A Sunday morning stillness washed over the quaint, foggy town of Avila Beach. Working in an unassuming, gray building at the end of the 3,000-foot-long Cal Poly Pier was lead sampler and biology junior Sydney Yium. She was absorbed in her work, collecting weekly phytoplankton and water samples for the California Harmful Algal Blooming Monitoring […]
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National Geographic Explorer discusses new memoir at Cal Poly event
National Geographic Explorer in Residence Tara Roberts discussed her new memoir, “Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging,” at the Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo, detailing her experience uncovering slave wrecks along the Middle Passage and the importance of preserving these stories.
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40 Prado’s kitchen doesn’t just serve daily meals, it changes lives
About a year ago, Tyson Wynne left Los Angeles’ Skid Row and boarded a train headed north with little more than his ticket. He said he had been living in the alleys of Hollywood, consumed by drugs and alcohol, with no support system to sustain him. He stumbled off at the last stop — San […]
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Inside the thrilling world of Shabang’s marketplace vendors
Human interaction buzzes within festival crowds — shouting the wrong lyrics with your best friends, engaging in spontaneous dance with a person you just met and allowing the hum of a guitar to resonate through your body.
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Fostering community through sound: Music lovers celebrate Shabang’s 10th anniversary, together
In between songs at her Shabang set, Kate Bollinger — bundled in a draping black trenchcoat, hair floating with the blustering wind — giggled to herself before looking out to her soggy crowd pooling around the Laguna Lake stage.