the vendors’ booths. Weavers will demonstrate different types of looms upstairs in the barn, too.

As a member of the guild for five decades, Lohr has seen it evolve. She remembers when a lot of young weavers joined in the 1970s and started holding meetings on Saturdays because they worked during the Thursday gatherings. A decade or two later the study group program began, giving members the chance to dive into one topic for an entire year.

Then special interest groups formed to allow weavers to explore niches within the larger practice. And now the prevalence of Zoom has opened virtual opportunities.

“People are interested in different things, and so we try to have different groups,” Lohr said.

“Weaving is so varied and so broad that anyone could find their place in the weaving world.”

The guild can also be a social network for people who like practicing the craft or want to learn. Lohr suggests that prospective members, beginners, and veterans attend a meeting or contact the guild online.

“It’s social,” Lohr said. “A lot of my friends are in the group.”

While she’s continuously been a guild member, Lohr rediscovered her passion for weaving after a career owning a yarn dyeing business.

“Weaving is problem solving,” she said. She recently taught herself how to rep weave by reading a handful of books published about the technique. Rep weaving creates a

textured surface with yarn packed together tightly. Lohr makes place mats and table runners, which she’ll sell at the upcoming sale along with ornaments and jewelry.

“I’m doing my own designs,” Lohr said, “and I’m having fun with that.”

Check out the Central Coast Weavers Guild’s annual sale and showcase on Nov. 7 from 1 to 6 p.m., Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Strawbale Barn Weaving Studio in Atascadero. The guild hosts meetings, workshops, and speakers throughout the year. Annual dues cost $40, and the group is open to weavers of all skill levels. For membership information, visit centralcoastweavers.org/membership.

Fast fact

• San Luis Obispo is considering instituting a registry for all residential rental properties in the city to better track rental data, which would help increase transparency, ensure compliance with regulations, and provide information for tenant services and city planning. The League of Women Voters of San Luis Obispo County invites locals to its Nov. 20 Lunch with the League webinar titled Rental Registries in Action. This noon event will review the spectrum of registries at local, state, and national levels and discuss how they can be used in rental market policy development and evaluation. Shane Phillips, manager of Randall Lewis Housing Initiative for the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, will moderate a panel of housing researchers and local government officials to discuss how these registries work and how they might help to mitigate rising rental housing costs. The event is free to the public, but registration is required at lwvslo.org. ∆

Reach Sun Staff Writer Madison White, from New Times’ sister paper, at mwhite@ santamariasun.com.

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Trump’s campaign against detractors smacks of repeated history

Iam old enough (barely) to remember the era when Joseph McCarthy declared that there were communists within the government, the military, and Hollywood. He claimed that he was going to ferret them out and put them on trial. And he did, not in secret but on television, ruining numerous lives.

Finally, when McCarthy charged that the Army’s lawyer, Joseph N. Welch, employed a man who had once belonged to a communist front group, Welch responded, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” Then, in 1954,

Partisan politics is destroying our democracy

Here in California, the Democratic Party has just demonstrated that they too are willing to abandon any pretense of civility and self-respect and join the Republicans in the consummate quest for tawdry partisan advantages. They do so because they think they are in the right. But the Texas Republicans also think that they are in the right.

In the United States, less than half of registered voters have a declared party affiliation. That means that the majority of registered voters in America can be considered independents. Yet the entire political landscape is constantly scarred by an ongoing battle between two minority representations, each fighting tooth and nail to gain and remain in power, yet they cannot even manage to keep the government running.

journalist Edward R. Morrow produced an exposé of McCarthy on his news program, See It Now. The public turned against McCarthy, and the Senate censured him; finally, he was stopped.

I don’t suppose saying the same words to President Trump would stop his relentless search for people to punish.

I remember that President Nixon had an “enemies” list, and, in fact, my father was on it—although I never found out what he did to merit being listed. In the late 1960s, I was a government employee, working for the newly established National Endowment for the Arts. As the Vietnam War dragged on and protests began, I was asked to sign a petition that appeared in the Washington Post whose title was “Government Employees Against the War.”

Older staff members cautioned me that if I signed that petition, I surely would end

California has a smaller percentage of independent voters with only about one out of four registered voters declaring no political preference, but it is growing. Based on the recent behavior of the long-ensconced California Democratic Party, it seems that we need more independent California voters, and I urge current members of both major parties to declare their independence to help take America back again. Just walk away and have nothing to do with the whole business. In future elections, it will not be the party faithful that will make or break elections. As with the Tuesday’s Democratic “victories” back East, it will be the independent voters that make the difference. And when the traditional parties put up their usual sordid suspects, at election time you can relax and enjoy going down the ticket, voting against incumbents until they come up with something or somebody

up on someone’s enemies list and probably never get another government job. Perhaps I was on a list, but didn’t find out about it. I went on to work for various city, county, and state governments in California and Oregon, though never again at the national level.

So, I get a sense of déjà vu as the nightly news keeps showing the latest Trump “enemy” as each one is either fired or indicted though none as yet have been tried or jailed.

Although the shock of ICE terrorizing anyone with brown skin has somewhat diminished, I am still appalled that we, the people, haven’t been able to stop labeling such people as “enemies,” although there have been strong protests in Los Angeles and Chicago. These raids remind me of Soviet Russia in the 1950s and ’60s when the KGB knocked on innocent people’s doors and whisked them away, some never seen again and with no fair trials to defend themselves.

worth voting for. Make the politicians earn your vote.

Mark Henry San Luis

Honor veterans by fighting for the values you believe in

Honoring veterans is more than giving lip service to their sacrifices one day a year. This time of year, I find myself thinking about my father and aunt, who were both WWII veterans. My father was a naval gunfire spotter in the Marines and received a Bronze Star for actions in the Pacific. His job was to go ashore with the first wave of landings on islands occupied by the Japanese, make his way inland to where he could call in the coordinates of enemy guns and direct fire from the ships. My aunt also joined the Marines, saying that if the men were going to join up, women should too. She helped men in the Southern U.S. learn to read so they could enlist.

They were declared “enemies” of the state. My years of protesting against enemy lists and denial of human rights have made the current situation seem like a repetition of this country’s past mistakes. When I hear some Republicans in Congress calling Democrats “communists, socialists, and Marxists,” I hear echoes of the McCarthy era. There is the saying (attributed to Winston Churchhill) that those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it. But I do hope that we are learning, will continue to learn, and do what we can to stop the making of enemies lists and labeling people—and even political parties—“enemies.”

Judith Bernstein writes to New Times from Arroyo Grande. Send a response for publication to letters@newtimesslo.com

Right now we have a president who would rather give $40 billion to Argentina to prop up a dictator than release already-allocated funds to feed hungry families; who would rather tear down the East Wing of the White House for a vanity project than serve the American people by protecting their health care; who would rather gut the Veterans Administration, lay off thousands of federal workers, and hijack the National Guard to deal with nonexistent riots.

If you are bothered by these things, as I am, then join veterans and their allies who are saying no—no to the occupation of our cities, no to ICE, no to the blatant corruption that puts billionaires ahead of working Americans. Join us and support veterans, workers, and immigrants. Join us on Veteran’s Day, Nov. 11, at the Highway 101 overpass on Los Osos Valley Road. Join us to honor veterans who have served America for nearly 250 years. Join us to protect democracy.

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BY GIANNA PATCHEN AND ANDREW CHRISTIE

What Diablo owes the land

For more than 40 years, Diablo Canyon Power Plant has conserved Central Coast landscapes and wildlife habitat (while simultaneously decimating the offshore marine environment). The plant is surrounded by 12,000 acres of prime coastal land owned by PG&E and its subsidiaries. Once the nuclear plant closes, this irreplaceable stretch of wild California coast will be swarmed by developers with visions of multimillion-dollar starter mansions dancing in their heads ... unless the state of California steps up to protect the Diablo Canyon Lands right now.

As you read this (if you are reading it on Thursday, Nov. 6), the California Coastal Commission will be deliberating or has just completed deliberations on PG&E’s request to extend Diablo’s operations for five more years—or maybe 20 years. This meeting is our last guaranteed chance to protect the Diablo Canyon Lands for open space, habitat conservation, and public coastal access. Specifically, the commission must determine how to mitigate the plant’s ongoing impacts to the marine environment. The commission staff report details Diablo’s intake of 2.5 billion gallons of seawater per day, along with several billion organisms per year, resulting in a “substantial annual loss of marine life productivity and of public trust resources”—which, as the commission once acknowledged, makes Diablo “California’s largest marine predator.” Astonishingly, the latest commission staff mitigation recommendation is counter to more than 25 years of efforts to preserve the Diablo Canyon Lands. It recommends a conservation easement on as little as 1,100 acres of the

12,000 acres of Diablo Canyon Lands. The staff report admits this mitigation is “not sufficient to achieve consistency of the proposed project with the Coastal Act and … marine biological resource protection policies,” but that more than this amount “would be infeasible,” according to PG&E.

As the Sierra Club has pointed out to the commission, staff’s recommendation is a startling pivot, considering the public, local organizations, and the state have supported the most expansive protections for more than 25 years:

• San Luis Obispo County voters overwhelmingly supported protecting all 12,000 acres of Diablo Canyon lands for eventual conservation and public use when the county passed the Diablo Resources Advisory Measure, aka the DREAM Initiative, endorsed by PG&E, the SLO County supervisors, and local organizations.

• The conservation framework created by Friends of the Diablo Canyon Lands, comprising dozens of local organizations and community members, called for conservation of all 12,000 acres of the Diablo Canyon Lands and a public trail network.

• The conservation of all 12,000 acres is part of the Strategic Vision of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon Decommissioning Engagement Panel.

• The California Natural Resources Agency calls for conservation of all 12,000 acres and dedication of public trails in its report, “Diablo Canyon Power Plant Land Conservation and Economic Development.”

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• The California Coastal Conservancy received a $5 million grant of taxpayer funds from the state to create a conservation easement covering all 12,000 acres. But the Coastal Commission staff report recommended conservation of only 1,100 acres, less than 10 percent of the Diablo Canyon Lands.

This is not a new issue. In December 2006, the Sierra Club and Mothers for Peace appealed PG&E’s coastal development permit to replace the plant’s failing steam generators. The Coastal Commission draft staff report on the project noted the same significant impacts to marine biological resources that they would cite in 2025, but recommended that “PG&E shall record an offer to dedicate for a conservation easement over approximately 9,130 acres … as mitigation for the steam generator replacement project’s adverse effects on marine biology and water quality.”

The Sierra Club has asked the commission how it could be that Diablo’s long-known environmental impacts warranted more than 9,000 acres of proposed mitigation in 2006, but now require less than 1,200 acres in 2025. That doesn’t add up.

The 2006 requirement of more that 9,000 acres of conserved land was shot down by then Coastal Commissioner Katcho Achadjian. In doing so, he cited the aforementioned DREAM Initiative as sufficient to conserve the Diablo Canyon Lands. He was incorrect. The DREAM Initiative was only intended to convey citizens’ wishes and did not carry the force of law. Clearly, it was not enough.

Without the maximum possible mitigation of the impacts of the plant’s continued operation, the commission should not issue the

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permit to PG&E. By the end of the day on Nov. 6, we will all know if the Coastal Commission has acted on the last chance to require PG&E to secure the permanent protection of all 12,000 acres of the Diablo Canyon Lands and a fully funded public trail network.

In 1959, long before Diablo Cove’s coastal and marine life were sacrificed to industrial use, a survey by the National Park Service found that “this large, unspoiled area possesses excellent seashore values and should be acquired for public recreation and conservation of its natural resources.” Now is the time for the California Coastal Commission to make this vision a reality. ∆

Gianna Patchen is chapter coordinator for the Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club. Andrew Christie served as chapter director from 2004 to 2023. Send comments in response to letters@newtimesslo.com.

What’s your take on Proposition 50?

43% I’m all for it! Keep our representation strong!

28% I’m against it! Two gerrymandering attempts don’t make a right!

23% I don’t like it but I voted for it. 6% I’m in the middle‚ I don’t feel represented in a two-party system.

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The two happiest days of boat owners’ lives are the day they buy their boat and the day they sell it, or maybe the day they abandon it to rot in Morro Bay Harbor. The city by the big rock recently received a $15,750 SAVE (Surrendered and Abandoned Vessel Exchange) grant from the California State Parks’ Division of Boating and Waterways two remove and demolish abandoned and derelict boats. If it seems crazy that taxpayers must fund a state program to deal with people’s broken-down shit, I agree. Morro Bay has participated in the SAVE program for more than a decade.

According to Harbor Business Manager Lori Thompson, “To date, together the Harbor Department has received and expended over $203,500 in 10 separate grants.”

That represents a lot of broken dreams of the call of the open sea and the romance of the boating life, but having this program and spending this grant money is better than the alternative of letting these vessels—many filled with diesel fuel and hazardous materials— sink into the bay and pollute our waterways.

Obviously, the registered owners should be made to foot the bill of demolition, but their boats are in disrepair for a reason. As the saying goes, a boat is a hole in the water into which you throw your money. It’s expensive to maintain a boat, especially an older one, and it costs money to rent a slip or mooring, and in some cases, the owners are hopelessly in arrears.

Longtime Morro Bay Yacht Club member Charlie Nichols noted, “I’ve seen demolished boats that are old and falling apart. People get into old boats, they may run into financial issues, and sometimes they just abandon them. It’s probably an OK thing for the harbor that they remove them.”

Fare thee well, Triton, Travel, Why Not, Starduster, and Kaifu. These five boats are the next to meet the wrecking ball but no doubt not the last.

Did someone say, “Ball!” Pant-pant, barkbark. San Luis Obispo is scheduled to get another dog park—this one at Emerson Park—after dropping $1.5 million to upgrade the facility at Laguna Lake. Thanks to a $2.8 million California State Parks Proposition 68 grant that SLO received in 2021, the city plans to add restrooms, an expanded playground, and an upgraded basketball court, among other improvements, and an enclosed half-acre dog park with sections for large and small doggos. That sounds amazing, amirite? Except … wait for it … NIMBYism! Neighbors are complaining about tearing up grass, reactive and poorly trained dogs, neighborhood parking, and like the ghost of past politics, even former SLO Mayor and SLO Board of Supervisors member Peg Pinard took to social media app Nextdoor to pooh-pooh the idea.

“Emerson Park has the only field within

walking distance in our neighborhood. It’s where kids (and everyone else) can run around, play soccer, softball, etc.,” she posted on Oct. 29. “Every mental health study speaks to the importance of having open space for kids to run around—needed even more as our neighborhood gets more densely populated. Am I alone in thinking taking away the neighborhood’s only playing field is a bad idea?”

Obviously not, but City Parks and Recreation Director Greg Avakian is pushing back on the pushback, arguing, “The portion of the turf area that’s currently at Emerson Park is in really bad shape—it doesn’t have good irrigation and it’s not a regulation athletic field.”

He also noted the area is already being used—illegally—as an off-leash dog park.

“Off-leash dogs run around out there despite the municipal code and the county code saying you’re not supposed to have dogs off leash, and there’s no fenced area to make it safe,” Avakian said. “That’s the one reason we moved forward with the Laguna Lake Dog Park improvements that just opened up.”

Friends of SLO City Dog Parks

President John McKenzie noted, “There’s no other place for dogs to go currently downtown. There are many other places where people can enjoy green, grassy areas, even though it may be further away, but still within walking distance.”

Come on, people! Stop pooh-poohing a place for dogs to run and sniff

and make poo-poo, which weirdly no one has complained about … yet.

Speaking of poo-poo, eat shit, tRump. The voters have spoken, and your policies stink. Thankfully, enough California Democrats who for decades have worked tirelessly to push back against Republican gerrymandering— realized it was time to fight fire with fire. Taking the high road has got them nowhere, but thanks to Proposition 50’s overwhelming landslide victory, California will temporarily abandon its anti-gerrymandering policy to push back on tRump’s pressuring red states into redistricting to create more Republican house seats.

It’s not just California. All over the country voters have swung blue, signaling a rejection of tRump’s anti-American, anti-immigrant, anti-free speech policies. What did he expect? While Democrats are holding out to demand Republicans rein in Americans’ health care costs—including for conservative Americans—tRump is throwing a lavish Great Gatsby-style party as people’s SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits are being first withheld and then halved. Can he be more tone deaf? In 2013, tRump said “a shutdown means the president is weak.” I couldn’t agree more. Hey, big talking dealmaker, why can’t you keep the government open? Weak. ∆

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NORTH COAST SLO COUNTY

A CHRISTMAS CAROL PERFORMED BY GERALD CHARLES DICKENS

Experience the magic of the holiday season with Gerald Charles Dickens, the great-great-grandson of literary legend Charles Dickens. Nov. 14-16 12-3:45 & 5:30-9:15 p.m. $22-$99. (805) 924-3353. cambriapineslodge.com/a-christmascarol. Cambria Pines Lodge, 2905 Burton Dr., Cambria.

