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How smart are you?

Written on 15 Oct, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | 18 comments

Are you Mensa smart? Mensa, the club for people with high IQs, is having its national testing date on Saturday Oct. 19. In San Luis Obispo County testing will be given at the SeaVenture Resort in Pismo Beach at 9 a.m.... (Continue reading)

Saving for retirement, affordability or priority

Written on 24 Sep, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | 6 comments

By GORDON MULLIN Often when I’m meeting a new client, I ask about whether they have any sort of savings plan in place. Perhaps, I inquire, they could be saving for a home, a new car, further schooling or their... (Continue reading)

Fly with an eagle

Written on 18 Sep, 2013 in Discovered, Featured, Screening Room | 5 comments

A brave YouTube user attached a camera on an eagle to provide a bird’s-eye view of Chamonix, France.... (Continue reading)

Alice Cooper to perform at the Chumash

Written on 17 Sep, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | 5 comments

By COLIN JONES As the summer concert season winds down at Vina Robles, the fall heats up with headliner Alice Cooper making a rare central coast appearance when he performs at the Chumash Casino Resort on November 21, Cal Coast... (Continue reading)

Mom and Medi-Cal

Written on 8 Sep, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | 13 comments

By GORDON MULLIN (Editor’s note: This is the first edition of a column by San Luis Obispo financial planner Gordon Mullin called A Penny Saved) $95,136.88 That’s the sum that my deceased mother’s estate owed to California’s Medi-Cal program. That’s the amount... (Continue reading)

Nugent is full of shtick at the Chumash

Written on 24 Jul, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | 11 comments

By COLIN JONES There is no one on Planet Earth like Ted Nugent. But you knew that already. As an entertainer, being uniquely original like Nugent is a huge plus but it’s never enough. You need to have soul and... (Continue reading)

Adam Ant to play Fremont Theater in SLO

Written on 13 Jul, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | 7 comments

By COLIN JONES Eighties new wave icon Adam Ant will make a rare San Luis Obispo appearance when he plays the historic Fremont Theater, on Sept. 18, CalCoastNews has learned. Both as leader of Adam and the Ants and a... (Continue reading)

Twin Maras born at the Atascadero Zoo

Written on 11 Jul, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | No comments

The Charles Paddock Zoo announced the unexpected birth of twin baby Maras on July 6. Maras, or Patagonian Cavies, are small rodents native to South America. The twin’s birth came as a complete surprise to staff who had not noticed... (Continue reading)

Breath-awareness meditation

Written on 18 Jun, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | 2 comments

By GARY E FORESMAN MD (Editor’s note: This is part five in a five-part in a five-part series on stress management.) This article is intentionally kept brief, clean and without metaphors or discussions on why we meditate. I am just... (Continue reading)

Movie review: Mud

Written on 10 Jun, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | No comments

By MIRANDA FORESMAN Matthew McConaughey has come a long way since Dazed and Confused (1993). He’s played a surfer, a pimp, couple of good lawyers, a womanizer, and many things in between. Lately he seems to play the guy without... (Continue reading)