Photo by Kevin Cole:        Big, Bad & Ugly Surf Contest 2009

Photo by Dennis Young:        Morro Rock

Photo by Malcolm Riordan:        USCG Surf Boats

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Art Talk by Jayne Behman

One of the many benefits of an education in the arts is the development of the RIGHT side of the brain. This side of the brain lends itself to creative problem solving. Even though one may question the concept of cerebral dominance of one side of the brain over the other, one must admit that in today's challenging economic climate, financial success stories are about those tycoons that have performed their tasks outside the box.   Read More

Genie's Pocket by Jeanie Greensfelder

Catching a Wave

I wish I'd hurled myself into life
like the teen tossing his board
off the pier and then leaping—
his back-flip suspending him mid-air
before he slips into the sea. Read More

Great Shots by Jerry Kirkhart & Steve Corey

Our photo editors bring you some of their favorite coastal images for the month. This month's featured local photographers are Ashala Tylor, Pam Link, Dagmar Collins, Mimi Ditchie, Dallis Richardson, Anita Ritenour, Don Quintana, Beth Sargent, Linda Tanner, Malcolm Carlaw, Liz Haslam, Jerry Kirkhart, Howard Ignatius, Steve Corey, Nan Calora, Sandy Harris, Mike Baird, Cheryl Strahl, Teddy Llovet, Michelle Maani, Carol DiNolfo, and Bill Bouton. See More

One Poet's Perspective

Winter plays shadow tag with spring, nature displays its harshest creations in floods, mudslides, thunder snow, blizzards, droughts.   And the world foments revolutions for good and ill with humankind's most recent inventions, the electronic central nervous system of the planet we call Facebook, My Space, and Twitter.   Makes a soul yearn for a quiet poem and a spring landscape to inspire, doesn't it?  Read More

Opera SLO

Break into a strain of “Figaro! Figaro! Figaro” and listeners will immediately recognize a refrain from The Barber of Seville.  This opera features familiar music and comedic antics, beloved by many and even parodied in at least five different cartoons including Bugs Bunny in the Rabbit of Seville, Tom & Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Droopy Dog, and the dog Spike from the Tom & Jerry cartoons. Read More

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