By Omequetzal Lopez On the weekend of March 7, Dulce UpFront, a Fresno-based community multimedia arts collective, in collaboration with various organized groups and individuals, held a three-part [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Crafts
Drone: A Participatory Memorial
By Teresa Castillo Fresno State’s Center for Creativity in the Arts (CCA) has invited artist Joseph DeLappe and his Drone Project to be the Spring 2014 artist-in-residence. The theme, Data and [...] Continue Reading
Rogue Still Reeling Along
By Stephen A. Mintz The Rogue Festival’s 13th year started planning about 15 minutes after the 2013 festival ended, started chugging on Feb. 27 and steams along for the entire first week of March, [...] Continue Reading
Remembering Pete Seeger: The Local Connection
By Ellie Bluestein (Editor’s note: Pete Seeger was an American folk singer and activist who died on Jan. 27. Other media have presented wonderful reflections of his life and those can be easily [...] Continue Reading
Da Rogue Returns to Fresno
By Stephen A. Mintz It all started at the Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission building about 14 years ago. Or 13. The Rogue Performance festival wasn’t much more than a few inspired [...] Continue Reading
The Great Beauty Sure to Delight Audiences
By Roque Rodriguez The Great Beauty is filled with beautiful people doing beautiful things in a beautiful city. At no point does the film let excess get in the way of telling its compelling story, [...] Continue Reading
John McCutcheon to appear in Fresno Jan. 23
John McCutcheon was last in Fresno on September 2nd for the memorial service for the “Deportees” at HolyCrossCemetery with the Archbishop Armando X. Ochoa presiding. These victims of the 1948 airplane [...] Continue Reading
Straight No Chaser
By Kaylia Metcalfe Straight No Chaser (SNC) is the 10-member a cappella group that has been making headlines and changing the way mainstream pop culture views a cappella music. Since forming as [...] Continue Reading
And Love Is Our Doctrine
By Glenda Roberts At the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno, love is our doctrine and service is our prayer. We are called to live out our principles. We believe that social justice is love [...] Continue Reading
Jello Biafra to Perform at Strummer’s
By Maddie Shannon Jello Biafra, former lead singer of the hit punk rock band the Dead Kennedys, is performing at Strummer’s in Fresno’s Tower District on Nov. 1. Biafra’s new band, Jello Biafra [...] Continue Reading
Latin American Film Festival
By Dr. Annabella España-Nájera The Fresno State Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies (CLAS) is happy to announce the inaugural Latin American Film Festival, which brings to the Central [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – November 2013
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday, November 14, 7 p.m., at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK November 5, first [...] Continue Reading