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Dulcie Taylor releases more from the vault with the EP Rediscovered

Diamond & Glass, which quickly became a favorite of Triple A radio. Her follow up,
Mirrors and Windows, was included on Soundstage's Best Recordings of the Year along with artists such as Brian Wilson and Wilco.
Though she continues to record stunning new material, like 2018's
Better Part of Me, in the last year or so she's begun to look back at some of these earlier songs on two EPs.
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MORE FROM THE VAULT Singer-songwriter Dulcie Taylor releases
Rediscovered, a new EP featuring six of her early hits, on
March 12.
Rediscovered, and similar to my previous release
Reimagined, this six-song EP is another collection of some of my earlier songs that we have remixed and remastered," Taylor explained. "We even rerecorded some too, all in an effort to incorporate new ideas into these older tracks, and take them in a direction we didn't get to the first time around. This process has been akin to time travel—when we'd bring up a track, some of them nearly 20 years old, it put me right back in the studio where the song was cut with the musicians who played on it, and that was a really special feeling. I have so loved going through this process of revisiting and reworking my material for this new release, and I hope all that love shines through in the new versions of these songs."

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SLO to debate future of night hiking program

The San Luis Obispo City Council will discuss on March 16 whether or not to allow future night hiking on Cerro San Luis Natural Reserve—a...

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Sensorio announces plans to reopen in April with a new installation, Light Towers

Sensorio, an immersive art destination in Paso Robles, has announced plans to reopen to the public on Thursday, April 15, with a newly added light...

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Good trouble

On Feb. 23, a portion of an email I wrote to then San Luis Obispo Police Department Chief Deanna Cantrell was quoted in
The Tribune. This was part of a story regarding the community's reaction to the arrest of Tianna Arata and Elias Bautista following a protest on July 21, 2020. While the quote is accurate, it does not tell the whole story. The quote has led to some social media posts that have given an inaccurate portrayal of me and of my leadership of the San Luis Obispo United Methodist Church, which I serve. It is important to me to put this quote into context so as to more clearly reflect my beliefs, values, and teachings.

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Irresistible

Photo Courtesy Of Busboy Productions
BATTLE ROYALE Two rival political operatives—Democratic strategist Gary Zimmer (Steve Carrell) and Republican strategist Faith Brewster (Rose Byrne)—square off over a small town mayor's race, in the political comedy
Irresistible, screening on HBO Max.
Written and directed by John Stewart,
Irresistible is a political comedy that pits Democratic strategist Gary Zimmer (Steve Carrell) against his Republican counterpart, Faith Brewster (Rose Byrne), in a small, conservative Midwestern town. After a video of retired veteran Jack Hastings at a town hall meeting goes viral, freshly failed Gary heads to Deerlaken, Wisconsin, to try to talk the small town hero into running for mayor as a Democrat. Wary at first but soon on board, Jack is backed by his daughter Diana (Mackenzie Davis) and a small group of townies who start campaigning in earnest.

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Some Cambria teachers want vaccine before schools reopen

San Luis Obispo County moved back into the red tier of the state's Blueprint for a Safer Economy on March 3, opening the door for in-person instruction to resume. With that decision left up to local school districts, some teachers are pushing for vaccines first, school openings second.
Coast Unified School District, with campuses in Cambria and Cayucos, is slated to hold a public hearing on March 11 to decide whether its schools will continue distance learning, reopen campuses, or create a mix of the two for the remainder of the 2020-21 school year.
Ahead of the hearing, 12 Cambria teachers from Santa Lucia Middle School and Coast Union High School submitted a letter to the board citing concerns about reopening campuses before teachers are vaccinated.

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SLO city fines another fitness business as Kennedy gym loses appeal

Despite improved COVID-19 conditions and a recent move into the red tier, the city of San Luis Obispo and local businesses continue to grapple with the fallout of the city's enforcement of state pandemic rules—where $26,000 in citations have been levied against six companies.
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FINED Kennedy Club Fitness (pictured) recently lost its appeal of city fines levied for allowing indoor exercise during purple tier restrictions.
The most heavily cited of the six, Kennedy Club Fitness, lost its appeal on March 4 of two citations totaling $7,000 (it faces $12,000 in fines). The gym has been cited six times between September 2020 and February 2021 for allowing indoor exercise while the county was in the state's purple tier, when that activity was prohibited.

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Affordable access to the dunes

Affordable access to the dunes
On March 18, the California Coastal Commission will consider State Parks' plan for the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area (SVRA). The plan includes maintenance improvements but also new development at the Oso Flaco Nature Reserve, including 320 campsites, 270 parking places, convenience facilities, residences for staff, and a new off-highway vehicle trail to the Oceano Dunes SVRA.
The League of Women Voters of San Luis Obispo County opposes this plan. We are committed to preserving the shoreline, conserving agricultural lands, and protecting open space. The plan as currently envisioned is a serious departure from the existing situation and not appropriate for the area. A new major access trail to the dunes riding area from Oso Flaco Lake would inflict damage on a unique designated environmentally sensitive area. The current riding area has generated the need for habitat conservation plans and particulate matter reduction plans. It is inappropriate to introduce disruptive uses into additional sensitive areas thereby exacerbating the impacts to the environment, habitats, and human health.

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Cambria Center for the Arts holds photography competition

On Saturday, March 20, the Cambria Center for the Arts will accept entries into a special, one-day photography contest. This competition will only accept photographs taken on its start day (each entry must include an invisible timestamp in the metadata) and must be submitted no later than Thursday, March 25. Themed as "A Day in the Life of Cambria," participants are encouraged to submit photos that capture the "essence" of Cambria, according to press materials.
"Some photographers might capture the grin of a child sampling olallieberry ice cream for the first time, or the alert eyes of a young goat cavorting in a pasture, or a pelican resting on San Simeon Pier," reads a statement from the Cambria Center for the Arts. "Some may choose the lights and shadows of Old Santa Rosa Chapel's nave, and others the peculiarities of a moonstone."

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Virtually tour Richard Fusillo's photo exhibition of Black Lives Matter protests on the SLO Museum of Art website

We All Bleed
Photographs by Richard Fusillo, as well as local activists' voice recordings and a collage of protest signs, are currently on display at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in the We All Bleed exhibit, which can be toured virtually on sloma.org. The exhibition will be up through Sunday, May 2, and was created in collaboration with R.A.C.E. Matters SLO. A SLO Motion Film event on Saturday, April 24, features
SNCC, a documentary about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Tickets are available at slomotionfilm.com.
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd died in police custody after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes as he lost consciousness. Floyd had been arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 to purchase cigarettes. His death was another in a long list of officer-involved deaths of Black men, and it ignited the long-simmering Black Lives Matter movement that traces its inception to the 2013 acquittal of neighborhood vigilante George Zimmerman for the shooting death of 17-year-old Black boy Trayvon Martin.

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