COASTAL WINE AND PAINT PARTY

Listen to music while enjoying an afternoon of creativity, sipping, and mingling. The party includes a complimentary glass of wine and canvas with materials. Saturdays, 12-2 p.m. $55. (805) 394-5560. coastalwineandpaint. com. Harmony Cafe at the Pewter Plough, 824 Main St., Cambria.

COSTA GALLERY SHOWCASES Features works by Ellen Jewett as well as 20 other local artists, and artists from southern and northern California. Thursdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sundays, 12-4 p.m. (559) 799-9632. costagallery.com. Costa Gallery, 2087 10th St., Los Osos.

FOREVER STOKED PAINT PARTY Join us at the gallery, for a few hours to travel on a creative paint journey. You will receive as much or as little instruction as you prefer. No artistic experience is necessary. Saturdays, 7-9 p.m. $45. (805) 772-9095. foreverstoked.com. Forever Stoked, 1164 Quintana Rd., Morro Bay.

GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE ART PARTY & OPENING RECEPTION FOR JIM TYLER, NANCY DAVID & DEBBIE

GEDAYLOO Join for an art-filled afternoon in Morro Bay! Meet the artists,

invest in art, and enrich your life. All are invited. Nov. 8 3-5 p.m. Free. (805) 7721068. galleryatmarinasquare.com. Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero suite 10, Morro Bay.

AN INCONVENIENT STUDY SCREENING

Head to the Morro Bay Community Center for a documentary movie screening of An Inconvenient Study Nov. 6 6 p.m. Morro Bay Community Center, 1001 Kennedy Way, Morro Bay, 772-6278, morro-bay. ca.us.

THE MAN FROM EARTH Smart, suspenseful, and deeply philosophical, The Man From Earth is a gripping theatrical experience that will stay with you long after the final line. Nov. 7-16 $20-$28. cambriaarts.org/. Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre, 1350 Main St., Cambria.

OIL PAINTING WITH ANITA HAMPTON

Students will paint still life set-ups while learning color theory, value, perspective, lighting, design, composition, and more with well-respected teacher Anita Hampton. Thursdays, 6-8:30 p.m. through Nov. 20 (805) 772-2504. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay, artcentermorrobay.org.

THE PLEIN AIR TEAM Acrylic artist, Nancy Lynn, and husband, watercolorist, Robert Fleming, have an ongoing show of originals and giclee prints of Morro Bay and local birds. ongoing (805) 772-9955. Seven Sisters Gallery, 601 Embarcadero Ste. 8, Morro Bay, sevensistersgalleryca. com.

WATERCOLOR WITH JAN FRENCH: THREE SESSIONS Practice painting watercolors at your own pace with guidance from Jan French. Session 1 includes dates on Oct. 6, 13, 20 & 27, Session 2 is on Nov. 3, 10, 17 & 24, and

Session 3 is on Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22. Beginners are welcome. Reserve your spot at the link below. Mondays. through Dec. 22 $145. (805) 772-2504. artcentermorrobay. org/workshops. Art Center Morro Bay, 835 Main St., Morro Bay.

NORTH SLO COUNTY

3 ARTISTS RETROSPECTIVE REVEAL Susan Lyon, Maryanne Nucci, and Kathy Madonna invite you to visit their Retrospective Show including original photographs, charcoals, watercolors, etchings, linocuts, and mono prints. Saturdays, 2-5 p.m. (805) 440-7152. cottontailcreek.com/susanart. Pocket Gallery on Pine, 8491/2 13th Street, Paso Robles.

DAILY POTTERY Walk in, pick your pottery project, and paint away. Something for all ages. Prices vary depending on what you choose and includes; paint, glaze, firing, and studio time. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Varies. (805) 400-9107. artsocial805. com. ArtSocial 805 Creative Campus, 631 Spring St., Paso Robles.

DATE NIGHT Couples or friends, bring a bottle of wine and enjoy a creative night out. Have fun and get messy as the venue walks you through the basics of throwing on the potter’s wheel. Fridays, 6-8 p.m. $144. (805) 203-0335. thepotteryatascadero.com/datenight. The Pottery, 5800 El Camino Real, Atascadero.

DEPRISE BRESCIA ART GALLERY: ONGOING DISPLAYS Features a large selection of encaustic art, sculpted paintings, art installations, acrylic palette knife paintings, digital art, glass, jewelry, stones, fossils, and a butterfly sculpture garden. ongoing DepriseBrescia.com. Deprise Brescia Art Gallery, 829 10th St.,

SLO SOIRÉE

The fourth annual Autumn Soirée Wine and Food Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 8, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Hotel San Luis Obispo. The celebratory evening will highlight the Central Coast’s most acclaimed wineries and restaurants, along with performers and art installations. The after party will allow further mingling between community members and chefs and vintners. For tickets and additional details, visit autumnsoiree.com.

—Angie Stevens

Paso Robles, (310) 621-7543.

FIELDWORK WORKSHOP - OPEN STUDIO Join us every Tuesday for our community workshop! Bring your creative projects, meet fellow makers, and get inspired. No pressure, just creativity, good vibes, and snacks. Tuesdays, 6-9 p.m. $15. fieldworkart. org. Fieldwork, 4307 El Camino Real, Atascadero, (971) 645-2481.

HANDCRAFTED FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Handcrafted for the Holidays is back! This annual showcase celebrates talented craftspeople and their one-of-a-kind creations. Something for everyone, no matter your taste or budget! Through Dec. 28-4 p.m. Free. (805) 238-9800. studiosonthepark.org/events/ handcrafted-for-the-holidays-11/. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles.

PUMPKIN SUCCULENT CENTERPIECE

CLASS Peaceful Plants will host a pumpkin succulent centerpiece class at The Pottery in Atascadero. The class includes a pumpkin, choice of succulents and decorations, use of tools, and instruction. Nov. 13 , 6-8 p.m. $55.40. my805tix.com. The Pottery, 5800 El Camino Real, Atascadero, (805) 460-6803.

SHORT FORM IMPROV CLASS AT TOP GRADE COMEDY THEATER Join instructor Charles Charm, an improvisor with 10 years of experience, to learn how to play improv games. Classes are drop in only at this time. Shows TBD. Fridays, 6-8 p.m. $25. (530) 748-6612. Saunter Yoga and Wellness, 5820 Traffic Way, Atascadero.

SIP N’ SKETCH/SIP N’ PAINT Bring your own supplies (or borrow some of our’s) and paint or sketch a themed live-model or still life under the guidance of Studios

resident artists. See website for the specific theme of the month. Your first glass of wine is included in price. Third Saturday of every month, 6-9 p.m. $20. (805) 238-9800. studiosonthepark.org. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles.

SUGAR PLUM FAIRY TEA PARTY Step into a winter wonderland of magic and merriment! Join for an afternoon filled with tea, sweet treats, a light lunch, festive crafts, and a delightful dance performance. Nov. 8 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

$66.12. my805tix.com. Centennial Park, 600 Nickerson Dr., Paso Robles.

WRITERS WANTED Novelists, screenwriters, poets and short story writers welcome. This group meets in Atascadero twice a month, on Thursday nights (email jeffisretired@yahoo.com for specifics). Hone your skills for publication and/or personal development. First Thursday of every month, 7-9 p.m. Unnamed Atascadero location, Contact host for details, Atascadero.

SAN LUIS OBISPO

“ONE VISIT” POTTERY CLASS This is a great class if you are looking to try out pottery! Throw on the wheel or paint pre-made pottery. Get a student discount with a valid school ID. Fridays, 6-7:30 p.m. $75. (805) 896-6197. Anam Cre Pottery Studio, 1243 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, anamcre.com.

3-WEEK BEGINNING WHEEL SAMPLER

Curious about pottery? Try this 3-week intro series. Book on our website to save your spot. Fridays, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and Mondays, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. through Nov. 24 $165. (805) 896-6197. Anam Cre Pottery Studio, 1243 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, anamcre.com.

ACTOR’S EDGE: ACTING CLASSES

Actor’s Edge offers film and television acting training in San Luis Obispo, plus exposure to Los Angeles talent agents. All ages and skill levels welcome. Classes available in SLO, LA, and on zoom. ongoing $210 per month. actorsedge.com. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

ART AFTER DARK Art After Dark features an art opening of world-class artists.

Refreshments will be served. First Friday of every month, 5-8 p.m. through March 7 Free. slocountyarts.org/art-afterdark. SLO County, Various locations countywide, San Luis Obispo.

BUEN DIA MILONGA See Nexus’ last Argentine Tango milonga of 2025: Buen Dia Milonga, hosted by Carolyn Long with DJ Bonnie playing Tango through the years. Nov. 9, 5-8 p.m. $10. nexusslo.com. Nexus SLO, 3845 S Higuera St.( Lower Level), San Luis Obispo, (805) 904-7428. CENTRAL COAST COMEDY THEATER IMPROV COMEDY SHOW An ongoing improv comedy program featuring the CCCT’s Ensemble. Grab some food at the public market’s wonderful eateries and enjoy the show upstairs. Second Friday of every month, 6-8 p.m. $10. centralcoastcomedytheater.com/shows/. SLO Public Market, 120 Tank Farm Road, San Luis Obispo.

DATE NIGHT POTTERY Bring your date and throw a cup on the pottery wheel. Next, texture a clay slab and press into a form creating a personalized piece. Guest are welcome to bring drinks; venue provides aprons. Pieces are fired, glazed, and ready in two weeks. Saturdays, 6-7:30 p.m. $140. anamcre.com. Anam Cre Pottery Studio, 1243 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. ECLECTICS II: A GROUP EXHIBITION See this online and onsite exhibition. Email to make an appointment. Through Nov. 8, noon Free. actsofworshipart.com. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo. FIRST FRIDAYS Visit SLOMA on the first Friday of each month for exhibition openings, music, and wines provided by regional winery partners. Admission is free and open to the public. First Friday of every month, 5-8 p.m. Free. (805) 5438562. sloma.org/events/first-fridays/. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. LEARN TO WEAVE MONDAYS An opportunity to learn how a four-shaft loom works. You will get acquainted as a new weaver or as a refresher with lots of tips and tricks. This class includes getting to know a loom, how to prepare/

dress a loom, and much much more. Mondays, 1-4 p.m. $75 monthly. (805) 4418257. Patricia Martin: Whispering Vista Studios, 224 Squire Canyon Rd, San Luis Obispo, patriciamartinartist.com.

LITTLE TREASURES CALL FOR ART This is our annual holiday exhibit featuring pieces priced $100 or less from our talented local artists! Nov. 7, 5-7 p.m. $5. (805) 747-4200. artcentralslo.com/ portfolio/little-treasures-4/. Art Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

MOBILE CLAY CLASSES Offering handbuilding, throwing, and ceramic decorative arts. All ages and abilities are welcome. Call for more info. ongoing (805) 835-5893. hmcruceceramics. com/book-online. SLO County, Various locations countywide, San Luis Obispo.

NORTH COUNTY CAMERA CLUB:

REGULAR MEETING Zoom meeting for The North County Camera Club, where photographers of all levels can participate, share photos, exchange information, and learn from each other. Second Tuesday of every month, 7-9 p.m. No fee. facebook.com/groups/ PRAAphotoguild. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

PAINT A PREMADE POTTERY PIECE!

Drop into the studio to pick out and paint a premade piece! There is fun for all ages, and prices are based upon size. Mondays, Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2-7:30 p.m. $30$75. app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule. php?owner=22676824&appointmentTy pe=35974477. Anam Cre Pottery Studio, 1243 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

PICKET PAINTING PARTY Decorative picket purchasing opportunities are available to show your support and help fund maintenance and educational programs in the Children’s Garden.

Second Saturday of every month, 1-4 p.m. $75 per picket or 2 for $100. (805) 541-1400. slobg.org. San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo.

SIJI KRISHNAN Krishnan’s evocative paintings exist in a realm between memory and myth, where figures emerge from translucent layers of pigment. Through Jan. 11, 2026, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. (805) 543-8562. sloma.org/exhibition/ siji-krishnan/. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

SLO NIGHTWRITERS: A COMMUNITY OF WRITERS SLO NightWriters supports local writers with monthly presentations,

critique groups, contests, and other events. Second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. slonightwriters.org. United Church of Christ (Congregational) of San Luis Obispo, 11245 Los Osos Valley Road, San Luis Obispo.

STEPPIN’ UP TO THE MIC: CONTRA DANCE CALLING WORKSHOP SERIES

Learn to lead contra dances from the best callers across California. Year-long workshop series for new and aspiring contra dance callers, with opportunities to call. Nov. 8 1-3 p.m. $120. cccds.org/ stepup. Odd Fellows Hall, 520 Dana St., San Luis Obispo.

TEEN NIGHT POTTERY IS LIVE Join Teen Night Pottery, for ages 14 and over. Teens will be taught to throw on the potters wheel, sculpt, or paint a pot. Snacks will be provided. Fridays, 6-7:30 p.m. $35. (805) 896-6197. anamcre.com. Anam Cre Pottery Studio, 1243 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo.

UNNECESSARY FARCE Get ready for a fast-paced, door-slamming, laughout-loud comedy! Two cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. This outrageous, award-winning farce delivers a night of side-splitting fun. Fridays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 2-4 & 7-9 p.m., Sundays, 2-4 p.m. and Thursdays, 7-9 p.m. through Nov. 6 $28-$47. (805) 786-2440. slorep.org/ shows/unnecessary-farce/. SLO Rep, 888 Morro St., San Luis Obispo.

WALT WHITMAN GAY MEN’S BOOK

CLUB This club reads, studies and discusses books chosen by the group which relate to their lives as gay men. All are welcome. Second Monday of every month, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. galacc.org/ events/. Online, See website, San Luis Obispo.

WHITNEY PINTELLO: SOLO SHOW On display now through mid-April. ongoing slogallery.com/. SLO Gallery, 1023 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY COASTAL YOUTH THEATER PRESENTS: ELF THE MUSICAL JR Coastal Youth Theater presents Elf the Musical Jr. Nov. 7 7-8:30 p.m., Nov. 8 , 2-3:30 & 7-8:30 p.m. and Nov. 9, 2-3:30 p.m. $28.50. (805) 4899444. clarkcenter.org/. Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE St. Joseph High School Community Theatre Presents: Pride and Prejudice Nov. 7, 7-9 p.m., Nov. 8 , 7-9 p.m. and Nov. 9, 2-4 p.m. $23.50.

FESTIVE GALA

This year’s Nutcracker Gala Soirée is set for Friday, Nov. 14, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Vina Robles Tasting Room. Suited for the whole family, the evening will be filled with dancing, dinner, a DJ, raffle prizes, and photo opportunities with the Nutcracker cast. Funds will support local youth in the performing arts. General admission tickets are $75 each, and can be purchased at my805tix.com.

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(805) 489-9444. clarkcenter.org/. Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande.

WORKSHOPS AND MORE AT THE LAVRA Check the venue’s calendar for storytelling workshops, lectures, movie nights, and discussions held on a periodic basis. ongoing thelavra.org/ home. The Lavra, 2070 E. Deer Canyon Road, Arroyo Grande.

SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT Don’t miss this production, written by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Tickets and additional details are available at the link. Nov. 7, 7 p.m., Nov. 9 1:30 p.m. and Nov. 15 7 p.m. $12.56. my805tix.com. Santa Maria Civic Theatre, 1660 N. McClelland St., Santa Maria.

STOP KISS There are only three chances to see this show! Get tickets and more info at the link. Nov. 8 , 7 p.m., Nov. 14 7 p.m. and Nov. 16 1:30 p.m. my805tix. com. Santa Maria Civic Theatre, 1660 N. McClelland St., Santa Maria.

SANTA YNEZ VALLEY

THE PERONDI’S STUNT DOG

EXPERIENCE Famed trainer Chris Perondi and his cast of rescue dogs entertain audiences of all ages with high-energy excitement from beginning to end. Nov. 8 5-7 p.m. $25. (805) 6861789. solvangtheaterfest.org/show-listing. Theaterfest Solvang, 420 2nd St, Solvang.

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& LIFESTYLE

NORTH COAST SLO COUNTY

9TH LIMB MIXER Join for an evening of heart-centered connection and community building. The Conscious Community Mixer is a welcoming space for seekers, healers, yogis, and curious souls to come together, share stories, and build supportive relationships in our local holistic wellness network. Nov. 10 5-6:30 p.m. my805tix.com. 9th Limb Yoga, 845 Napa Ave., Morro Bay, (415) 852-1787.

