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.
Inside the thrilling world of Shabang’s marketplace vendors
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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.
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A look inside the fashion designers’ creative process
It can be staring at the wall, face to face with tree bark or even on the way to the bus stop when it hits.
Like a lightning bolt approaching from a far away sky, the visual idea can hit the mind of Jaclyn Brodersen at a moment’s notice.
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Students and faculty engage in second “die-in” and walkouts in support of Palestine
Roughly 100 student protesters gathered on Dexter Lawn for the second “die-in” demonstration on campus and a walk-out in support of Palestinian students and faculty on Thursday.
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Cal Poly Softball closes out 2024 season with a sweep over UC San Diego
Cal Poly Softball closed out the regular season on a high note, capping off a six-game win streak with a road sweep of UC San Diego at Triton Softball Stadium. The sweep solidified a third-place finish in the Big West Conference – their best conference finish since 2014. The Mustangs (28-17, 18-8 Big West) put […]
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Cal Poly Wind Band presents, “All Hail, Green and Gold!”
The Cal Poly Wind Band will be concluding the spring quarter with their concert “All Hail, Green and Gold!”
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Cal Poly Track and Field Big West Championship Preview
For the first time in program history, the full Big West Track and Field Championships will be held at the Miller & Capriotti Athletics Complex from Friday, May 10, through Saturday, May 11. The Mustangs look to make some noise in the competition after a great regular season in which they broke school records in […]
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Cal Poly music department offering free recitals in May and June
According to Director of Bands Christopher Woodruff, the department tries to host recitals and performances that are free as much as possible to allow the best and easiest access for students and the community to attend.
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Cal Poly Baseball falls to Santa Clara in midweek matchup
Cal Poly dropped their midweek non-conference matchup against the University of Santa Clara on Tuesday, May 7 by a score of 4-2. The Mustangs (28-18, 17-7 Big West) had trouble getting their offense going against a stingy Broncos (22-23, 8-10 West Coast) pitching staff. Junior catcher Ryan Stafford had his 25-game hitting streak snapped in […]
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‘Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play’ at Spanos Theatre
Next weekend Cal Poly Theatre & Dance is putting on a production of “Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play,” at Spanos Theatre.
According to the event description, the show’s plot follows a group of survivors after the collapse of civilization. The group shares a campfire and attempts to piece together the plot of The Simpsons episode “Cape Feare” entirely from memory, this then leads into a future where these stories become legend.
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Cal Poly students to open for DJ Disco Lines
James Dowie and Matt Zahn, both students at Cal Poly, have each individually kickstarted their DJ careers in the party scene in SLO.