Author Archives: Angela Marie Watkins

There’s something very disarming about Cal Poly student Logan Tavelli’s smile. Perhaps that’s why it was plastered across commercials for NBC’s “Nashville Star.” Maybe you’ve seen him. He looks earnestly at the judges and says, “to make my dreams come true.

Those who watch the ribbon dancers at Cirque du Soleil may wonder, “How do they do that?” Perhaps the more daring ask, “How can I learn to do that?”

The Central Coast offers a venue for both the curious and the daring to satisfy their desires.

Hidden away in Grover Beach, 20 minutes south of San Luis Obispo, is ECHO Artspace, a warehouse where Cal Poly alumna Rebekah Leach teaches aerial dancing classes.

Portland-based singer Casey Neill and the Norway Rats, which includes Jenny Conlee of indie rock band The Decemberists, will play a show at San Luis Obispo’s City/County Library – the actual library, not THE Library for all you booze hounds out there.

Casey Neill and the Norway Rats claim to fuse modern rock with punk, Americana and Celtic styles, and are currently promoting its third album, “Brooklyn Bridge,” which was released almost one year ago.

What’s better than having a large, warm, delicious and carefully prepared meal? Having that wonderful meal wrapped in an equally tasty tortilla thus making a burrito, the food of the gods. However, not everyone can make the perfect burrito, and Chili Peppers is only good if you’re drunk.

At least it sounds interesting.

“Rodeo,” the Ballet Theatre of San Luis Obispo’s Saturday and Sunday premiere of the 1942 Aaron Copland ballet, tells the story, through dance, of a little ol’ cowgirl in love with a rodeo’s head wrangler. In an effort to impress him, she tries to join the rodeo and we watch her fail miserably when she falls while miming – elegantly – a wild bucking bronco.

Harold and Kumar have the munchies – again. And this time, it takes them all the way to