BASH CANCER FEST Join us for the 7th annual Bash Cancer Fest in support of the Teddy Bear Foundation! Enjoy live music, raffle prizes, silent auction, local wine, and craft beer and cocktails. Nov. 8 12-6 p.m. $23.27. my805tix.com. South Bay Community Center, 2180 Palisades Ave., Los Osos.

BREATHE AND STRETCH One must be able to get down onto the floor and back up again, with ease, in order to participate in this 55-minute session. It’s specifically designed to enhance mobility and strength. Please bring a mat and some water. Mondays, 9-10 a.m. $10 per session. (415) 516-5214. Bayside Martial Arts, 1200 2nd St., Los Osos.

CENTRAL COAST SLIM DOWN Take control of food without suffering. Learn a step-by-step process to take control of overeating, cravings, and feel peace with food. Build the habits, mindset, and your unique path with results that stick. Hosted byTami Cruz (Certified Health/Life Coach) and Dana Charvet (Coach/Fitness Trainer). ongoing Call for pricing info. (805) 235-7978. gratefulbodyhealthcoaching.com. Grateful Body, 850 Shasta, Morro Bay.

CENTRAL COAST UECHI-RYU KARATEDO Uechi-Ryu Karate-do is a traditional form of karate originating from Okinawa, Japan. Focus is on fitness, flexibility, and self-defense with emphasis on self -growth, humility, and respect.

Open to ages 13 to adult. Beginners and experienced welcome. Instructor with 50 years experience. For info, call 805-215-8806. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6-7:30 p.m. Morro Bay Community Center, 1001 Kennedy Way, Morro Bay, 772-6278, morro-bay.ca.us.

CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS MEETING Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a Twelve Step recovery program for anyone who desires to have healthy and loving relationships with themselves and others. Meeting is hybrid (both in person and on Zoom). For information, call 805-900-5237. Saturdays, 1-2:15 p.m. Free. thecambriaconnection.org/. Cambria Connection, 1069 Main St., Cambria, (805) 927-1654.

GREENSPACE SPEAKER SERIESCONSERVATION RANCHING Grace Ferguson from the National Audubon Society will speak about the California Audubon Conservation Ranching Program. Join us for this talk on conservation and agriculture! Nov. 9 4-6 p.m. $10. (805) 927-2866. Unitarian

Universalist Community of Cambria, 786 Arlington St., Cambria.

PUMPKIN PATCH Our Pumpkin Patch is officially open for the season! All of our pumpkins are thoughtfully grown by 46 Ranch and come in various sizes. Mondays-Sundays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. (805) 927-4747. cambrianursery.com/ events/. Cambria Nursery and Florist, 2801 Eton Rd., Cambria. SOCRATES DISCUSSION GROUP Have a topic, book, or article you wish to discuss with interested and interesting people? Join this weekly meeting to discuss it, or simply contribute your experiences and knowledge. Contact Mark Plater for instructions on entering the Chapel area. Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-noon (805) 528-7111. Coalesce Garden Chapel, 845 Main St., Morro Bay.

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BALANCE FLOW Suitable for all levels. This class is meant to benefit the mindbody connection while emphasizing safe and effective alignment as well as breath awareness and relaxation. Please call to register in advance. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. $16-$22; $50 membership. (805) 434-9605. ttrtennis.com/fitness/ yoga/. Templeton Tennis Ranch, 345 Championship Lane, Templeton. BOOK BUDDIES - NORTH COUNTY Bookworms, assemble! Woods is welcoming animal lovers ages 7 to 17 to join us in reading to our furry friends. Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $5. (805) 543-9316. Woods Humane Society (North County), 2300 Ramona Road, Atascadero, woodshumane.org.

CALL FOR VENDORS: TRAFFIC JAM VINTAGE & HANDMADE MONTHLY POPUP MARKET Downtown Atascadero’s new monthly Vintage & Handmade popup market is located behind the shops on Traffic Way. Apply now to vend at the next event, which falls on the third Sunday of every month. Nov. 16 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (805) 464-2564. trafficjamvintagemarket.com. Golden State Goods, 5880 Traffic Way, Atascadero. THE CENTRAL COAST WEAVERS GUILD’S 18TH ANNUAL SALE AND GUILD SHOWCASE Don’t miss this opportunity to shop for the county’s finest handwoven and handcrafted itemsfiber artists reside in San Luis Obispo County, Santa Maria, Solvang, and Santa Ynez. Nov. 7 1-6 p.m., Nov. 8 , 10 a.m.-4 CULTURE & LIFESTYLE continued page 18

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p.m. and Nov. 9 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (805) 610-5798, Kay and Rosemary Thorne. centralcoastweavers.org. Strawbale Barn Weaving Studio, 9156 Santa Margarita Rd, Atascadero.

HAMBLY LAVENDER FARM GUIDED EXPERIENCE This one-hour walk about the farm immerses you in the processes of growing, harvesting, and drying this fragrant herb. Saturdays, Sundays, 10 a.m. my805tix.com. Hambly Farms, 1390 Grana Place, San Miguel.

HANDS IN NEPAL HOLIDAY ARTISAN MARKET AND SILENT AUCTION Join for our annual Hands In Nepal Holiday Artisan Market and Silent Auction. We will feature local artisans, refreshments, and a silent auction. Nov. 15 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. (805) 440-5987. Heidi LewinMiller, 22595 I St,, Santa Margarita, handsinnepal.org.

INTO FLIGHT ONCE MORE DOCUMENTARY SCREENING See Into Flight Once More documentary screening, at Park Cinemas in Paso Robles. There will be a fundraiser to send Veterans to Washington. Nov. 11 , 1-2:30 p.m. $20. (805) 441-1243. honorflightccc. org/specialmovieevent/. Park Cinemas, 1100 Pine St., Paso Robles.

NUTCRACKER GALA 2025 Join us for a evening filled with plated dinner and drinks, dancing with DJ Pancho, photo opportunities with the Nutcracker Cast, a dance performance, and raffle prizes. This event is perfect for those over 12 years old, who love the magic of the season! Nov. 14 6:30-9:30 p.m. $75. my805tix. com. Vina Robles Tasting Room, 1650 Ramada Dr, Ste 140, Paso Robles, (805) 721-4553.

THIRD SATURDAY - ELEGANT EVENING

Join in the Studios for an Elegant Evening! Enjoy live music by Take 3 Jazz, explore “Handcrafted for the Holidays” show, and sip on wine that will be available for purchase. Nov. 15 5-8 p.m. Free. (805) 238-9800. studiosonthepark.org/events/ third-saturday-elegant-evening/. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles.

TRAFFIC JAM VINTAGE & HANDMADE

POP-UP MARKET

many dog training classes. Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m. through Dec. 17 $189. (805) 481-1490. gentlepets.com/group-classes.

Gentle Touch Pet Training, 173 Buckley Road, San Luis Obispo.

FREE TOURS OF THE MISSION Tour San Luis Obispo’s Spanish Mission, founded in 1772. Come learn its history and importance to the development of this area. Tours are led by docents and meet in front of the church Sundays, 2:30 p.m. and Mondays-Saturdays, 1:15 p.m. Free. (805) 550-7713. missionslodocents.org.

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, 751 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo.

MAKING SPACE DISCUSSION PANEL

AND BOOK SIGNING MYLR is hosting author Lili Weigert for a discussion panel and book signing following the release of her book Making Space: ADUs for Modern Living. Nov. 14 , 6-9 p.m. Free.

MYLR Gallery, 1238 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, (805) 439-1611, mylrgallery.com.

MUSEO BY MUSE MARKETS MUSEO by @themusemarkets will kick off

nexusslo.com. Nexus SLO, 3845 S Higuera St.( Lower Level), San Luis Obispo, (805) 904-7428.

SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY

BEGINNING BALLET FOR ADULTS Enjoy the grace and flow of ballet. No previous experience needed. Wednesdays, 5:156:15 p.m. $12 drop-in; $40 for four classes. (510) 362-3739. grover.org. Grover Beach Community Center, 1230 Trouville Ave., Grover Beach.

BODY FUSION/EXERCISE AND FITNESS CLASS Do something good for yourself and stay fit for outdoor sports, while enhancing flexibility, strengthening your core to prevent lower back issues, improving your posture through yoga, and more. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. (970) 710-1412. Avila Beach Community Center, 191 San Miguel St., Avila Beach, avilabeachcc.com.

CAL POLY PIER OPEN HOUSE Join the Cal Poly’s Center for Coastal Marine Sciences for the Pier Open House, where

ARRAY OF ARTISANS

Join the Vintage & Handmade Pop-up in the lot behind the shops on Traffic Way every third Sunday of every month. Expect more than 25 vendors, live music, and a selection of food and beer available for purchase. Third Sunday of every month, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. through Dec. 21 Free. (805) 4642564. trafficjamvintagemarket.com. Golden State Goods, 5880 Traffic Way, Atascadero.

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AERIAL SILKS CLINIC Silks is a great way to learn flipping safely! Ages 7 to 17 years can build memory, strength, coordination, confidence, and endurance at our Aerial Silks Clinic. All levels are welcome. Nov. 15 1-3 p.m. $25/ 1st child, +$10 per additional sibling.. (805) 547-1496. performanceathleticsslo.com/ saturday-event-clinics. Performance Athletics Gymnastics, 4484 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER FFD Join at the SLO Botanical Gardens for a fabulous day exploring the wonderful world of birds! Nov. 9 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. (805) 541-1400. slobg.org/calendar-of-events/. San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek Rd., San Luis Obispo.

CARE CREW Calling all crafty, caring, pet-loving kids! Care Crew members will join us in filling Kongs for our canines, crafting pet toys, and creating art. Sundays, 2-3:30 p.m. $5. (805) 543-9316. woodshumanesociety.org/ youth-programs. Calling all crafty, caring, pet-loving kids! Care Crew members will have the opportunity to join us in filling Kongs, making pet toys, and creating artwork. Sundays, 2-3:30 p.m. $5. (805) 543-9316. woodshumanesociety.org. Woods Humane Society, 875 Oklahoma Ave., San Luis Obispo.

ELEMENTARY CLICKER CLASS: DOG TRAINING FOR DOGS OF ALL AGES Our Elementary clicker class is one of our

The local and nature-inspired Holiday Marketplace will be held at Solvang’s California Nature Art Museum on Sunday, Nov. 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy one-of-a-kind shopping at this free admission event, with talented community artisans and unique gifts including fused glass art, pressed flowers, woodcut prints, and sustainable jewelry. More details can be found at calnatureartmuseum.org.

their inaugural celebration of local art, community, and culture. Nov. 9, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. (805) 540-1768. themusemarkets.com/. Mission Plaza, Downtown, San Luis Obispo.

PEARL HARBOR CAME AS NO

SURPRISE: HOW THE CENTRAL COAST PREPARED FOR WORLD WAR 2 - DICK MILLER This course will try to fill in some of the gaps in history. Dick Miller is a frequent taker and giver of LLCC courses. He’s an academic historian in recovery. Nov. 10 1-3 p.m. $12. my805tix.com.

Oddfellows Hall, 520 Dana Street, San Luis Obispo, (805) 544-0876.

SHOW YOUR INNER SHOWGIRL BURLESQUE WORKSHOP Unleash your inner showgirl in this fun burlesque workshop with Miss Belle Voilé! Learn struts, shimmies, glove peels, and more.

Open to all levels. Nov. 16 , 6:30-8:30 p.m. $50. nexusslo.com. Nexus SLO, 3845 S Higuera St.( Lower Level), San Luis Obispo, (805) 904-7428.

TECH BREW MEETUP Tech Brew is a free networking event where people interested in technology can hang out in an informal environment with a small TEDtalk-like presentation from an interesting speaker. Learn more online.

Second Monday of every month, 5-7 p.m. (805) 323-6706. meetup.com/softec/. StoryLabs, 102 Cross St, Suite 220, San Luis Obispo.

WHIP IT! A WEST COAST SWING PARTY Westies, let’s groove with Nexus’ West Coast Swing jam! An intermediate WCS lesson will begin at 7 p.m., followed by social dancing at 8. Nov. 8 , 7-11 p.m. $20.

guests can view marine species through microscopes, and learn with interactive displays, and talk with Cal Poly professors and students. Nov. 15 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. marine.calpoly.edu/pier-open-house. Cal Poly Pier, Cal Poly Pier, Avila Beach Drive, Avila Beach, (805) 756-5376.

CRAFTY CREATIONS BOUTIQUE Crafters and vendors from all over the county will be bringing that one of a kind unique gift and treasure. Free parking and free admission. Nov. 7 4-8 p.m. and Nov. 8 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Portuguese Hall, 707 Huasna Road, Arroyo Grande.

DANCE FITNESS ART AND CULTURE FOR ADULTS Discover dance as a form of artistic expression and exercise, using a wide range of styles and genres of music (including modern, jazz, Broadway, ethnic). Tuesdays, 4-5 p.m. $10 drop-in; $30 for four classes. (510) 362-3739. grover.org. Grover Beach Community Center, 1230 Trouville Ave., Grover Beach. FRIENDS OF THE NIPOMO LIBRARY BOOK SALE Head to Friends of Nipomo Library Book Sale, and choose from adult fiction/nonfiction, children’s books, jigsaw puzzles, and CD’s/DVD’s. FONL members get two free books! Cash only. Nov. 8 , 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (805) 929-3994. friendsofnipomolibrary.org/. Nipomo Library, 918 W. Tefft, Nipomo. HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE BY UNITED WOMEN IN FAITH Special and unique holiday gifts will include crafts, quilts, homemade items, plants, antiques, collectibles ,and baked goods. Proceeds will benefit local charities. Nov. 7, 9

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a.m.-noon and Nov. 8 , 9-2 a.m. (805) 471-1664. First United Methodist Church of Arroyo Grande, 275 N. Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande.

MULTICULTURAL DANCE CLASS

FOR ADULTS Experience dance from continents around the earth, including from Africa, Europe, and more. Described as “a wonderful in-depth look at the context and history of cultures of the world.” Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $10 drop-in; $30 for four classes. (510) 362-3739. grover.org. Grover Beach Community Center, 1230 Trouville Ave., Grover Beach.

POINT SAN LUIS LIGHTHOUSE TOURS

A docent-led tour of the buildings and grounds of the historic Point San Luis Light Station. Check website for more details. Wednesdays, Saturdays pointsanluislighthouse.org/. Point San Luis Lighthouse, 1 Lighthouse Rd., Avila Beach.

SOCIAL GROUP FOR WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS Call for more details. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m. (805) 904-6615. Oak Park Christian Church, 386 N Oak Park Blvd., Grover Beach.

SANTA YNEZ VALLEY

BUELLTON FALL FESTIVAL The Buellton Fall Festival will take place in Buellton with over 40 bands, carnival rides, and games! Nov. 7, 4-10 p.m., Nov. 8 , 12-10 p.m. and Nov. 9 12-10 p.m. Free. (805) 448-7070. buelltonfallfest.com. Avenue of Flags, Avenue of Flags, Buellton.

CALNAM HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE This free admission day invites visitors to enjoy one-of-a-kind shopping featuring talented local artisans and unique gifts that celebrate nature, wildlife, and the outdoors. Nov. 16 , 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. calnatureartmuseum.org/news/holidaymarketplace-2025. California Nature Art Museum, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang.

FOOD & DRINK

NORTH COAST SLO COUNTY

BRUNCH IS BACK Celebrate the second Sunday of the month with brunch. Enjoy a two-hour cruise on the waterfront. Features fresh coffee, pastries, and more. Second Sunday of every month, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $50. (805) 772-2128. chabliscruises. com. Chablis Cruises, 1205 Embarcadero, Morro Bay.

MORRO BAY MAIN STREET FARMERS

MARKET Get fresh and veggies, fruit, baked goods, sweets, and handmade artisan crafts. Come have some fun with your local farmers and artisans and enjoy delicious eats while enjoying the fresh breeze of Morro Bay. Saturdays, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Varies. (805) 824-7383. morrobayfarmersmarket.com. Morro Bay Main Street Farmers Market, Main Street and Morro Bay Blvd., Morro Bay.

NORTH SLO COUNTY

15TH ANNIVERSARY PASO ROBLES

GARAGISTE WINE FESTIVAL Taste over 200 ultra-premium wines from over 50 hard-to-find micro-wineries from the Paso Robles region during Garagiste Festival Weekend in Paso Robles. Nov. 7, 6:30-9 p.m. and Nov. 8 11:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. my805tix.com. Paso Robles Event Center, 2198 Riverside Ave., Paso Robles.

