Entering Phoenix Books in downtown San Luis Obispo is like walking into book heaven, where everything, right down to the smell that only good, old books have, is perfect. The two-story space is a collage of artifacts that lend the feeling of being inside an antique shop of sorts rather than just a bookstore.
Out of Dust: Local store is treasure trove of used books
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Comic relief: A memoir in little pictures
I have a bit of a problem. I really like to spend money on things I shouldn’t, like comic books. For instance, last week I was at a bookstore with no intent of buying anything, and of course I had to check out the graphic novel section. I stumbled upon something I just had to have, Jeffery Brown’s “Little Things: A Memoir in Slices.
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Barden’s critics show silliness of draft process
So-called NFL “experts” and “insiders” have made Ramses Barden into something of a love-it-or-hate-it indie film.
Hardly anyone knew about Barden, the just-graduated Cal Poly receiver – now a sudden cult hit – when he was in the making.
It’s understandable.
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Cal Poly’s Keeler named Player of the Week
Cal Poly junior guard Lorenzo Keeler was named Big West Conference Player of the Week on Monday after averaging 22 points, four rebounds and 1.5 assists per game in the Mustangs’ two road victories over UC Davis and Pacific last week.
Keeler helped propel Cal Poly (5-12, 2-5 Big West Conference) to its first conference victory of the year over Pacific scoring a career-high 25 points in the Mustangs’ 76-60 win last Thursday.
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Final non-conference test awaits Mustangs
The Cal Poly women’s basketball team hadn’t won two consecutive Big West Conference games this season until last weekend’s defeats of Pacific and UC Davis.
The Mustangs (11-7) may have finally found their stride in conference. Now they step away from the Big West for the final time this season as they take on Cal State Bakersfield at 7 p.
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CSU defers fees for grant students
Cal Poly and the rest of the CSU system has decided to postpone payment of spring term fees for all students facing delayed grants from the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC).
Since California lawmakers are currently unable to agree on a budget, the CSU system is not receiving the necessary cash flow to cover all students receiving Cal Grants A and B.
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All shapes and sizes: New club promotes body acceptance
After suffering from an eating disorder at the end of her freshman year of college, Cal Poly communications junior Jamie Engelhardt decided to to start a club to help prevent others from going through the same thing.
Engelhardt took a year off so she could fully recover from anorexia nervosa and since returning to school has been in the process of forming the Coalition for Health, Wellness and Body Appreciation club.
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Without validation, hope is empty rhetoric
In response to letter to the editor, “Hope is Not an Empty Message”:
“Hope” is entirely empty rhetoric if the reason for hope is not substantiated.
Should we have hope that our future financial situation will be better than it is today? Sure we should, because we’ve seen it better in the past.
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Economic forces can bring about an environmental revolution
Economists predict that the current recession will continue through at least July 2009 (with recovery effects lasting the rest of the year or longer), making it the longest period of economic downturn since the Great Depression. The economic crisis will not only transform finance and business, but the way we think and behave.
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Performance: A world without racial discrimination
“Debunking the Myth: N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk, The Race Show,” will present hip-hop, slam poetry and real life stories tonight as part of a show designed to reduce racial tension. The event will take place tonight at 8 in Chumash Auditorium.
The show’s performers and co-writers Miles Gregley, Rafael Agustin and Allan Axibal use comedy and entertainment to tell stories from their personal ethnically diverse backgrounds with the hope of deconstructing the racial stereotypes in America.
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Straight black and unadorned: local poet keeps it simple
Poet and editor of nationally known Solo Café magazine, Glenna Luschei was the featured reader last Friday night at the first annual Winter Celebration Reading. The evening was a showcase of local poets reading works from Luschei’s publication as well as poems by the Plein Air Poets of San Luis Obispo.