Jungle and Wallows to headline Shabang

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Carly Heltzel
February 21, 2025

Good morning. It’s Friday, and I’m reading about why the 45-foot-tall mesh sculpture of a nude woman in SF’s Union Square was canceled. Onto the five Cal Poly, SLO and California stories you need to know for today.

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Jungle and Wallows will headline SLO’s Shabang music festival, with Goth Babe, Odd Mob, Kream and Briston Maroney also performing. Tickets go on sale at 11 a.m. next Thursday. In addition to music, the festival will bring back immersive art installations, morning yoga, acoustic sessions and its overnight camping experience that Shabang introduced last year. Shabang is set to take place at Dairy Creek Golf Course May 2-3, the third year at that venue. Two day general admission tickets start at $239.

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Single-use vapes could be banned under the latest state bill, after a string of eliminating single-use plastic bags, plastic bottles in hotels and styrofoam in recent years. Take a deep breath nic fiends, refillable vapes would still be available if it’s passed. Previous efforts in California and New York have failed, meaning this bill would make us the first state with such legislation. Experts have found the heavy metals, fire-hazard lithium-ion batteries and chemical toxins in the disposable e-cigarettes, which then end up in landfills.

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More than 100 people attended an on-campus speech from a survivor of the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, when Hamas militants stormed southern Israel, marking 500 days since it occurred. Following the attack, Israel invaded the Gaza Strip and the war has raged on until a recent ceasefire. The speaker’s fiancee was killed in the attacks and she was injured in their apartment three miles from the Gaza border. She said speaking about it helps keep his memory alive. “Hearing it from someone who was there in person was very, very deep,” one student attendee said.

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The Central Coast’s energy and infrastructure projects are on pause after President Trump banned new offshore wind leases and permits and froze federal funding. Three corporations already hold leases for offshore wind developments off the Central Coast, creating unknown hurdles for them as they roll out approved plans. Other climate focus projects are threatened, too, and project managers are increasingly desperate for answers. But, as a representative for a federal agency told one one manager in an email: “I’m still not supposed to talk to you.”

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Highway 1’s most dangerous intersection could get a makeover. After 22 crashes in four years, half of which were due to the same left turn, Caltrans is finally holding a public meeting to either revamp or eliminate the intersection. The crashes include one that killed an 11-year-old girl last fall. The intersection is just north of Santa Barbara at Santa Lucia Canyon Road near Lompoc. One Santa Barbara County supervisor said his office has reached out to Caltrans about the issue and expressed his frustration that it took a “critical mass of public outcry” before the department acted.