An image can stop a moment forever, giving one split second of life a place in history. And the way in which that story is told has everything to do with the person behind the…
After months of seesawing on how to regulate the marijuana industry in the wake of Proposition 64, the SLO County Board of Supervisors unveiled plans at its Oct. 17 meeting to ban all brick-and-mortar dispensaries…
You could say that Benjamin Bartel was having a rough time. It was fall of 2014 and after reconsidering a career in music in Los Angeles, the Atascadero High School alum made the choice to…
Jon Bartel continues to prove he's one of the area's finest songwriters—a mix of Jeff Tweedy, John Mellencamp, and Ryan Adams—who with his band The Creston Line produces literate, melancholic, often narrative songs that Bartel…
