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TOPGUN instructor and Navy Pilot Hal “Bull” Schmitt
“Yes, it’s a business, but it should be fun,” he said. “I really believe more than anything that wine is made for drinking, and it should be a social experience. Yes, you can drink on your own, but it’s better when you have family and friends around. That’s how we approach everything.” –Hal Schmitt
Updated: 21 hours ago
Whale Rock: Castoro's gift to local students
The California certified organic winery and music hub of the area, Castoro Cellars, is on it’s fifth year of bringing back an all ages soulful event, something reminiscent of the groovy 60s. Castoro’s Udsen family doesn’t make a penny on the Whale Rock Festival. All profits benefit Templeton school music education. The Whale Rock Music Festival will be Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 16, beginning at noon each day. Tickets for the first day are almost sold out. The festival (formerly known as Beaverstock) will have it’s usual mostly Central Coastal lineup of country western, folk, eclectic, soul, global and funk banks at the same time as gatherings and meetups for yoga classes, as well as art, food, and wine to discover. Aside from the new name, a little marketplace with local vendors will debut, and a trippy ‘Silent Disco’ experience, where headphone gear accompanies a dance party under a tent of contrasting boogie moves.
Updated: 1 week ago
Max Randoph's classic trade in a magical art
Walking into Max Randolph’s Paso Robles hillside studio, one might see the fifth generation blacksmith turning and forming a massive steel pipe over his great, hand-refurbished forging oven, sparks flying, steel morphing from red to yellow, sweat dripping off his forehead onto his beard, and think, bewildered – what year is this? Where am I? The Industrial Revolution of America? The Art Nouveau movement in France? A sword and weaponry mercantile down thither the stone steps of Casterly Rock? “I really took to steel because I loved the permanence of it,” Randolph said, describing the entry into the blacksmith profession as coming “from a lifetime of being misunderstood to all of a sudden finding a means to express yourself.”
Updated: 2 weeks ago
A little piece of Broadway: Idina Menzel brings soulful singing, a personal touch to Vina Robles
On Sunday night at Vina Robles, Broadway star and vocal powerhouse Idina Menzel delighted the audience not only with her soulful singing, but also with intimate glimpses into her life. During the 90-minute concert she bared her soul on romantic relationships, motherhood, and life as a performer. Menzel’s new album, “Idina,” provided the foundation of the experience. Starting with the energetic “Queen of Swords,” Menzel set the vocal expectations high, both literally and figuratively. The song featured a strong African-inspired drumbeat and a pre-chorus that ascended into the vocal stratosphere, prompting delighted cheers from the audience.
Updated: 3 weeks ago
Punk rock revival: Rancid, Dropkick Murphys channel the angst and fervor of yesteryears
Not all of us sported razor sharp mohawks and tattooed forearms to bear our tortured souls. Some of us who listened to Dropkick Murphys and Rancid when we were ‘nobody gets me,’ rebellious teens, showed up last Friday at the Avila Beach Golf Resort concert too. The punkers of the late eighties and nineties are now in our forties and fifties, our years of teenage angst neatly worked out through counseling and (for some, judging by the smoke in that taunted the clean ocean-side air) cigarettes. I was stoked to see the Thrasher Magazine shirts and spiked dog collars in abundance, and even more delighted to see former punkers with their newly-anointed kids up on their shoulders, screaming like awesome maniacs — the future torch bearers of punk. How wonderful, I thought, that when they get to their inevitable first disappointments in life: when the first girlfriend dumps them for some jock, when their dad won’t quit drinking, and when they get busted for skateboarding over someone’s flower bed, they’ll have their headphones to turn to. Full blast. Because, isn’t that what punk is? A big, giant middle finger to everything that sucks? At least for me it is, because “God Save the Queen,” I’d never listen to Hell-heavy bass and angry thunder drums when I’m feeling chipper and content with all the great things happening in my life.
Updated: 3 weeks ago
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Miss California Mid-State Fair Queen crowned at pageant
Fair festivities kicked off Tuesday with the 2017 Miss California Mid-State Fair Pageant, where Adrianne Stultz, of Atascadero, was crowned queen. Taking the runner-up Princess spot was Suzanne Belton of Paso Robles and in the third spot, named Miss Congeniality, was Belle Caffee, of San Luis Obispo.
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