whitney guenther Mardi Gras weekend was exactly what San Luis Obispo Police Chief Deborah Linden wanted. “We’re really hoping you will be bored stiff all weekend,” she told an estimated 350 policemen at a briefing on Friday night at Santa Rosa Park, the field operations headquarters for the weekend. Linden and her staff, comprised of […]
The party is a no-show
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'Running' out of excuses for poor acting
Forget the cute Hollywood sled dogs from “Eight Below,” leave the kids at home and tell the Disney Channel to interview someone else because it’s time for classic F-word bombing, fast car driving and shotgun blasting Paul Walker fun. “Running Scared,” Walker’s foray into closer-to-serious acting, will take you for a ride that you’ll probably […]
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Man on the street: An insider's view of Mardi Gras
whitney guenther On Stenner Street, a pack of cops on horses roam the streets; the entire pack trots into an apartment complex’s parking lot and the horses relieve themselves. Some of the residents complain. I know there is some type of metaphor there, and I took to the streets to find it. Friday night I’m […]
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A view from the front of the room
Student X in the back of the room is nodding off while I’m lecturing on the difference between writing for print media and writing for broadcast, telling my 18 students in Writing for the Media that people read differently than they watch or listen, that sentences have to be written differently and thoughts arranged differently […]
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Tour of California: Part two
One student sporting a Cal Poly lacrosse jacket perched in a tree outside Hudson’s Grill and Bar to get a better view. Another group hung a canvas-sized sign from a building across the way that read, “Go #133 Lucas Euser.” As the lead group of riders made the final turn onto Monterey Street, fans lining […]
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Tour of California: Part one
Justin Fivella To see the beautiful PDF version of today’s Tour of California coverage, click on the image. In a scene reminiscent of the legendary Tour de France, a sea of colorfully clad professional cyclists raced around the corner of Chorro Street and 300 meters up Monterey Street to the finish in front of City […]
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A look back to the past
There was a time when San Luis Obispo celebrated Mardi Gras. The metamorphosis of Mardi Gras in San Luis Obispo began nearly a decade ago when participants set a record attendance at the 1997 Mardi Gras parade. In return, police decided to increase their presence at future parades. Rain cancelled the 1998 parade and the […]
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City plans for no party like last year
nick coury The party is still over. At least this is still the mantra of the San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLOPD) for this year’s Mardi Gras, which starts this weekend through Fat Tuesday on Feb. 28. In 2004, drunken crowds in big numbers threw bottles and rocks at unarmed police causing mass rioting with […]
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Show New Orleans we care!
I will keep this short. If New Orleans is able to pick up their city from the rubble of Hurricane Katrina and still celebrate Mardi Gras, so should we! Our rubble may be a cause of drunken college students, but let’s pull together and show New Orleans we care! (It’s the least we can do.) […]
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We're students, not animals
Laughing at the stupidity of San Luis Obispo locals will never get old. See this gem from Dr. Steve Sainsbury of Sierra Vista hospital: “…dispensing multiple packs of ‘morning-after’ pills to the young (mostly female) Mardi Gras devotees that awake in horror the next day…” Only a SLOcal could be so aghast at the way […]