For 25 years, Opera San Luis Obispo has been San Luis Obispo County’s “voice of the opera”. In 2008, founding director Jill Anderson retired. On June 1, 2008, Artistic Director Robert Ashens assumed all artistic responsibilities, while Managing Director Sharon Dobson continues to oversee the business aspects of the company.

Opera San Luis Obispo offers a variety of opera productions, from familiar favorites such as La bohème and Tosca, to more unusual compositions such as Fidelio and Red Cloud. There is something for everyone who enjoys the artistic unity of good theater and music, the essence of opera.

Visit Opera San Luis Obispo online at www.operslo.org.

Cafe Vostro is Grover Beach’s best kept secret.  You have probably driven by it on the way to the beach.  It is located at 228 W Grand Ave just past 4th street and one block up from Highway 1.  Just had their cocunut shrimp and a side salad with chipotle ranch dressing.  It was fantastic!  Ken makes all if his food fresh everyday, no precooking.  Cafe Vostro serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  You have to try it!

Longtime See Canyon residents Dick and Dolores Kelsey, with sons Keith and Richard are your hosts as they invite you to sample from a selection of outstanding wines.

What began as a retirement project back in 1999 has blossomed into a full time labor of love for Dick and Dolores. Along with renowned winemaker Harold Osborne, the Kelsey Family is hands on in all areas of the business. The apples used in our Apple Chardonnay and Apple Merlot are harvested from the decades old orchards on the Kelsey Family’s Ranch in See Canyon. This same ranch also grows our Chardonnay grapes.

Further north of the Cuesta grade in the tiny town of Creston, Richard and Laurie Kelsey are busy tending to their own ranch, growing Zinfandel, Merlot, Cabernet and Syrah grapes. With their 3 girls (all of whom want to be Grandpa Dick’s next winemaker), the vineyard is hand pruned, fertilized and farmed utilizing materials and practices intent on promoting a healthy environment. This entails a lot of hard work but the results are worth it.

Keith and Anne Kelsey along with their son and daughter can be seen at a majority of the wine pouring functions, making sure the customer is taken care of and enjoys the opportunity to sample our delicious wines. Keith, a former Avila Beach Fire Chief and Port San Luis Harbor Commissioner, can also be seen tending to the ranch and winery ensuring the premises maintain that luster that draws people in by its sheer beauty.

We hope you’ll stop by and visit us.

“We invite you to visit our family-run tasting room to relax and unwind, taste our award-winning wines and enjoy our picturesque grounds adjacent to See Canyon Creek.

Nestled among apple orchards in the heart of See Canyon, our winery is minutes from Highway 101 and the Pacific Ocean – a short drive through one of the most beautiful areas in San Luis Obispo County.

We focus on making your wine tasting experience enjoyable, with wines that are approachable and a tasting staff that will make you feel welcome, no matter your level of wine tasting experience.”

visit Kelsey online at www.kelseywine.com

Rerun Productions literally turns junk into artwork, with stunning results. Rerun’s lamps are around 80% recycled, utilizing items such as old computer drives, discarded scraps from NASA, reclaimed wood and more. In combination with their signature natural lamp shades, these artistic and functional lamps are as gorgeous as they are are earth-friendly…

Rerun’s work can be found in 30+ Calif. galleries and shops. Locally, you can experience Rerun’s products first hand at Habitat Home and Garden in SLO, Fiona Bleu Gallery in Morro Bay, Home Arts in Cambria, and Gibson and Co in Paso Robles. For more information, please visit www.rerunproductions.com or phone at (805) 489-5152.

Take a Trip to the Studio with Me
At first glance, the Studio appears like any other metal shop. Dirty, rusted metal debris litters the workbenches and floors. Welding torches and soldering guns are placed precariously in easy-to-reach locations for quick access. Bins of all sorts of discarded materials are stacked and stored wherever space permits.  Even the flask full of fluorescent green antifreeze, with its paintbrush stirrer, looks perfectly at home.

But look a little closer, and the things being to come to light, so to speak. Among the rubble, innovative concept designs and half finished artworks take shape before your eyes. The sleek, curved lines of the unfinished coffee table catch your attention. Upon closer look, you realize those unique curves are cleverly constructed from pieces of the old wooden crutches crammed into the bin at side. Then you notice the overworked and beat up Sabian drum symbols stacked up on top of one another. Eventually you realize the beautiful lamp base next to the symbols, with its polished finish and green-bronze hues, was formerly the top symbol in that stack of throw-aways.

It is then that the vision of Bewley’s Rerun Productions comes into full focus…

Dynasty Floor Lamp in Amber

Dynasty Floor Lamps in Carmine

Modern II Floor Lamp in Mustard

Bowtie Floor Lamp in Ocean

Baseball Bat Lamp

Bowie Lamp in Amber

Bowtie Lamp in Celedon

Excaliber

Designed to match an authentic western town of the 1850′s, Fort Hope is a non-profit, frontier style museum that features a sheriff’s office, blacksmith’s shop, feed store, school house, Native American village and much more. The museum is designed to be hands on and visitors get the full frontier experience. Kids can shoot period bow and arrows, go fishing in a small bass pond, build bricks from scratch and even pan for gold!

“The Loomis family has worked hard for the last 7 years to bring this dream to reality. We are so close, and with your support we know that we can make it happen! There are several ways to help out. All that really matters is the children, let’s do this for them.”

In April 2007, the San Luis Obispo County commissioners voted in favor of renewing Fort Hope’s non-profit use permit as a day use facility. At that time the county set forth specific conditions which had to be met before the museum could open. They are almost there, but still need your support.

For more information, please visit the Fort Hope website, phone at (805) 473-9462 or email pat@forthope.org.

We recently took a trip to Fort Hope and shot some video of the kids having fun. Check it out below.