CLUB CAR BAR TRIVIA WITH DR. RICKY

Teams of one to six people welcome. Visit site for more info. Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m. my805tix.com. Club Car Bar, 508 S. Main St., Templeton.

TACO TUESDAYS La Parilla Taqueria will be in the courtyard serving up their delicious tacos and tostadas. Menu typically includes barbacoa, chicken, and pastor tacos, as well as shrimp ceviche tostadas. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. (805) 460-6042. ancientowlbeergarden.com. Ancient Owl Beer Garden, 6090 El Camino Real, suite C, Atascadero.

TASTE OF TIN CITY WALKING TOUR

Enjoy the first ever walking tour of Tin City – an industrial area just outside of downtown Paso Robles – that is home to a community of innovative and passionate producers of high-quality wines, spirits, beer, and more. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $125. (805) 400-3141. toasttours.com/tour/ tin-city-walking-tour/. Toast Tours, 1722 Stillwater Ct, Paso Robles.

SAN LUIS OBISPO

DOWNTOWN SLO FARMERS MARKET

Thursdays, 6-9 p.m. Downtown SLO, Multiple locations, San Luis Obispo.

GOOD THINGS: A CONVERSATION WITH SAMIN NOSRAT Chef and author shares stories, recipes, and rituals from her newest cookbook, in a heartwarming celebration of creativity, connection, and the joy of cooking. Nov. 9 2 p.m. (805) 756-4849. calpolyarts.org/20252026season/samin-nosrat-good-things. Performing Arts Center, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo.

HEAD GAMES TRIVIA NIGHT Live multimedia trivia every Wednesday. Free to play. Win prizes. Teams up to six players. Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. headgamestrivia.com. Antigua Brewing, 1009 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, (805) 242-1167.

HOTEL SLO’S 4TH ANNUAL “AUTUMN SOIRÉE: THE SLO WAY” WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL TO SHOWCASE TOP CENTRAL COAST WINES AND CHEFS Hotel San Luis Obispo presents its 4th Annual “Autumn Soirée: The SLO Way”, a wine and food celebration spotlighting Central Coast’s finest winemakers and chefs. Nov. 8 5-8 p.m. $150. autumnsoiree.com. Hotel San Luis Obispo, 877 Palm St., San Luis Obispo, (805) 235-0700.

NAME THAT NOISE: MUSIC TRIVIA

A monthly special music-only trivia at Oak and Otter Brewing Co. Call ahead to reserve a table. Second Thursday of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Oak and Otter Brewing, 181 Tank Farm Road, suite 110,

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San Luis Obispo, (805) 439-2529.

SLO FARMERS MARKET Hosts more than 60 vendors. Saturdays, 8-10:45 a.m. World Market Parking Lot, 325 Madonna Rd., San Luis Obispo.

SLO GRANGE PANCAKE BREAKFAST

Join the SLO Grange Hall for a good oldfashioned pancake breakfast. Pancakes, bacon, eggs, juice, and coffee will be served, and proceeds will benefit local non-profits. Second Sunday of every month, 8-11 a.m. through April 13 $10. (805) 543-0639. slogrange.org. San Luis Obispo Grange Hall, 2880 Broad St., San Luis Obispo.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT PUB TRIVIA Bring your thinking cap as questions vary from pop culture, geography, to sports. There is a little for everyone. Prizes for the winning teams. Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. (805) 439-2529. Oak and Otter Brewing, 181 Tank Farm Road, suite 110, San Luis Obispo.

SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY

ARROYO GRANDE BEER & WINE

FESTIVAL Don’t miss the 4th annual Arroyo Grande Beer & Wine Festival in the Village of Arroyo Grande, featuring all local breweries, wineries, and distilleries. Nov. 8 , noon $75. my805tix.com. Heritage Square Park, 201 Nelson St., Arroyo Grande.

MONTHLY FERMENTATION CLASSES

New topics each month with a thorough demo and explanation of the process that creates non-alcoholic, probiotic, and nutrient-dense fermentations. Leave the class confident and prepared with recipes to make your own at home. Limited seating; reserve spot prior to class by phone/email. Second Sunday of every month, 3:30-5 p.m. $30. (805) 801-6627. kulturhausbrewing.com/ classes/. Join to expand your knowledge of the fermentation process and get started fermenting at home. We alternate between demonstration and hands-on classes. Second Sunday of every month, 3:30-5 p.m. $30-$50. (805) 801-6627. kulturhausbrewing.com/classes/. Kulturhaus Brewing Company, 779 Price St., Pismo Beach.

TRIVIA NIGHT Join BrainStew Trivia for a hilariously witty evening of trivia in Pismo. Teams of 1 to 4 people. Prizes awarded to the first and second place teams. Kitchen is open until 7:30 p.m. for brain fuel. Beer, cider, wine, and nonalcoholic options available. First Thursday of every month, 6:30-8 p.m. Free to play. (805) 295-6171. kulturhausbrewing.com. Kulturhaus Brewing Company, 779 Price St., Pismo Beach. ∆

Arts

Playing in the sand

In what’s planned to be an annual tradition, the inaugural Pismo Beach Sand Festival is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 6, through Saturday, Nov. 9, when the city of Pismo Beach has invited “leading sand artists from around the globe … to create intricate, large-scale sand drawings and installations,” the city announced.

“The shoreline will transform into a living, open-air gallery where the tideline itself becomes the canvas,” the announcement continued. “This free, familyfriendly event highlights the beauty of impermanence as each large-scale creation is washed away by the tide, offering visitors a once-in-a-lifetime glimpse at ocean artistry.”

The art is best viewed from above, so the pier, boardwalk, or other elevated views of the beach around the pier area are suggested. A map of viewing locations will be posted on the festival website at experiencepismobeach.com/ pismo-beach-sand-art-festival.

The sand artists—most from California but one from Ireland and another from Wales, UK—will be creating their work during low tide, so suggested daily viewing times are from 2 p.m. to sunset (about 5).

“The murals will get washed away by the tide every night, so you must come in the evening to see them,” the Sand Fest website explained.

One artist will also lead a collaborative beach drawing, so attendees are encouraged to grab a rake and add to the communal design.

Fungus among us

Calling all amateur applied mycologists! Cal Poly Assistant Architecture Professor Angela Bracco has the perfect design collection for you on display through Nov. 31, in MYLR Gallery and Bookstore (1238 Monterey St., SLO). Her show, titled Entara and Vedra: Tools for the Domestic Forager, is a series of capsule-like receptacles designed for growing food at home.

“This body of work explores the integration of plant husbandry into the domestic space through vessels designed for the cultivation of mushrooms and microgreens,” the gallery announced. “Through the rewilding of the domestic domain, these vessels reintroduce bewilderment, fragility, and the unknown into the familiar realm of interior life, transforming our relationships with ecology and shelter.”

Bracco holds a Master of Fine Arts in Product Design from the Royal College of Art in London. According to her bio, “Her research and pedagogical endeavors are sustained by investigating ecology’s potential role in the constructed environment through the intersection of new material strategies and examining the reciprocity of ecology and form.”

MYLR’s website explains, “As an art gallery, our work involves showcasing new and emerging talent alongside classic, well-established pieces. As a bookstore, our collection seeks to share art, culture, and architecture titles that usually can only be found in our major cities.”

More info at mylrgallery.com. Δ

—Glen Starkey

BY GLEN STARKEY

Dark November

The

Palm Theatre’s Flickerhead Fridays turns its attention to classic film noir

Film is the great democratizer. You don’t have to go to film school to become a cinephile. All it requires is the voracious consumption of movies.

“Film was one of my first loves as a kid,” Palm Theatre manager Michael Lipari explained in the projection room of the downtown SLO movie theater. “It was like film and music. That was it, you know? Once I saw Star Wars for the first time—a pretty classic introduction to film—I was hooked. Classic sort of thing, grew up, didn’t really know what a director was. I thought the actors sort of made all the movies happen. I thought Arnold Schwarzenegger just did everything. Then eventually I got to know some directors, people like David Fincher or Martin Scorsese.”

Like many cinephiles, Lipari is an autodidact, and part of his self-taught education happened at the theater he now manages. He grew up in Templeton and had been coming to the Palm as a patron since he was a kid, and he had some friends who worked for Jim Dee, who founded the theater that’s now operated by the SLO Film Center under the aegis of the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (SLOIFF). Lipari started working at the Palm in 2013. When the Film Fest took over in 2024, Lipari was made manager, so he took over curation of Flickerhead Fridays, a monthly film series that focuses on a specific theme or director.

“Flickerhead started in October of 2023. [Former theater manager] Matt McGill, Ryan Burr, and I all approached Jim Dee with a proposal to do a retrospective, because we all love the old Rainbow calendars,” Lipari explained, referring to Dee’s original art house theater known for its eclectic film choices. “We had seen them back in storage and we just all fell in love with them, thought it was this great idea. And post-COVID, it was really hard because movie theaters were not doing very well, as everyone’s aware.”

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In a story last October, “Are movie theaters dying? A Look at the struggle

Join the fun

Every Friday at 7 p.m., the Palm Theatre presents its handpicked selection for Flickerhead Fridays, a series focused on a specific theme or director. October featured horror films. November is all classic film noir. Visit thepalmtheatre.com for advanced $12 tickets. Pro tip: Mention Art After Dark on the first Friday of each month to get a $3 discount at the box office.

to keep cinema alive,” Dee credited Flickerhead Fridays as one of the things that kept the Palm afloat.

“When the Film Fest took over, I was really unsure what direction they were going to go,” Lipari said. “I was very open to all of it. I knew I wanted to keep working at the Palm. But, yeah, I wasn’t sure. And then [SLOIFF Executive Director] Skye [McLennan] graciously let me keep my series.”

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Lipari has done Flickerhead on director David Fincher, known for films such as Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, and Gone Girl. He did a series on what he calls “weird Westerns,” films like Hud and Cool Hand Luke “The themes—it’s really weird. It’s always organic. This last year, I had my whole schedule done, but before that, I really just thought a lot about movies that I had previously forced people to watch,” he laughed.

Flickerhead Fridays has a devoted core audience who like Lipari’s film choices and how he curates them, but he’d like to see more people attend. One of the difficulties in growing an audience with a series like the upcoming film noir one is that many of these films turn up on TV channels such as Turner Classic Movies.

“I think the difference of watching it in a movie theater is that you have the human-to-human connection, the person sitting next to you, maybe a loved one or a perfect stranger,” Lipari explained. “When you’re both simultaneously laughing, crying, or screaming, or whatever it is the movie is presenting to you, there’s a sense of community there. And I think also just the fact that it’s so big. Last night we

November films

Nov. 7: Double Indemnity (1944) is co-writer/director Billy Wilder and co-writer Raymond Chandler’s take on James M. Cain’s novella about insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), who plots with Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) to kill her husband for the insurance, raising the suspicions of claims manager Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson). (107 min.)

Nov. 14: White Heat (1949) is director Raoul Walsh’s gangster picture about Arthur “Cody” Jarrett (James Cagney), a ruthless psycho who’s overly attached to his equally psycho mother, “Ma” Jarrett (Margaret Wycherly). As he plans to rob a chemical plant’s payroll, he begins a slow descent into madness that leads to an iconic rooftop scene. (114 min.)

Nov. 21: The Killing (1956) is the third feature-length film by Stanley Kubrick about career criminal Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden), recently released from prison, who plans a racetrack heist. Between his shady coconspirators, femmes fatales, and bad luck, things go awry. Quentin Tarantino called the film his inspiration for Reservoir Dogs (1992). (85 min.)

Nov. 28: Touch of Evil (1958) is Orson Welles’ entry into the noir genre with Charlton Heston in the lead as Miguel Vargas, a Mexican special prosecutor who’s honeymooning in Texas with his new American wife, Susan (Janet Leigh), when a car bomb kills two. Vargas goes head-tohead with bigoted police captain Hank Quinlan (Welles). (95 min.)

screened Scream (1996), and I ducked my head in to see it. I hadn’t caught it in theaters [when it was first released], and it was just such a different experience to see it up on the big screen like that.”

If you aspire to know more about film, Flickerhead Fridays is a good place to start. You’ll be watching with an audience that shares your interest in cinema.

“I’ve always found film to be this very important art form, and I think it’s one of the greatest achievements in human history,” Lipari said. “There’s just something in me that I want and need to show movies to people. And I really do take the time to try to curate the thing so that it’s an experience in and of itself.”

He equates his curation to putting a mixtape together. The way the songs are ordered and arranged is as important as the songs themselves.

“There’s maybe a building of the sequence or something that you might miss out if you just handpick each one,” he noted.

If you’re wondering about what’s in store for December, Lipari is subverting holiday expectations and screening Italian giallo cinema— slasher, thriller, psychological horror, supernatural, and sexploitation films.

“It’s a genre that I’ve gotten into the last couple of years, and I really enjoy it. I just think presenting it at Christmas time is ridiculous because everyone’s doing It’s a Wonderful Life, and all those movies are so great, but I like to give something back to the weirdos every once in a while, you know?”

Contact Arts Editor Glen Starkey at gstarkey@ newtimesslo.com.

Paranoia or ?

Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing of the Scared Deer, The Favourite, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness) directs Will Tracy’s screenplay loosely based on South Korean writer Jang Joon-hwan’s screenplay for Save the Green Planet! (2003). The story follows conspiracy theorist— Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis)—who believe Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), the CEO of a pharmaceutical company, is actually an alien from outer space who wants to destroy Earth. (118 min.)

BUGONIA

What’s it rated? R

What’s it worth, Anna? Full price

What’s it worth, Glen? Full price

Where’s it showing? Colony, Downtown Centre, Palm, Park, Stadium 10

Glen Our Misinformation Age is front and center in Bugonia, where paranoia, conspiracy, and fear of impending ecological disaster weigh heavy and constant on antihero Teddy. He’s an amateur beekeeper on his family’s ramshackle property where he lives with Don. It’s worth mentioning that 19-year-old Aidan Delbis, in his film debut, identifies as autistic, and his Don appears to be intellectually disabled. Teddy is Don’s whole world, and even though he’s unsure of Teddy’s extremist views, he goes along with the kidnapping plan because Teddy believes he can force Michelle to admit she’s an alien and arrange a meeting with her emperor on the mothership to negotiate a withdrawal from Earth. Yes, Teddy seems crazy, but his doomsday fears reflect our current zeitgeist. It’s a cultural black comedy that hits on many of our fears.

Anna Lanthimos is such an interesting filmmaker. I knew I’d be walking into an experience going to see Bugonia, and boy was I right. Conspiracy theories and the willingness to believe them feel closer to reality in our current world than I’ve ever experienced before, so seeing Teddy spiral into wildly strange places in his head feels a little too close

THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE

What’s it rated? R When? 2025

Where’s it showing? Hulu

The 1992 original was a chill-inducing affair starring Rebecca De Mornay as Peyton, the new nanny for the Bartel family. For my money, I’ll watch the original over this remake, but this new version also packs a punch.

This time, we have Maika Monroe in the nanny role, now named Polly. The Morales family has hired her to watch their two young daughters (Mileiah Vega and Lola Contreras), and at first,

to what I see happening as people continue to fracture and divide from each other. Plemmons is one of those actors who has great nuance in portraying characters who feel put upon or punished or hungry for justice. He can hide sinister behind a mask of unassuming normalcy. I’m doubly impressed with Delbis as Don, who plays the character in such a specifically vulnerable way—and in many ways I left this film feeling like he was the one true victim in all of this. This is one of those films I can only recommend if you feel OK sitting in discomfort. It makes you feel that, and the feeling stays with you long after the credits roll.

Glen As weird as this is, it isn’t even Lanthimos’ weirdest. He has a knack for creating unsettling and unreal worlds to explore contemporary real-world problems.

The film marks Stone’s fourth feature with Lanthimos, and she’s willing to go where he leads her. Her clipped, raw performance is mesmerizing. Michelle seems quite awful.

Much of the film follows the negotiation

parents Miguel (Raúl Castillo) and Caitlin (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) are thrilled with their new in-home hire.

While this version gives Polly differing reasons for revenge, we soon learn that like the nanny of 1992, she didn’t innocently stumble into the family’s life. Calculated, cool, manipulative, and menacing, Polly spins a web to make Caitlin appear to be in a state of crumbling mental health, and Polly cleverly plays the rest of the Morales family like a fiddle.

It works hard to maintain the creep factor that the OG film got so right, successfully in some moments and less so in others. As we descend into the spooky season, I recommend you put both films on your watch list—and get a background check on anyone you invite to live in your home. (105 min.)

