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Joe Sargent Da Bull, Mr. Maverick’s and Z-boy will be at the Fremont Theatre this Thursday for the showing of “Riding Giants.” Greg Noll, a pioneer in big-wave surfing; Jeff Clark, the founder of the big-wave break Maverick’s; and Stacy Peralta, a skate-boarding pioneer turned filmmaker, will all be on hand for the showing of […]

Julianne Byer             No one really said that life gets harder as we grow up. They could have. They could have warned us that responsibilities and everyday tasks will pile up in between the stack of old newspapers and heap of dirty laundry. The To-Do list will continue to grow, the waiting lists will get […]

Fat Tuesday in San Luis Obispo proved to be nearly as busy for the police department as Saturday night with 13 arrests, nine of which were arrests for drug and alcohol related offenses. That brought the total of Mardi Gras weekend arrests to 48. Of those arrests, 25 were alcohol related, 23 were traffic citations […]

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 […]

A record low 32 arrests over the holiday weekend showed that students know Mardi Gras in San Luis Obispo is still over. More than 350 law enforcement officers spent Mardi Gras weekend in San Luis Obispo to ensure there was no potential threat to public safety. About two-thirds of the officers were concentrated near the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Many Cal Poly students do not know about one of the fastest growing clubs on campus. Hillel, the Jewish student organization in San Luis Obispo, has been at Cal Poly for over 15 years and has drastically increased its membership in the past two years. “Where we used to get 20 students coming to events, […]

nick coury The San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLOPD) joined forces with the Cal Poly and Cuesta campus police departments on Tuesday, Feb. 7 to promote their “Party is Still Over” campaign for Mardi Gras. The three police agencies met at the SLOPD office on Walnut Street for a briefing that concerned handing out door-hangers […]

Julianne Byer Feb. 14 is vastly approaching. In most cases, only two options are before us: partaking in the romantic union between two loved ones over candlelight, or diving into Ben and Jerry’s while watching “7th Heaven” re-runs-alone. But why is it that only two options exist? Is there not more meaning to this holiday […]

kiel carreau “The Party is Still Over” according to the city of San Luis Obispo, along with Cal Poly and Cuesta College, all of which have created an extensive plan to create a safe Mardi Gras 2006 weekend. The plan was announced at a press conference held Wednesday on the steps of City Hall in […]