Chris Lake, The Backseat Lovers to headline Shabang

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Carly Heltzel
February 20, 2026

Good morning. It’s Friday, and I’m reading about the tiny San Diego taco chain that is about to open 200 locations nationwide. Onto the five Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and California stories you need to know for today.

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Chris Lake, The Backseat Lovers, Magdalena Bay and a mystery fourth artist will headline Shabang this year in shorter lineup than usual. This year’s festival will be Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3 instead of the usual Friday/Saturday split. There won’t be camping this year and the silent disco area will be a new stage. Tickets will go on sale at 11 a.m. on Feb. 24, starting at $99 for a day pass and $169 for a weekend pass.

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Cal Poly will release 2,000 guest tickets for its St. Patrick’s Day music festival at 4 p.m. today, and it released an additional 2,000 tickets available to students yesterday afternoon. On Tuesday, the original 10,000 tickets sold out in just two hours. Students must be signed in to reserve the guest ticket and can only get one extra. This will be the final opportunity to get tickets for the event, as the venue’s capacity is 14,000. 

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Central Coast Congressman Salud Carbajal blasted the Trump administration during a few local stops on his “Affordability Tour” that took him to City Farm SLO, Cuesta College and a SLO-based medical clinic for people who are uninsured. The focus was on how federal policy was affecting peoples’ lives. His takeaway? “All of these essentials — everyday cost of living — are skyrocketing, and our colleagues across the aisle are not doing anything about it.”

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Everything a student does is digitized now. And companies have a loophole in California’s privacy law that allows them to sell the data they collect. As the Trump administration looks to collect more and more personal information, state lawmakers worry that this data is low hanging fruit. SLO’s state assemblymember introduced a bill this year that would tighten the restrictions on students’ data. All the biggest players in the Capitol are weighing in.

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When Mark Zuckerberg showed up to court — prepared to testify to a judge about social media addiction, face mourning parents and justify his companies actions — he was flanked by an entire entourage of security. His two aides closest to him were sporting Meta Ray-Bans, the first iteration of the product he sees as a cornerstone to his vision for the future. Then, inside, the judge warned that it is illegal to record in a courtroom without permission, specifically calling out the product.