ROOM FOR CREAM SHORTS

What’s it rated? Not rated When? 2025

between her and Teddy, and it’s a battle of wills. Teddy blames her for his drug addicted, comatose mother, Sandy’s (Alicia Silverstone), condition. There are more layers, but rest assured, it’s wildly entertaining.

Anna Michelle as a character is brittle and breathes insincerity. She’s a shiny photo op, a string of words meant to soothe but prove to be manipulative. This is a roller-coaster whose ending is unseen and therefore surprising. Every once in a while, we come across a movie where it’s important to be coy with spilling secrets, and this is certainly one that feels like it should be walked into without spoilers. If unsettled sits well with you, Bugonia is sure to be a welcome treat. The performances are nothing short of award worthy. ∆

Arts Editor Glen Starkey and freelancer Anna Starkey write Split Screen. Comment at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

shows like Miami Vice and Knight Rider Think sweet pastel track suits, monster mullets, and lots of low-budget action sequences. Nomad is a music video of a love song by singer-songwriter Meetch shot in the rolling hills of California.

Where’s it showing? Saturday, Nov. 8, from 6 to 9 p.m., The Department, 986 Quintana Road, Suite B, Morro Bay

Ran infant, but she’s got malevolence in mind, in The Hand that Rocks the

oom for Cream Films—Alex Raban and Jenny Gosnell’s film production company— presents a variety of its short films this Saturday in Morro Bay. The evening opens with a guest film, Bike Short by Kevin McDevitt. A mountain biker steals another biker’s “lucky” drying bike shorts, thinking they’ve been discarded, instigating a wild chase.  Bay Knights is a super short spoof of ’80s

In Maven: For Every Occasion! , two besties struggle over how to accessorize for the zombie apocalypse, highlighting Cayucos leather crafter Emma Thiem’s work from her Cayucos store Maven Leather + Design. Cayucos Collective’s What’s In The Box?

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Music

BY GLEN STARKEY

Peak experience

Elysian Moon presents Intimate Nocturne, a Euro-style dance party

Are you ready for a backroom speakeasy experience inspired by Europe’s underground dance music culture? Because that’s what live electronic duo Elysian Moon plans to offer when they present Intimate Nocturne in Kreuzberg’s Lo-Fi Lounge. The event was inspired by a recent trip.

“Hello from Amsterdam,” neoclassical pianist and synth artist Grace Jiia emailed a couple weeks ago. “I am here attending a global electronic music conference. I’m deeply inspired to bring the best of this culture back to SLO. It’s much deeper than the rave.”

Elysian Moon and opener DJ Grambo perform this Friday, Nov. 7 (8 p.m. to midnight; 21-and-older; $20 at the door, … space is limited, so arrive early if you want to guarantee admission). It begins just as Art After Dark is ending.

“The real rave is about losing yourself, … the room moving as one, no space between us,” Jiia explained. “It’s trance, not as escapism, but as a place to remember what it feels like to be alive and love, and all of us in this together, safe, kindhearted, wild. We’re bringing that kind of experience here.”

She and violinist, producer, and sound engineer Tyson Leonard (formerly electronic artist Tropo, known for his work with The Alan Parsons Project, Jeff Bridges, Festival Mozaic, Jade Jackson, Azere Wilson, Moonshiner Collective, and others) formed their duo with the aim to weave “live instrumentation and sound sculpting to awaken a trance that connects us to color, intrigue, and imagination.”

According to their bio, “Their music is a modern twist of electronic dance shaped by the European underground house and techno culture, the golden mountains of SLO, and the capacity to transcend in dance music culture. It’s a space for self-discovery and shared presence.”

Fresh from the Amsterdam Dance Event, the duo “is inspired by a global culture of

Live Music

NORTH COAST SLO COUNTY

BLUES AGENDA JAM AND SHOWCASE

A rockin’ blues dance party at Niffy’s Merrimaker every first, third, and now fifth Wednesdays. The Blues Asylum house band welcomes local, visiting, and newcomers to the blues groove. Spirits, beer, and wine, with outside food welcome. Every other Wednesday, 7-10 p.m. Free. (805) 235-5223. The Merrimaker Tavern, 1301 2nd Street, Los Osos.

HERWAY TO HELL (A TRIBUTE TO AC/ DC AND BON SCOTT) Hear the premier all-Female AC/DC cover band Herway to Hell, who is “too punk for Rock, too Rock for Punk.” Nov. 8 8-10:30 p.m. $24.30. thesirenmorrobay.com. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, (805) 225-1312. MOONSHINER COLLECTIVE WITH SPECIAL GUEST MAX MACLAURY

people dancing across generations. Club culture is not just for young party kids but rather built into everyday life. In contrast to often fragmented American nightlife, this producer duo sees SLO as ready for a revival of underground energy, where you can shake off stress and rigors of life: uncovering passion and interconnection.”

The Lo-Fi Lounge will be transformed into “an intimate multi-level dance room with production that stimulates senses—a hidden space for communion and release.”

“We’re here for those peak experiences,” Leonard concluded. “But we don’t want to define what that looks like to you. Our music is the backdrop as you write your stories.”

The show must go on

Queen was such a legendary band that created one hit after another in the ’70s, ’80s, and early ’90s. “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Will Rock You,” “We Are the Champions,” “Killer Queen,” “You’re My Best Friend,” “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Fat Bottomed Girls,” “Somebody to Love.” I could go on and on. You can’t overstate their significance in pop culture.

Lead singer Freddie Mercury died of AIDS in 1991, and though the band has continued to perform with Paul Rodgers, the Mercury years remain the band’s heyday. You can relive the magic when One Night of Queen, performed by UK group Gary Mullen & The Works, comes to the Clark Center on Tuesday, Nov. 11 (7:30 p.m.; all ages; $49 to $85 at clarkcenter.org).

The two-hour show pays tribute “to the stage theatrics and music of the legendary Queen,” according to organizers. “Freddie Mercury imitator Gary Mullen … previously won the UK talent show Stars in Their Eyes with his vocal and visual imitation of Mercury. They perform highly entertaining shows as the band’s set includes one classic Queen song after another augmented by an exciting and fast-paced production of lights and sound. Their energetic, engaging live shows stay true to Queen’s music even down to the stage presence and dazzling choreography displayed by Mullen as Freddie.”

& THE COMPROMISERS Catch Moonshiner Collective’s live performance with special guest Max MacLaury & The Compromisers at The Siren in Morro Bay. Nov. 14 , 6:30-10:30 p.m. $23.69. thesirenmorrobay.com. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, (805) 225-1312.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Each Wednesday, enjoy this Open Mic Night in the downstairs dining area. Grab some friends and show off your talents. Food and drink service will be available. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Free. (805) 995-3883. schoonerscayucos.com. Schooners, 171 North Ocean Ave, Cayucos. SWEET SPOTS (FREE AFTERNOON DANCE PARTY SHOW) The Sweet Spots are an electrifying R&B, Soul, and Funk band based out of San Luis Obispo. Drawing inspiration from classic Motown artists like The Temptations to modern

artists like Bruno Mars, they bring a fresh yet timeless energy to every performance. Hear them live at the Siren. Nov. 15 , 2-5 p.m. Free. thesirenmorrobay. com. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, (805) 225-1312.

YOUNG DUBLINERS: IRISH ROCK

BAND After thirty years as one of the world’s leading Celtic Rock bands, The Young Dubliners have begun work on their tenth studio album (with longtime producer Irish-born Tim Boland) while still maintaining their busy tour schedule. They have returned to the road post-pandemic stronger than ever and determined to bring their fusion of Celtic and rock music to as many people as they can. Nov. 6 , 7-10 p.m. $24.41. thesirenmorrobay.com. The Siren, 900 Main St., Morro Bay, (805) 225-1312.

NORTH SLO COUNTY

BRASS MASH AT BLAST & BREW

A-TOWN Get ready for an electrifying evening as Brass Mash, the Central Coast’s premier brass-powered party band, returns to Blast & Brew Atascadero! Known for their high-energy performances and inventive mashups, Brass Mash blends your favorite tunes from the 1960s to today, creating a danceworthy experience like no other. Nov. 8 , 6-9 p.m. $23.27. my805tix.com. Blast and Brew, 7935 San Luis Ave., Atascadero. FRIDAY NIGHT DJ Weekly DJ series, with a different DJ every Friday. Presented by friends at Traffic Record store in Atascadero. Come listen, dance, drink, and unwind every Friday. All ages event; no cover charge. Fridays, 7-10 p.m. (805) 460-6042. ancientowlbeergarden.com. Ancient

Owl Beer Garden, 6090 El Camino Real, suite C, Atascadero.

JAZZ AT SENSORIO WITH GUITARIST RICH SEVERSON, VOCALIST SUNNY WRIGHT, AND BASSIST KEN HUSTAD!

Sunny Wright and The Darrell Voss Trio will perform live. Enjoy fire-pit tables, food, fun, live music, and gorgeous lights. Nov. 16 4:45-7:45 p.m. $35-$65. (805) 226-4287. sensoriopaso.com/. Sensorio, 4380 Highway 46 East, Paso Robles.

SINGING HANDS CHILDREN’S CHOIR

A unique performing arts group that performs across the state for deaf festivals, service organizations, churches, fairs, and other outlets. New members always welcome. Registration open weekly. Mondays, 5-6:30 p.m. $45 tuition per month. singinghandschildrenschoir.com/. Singing Hands Children’s Choir and Performing Arts, 1413 Riverside Ave., Paso Robles.

SOLEFFECT AT THE POUR HOUSE We’ll bring funky grooves, soulful harmonies, and high-energy jams to keep you moving all evening. Nov. 15 , 7-10 p.m. facebook. com/events/1482516089650798/. The Pour House, 525 Pine St., Paso Robles. SAN LUIS OBISPO BRENT COBB WITH ME LIKE BEE’S Hear oone of country’s most respected and beloved artists, Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and musician Brent Cob live. Nov. 15 7 p.m. $27.21. slobrew. com. Rod & Hammer Rock, 855 Aerovista Pl., San Luis Obispo, (805) 543-1843. THE BUNKER & THE FREQUENT WEAVER ARE PROUD TO PRESENT JON MUELLER & TOM LECKY’S ‘ALL COLORS PRESENT’ Jon Mueller and Tom Lecky’s LIVE MUSIC continued page 28

Bluegrass and country

Numbskull and Good Medicine have a couple of must-sees for Americana fans starting with Rose’s Pawn Shop in Club Car Bar on Friday, Nov. 7 (7:30 p.m.; all ages; $15.14 at goodmedicinepresents.com).

Frontman Paul Givant formed the band as a bluegrass-inspired act known for punky tempos and fiddle solos, and for two decades they’ve been delivering their version of roots music.

They’ve recently recorded their fifth album, American Seams, releasing on Dec. 25, which can be pre-ordered on vinyl from Blue Elan Records.

“Our music is a patchwork of American styles,” Givant said on the label website. “We have country, rock, bluegrass, and folk—all sorts of American musical influences, and they all go into the Rose’s Pawn Shop sound. We liked that visual, which is why we named the record American Seams.”

Jason Boland & The Stranglers play The Siren on Thursday, Nov. 13 (7 p.m.; 21-andolder; $30.59 at goodmedicinepresents. com). They’re touring in support of their newest, The Last Kings of Babylon, which was released last March.

“This album is a mirror,” Boland said in press materials. “It’s a retrospective, a reflection of everywhere we’ve been and everything we’ve learned over the last 25 years on the road.”

Their 11th studio recording was produced by legendary Texas pedal steel player and producer Lloyd Maines, and the band describes the songwriting on the album as “bold and muscular here, filtering classic country through a kaleidoscopic lens of rock,

sound and visual meditation, ‘All Colors Present’ will be performed at the Bunker SLO. These performances also help celebrate the relaunch of the venerable Table of the Elements label. Nov. 8 8-10 p.m. $12.56. my805tix.com. The Bunker SLO, 810 Orcutt Road, San Luis Obispo.

CAL POLY FALL JAZZ CONCERT: SOUNDS OF RHYTHM The concert will feature performances by various jazz ensembles, including the University Jazz Band, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and Jazz Combos. Nov. 14 , 7:30 p.m. $17 and $22 general, $12 students and Jazz Federation members. (805) 756-4849. music.calpoly. edu/calendar/jazz/. Performing Arts Center, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo.

punk, bluegrass, and folk.”

“These songs are about the journey,” Boland added. “We were searching for something when we started this band, and we’re still out there searching for it now.”

Jeremy Pinnell opens.

Rap and rock

Also this week in The Siren, check out rapper Andre Nickatina on Friday, Nov. 7 (8 p.m.; 21-and-older; $65.87 at tixr.com). Born Andre Lamond Adams, the Bay Area rapper also performed under the name Dre Dog.

Herway to Hell (A Tribute to AC/DC and Bon Scott) comes to Morro Bay on Saturday, Nov. 8 (8:15 p.m.; 21-and-older; $24.30 at tixr.

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ Rising star violinist Vladyslava Luchenko is set to perform Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D with the SLO Symphony. Nov. 8 7:30-9 p.m. $12-$92. (805) 543-3533. slosymphony.org/calendar-2025-2026/ california-dreamin/. Performing Arts Center, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo.

CERAMIK, LOT IN LIFE, DISCOURAGE, AND SPECIAL FORCES LIVE Nov. 9 Free. my805tix.com. Humdinger Brewing (SLO), 855 Capitolio Way, suite 1, San Luis Obispo, (805) 781-9974.

CUESTA JAZZ WITH MITCH LATTING Our series of honoring special contributors to our local jazz community continues with Cuesta Jazz, featuring local trumpet player and singer Mitch

Latting. Nov. 15 , 7:30 p.m. $20 General, $10 Student w/ID. (805) 546-3198. Harold J. Miossi CPAC at Cuesta College, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo.

L’ECLAIR WITH ELYSIAN MOON Guitarist and keyboardist Stef and drummer Yavor’s band L’Eclair was formed in their adopted home of Switzerland a decade ago. Hear the brother duo perform live at SLO Brew! Nov. 14 7 p.m. $23.88. slobrew. com. Rod & Hammer Rock, 855 Aerovista Pl., San Luis Obispo, (805) 543-1843.

ORCHESTRA NOVO GOES SILENT: BUSTER KEATON DOUBLE FEATURE Michael Nowak and Orchestra Novo proudly presents: Buster Keaton Double Feature. Nov. 16 , 3:30-5:30 p.m. $45. my805tix.com. Harold

com). The all-female tribute band is fronted by Madame Ozzy of Mistress of Reality (probably not her real name, just sayin’!). Expect a no-holds-barred high-voltage rock show of AC/DC hits!

Latin indie folk

SLO Brew Live and (((folkYEAH!))) present Y La Bamba on Sunday, Nov. 9 (doors at 7 p.m.; 18-and-older; $29.27 at ticketweb.com). The Portland band is touring in support of their seventh album, Lucha (2023), which translates from Spanish as “Fight.”

J. Miossi CPAC at Cuesta College, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo. SLO BREW + (((FOLKYEAH!))) PRESENT ~ Y LA BAMBA WITH SPECIAL GUEST LOS TRANQUILOS Nov. 9 7 p.m. $29.27. slobrew.com. Rod & Hammer Rock, 855 Aerovista Pl., San Luis Obispo, (805) 543-1843.

VITRIOL, UNMERCIFUL, AND WEEPING

LIVE Hear sets from various metal bands at Humdinger. Nov. 7 6 p.m. $20. my805tix.com. Humdinger Brewing (SLO), 855 Capitolio Way, suite 1, San Luis Obispo, (805) 781-9974.

THE WIDE EYED KIDS, DUNE BLOOM, AND BLACK POOL Catch

The Wide Eyed Kids on tour with Dune Bloom and Black Pool at Libertine.

“Lucha is a symbol of how hard it is for me to tackle healing, live life, and be present,” lead singer Luz Elena Mendoza Ramos said of the title.

Lucha is also the singer’s nickname. Her name, Luz, means light.

“The album explores multiplicity— love, queerness, Mexican American and Chicanx identity, family, intimacy, yearning, loneliness—and chronicles a period of struggle and growth for Mendoza Ramos as a person and artist,” according to press materials. “Lucha was born out of isolation at the advent of COVID-19 lockdowns, beginning with a cover of Hank Williams’ ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,’ and following Mendoza Ramos as she moved from Portland, Oregon, to Mexico City, returning to her parents’ home country while revisiting a lineage marred by violence and silence, and simultaneously reaching toward deeper relationships with loved ones and herself.” Los Tranquilos opens the show.

It’s not live music, per se, but …

Over at the Fremont Theater, Bingo Loco returns on Friday, Nov. 7 (doors at 6:30 p.m. with the event starting at 8; 21-and-older; $45.29 at prekindle.com).

