SPIRIT FORWARD

Paso Robles is not just for wine anymore.

Wine not your thing?

Consider

… Paso Robles!

Though the enological stature of the town, midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, has skyrocketed, what’s also exploded of late are venues and activities for the most part unrelated to wine.

An obvious example: Bruce Munro: Light at Sensorio, a massive outdoor exhibit “infusing culture in valleys of viticulture,” wrote The New York Times.

The otherworldly walk-through experience features 58,000 illuminated stemmed spheres; Munro’s Light Towers—69 towers made of 17,000 wine bottles and ethereally morphing optic fibers—was added in 2021.

Bar next door. Pizzas made with 72-hour coldfermented dough include chef Cory Bidwell’s Smoke Show with smoked short rib, pickled pineapple and roasted jalapeño.

But first, design your own gin and tonic: Choose among 60 gins, choose your premium tonic, choose your aromatic garnishes.

Cane Tiki Room, from the owners of nearby FishGaucho and Eleven Twenty Two Speakeasy, is filled with tiki and nautical artifacts; it presents one of the state’s largest rum collections as well as pupu plates. A system of skull-and-crossbones suggest the drinks’ strength; ”watch out”

THE STORY THAT DEFINED A GENERATION. AN UNMISSABLE WORLD PREMIERE.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1967, the hardened hearts and aching souls of Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade and their chosen family of ‘outsiders’ are in a fight for survival and a quest for purpose in a world that may never accept them. A story of the bonds that brothers share and the hopes we all hold on to, this gripping new musical reinvigorates the timeless tale of ‘haves and have nots’, of protecting what’s yours and fighting for what could be.

BEGINS FEB 19

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