By Alfonso C. Hernandez The Winter Concert Series in Three Rivers in February presented the Calidore Quartet formed by four young musicians from the best of the Colburn School of Music: Estelle Choi, [...] Continue Reading
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Fresno Joins Eve Ensler’s Call to “Strike, Dance, Rise!”
By Georgia Williams Jemmy Bluestein began spreading the word about One Billion Rising (OBR) when he heard Eve Ensler, noted author of The Vagina Monologues, speak on KFCF radio about a year ago. [...] Continue Reading
Why Voting Patterns in Fresno Matter: From the Editor – March 2013
If you have ever told someone that Fresno is a conservative community, take a look at the maps below. The large map illustrates how we voted last November on Prop 32, the initiative promoted by big [...] Continue Reading
No Drones!
By Mike Bridges An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. Its flight is either controlled autonomously by computers within the [...] Continue Reading
The Return of the Rogue
By Richard Stone Spring is in the air, and Fresno has a Rogue-ish look in its eye. Yes, another Rogue Festival is upon us, that wonderful panoply of performance that jes’ keeps growing—and is getting [...] Continue Reading
¡Que Vivan Los San Patricios! St. Patrick’s Day Concert
Click to hear the promo Saint Patrick’s Day Concert and Dance ¡Que Vivan Los San Patricios! Sunday, March 17 • 3 p.m. Fresno City College Old Administration Auditorium Tickets: Concert and Dance $20, [...] Continue Reading
Murder Park: It’s a Real Place
By Simone Whalen-Rhodes The sun blinds me as I jump on the 180 West heading to Murder Park’s evening practice. The freeway slowly melts away into Whites Bridge Road, passing orchards and small plots [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – March 2013
Fresno Police Accused of Excessive Force I am writing to you as a local business owner, a concerned citizen and, unfortunately, as a victim of assault by a Fresno police officer, who violated my [...] Continue Reading
Rating the Rater: The Office of Independent Review Issues First Quarterly Report
By Richard Stone Rick Rasmussen, our Man in the O.I.R. (Office of Independent Review), has been on the job for about four months and has filed his first report. I met with him to discuss the impact [...] Continue Reading
The Prison Press” Ex-Iranian Hostage Visits San Quentin; Prison Isolation Strikes Chord
By Boston Woodard and Juan Haines Independent journalist Shane Bauer spent 26 months in an Iranian prison, four of those months were in isolation. In 2009, Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air – March 2013: Scapegoating Our Air Quality Problem
By Tom Frantz More than obesity and poverty, polluted air is shortening the lives of Central Valley residents. The marginal cost of our early deaths and degraded quality of life is around $6 billion [...] Continue Reading
Voters Likely to Weigh in on Privatization
By Michael D. Evans Opponents of Mayor Ashley Swearingen’s plan to privatize residential sanitation service, which had been approved by the outgoing Fresno City Council in December 2012, gathered [...] Continue Reading