by Will Jones | Sep 1, 2020 | Community, Cover story, Nonprofit, People, San Luis Obispo
What would it be like to be young, Black, living in San Francisco, but not to be accepted by your Black peers? What disguise would you have to wear to become friends with white students? How would those experiences shape you as you continued your education and...
by Will Jones | Feb 1, 2020 | Arroyo Grande, Community, People
On February 22, after a year of planning and four months of rehearsals, between eighty and ninety Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter School students will take the stage at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande for two performances of the musical, Beauty and the Beast. For most of...
by Will Jones | Nov 1, 2019 | Community, Morro Bay, People, San Luis Obispo
If life experience is the best teacher, then San Luis Obispo artist Tony Girolo has a Ph.D. to accompany his Masters in Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, America’s oldest art school. A 1999 graduate of San Luis Obispo High School,...
by Will Jones | Oct 1, 2019 | Business, Community, People, San Luis Obispo
After two wildly successful events, and a third one planned, it is time to add SLO Motion Film to the list of cultural entities that make San Luis Obispo such a uniquely wonderful place to live. Co-founded by San Luis Obispo native, and 2001 San Luis Obispo High...
by Will Jones | Jun 1, 2019 | Community, People, San Luis Obispo
Jessica Clarkson discovered her talent for the vocal arts when she took choir at Laguna Middle School. It led to private voice lessons, a starring role in a musical, selection to the American Choral Director’s Association Western Regional Choir and to the National...