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What is it? Good question! It’s three hours of adult fun with three bingo games and challenges in between like dance-offs and lipsync battles. Apparently, it turns into a rave. I’ve never been, but I hear it’s fun. ∆

Contact Arts Editor Glen Starkey at gstarkey@ newtimesslo.com.

Nov. 6 8 p.m. libertinebrewing.com/ publiceventsatlibertine/2025/11/6/thewide-eyed-kids-dune-bloom-and-blackpool. Libertine Brewing Company, 1234 Broad St., San Luis Obispo, (805) 548-2337.

SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY

CENTRAL COAST HARMONY CHORUS INVITES SINGERS TO JOIN FOR HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES Men and women are invited! No prior experience is necessary - just a love of music. Call or email for more information. Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. through Dec. 18 $20. (805) 736-7572. ccharmony.org. Nipomo Senior Center, 200 E. Dana St., Nipomo.

DISNEY MOANA LIVE-TO-FILM CONCERT - THE NORTH AMERICAN

TOUR Clark Center Presents: Disney Moana Live-To-Film Concert - The North American Tour. Nov. 12 7-9:15 p.m. and Nov. 13 7-9:15 p.m. $45-$65, Platinum $69; Senior & Student Discounts. (805) 489-9444. clarkcenter.org/. Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande. THE FLEETWOOD MAC CONCERT EXPERIENCE STARRING GYPSY DREAMS Experience Gypsy Dreams, an electrifying Fleetwood Mac tribute delivering iconic hits and Stevie Nicks magic. Their Thousand Oaks show sold out last year—don’t miss them! Nov. 14 7:30 p.m. $45-$60, Premium $65. (805) 489-9444. clarkcenter.org. Clark Center

for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande.

KARAOKE AND DANCING Check out the vibrant and weekly Karaoke with dancing at Mr. Rick’s in downtown Avila Beach every Friday! DJ Rachael Joyous Hostess will be there. Fridays, 7-9 p.m. through Nov. 28 (805) 441-1633. spotoneventservices.com. Mr. Rick’s, 404 Front St., Avila Beach.

KARAOKE AT SLO COUNTY’S ONLY

FILIPINO CAFE Join for all day, all ages karaoke hosted at SLO County’s only brick and mortar Filipino cafe, Lumpia Bros Cafe. Enjoy karaoke, filipino dishes, acai, and coffee. Tuesdays-Saturdays-6 p.m. through Dec. 31 Free. (805) 202-8473. Lumpia Bros Cafe, 1187 W. Grand Ave., Grover Beach.

KARAOKE EVERY WEDNESDAY A weekly event with barbecue offerings and more. Wednesdays, 4-8 p.m. Rancho Nipomo BBQ, 108 Cuyama Ln., Nipomo, (805) 925-3500.

THE LOUNGE AT BESO An upscale afterhours nightclub experience. With limited capacity and a dress code. For ages 21 and over. Fridays, 10 p.m. my805tix.com. Beso Cocina, 1050 Willow Road, Nipomo.

ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN: PERFORMED BY GARY MULLEN & THE WORKS Clark

Center Presents: One Night of QueenPerformed by Gary Mullen & The Works.

See them live! Nov. 11 7:30-9:30 p.m.

$49-$75, Platinum $85; Senior Discounts. (805) 489-9444. clarkcenter.org/. Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande.

TURN THE BEAT - A GLORIA ESTEFAN TRIBUTE FEATURING GABIE LOPEZ

Clark Center Presents: Turn The Beat - A Gloria Estefan Tribute Featuring Gabie Lopez. Nov. 15 , 7:30-9:30 p.m.

$45-$59, Premium $69; Senior & Student Discounts. (805) 489-9444. clarkcenter. org/. Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande.

SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS

HAPPY HOUR MUSIC SERIES Enjoy live music at the winery most Friday evenings. Check site for concert schedule. Fridays presquilewine.com. Presqu’ile Winery, 5391 Presqu’ile Dr., Santa Maria, (805) 937-8110.

LADIES NIGHT OUT Music by DJ Van Gloryious and DJ Panda. Features delicious daiquiri specials. Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight Roscoe’s Kitchen, 229 Town Center E, Santa Maria, (805) 623-8866.

LIVE MUSIC AND FOOD BY LOBO BUTCHER SHOP Check out live music every Friday night from a variety of artists at Steller’s Cellar in Old Orcutt. Dinner served by Lobo Butcher Shop between 5 and 7:30 p.m. Fridays, 5-9 p.m. Varies according to food options. (805) 623-5129. stellerscellar.com. Steller’s Cellar, 405 E. Clark Ave., Orcutt.

LIVE MUSIC AT STELLER’S CELLAR

Various local musicians rotate each Friday. Fridays, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Steller’s Cellar, 400 E. Clark Ave., Orcutt, (805) 6235129, stellerscellar.com.

MUSIC AT ROSCOE’S KITCHEN Live DJ and karaoke every Friday and Saturday night. Featured acts include Soul Fyah Band, DJ Nasty, DJ Jovas, and more. Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Roscoe’s Kitchen, 229 Town Center E, Santa Maria, (805) 623-8866.

MUSIC LESSONS AT COELHO ACADEMY

Learn to play piano, drums, guitar, base, ukulele, or violin, or take vocal lessons. ongoing (805) 925-0464. coelhomusic. com/Lessons/lessons.html. Coelho Academy of Music, 325 E. Betteravia Rd., Santa Maria.

SUNDAY NIGHT FUN End the weekend with some good vibes. Music by DJ Van Gloryious. Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight Roscoe’s Kitchen, 229 Town Center E, Santa Maria, (805) 623-8866.

LOMPOC/VANDENBERG

KARAOKE AT COLD COAST BREWING

CO. Pick out a song, bring your friends, and get ready to perform. Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m. COLD Coast Brewing Company, 118 W Ocean Ave., Lompoc, (805) 8190723, coldcoastbrewing.com.

TEXAS GUITAR QUARTET The Grammynominated Texas Guitar Quartet will hit the stage and deliver their take on classical guitar ensemble performance. The quartet is known for their innovative arrangements of orchestral masterpieces by Mozart, Beethoven, and Ravel. Nov. 7 7-9 p.m. explorelompoc.com/event/texasguitar-quartet/. First United Methodist Church, 925 North F St., Lompoc.

SANTA YNEZ VALLEY

LIVE MUSIC SUNDAYS Sundays, 2-6 p.m. Brick Barn Wine Estate, 795 W. Hwy 246, Buellton, (805) 686-1208, brickbarnwineestate.com.

WINE DOWN WEDNESDAYS Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Brick Barn Wine Estate, 795 W. Hwy 246, Buellton, (805) 686-1208, brickbarnwineestate.com. ∆

Quality over quantity

Hit the 15th Garagiste Wine Festival in Paso for a lesson on oak

Abrand new French oak wine barrel can cost up to $2,500. An Eastern European oak might go for $1,000, and an American oak for $500, barrel aficionado Ryan Render explained.

“It’s expensive,” he said.

He started his career in the industry at a winery in 1997, developing a passion for wine and eventually barrels.

“Funny enough, my very first job on my very first day was pounding hoops on barrels to help them get hydrated and put back together,” Render said.

Now as a partner at Le Grand USA, Render helps manufacture and sell barrels. The company also sells oak alternatives, like wood chips and cubes, that are placed with the wine inside tanks. Alternatives are widely used because they’re less expensive than brand new barrels and give a similar flavor.

Render took interest in barrels at Cal Poly when he visited a cooperage, where barrels are shaped and assembled.

“When I went and saw the cooperage back in college, I was kind of like, ‘This is pretty cool,’” Render remembered.

He’ll be sharing some of his knowledge at the Garagiste Wine Festival in Paso Robles on Nov. 8, celebrating small-production winemakers. The panel discussion will compare oak varieties and how they affect the flavor profiles in wine. Attendees will get to taste for themselves.

“You’ll get a good understanding about the tools that the winemaker has in their winery,” Render said.

One of those tools is the barrel, which Render described as the winemaker’s “spice rack.”

After trees are cut down, the wood is split into sections called staves. They’re left outside in the elements for two to three years.

Pouring hard

The Garagiste Wine Festival will take over the Paso Robles Event Center on Nov. 7 and 8 showcasing dozens of micro-wineries. The weekend lineup includes food, music, artisan vendors, and plenty of wine. Buy tickets online for tasters and designated drivers who are 21 and older at garagistefestival.com.

Rain naturally softens the wood and rinses off harsh acids, Render said.

Then, coopers start putting the staves together and applying fire. Sugars caramelize on the inside of the barrel, creating what’s known as a toast level. After that, the barrels are assembled.

“French oak tends to be the most elegant; … you can have a lot of cigar box, cedar, very subtle spices,” Render explained. “American oak tends to have a lot more vanilla aromatics to it, more like a Snickers bar.”

Each grape variety interacts differently with barrels, he added. Some exude the oak’s properties on the palate. For example, a buttery chardonnay could be a sign of American oak. For other varieties, the oak may present itself on the nose.

“One hundred percent new oak on a wine, you definitely smell the oak,” Render said.

Guests can try tasting the oak at the Garagiste Wine Festival, which kicks off on Nov. 7 at 6:30 p.m. in the Frontier Pavillion

at the Paso Robles Event Center. It’ll be an evening filled with reserve and library tastings paired with an Italian buffet from Stein’s BBQ and Catering.

Join winemakers and fellow festivalgoers on Nov. 8 at the fairgrounds for the main event. Render’s VIP panel starts at 11:30 a.m. and gives guests early access to the headliner tasting event that runs from 2 to 5 p.m.

spotlights winemakers producing less than 1,500 cases per year.

“When you tend to make smaller batches of wine, you tend to really focus on the quality because you don’t have a lot of it,” Render said.

Share tasty tips! Send tidbits on everything food and drink to bites@newtimesslo.com.

In addition to wine, artisan vendors will sell a variety of goods, from candles to chocolate truffles. Keep mingling at the Rockin’ After-Party from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. with live music and complimentary beer from Paso Robles Brewing Company.

While the festival travels throughout the state during the year to cities like Solvang and Sonoma, this is the 15th anniversary of the Paso festival. The two-day celebration

Small wineries are handson, taking their time on each step of the process. Earlier in his career, Render came up through the same system as a winemaker.

A member of the festival since its early days, Render is “stoked” that it’s still going strong and giving small wineries the opportunity to showcase their craft.

“There’s a passion behind it,” he said, “and that’s why I got into it.” ∆

Sun Staff Writer Madison White, from New Times’ sister paper, is working on tasting the oak. Reach her at mwhite@santamariasun.com.

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C GUSTAVSON, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, as Trustor, will be sold AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER for cash (payable in full at time of sale by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said deed of trust in the property situated in said county and state, and as more fully described in the above referenced deed of trust.

Sale Date: December 16, 2025

Sale Time: 9:00 AM Sale Location: Breezeway facing Santa Rosa StreetCounty of San Luis Obispo General Services Building, 1087 Santa Rosa St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 2 File No.:24-07624CA

The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 345 Tiger Tail Drive, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein.

Said sale will be made in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $376,310.12 (Estimated). Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of out-

standing liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call, (800) 280-2832 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this internet website, www.auction.com, for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, T.S.# 24-07624CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (800) 280-2832, or visit this internet website www. auction.com, using the file number assigned to this case 24-07624CA to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 25CVP0360

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Andres Gutierrez Miranda filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Andres Gutierrez Miranda to PROPOSED

NAME: Andres Gutierrez THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: November 12, 2025, Time: 9:30 am, Dept. P2, in person or via zoom at the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 901 Park Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446. A copy of this Order to Show Cause must be published at least once each week for four successive weeks before the date set for hearing on the petition in a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: New Times

Date: September 24, 2025 /s/: MC Kelley, Judge of the Superior Court October 16, 23, 30, & November 6, 2025

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WHO County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing

WHEN Friday, November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM: All items are advertised for 9:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHAT A request by Lexy Frey and Kent Warden for a Minor Use Permit / Coastal Development Permit (C-DRC2024-00029) to allow an existing approximately 1,932 square-foot, single-family residence to be used as a vacation rental. The proposed project is within the Residential Single-Family land use category and is located at 1461 Los Osos Valley Road, in the community of Los Osos. The site is in Estero Planning Area of the Coastal Zone.

Also to be considered is the determination that this project is categorically exempt from environmental review under CEQA.

County File Number: C-DRC2024-00029

Supervisorial District: District 2 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 074-315-003

Date Accepted: 6/25/2024

WHERE Virtual meeting via Zoom platform. Instructions on how to view and participate in the meeting remotely and provide public comment will be included in the published meeting Agenda and are posted on the Department’s webpage at: Planning Department Hearing - County of San Luis Obispo (ca.gov)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Joseph Goostree, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at +1-805-788- 2010.

TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING

This matter is tentatively scheduled to appear on the consent agenda, which means that it and any other items on the consent agenda can be acted upon by the hearing officer with a single motion. An applicant or interested party may request a public hearing on this matter. To do so, send a letter to this office at the address below or send an email to pdh@co.slo.ca.us by 11/14/2025 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the language “I would like to request a hearing on C-DRC2024-00029.”

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

COASTAL APPEALABLE

If the County approves this project, that action may be eligible for appeal to the California Coastal Commission. An applicant or aggrieved party may appeal to the Coastal Commission only after all possible local appeals have been exhausted pursuant to Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.043(b). Local appeals must be filed using the required Planning Department form as provided by Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.042(a)(1).

Ysabel Eighmy

Secretary Planning Department Hearing November 6, 2025

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing WHEN: Friday, November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM: All items are advertised for 9:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHAT: A request by Colin Weyrick for a Minor Use Permit / Coastal Development Permit (C-DRC2025-00008) to allow for the construction of a new 2-story mixed-use project consisting of approximately 1,459 square-feet of commercial retail located on the ground floor and approximately 334 square-feet of commercial office space with 1,005 square-feet of single-family residential space located on the second floor. The project includes a parking modification pursuant to CZLUO Section 23.04.162h., to allow a reduced number of parking spaces; providing a total of two (2) carport parking spaces on-site, accessed from a shared private driveway. The project will result in the disturbance of the entire 2,500 square-foot parcel. The proposed project is within the Commercial Retail land use category and is located at 273 South Ocean Avenue in the community of Cayucos. The project is in the Coastal Zone and the Estero Planning Area.

Also to be considered is the determination that this project is exempt from environmental review under CEQA based on the General Rule or Common Sense Exemption.

County File Number: C-DRC2025-00008 Supervisorial District: District 2 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 064-125-051

Date Accepted: 9/24/2025

WHERE: Virtual meeting via Zoom platform. Instructions on how to view and participate in the meeting remotely and provide public comment will be included in the published meeting Agenda and are posted on the Department’s webpage at: Planning Department Hearing - County of San Luis Obispo (ca.gov)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Dane Mueller, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at 805-781-5600.

TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING

This matter is tentatively scheduled to appear on the consent agenda, which means that it and any other items on the consent agenda can be acted upon by the hearing officer with a single motion. An applicant or interested party may request a public hearing on this matter. To do so, send a letter to this office at the address below or send an email to pdh@co.slo.ca.us by 11/14/2025 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the language “I would like to request a hearing on C-DRC2025-00008.”

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing. COASTAL APPEALABLE If the County approves this project, that action may be eligible for appeal to the California Coastal Commission. An applicant or aggrieved party may appeal to the Coastal Commission only after all possible local appeals have been exhausted pursuant to Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.043(b). Local appeals must be filed using the required Planning Department form as provided by Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.042(a)(1).

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO

DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING

NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

WHO County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing

WHEN Friday, November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM: All items are advertised for 9:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHAT A request by Laura Brooks for a Minor Use Permit

(N-DRC2023-00027) to authorize major grading for the purposes of constructing a driveway to accommodate access to a future building pad for a single-story 594 square-foot (sf) residence with a septic system. The project would result in the disturbance of approximately 59,000 sf (1.35-acres), including approximately 1,040 cubic yards of cut and 690 cubic yards of fill across three parcels (APNs: 039-341-009, -010, and -011) totaling approximately 50.64 acres. The proposed project is within the Residential Rural land use category and is located at 1947 Ridge Road, approximately 0.5 miles north of the Atascadero city limits. The project is within the Salinas River Sub-Area of the North County Planning Area.

Also to be considered is the determination that this project is exempt from environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to CEQA Guidelines

Section 15061(b)(3), General Rule Exemption.

