Abdullah Sulaiman prays five times most days. Usually, three to four of those prayers happen on Cal Poly’s campus. There is only one designated area for prayer on campus. The Inclusive Prayer/Meditation/Sensory Room: a small, approximately 8’x11’ room on the fourth floor of the Robert E. Kennedy Library. Sulaiman said he spends most of his time on campus away from the library, leading him to use impromptu spaces for prayer — building corners, quiet walkways and empty classrooms.

After a few Craigslist searches and mishaps, Hallie Lassiter got into the front seat of a newly acquired 2003 Dodge Ram 2500 Sprinter and screamed. Depending on how you spin it, she just spent the majority of her savings to become a homeowner — or homeless.

Stevie Page has to hide his mattress and leave the house when his landlord comes to visit. Page lives with five other students in a house close to campus, but because of a 1989 city council ordinance, he cannot live there legally.

Donald Hedrick only has five campaign signs total. Each one is hand painted and made out of a cardboard barrel lid from Taco Works — small letters toward the bottom read “the committee to elect Donald E. Hedrick,” which is Hedrick himself.

Santa Margarita resident Gerald Downen, who was practicing yoga at the park, “heard someone holler ‘911’ ” and spotted Brand in the bay, he said. He, too, jumped in to help. As water started flooding into the car, a Ford Taurus, Downen lifted the driver out through the vehicle’s open driver-side window, the rescuers recalled. “He was heavy,” Downen said.

A new coffee shop just landed in the downtown San Luis Obispo scene — but its brews are old-school.

If off-road vehicles at the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Area are so good for the local economy, “Why doesn’t Oceano look like a thriving little town?” That’s Sherrill Gardner’s question, a local resident and member of the Oceano Beach Community Association. The association, along with other community and environmental groups, supports the Coastal Commission’s staff controversial recommendation to phase out vehicles from the State Park.

Diane Fortel says she hasn’t gotten a good night’s sleep in two years. “When you don’t sleep well, you don’t feel well. You’re grumpy, irritable," Fortel said. "You don’t feel contentment.” The cause? Airplanes.

The seafoam green brick-and-mortar of Nautilus Surf Shop takes a different approach.

When was the last time you heard healthy discussions regarding transgender identity, racial profiling, and homosexuality within religion? Probably not last Thanksgiving when your grandfather and cool aunt got into a fight and ruined dessert.

Driving along GPS-guided roads, we finally find the museum tucked among eucalyptus trees down State Park Road. The small building has a faded yellow and blue facade that gives us a gentle but warm greeting.