The Seventh Gen First Draft Film Festival is currently accepting video submissions centered on eight different beach regions located along the West Coast in California, Oregon, and Washington, including San Luis Obispo County. The festival is specifically seeking short films that highlight Cayucos, Morro Bay, Piedras Blancas, or Pismo Beach.
Starting on Sunday, March 21, the festival will hold virtual screenings of the films online in respective location-based segments, in geographical order, from south to north. The series will continue streaming every other Sunday through June 27. The festival also plans to host outdoor screenings at various locations along the West Coast between March and July. Sometime in July, a culminating in-person festival is scheduled to take place in Lincoln City, Oregon.
Exit Weather, available on Bandcamp. The band, which includes Andrew Grivjack, Matt Wilder, and Michael vandenBerg, are all longtime residents of San Luis Obispo who formed their band in 2017, they explained in an email. In 2018, they released
Freehand, and in 2020, they followed up with
To What End. Four years and now three albums and I ve never heard of them? On
Exit Weather, some songs like Scraped Off the Scenery sound like electronica meets industrial meets speed metal. It s atmospheric and experimental and weird. Other tracks like Fictionless have a carnival quality that morphs into doom rock and then fantasy rock.
Spin out Find Active Coffee Co. in The Creamery Marketplace at 570 Higuera St., suite 190, in downtown San Luis Obispo. It s open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Visit activecoffeeco.com for more info. A spoonful of sugar spins into wisps of feathery white as barista Pablo Arriola deftly twists a paper straw, gathering the sticky fibers into a cloud. He plops the finished cotton candy onto an oat milk chai latte and hands it over. With a little chai flavoring, the ivory tuft smells faintly of spices. Active Coffee Co. owner Stacy Magana instructs me to pull the straw out of the fluff and gently push the center into the chai while leaving some sugar fibers on the cup s rim for my drinking pleasure.
Newly released drone footage from a July 21, 2020, protest showing the altercation between a driver and protesters on Highway 101 shows a different side than what the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and SLO County District Attorney s Office provided to the community and in the cases against seven of the protesters. click to enlarge Screenshot Courtesy Of SLO Police Department Drone Footage
EVIDENCE The driver of a silver 2016 BMW sedan collides with local Black Lives Matter protestors on the southbound side of Highway 101 on July 21, 2020. The footage, which is from the SLOPD and is evidence in the cases, was released Feb. 16 by Vincent Barrientos, a pro-bono attorney for Sam Grocott, one of the protesters who s facing three misdemeanor charges of violating the personal liberty of the drivers and occ