Alex Zuniga
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- Sep 22, 2026
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NTMA 2026 (opens the original)
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The New Times Music Awards is a music competition that is designed to showcase the music and songwriting from local musicians in a wide variety of genres including Rock/Alternative, Country/Americana/Folk, R&B/Blues, Jazz, Open, and Youth. Each first place finisher will compete against the others for Best Live Performance during the concert and awards ceremony. A panel of local music industry judges will determine the best live performer, who will receive a specially-customized NTMA Newtie! This
Silver Sage brings garden coaching business to SLO County (opens the original)
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In a climate as unpredictable and geographically diverse as San Luis Obispo County, many residents who garden end up with wilted tomato vines and a confusing irrigation system. While the Central Coast is praised for its beautiful climate, dry summers and changing weather can turn gardening hobbies into frustration. Laura Gaither, founder of Silver Sage Garden Coaching, believes individualized education for gardeners can make the hobby more successful. “I’d really like more people to feel like th
Lumin Earth Apothecary opens San Luis Obispo County’s first kava bar (opens the original)
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Lumin Earth Apothecary doesn’t sell alcohol, but on a Friday night, patrons will catch owner Sierra Mace mixing drinks and making small talk at the bar. Mace, a trained herbalist, launched a traditional kava bar on May 8 as an extension of the tea bar and holistic wellness shop she runs with her mother, Summer Birchell. Kava root, a plant native to the South Pacific, produces a calming, relaxing, and mildly euphoric effect on the brain, without impairing cognitive function. It has been used for
Who decides what the public gets to hear? (opens the original)
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San Luis Obispo County’s July 30 event, Diablo Canyon 2045: Local and Statewide Implications, is being promoted as an informational session. But an informational session should present more than one side of an issue. The announced speakers include an economist who previously supported extending Diablo Canyon’s operation and PG&E representatives discussing the plant’s safety, seismic monitoring, and operations. Missing are independent experts who question the economic case for keeping Diablo Cany
Vote for change: democratic socialists, progressives, independents, prairie populists (opens the original)
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Was Dwight Eisenhower a communist? As a Republican president in 1956, he ran on a platform of expansion of Social Security; federal assistance for construction of hospitals; increased federal aid for medical care of the needy; and the creation of a Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. And an immigration policy that provided a haven for oppressed peoples, based on equality of treatment and free from “discrimination between racial, nationality, and religious groups.” For at least 45 years
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