County File Number: N-DRC2023-00027

Supervisorial District: District 1

Assessor Parcel Number(s): 039-341-009, -010, -011

Date Accepted: 6/4/2024

WHERE Virtual meeting via Zoom platform. Instructions on how to view and participate in the meeting remotely and provide public comment will be included in the published meeting Agenda and are posted on the Department’s webpage at: Planning Department Hearing - County of San Luis Obispo (ca.gov)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Mason Denning, Project Manager in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at 805781-1298.

TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING

This matter is tentatively scheduled to appear on the consent agenda, which means that it and any other items on the consent agenda can be acted upon by the hearing officer with a single motion. An applicant or interested party may request a public hearing on this matter. To do so, send a letter to this office at the address below or send an email to pdh@co.slo.ca.us by 11/14/2025 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the language “I would like to request a hearing on N-DRC2023-00027.”

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

Ysabel Eighmy

Secretary Planning Department Hearing November 6, 2025

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

WHO: San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission

WHEN: Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. (All items are advertised for 9:00 a.m. To find out the agenda placement call the Planning Department at 7815600.)

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Also, to be considered at the

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Environmental Document prepared for the item. The Environmental Coordinator, after completion of the initial study, finds that there is no substantial evidence that the project may have a significant effect on the environment, and the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report is not necessary. Therefore, a Mitigated Negative Declaration (pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21000 et seq., and CA Code of Regulations Section 15000 et seq.) has been issued on October 24, 2025, for this project. Mitigation measures are proposed to address air quality, biological resources, hazards and hazardous materials, noise, and mandatory findings of significance are included as conditions of approval. The Environmental Document is available for public review at the Department of Planning and Building, at the address below. A copy of the Environmental Document is also available on the Planning and Building Department website at www.sloplanning.org Anyone interested in commenting on the proposed Environmental Document should submit a written statement and/or speak at the public hearing.

Comments will be accepted up until the completion of the public hearing(s).

County File Number: N-DRC2024-00038

Supervisorial District: District 4 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 075-081-007

Date Accepted: 10/22/2025

WHERE The hearing will be held in the Katcho Achadjian Government Center, Board of Supervisors Chambers,1055 Monterey Street, Room #D170, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the meeting all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Elizabeth Moreno, Project Manager in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at 805-781- 5600.

Ysabel Eighmy

Secretary Planning Commission November 6, 2025

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing

WHEN: Friday, December 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM: All items are advertised for 9:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

WHAT: A request by Mark Neufeld for a Minor Use Permit (N-DRC2024-00047) to authorize construction of a 2618-square-foot single-family dwelling with a detached 728-square-foot garage, a 2450-square-foot workshop, and associated site improvements including an access driveway, water storage tank and septic leach field. The project will result in a disturbance of 39,777-square-feet (approximately 0.9-acres) on a 24.04-acre parcel including 237-cubic-yards of cut and 211-cubic-yards of fill. The project site consists of approximately 24-acres located at APN 015-023-006 about two miles each of the City of Paso Robles. The site is within the Agriculture land use category and the El Pomar-Estrella Sub-area of the North County Planning area. Also, to be considered at the hearing will be adoption of the Environmental Document prepared for the item. The Environmental Coordinator, after completion of the initial study, finds that there is no substantial evidence that the project may have a significant effect on the environment, and the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report is not necessary. The project qualifies for a Near Miss Exemption pursuant to PRC 21080.1 because the project will result in the development of a single-family residence. The project meets all conditions for a Class 3 Exemption pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15303 (New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures), and all but one condition for the exemption criteria under Section 15300.2. The project does not meet Condition (c) Significant Effect under Section 15300.2 because it may result in a significant impact to biological resources due to an unusual circumstance. The project site is within a mitigation area for San Joaquin Kit Fox habitat. Pursuant to PRC 21080.1, the scope of environmental review is limited to potential impacts to biological resources, the noncompliant condition. Therefore, a Focused IS/MND has been prepared for the project. The Environmental Document is available for public review at the Department of Planning and Building, at the below address. A copy of the Environmental Document is also available on the Planning and Building Department website at www.sloplanning.org. Anyone interested in commenting on the proposed Environmental Document should submit a written statement and/or speak at the public hearing. Comments will be accepted up until completion of the public hearing(s).

County File Number: N-DRC2024-00047

Supervisorial District: District 1

Assessor Parcel Number(s): 015-023-006

Date Accepted: 6/29/2025

WHERE Virtual meeting via Zoom platform. Instructions on how to view and participate in the meeting remotely and provide public comment will be included in the published meeting Agenda and are posted on the Department’s webpage at: Planning Department Hearing - County of San Luis Obispo (ca.gov)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Kerry Brown, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at 805-781-5713.

TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING

WHAT: Hearing to consider an amendment to the Inland and Coastal Land Use Ordinances to: 1. Amend Section 23.04.320 Outdoor lights and 22.10.060 Exterior Lighting and Sections 23.11.020 and 22.80.020 Definitions for light source; 2. Amend Sections 22.70.060 and 23.01.060 to increase noticing radius requirements to 1,000 feet for projects located outside of urban and village reserve lines; 3. Amend Sections 23.08.094 and 22.34.050 to require approval by a majority of votes for the granting of a permit, lease or authorization for construction, installation or expansion of onshore support facilities for offshore gas and oil activities in compliance with Measure A; and 4. Expand school district housing in the Public Facilities Land Use Category to the Coastal Zone. (County File Number: LRP2025-00012). All Districts. (Planning and Building)

County File Number: LRP2025-00012 Assessor Parcel Number: Not applicable Supervisorial District: All Districts Date Authorized: Not applicable

WHERE: The hearing will be held in the Katcho Achadjian Government Center, Board of Supervisors Chambers 1055 Monterey Street, Room #D170, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the hearing all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: A copy of the staff report will be available on the Planning Department website, www. sloplanning.org. You may contact Kip Morais, Project Manager, in the San Luis Obispo County Department of Planning and Building, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, (805) 781-5600 or at kmorais@co.slo.ca.us.

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION:

Also to be considered is the environmental determination that the project is exempt under CEQA via the General Rule Exemption, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3). A Notice of Exemption has been prepared pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15062 (ED25-0149).

**If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing. **

DATED: July 9, 2025

YSABEL EIGHMY, SECRETARY COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION

November 6, 2025

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, to consider amending the countywide Fee Schedule Ordinance. The hearing will be held at the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County Government Center, 1055 Monterey Street, in San Luis Obispo.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

WHO: San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors

RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ATASCADERO, CAIFORNIA, DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO ORDER THE VACATION OF A PORTION OF PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY AT 11285 SAN

MARCOS ROAD

WHEREAS, the subdivision map recorded in San Luis Obispo County Book of Maps 3AC, Page 86 dedicated San Marcos Road as a 40-foot-wide public right-ofway, which right-of-way was assumed by the City of Atascadero upon incorporation; and

WHEREAS, since the dedication of San Marcos Road, geologic conditions have necessitated a realignment of a portion of the roadway; and

WHEREAS, to complete the realignment, the City will obtain an easement for public right-of-way from a private property owner comprising approximately 1,190 square feet in exchange for the City’s vacation of a portion of its right-of-way comprising approximately 1,265 square feet; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Streets and Highways Code Sections 8320 et sq., the City of Atascadero may initiate proceedings to vacate excess right-of-way; and WHEREAS, the proposed vacated area is legally described in Exhibit A and is shown on Exhibit B, attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and is on file in the Department of Public Works; and

WHEREAS, City staff have confirmed no City utility facilities currently exist within the portion of San Marcos Road to be vacated; and

WHEREAS, the vacation proceeding for said proposed vacated area is and will be conducted pursuant to the requirements of Streets and Highways Code Sections 8320, et seq.; and

WHEREAS, the proposed vacation is categorically exempt from environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in accordance with Section 15061(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines as it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Government Code Section 65402(a), the vacation of the proposed vacated area is required to facilitate a realignment of San Marcos Road that is minor in nature, and as such, referral of the vacation to the City’s planning commission pursuant to Section 65402(a) shall not be required, as the proposed vacation is consistent with the City’s general plan; and WHEREAS, the area proposed for vacation is no longer needed for public right-of-way purposes, and the vacation is in the public interest.

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Atascadero:

SECTION 1. The above recitals are true and correct.

SECTION 2. The City Council hereby declares its intention to vacate the above proposed area.

SECTION 3. The City Council sets November 12, 2025 as the date of the public hearing on the proposed street vacation. The public hearing will be held at 6:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as practicable, in the City of Atascadero Council Chambers, 6500 Palma Ave., Atascadero, California 93422. All persons interested in the vacation are invited to attend and give testimony if desired. After the close of the public hearing, the Council will consider the adoption of a resolution that declares the portion of San Marcos Road to be unnecessary for present or prospective public street purposes and orders the vacation. Said resolution shall provide that the vacation is subject to recordation of a right-of-way easement in favor of the City for the approximate 1,190 square foot area shown on Exhibit B.

SECTION 4. The City Clerk is directed to give notice of the public hearing as required by Streets and Highways Code Section 8322.

SECTION 5. The Director of Public Works is directed to conspicuously post not less than three notices of vacation along San Marcos Road at the location proposed to be vacated pursuant to Streets and Highways Code Section 8323. The notices shall be posted not more than 300 feet apart.

PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 14th day of October, 2025.

On motion by Council Member Funk and seconded by Council Member Peek, the foregoing Resolution is hereby adopted in its entirety on the following roll call vote:

AYES: Council Member Funk, Newsom, Peek, Mayor Pro Tem Dariz, Mayor Bourbeau

NOES: None

ABSENT: None

ABSTAIN: None

CITY OF ATASCADERO

By: S/ Charles Bourbeau, Mayor

ATTEST:S/ Lara K. Christensen, City Clerk

DATED: October 21,2025

PUBLISH: Oct. 30/ Nov. 6, 2025 NOTICE

Recommended amendments include increases, decreases, new, and deleted fees. Schedule A Fee amendments would become effective January 1, 2026, and Schedule B Fee amendments would become effective July 1, 2026.

Any person interested in expressing their views regarding the proposed amendments to the Fee Schedule may do so at the hearing. To determine specific placement of this item on the Board of Supervisors Agenda and to review the fee schedule amendments, go to the County’s website at www.slocounty.ca.gov on the Wednesday before the scheduled hearing date.

The fee schedule amendments may also be reviewed at the:

County Government Center Administrative Office, Room D430 1055 Monterey Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 (805) 781-5011

DATED: October 20, 2025 MATTHEW PONTES, Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors

By: /s/ Niki Martin

Deputy Clerk of the Board October 30 & November 6, 2025

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible, the Pismo Beach City Council will hold a public hearing in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach, for the following purpose: PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA:

Address: Citywide

Applicant: City of Pismo Beach

Description: Adoption (second reading) of an Ordinance amending Titles 8 And 15, Chapters 8.04, 8.08, 15.04, and 15.08 of the Pismo Beach Municipal Code; adopting by reference codes comprising the 2025 California Building Standards Code (California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Parts 1–12), including the California Fire Code (2025 Edition, incorporating and amending the 2024 International Fire Code), the California Building Code Volumes 1 and 2 (2025 Edition, incorporating and amending the 2024 International Building Code), the California Residential Code (2025 Edition, incorporating and amending the 2024 International Residential Code), the California Electrical Code (2025 Edition, incorporating and amending the 2023 National Electrical Code), the California Mechanical Code (2025 Edition, incorporating and amending the 2024 Uniform Mechanical Code), the California Plumbing Code (2025 Edition, incorporating and amending the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code), the California Energy Code (2025 Edition), the California Wildland-Urban Interface Code (2025 Edition, incorporating and amending the 2024 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code), the California Historical Building Code (2025 Edition), the California Existing Building Code (2025 Edition), the California Green Building Standards Code (2025 Edition), and the 2024 Edition of the International Property Maintenance Code together with certain amendments thereto; adopting findings of fact to support the imposition of requirements other than those of the California Building Standards Code; and making a Determination of Exemption under the California Environmental Quality Act.

Details about ways to participate in this meeting will be provided on the agenda posted for the meeting online at pismobeach.org/ agenda, and on the bulletin board at City Hall. The agenda will be posted in the afternoon of November 13, 2025.

Environmental Review

Under the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), this ordinance is covered by the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. Where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment, such as the adoption of the regulations contained herein, the activity is not subject to CEQA.

You have a right to comment on these projects and their effect on our community. Interested persons are invited to participate in the meeting or otherwise express their views and opinions regarding the proposed projects. Emailed comments may be submitted to citycouncil@pismobeach.org; staff cannot guarantee that emailed comments submitted after the start of the meeting will be given full consideration before action is taken. Written comments may be delivered or mailed to the City Clerk’s Office at 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach, CA 93449, prior to the meeting, or hand-delivered during the meeting no later than the comment period for this item. Oral comment may be provided prior to the meeting by calling 805773-7005 and leaving a voice message. Please state and spell your name, and identify your item of interest. Oral comment may also be made during the meeting by attending the meeting in person in the Council Chamber at City Hall. Please refer to the agenda for this meeting for specific instructions for participation.

Staff reports, plans and other information related to these projects are available for public review from the City Clerk’s Office, by emailing City Clerk Erica Inderlied at einderlied@pismobeach.org. The meeting agenda and staff report will be available no later than the Thursday before the meeting and may be obtained upon request by mail or by visiting www.pismobeach.org/agenda. The Council meeting will be televised live on Charter Cable Channel 20 and streamed on the City’s website.

PLEASE NOTE:

If you challenge the action taken on this item in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public meeting described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City of Pismo Beach at, or prior to, the Council’s consideration of the item.

For further information, please contact Erica Inderlied, City Clerk, at einderlied@pismobeach.org or 805-773-7003.

Erica Inderlied City Clerk November 6, 2025

WHEN: Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. All items are advertised for 9:00 a.m. To find out placement of this item on the Board of Supervisors Agenda, go to the County’s website at www.slocounty.ca.gov on the Wednesday before the scheduled hearing date.

WHAT: Hearing to consider an amendment to the General Plan Conservation and Open Space Element to improve public access to open space and for consistency with SB 1425. (County File Number: LRP2025-00005) All Districts. (Planning and building).

County File Number: LRP2025-00005 Assessor Parcel Number: N/A Supervisorial District: All Districts Date Accepted: N/A

WHERE: The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey St., Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the hearing all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: You may contact Kip Morais, Project Manager, in the San Luis Obispo County Department of Planning and Building, 976 Osos Street, Room 200, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, kmorais@co.slo.ca.us (805) 781-5136. The staff report will be available for review the Wednesday before the scheduled hearing date on the County’s website at http://www.slocounty.ca.gov

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION: This project is exempt under CEQA, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), General Rule Exemption. The Environmental Coordinator has determined that it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the proposed project may have a significant adverse effect on the environment. A Notice of Exemption has been prepared pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15062.

The project qualifies for the General Rule Exemption because the project involves amending the General Plan Conservation and Open Space element to improve public access to open space and for consistency with SB 1425. The project will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment (CEQA Guidelines sec. 15060(c)(2)). Any future projects undertaken to implement the implementation strategies, will conform to the applicable General Plan and Area Plan standards, and no measures beyond those required by County Code are necessary to address the environmental impacts associated with the proposed project.

COASTAL APPEALABLE: County action may be eligible for appeal to the California Coastal Commission. Appeals must be filed in writing as provided by Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.043.

**If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing**

DATED: November 3, 2025

MATTHEW PONTES, EX-OFFICIO CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

By /s/ Niki Martin, Deputy Clerk November 6, 2025

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

WHO: San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors

WHEN: Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. All items are advertised for 9:00 a.m. To find out placement of this item on the Board of Supervisors Agenda, go to the County’s website at www.slocounty.ca.gov on the Wednesday before the scheduled hearing date.

WHAT: Hearing to consider an appeal by Dustin Robinson of the Planning Commission’s denial of a request for a Parcel Map (N-SUB2025-00014) to subdivide a 29.99-acre parcel into four parcels and a remainder (four 5-acre parcels and a 9.99-acre remainder parcel containing an existing residence) for future sale and residential development. The project is located within the Rural Residential (RR) land use category at 1030 Pump Handle Lane just outside the southern city limits of the City of Paso Robles at the intersection of Charolais Road and S. River Rd (southeast quadrant) in the Salinas River Sub-Area of the North County Planning Area, in the Spanish Camp Area, and within the Paso Basin Planning Area.

Also to be considered is that this project is found to be statutorily exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act under the provisions of Public Resources Code Section 21080(b)(5), which provides that CEQA does not apply to projects which a public agency rejects or disapproves.

