Despite COVID-19 and the resulting travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders, Pismo Beach has actually been busier than usual throughout the pandemic. The excess of visitors combined with an increased reliance on takeout food orders and the completion of Pismo s pier plaza, according to city staff, have created a citywide trash problem. One of the big things that we saw was that restaurants moved to a takeout-only model, and they didn t have trash facilities, Public Works Director Ben Fine said at the Jan. 19 Pismo Beach City Council meeting. And so when you look at the amount of trash generated by the takeout food versus the number of cans that we had, there was an imbalance. There was much more trash than we re capable of really collecting and storing between pickups.
Jim Cummings (
Thunder Road) writes, directs, and stars in this deadpan funny new horror-comedy a real runner-up to
American Werewolf in London (1981). Cummings stars as Deputy Sheriff John Marshall, who has to contend with an inept department headed by his terminally ill father Sheriff Hadley (Robert Forster, in his last role), who doesn t want to relinquish control. The only person in the department who s worth a damn is Julia Robson (Riki Lindhome). Marshall, a single parent, also has to contend with his rebellious teenage daughter, Jenna (Chloe East). After each full moon, mutilated bodies start turning up, some with missing parts. While his underlings begin to suspect a werewolf, Marshall insists it s a man and through good police work, he ll be caught.
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Writer-director Alan Ball (screenwriter of American Beauty) helms this comedy-drama about the Bledsoe family of Creekville, South Carolina. Set mostly in the early 1970s, it s the story of Frank (Paul Bettany), who s secretly gay, and his niece, Beth (Sophia Lillis), who feels most akin to Frank a quiet, thoughtful man amid Southern rednecks. Frank escaped small-town Southern life and teaches literature at an NYC college, where Beth now attends as a freshman. Beth s father, Mike (Steve Zahn), is a classic Southerner, but the patriarch of the family Frank and Mike s father, Daddy Mac (Stephen Root) is a cruel, closed-minded bigot. When Daddy Mac dies of a sudden heart attack, Frank agrees to drive home with Beth to attend the funeral. Unbeknownst to them, Frank s boyfriend of 10 years, Walid Wally Nadeem (Peter Macdissi), rents a car and follows them, hoping to lend emotional support to Frank. Mixing flashbacks to Frank s younger years (young Fr
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