When shelter-at-home requirements went into effect in mid-March, visitors stopped traveling to San Luis Obispo, according to City tourism manager Molly Cano.
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Alumni-founded BooBees surf wax promotes sustainability & women’s rights
Badrigian’s passion for surfing, feminism and the environment inspired her to create a commercially viable, environmentally sustainable and women-empowered surf wax called BooBees.
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Mustang News, Oct. 10, 2013: Affordable Care Act impacts students, Govt. shutdown brings tourists
Mustang News anchor Ashley DeVriend covers today’s biggest news.
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Murdock takes the reins as SLO social media ambassador
J.J. Jenkins jjjenkins.md@gmail.com Bentley Murdock is a new kind of ambassador. He won’t travel to foreign countries or meet with leaders to determine global policy, but he’ll direct social media for San Luis Obispo in an attempt to drive virtual and literal tourists to the Central Coast. Murdock was selected to be the city’s first […]
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Watch Morro Bay go by while staying dry
If there’s anyone out there unfortunate enough to have never visited Disneyland, there’s an awesome ride in Tomorrowland called the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage (I swear there’s a point to this). You sit in these submarines and watch through windows as the ocean and recognizable characters go by. Okay, so it’s not really the ocean, […]
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There's always something to enjoy at Avila Valley Barn
One of my favorite memories as a kid was going to a local farm during the summer to pick berries with my family — we’d each take a box and pick until we couldn’t carry any more. As a result, I’ve really come to love the idea of farms that invite people to come out […]
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A hotel that's its own destination
The Madonna Inn. It’s pretty hard to live here and not recognize that name. When I was little, I visited it at Christmas, and I remember two things: it was very pink and had a lot of crazy Christmas trees. But it stuck with me. I figured a column about this place needed a little […]
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Point San Luis Lighthouse offers piece of local history
Erin Hurley is a journalism senior and Mustang Daily SLO lifestyle columnist. OK readers, I feel like we know each other well enough for me to reveal something about myself. I’m kind of a history nerd. I’ve always been one. So when I was researching for this column and came across the Point San Luis […]
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Take a walk on the wild side … in Atascadero
Erin Hurley is a journalism senior and Mustang Daily SLO lifestyle columnist. Okay, for all of you who read my column, I’m about to drop a bomb on you: this week’s column is about a place that isn’t inside the City of San Luis Obispo. I know, you’re shocked. But technically this place is only […]
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The ‘SLOprah’ effect
In November, San Luis Obispo was named the happiest town in America. Months later, on Jan. 26, Oprah Winfrey featured a segment on San Luis Obispo on her TV show. Now, students and San Luis Obispo residents can’t help but talk about their happy town.