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Long-standing jazz festival in Pismo Beach expands across the Central Coast

Amanda Wernik

A long-running jazz festival in Pismo Beach is expanding across the Central Coast. The Jazz Jubilee Central Coast, previously known as Jubilee by the Sea, will also play in venues from San Luis Obispo to Santa Maria.

Rhonda Mayeda at her Budget Cafe on South Higuera Street in San Luis Obispo, CA

SLO’s Budget Café—a metaphor for the best of Americana

Tom Wilmer

Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Rhonda Mayeda at her iconic Budget Café in San Luis Obispo, California

Front Porch—popular student gathering spot immediately adjacent to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus

Cal Poly’s Front Porch--where free coffee stimulates meaningful relationships

Tom Wilmer

Associate producer Addie Uhl reports from the Front Porch, a wildly popular student gathering spot adjacent to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Exceptional vines make award-winning grapes from Central Coast’s cool climate maritime terrior

Tom Wilmer

The Santa Lucia mountain range delineates the boundary of the California Central Coast’s maritime influenced grape growing region. Head a couple miles…