County File Number: APPL2025-00004

Assessor Parcel Number: 020-243-004

Supervisorial District: 1

Date Accepted: May 2, 2025

Recommendation: Denial

WHERE: The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey St., Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the hearing all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: You may contact Eric Tolle, Project Manager, in the San Luis Obispo County Department of Planning and Building, 976 Osos Street, Room 300, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, (805) 788-2148. The staff report will be available for review the Wednesday before the scheduled hearing date on the County’s website at www.slocounty.ca.gov

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION: This project is found to be statutorily exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act under the provisions of Public Resources Code Section 21080(b)(5), which provides that CEQA does not apply to projects which a public agency rejects or disapproves.

**If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing**

DATED: November 3, 2025

MATTHEW PONTES, EX-OFFICIO CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

By /s/ Niki Martin, Deputy Clerk November 6, 2025

DATE: Wednesday, November 12, 2025

TIME: 6:00 p.m.

PLACE: City of Atascadero Council Chambers 6500 Palma Avenue

Atascadero, CA 93422

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Atascadero will hold a PUBLIC HEARING in- person at the time and place indicated above to consider draft recommendations for the 2026 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. CDBG funds can be used for public facilities, qualifying public services and economic development activities that benefit low-income persons. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that if a challenge to the above action is made in court, persons may be limited to raising only those issues they or someone else raised at the public hearing described in the notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Council at, or prior to, the public hearing.

ALL INTERESTED PERSONS are invited to attend inperson and will be given an opportunity to speak in favor of, or opposition to, the above-proposed project. Written comments are also accepted by the City Clerk, prior to the hearing at 6500 Palma Ave., Atascadero, CA 93422 or cityclerk@atascadero.org and will be distributed to the City Council. Written public comments must be received by 12:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting. Email comments must identify the Agenda Item Number in the subject line of the email. Written comments will not be read into the record.

Information regarding the hearing is filed in the Public Works Department. If you have any questions, please contact Public Works at (805) 470-3456 or publicworks@ atascadero.org or visit the office at 6500 Palma Ave., by appointment only, Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. All documents related to the project will be available for review on the City’s website 72 hours prior to the public hearing at www.atascadero.org/agendas.

DATED: October 24, 2025

S/ N DeBar, Director, Public Works

PUBLISH: October 30, 2025 & November 6, 2025

NOTICE OF PROPOSED ORDINANCE NO. 673 OF THE CITY OF MORRO BAY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, at the regular meeting of the City Council held on October 28, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the Veterans Memorial Hall located at 209 Surf Street, Morro Bay, California, the City Council of the City of Morro Bay, introduced for first reading by title only with further reading waived, Ordinance No. 673, “An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Morro Bay, California, repealing, amending and reenacting Chapters 14.01 – 14.12 of Title 14 (Buildings and Construction) of the Morro Bay Municipal Code, thereby adopting by reference and amending the 2025 California Building Code (Volumes 1 and 2), Residential, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Energy, Historical Building, Fire, Existing Building, Green Building, Administrative, and Reference Standards Codes, the 2021 International Property Maintenance Code, the 1997 Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Building Code, and the 2025 Wildland-Urban Interface Code.” Ordinance 673 adopts by reference, the 2025 California Building Standards Code and updates existing local amendments to coordinate with the format of the new State Codes. This includes, but is not limited to, adoption of the 2025 California Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Code by reference. The local amendments are codified as modifications to the California Building and Standards Code where required by State Law.

Notice is Further Hereby Given the above is a summary of the major highlights of the Ordinance. A reading of the entire Ordinance is necessary to obtain a full understanding of the Ordinance.

A certified copy of the full text of the proposed ordinance is available for public review at the City Clerk’s office, 595 Harbor Street, Morro Bay, CA, and upon request by contacting the City Clerk at (805) 772-6205.

The City Council will consider adoption of Ordinance No. 673 at the regularly scheduled meeting of November 12, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the Veterans Memorial Hall located at 209 Surf Street, Morro Bay, California.

Dana Swanson

City Clerk

Dated:November 3, 2025

Publish: November 6, 2025

The San Luis Obispo City Council invites all interested persons to attend a meeting on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo. Meetings may be viewed remotely on Government Access Channel 20 or streamed live from the City’s YouTube channel at www.youtube. com/CityofSanLuisObispo. Public comment, prior to the start of the meeting, may be submitted in writing via U.S. Mail delivered to the City Clerk’s office at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 or by email to emailcouncil@ slocity.org.

PUBLIC HEARING ITEM:

• Council will consider amending Chapters 15.02 and 15.04 of the Municipal Code by adopting the 2025 edition of Title 24 from California Code of Regulations. This update will align the local Building Construction and Fire Prevention codes with the new statewide standards that go in effect on January 1st, 2026, as well as re-adoption of existing local amendments. The update will also include adoption of new statewide Wildland Urban Interface Code “as is” and consideration of local amendments to the Energy Code. Project Address: Citywide.

For more information, you are invited to contact Timmi Tway, Director of the City’s Community Development Department at (805) 781-7187 or by email, ttway@slocity.org

The City Council may also discuss other hearings or business items before or after the items listed above. If you challenge the proposed project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Council at, or prior to, the public hearing.

Council Agenda Reports for this meeting will be available for review one week in advance of the meeting date on the City’s website, under the Public Meeting Agendas web page: https://www.slocity.org/government/mayorand-city-council/agendas-and-minutes. Please call the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 781-7114 for more information. The City Council meeting will be televised live on Charter Cable Channel 20 and live streaming on the City’s YouTube channel www.youtube.com/CityofSanLuisObispo.

Teresa Purrington City Clerk November 6, 2025

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING

The San Luis Obispo Architectural Review Commission will hold a Regular Meeting on Monday, November 17, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo. Public comment, prior to the start of the meeting, may be submitted in writing via U.S. Mail to the City Clerk’s Office at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 or by email to advisorybodies@ slocity.org

PUBLIC HEARING ITEM:

• Architectural review of a new multi-family housing development located within the medium-highdensity (R-3) portion of Avila Ranch. The project includes review of 194 dwelling units on 11.53-acres in Phase 4 of the Avila Ranch Development Plan. A vesting tentative tract map for condominium purposes (Tract 3245) is proposed. The project is consistent with the certified Final EIR for the Avila Ranch Development Plan; Project Address: 175 Venture Dr.; Case #: ARCH-0786-2024 & SBDV-07922024; Zone: R-3-SP; Avila Ranch Developers, Inc., applicant

Contact: Callie Taylor – (805) 781-7016 –cltaylor@slocity.org

The Architectural Review Commission may also discuss other hearing or business items before or after the item(s) listed above. An action of the Architectural Review Commission is typically a recommendation to the City’s Community Development Director, Planning Commission or City Council, and therefore is not final. Please note that any court challenge related to the recommendation on this item may be limited to considering only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence received prior to the public hearing.

Report(s) are typically available one week in advance of the meeting and can be viewed on the City’s website, under the Public Meeting Agendas web page: https:// www.slocity.org/government/mayor-and-city-council/ agendas-and-minutes. Please call The Community Development Department at (805) 781-7170 for more information, or to request an agenda report. November 6, 2025

TETRACHLOROETHYLENE PLUME CHARACTERIZATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF MONITORING WELLS (PACKET 1) SPECIFICATION NO. 2091506

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the City of San Luis Obispo will receive bids by mail for the “Tetrachloroethylene Plume Characterization and Construction of Monitoring Wells (Packet 1), Specification No. 2091506” at the Public Works Administration Office located at 919 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 until, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2025, at 11:00 A.M., when they will be publicly opened Bids received after said time will not be considered. Bids shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked with the project title, contractor name, address, and specification number. Public bid opening may also be viewed via Microsoft Teams video conference and conference call. Use the following link: https:// teams.microsoft.com/l/ meetup-join/19%3ameeting_2N2I1N2Y1MTQtOTQ0ZS00ODFhLWE1NDEtYmMw YjRhOTljZDFk%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22a78b182d-94e44507-a9a9-330dcb148164%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2255684c81-fa0a-443f-b6a51f55eacc1141%22%7d

The Contractor must possess a valid Class A or C57 Contractor’s License at the time of the bid opening. Every bid must be accompanied by a certified check/ cashier’s check or bidder’s bond for 10% of the bid amount, payable to the City of San Luis Obispo.

A NON-MANDATORY remote pre-bid meeting will be held via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday November 12, 2025, 1:00 – 2:00 PM Microsoft Teams Meeting ID: 284 029 221 571 3 Passcode: qb2Bb734 Dial in by phone: +1 209-645-4165 Phone conference ID: 547 755 59# Download FREE at the City’s website: www.SloCity.org - Bid packages under Bids & Proposals. Questions may be addressed to Miguel Barcenas, Deputy Director, through www.bidnetdirect.com. November 6, 2025

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO DEDICATE

A PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT TO PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Education of the San Luis Coastal Unified School District (“District”) has, by resolution adopted by the Governing Board on November 4, 2025, declared its intent to convey a public utility easement to Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), pursuant to the authority of California Education Code sections 17556, et seq. Copies of the resolution of intent to dedicate are available upon request.

The District owns real property located at 1401 San Luis Bay Drive, San Luis Obispo, California, currently designated as Assessor’s Parcel Number 076-521-055. PG&E has requested that the District convey to PG&E an easement on this property to excavate for, construct, reconstruct, replace (of initial or any other size), remove, maintain, inspect, and use facilities and associated equipment for public utility purposes, including, but not limited to electric, gas, and communication facilities, together with a right of way therefor, on, over, and under the easement area, and also ingress thereto and egress therefrom, over and across that certain land.

The Governing Board will consider approval of this dedication to PG&E following a public hearing at its November 18, 2025, Board meeting. The public hearing will be held at 6:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard. Members of the public may join the meeting in person at the Los Osos Middle School Library, located at 1555 El Moro Avenue, Los Osos, California, 93402.

Kelly Lee Facilities Analyst II November 6, 2025

INVITATION TO BID

HARBOR PATROL BOAT

Port San Luis Harbor District

Notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at 10:00 A.M. at the Main Office Building located at 3950 Avila Beach Drive, Avila Beach, County of San Luis Obispo, State of California, the staff of Port San Luis Harbor District will convene to review bid packages for Harbor Patrol Boat.

Delivery of Bids:

(Please note USPS express mail is not available to the Harbor Office)

Fed Ex or other Express mail service:

Port San Luis Harbor District

3950 Avila Beach Drive

Avila Beach, CA 93424

Phone: (805)-595-5410

US Postal Service – (It is advisable to ensure USPS delivery 1 day prior to bid opening)

Port San Luis Harbor District PO Box 249

Avila Beach, CA 93424

Any additional information can be obtained online at: https://www.portsanluis.com/2180/Bids-Proposals

Sealed bids are due no later than: 4:00 P.M., Wednesday, November 19, 2025.

A copy of the Invitation to Bid will be available to the public at the front counter of the Harbor District Office, 3950 Avila Beach Drive, Avila Beach, from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday not later than November 19, 2025.

BOARD OF HARBOR COMMISSIONERS

PORT SAN LUIS HARBOR DISTRICT

(Signed)

Matthew Ashton

Chief Harbor Patrol Officer

November 06, 2025

Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny

Homework: What attachment would be healthy to relinquish? Newsletter.freewillastrology.com

ARIES

(March 21-April 19): In 1995, wolves were reintroduced to the American wildlife area known as Yellowstone Park after a 70-year absence. They hunted elk, which changed elk behavior, which changed vegetation patterns, which stabilized riverbanks, which altered the course of the Lamar River and its tributaries. The wolves changed the rivers! This phenomenon is called a trophic cascade: one species reorganizing an entire ecosystem through a web of indirect effects. For the foreseeable future, Aries, you will be a trophic cascade, too. Your choices will create many ripples beyond your personal sphere. I hope you wield your influence with maximum integrity.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20): I authorize you to explore the mysteries of sacred laziness. It’s your right and duty to engage in intense relaxing, unwinding, and detoxifying. Proceed on the theory that rest is not the absence of productivity but a different kind of production—the cultivation of dreams, the composting of experience, and the slow fermentation of insight. What if your worth isn’t always measured by your output? What if being less active for a while is essential to your beautiful success in the future?

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): You are not yet who you will become. Your current struggle has not yet generated its full wisdom. Your confusion hasn’t fully clarified into purpose. The mess hasn’t composted into soil. The ending that looms hasn’t revealed the beginning it portends. In sum, Gemini, you are far from done. The story isn’t over. The verdict isn’t in. You haven’t met everyone who will love you and help you. You haven’t become delightfully impossible in all the ways you will eventually become delightfully impossible.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): By the time he became an elder, Cancerian artist David Hockney had enjoyed a long and brilliant career as a painter, primarily applying paint to canvases. Then, at age 72, he made a radical departure, generating artworks using iPhones and iPads. He loved how these digital media allowed him to instantly capture fleeting moments of beauty. His success with this alternate form of expression has been as great as his previous work. I encourage you to be as daring and innovative as Hockney. Your imaginative energy and creative powers are peaking. Take full advantage!

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Black activist Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” He was proclaiming a universal truth: Real courage is never just about personal glory. It’s about using your fire to help and illuminate others. You Leos are made to do this: to be bold not just for your own sake, but as a source of strength for your community. Your charisma and creativity can be precious resources for all those whose lives you touch. In the coming weeks, how will you wield them for mutual uplift?

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Who would have predicted that the first woman to climb Mount Everest would have three planets in Virgo? Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei did it in 1975. To what did she attribute her success? She described herself not as fearless, but as “a person who never gives up.” I will note another key character trait: rebellious willfulness. In her time, women were discouraged from the sport. They were regarded as too fragile and impractical for rugged ascents. She defied all that. Let’s make her your inspirational role model, Virgo. Be persistent, resolute, indefatigable, and, if necessary, renegade.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Among the Mbuti people of the Congo, there’s no word for “thank you.” Gratitude is so foundational to their culture that it requires no special acknowledgment. It’s not singled out in moments of politeness; it’s a sweet

ambient presence in the daily flux. I invite you to live like that for now, Libra. Practice feeling reverence and respect for every little thing that makes your life such an amazing gift. Feel your appreciation humming through ordinary moments like background music. I guarantee you that this experiment will boost the flow of gratitude-worthy experiences in your direction.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Martin Luther King Jr. said that harnessing our pain and transforming it into wise love can change the world for the better. More than any other sign, Scorpio, you understand this mystery: how descent can lead to renewal, how darkness can awaken brilliance. It’s one of your birthrights to embody King’s militant tenderness: to take what has wounded you, alchemize it, and make it into a force that heals others as well as yourself. You have the natural power to demonstrate that vulnerability and ferocity can coexist, that forgiveness can live alongside uncompromising truth. When you transmute your shadows into offerings of power, you confirm King’s conviction that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful patterns in seemingly random data. On the downside, it may cause a belief in delusional conspiracy theories. But it can also be a generator of life’s poetry, leading us to see faces in clouds, hear fateful messages in static, and find key revelations in a horoscope. Psychologist C.G. Jung articulated another positive variation of the phenomenon. His concept of synchronicity refers to the occurrence of meaningful coincidences between internal psychological states and external events that feel deeply significant and even astounding to the person experiencing them. Synchronicities suggest there’s a mysterious underlying order in the universe, linking mind and matter in nonrational ways. In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, I suspect you will experience a slew of synchronicities and the good kind of apophenia.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Philosopher Alfred Korzybski coined the phrase “the map is not the territory.” In other words, your concepts about reality are not reality itself. Your idea of love is not love. Your theory about who you are is not who you are. It’s true that many maps are useful fictions. But when you forget they’re fiction, you’re lost even when you think you know where you are. Here’s the good news, Capricorn: In the weeks ahead, you are poised to see and understand the world exactly as it is—maybe more than ever before. Lean into this awesome opportunity.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Babies are born with about 300 bones, but adults have 206. Many of our first bones fuse with others. From one perspective, then, we begin our lives abundant with possibility and rich with redundancy. Then we solidify, becoming structurally sound but less flexible. Aging is a process of strategic sacrifice, necessary but not without loss. Please meditate on these facts as a metaphor for the decisions you face. The question isn’t whether to ripen and mature— that’s a given—but which growth will serve you and which will diminish you.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20): Beneath every thriving forest lies a lacework of mycelium. Through it, tree roots trade nourishment, warn each other of drought or illness, and make sure that young shoots benefit from elders’ reserves. Scientists call it the “wood-wide web.” Indigenous traditions have long understood the principle: Life flourishes when a vast communication network operates below the surface to foster care and collaboration. Take your cues from these themes, Pisces. Tend creatively to the web of connections that joins you to friends, collaborators, and kindred spirits. Proceed with the faith that generosity multiplies pathways and invites good fortune to circulate freely. Offer what you can, knowing that the cycle of giving will find its way back to you. ∆