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Nostalgia, Tragicomedy and Terry E.

By Alfonso C. Hernandez “Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?” says Shakespeare in his Sonnet 8 alluding to a sense of nostalgia while hearing music that heightens the sense of memory in the [...] Continue Reading

Poetry Corner – November 2013

Edited by Richard Stone This month’s poet is Mario Mangiello, who is unknown to us but would seem to be either homeless himself or deeply empathetic. Not the most refined poem we’ve printed, but [...] Continue Reading

Letters to the Editor – September 2013

Should We Destroy the Fulton Mall to Save Downtown Fresno? Your recent editorial on the Fulton Mall raises several important questions regarding the city’s planned course of action for the mall. The [...] Continue Reading

Hessen, Morin, Dante, Mexico, Colombia

By Alfonso C. Hernandez Indignez-vous! (Get Angry), Engagez-vous! (Commit Yourself to Political Action) and Citoyen du monde (Citizen of the World) are three books written by Stéphane Hessel in which [...] Continue Reading

Poetry Corner – September 2013

Edited by Richard Stone Margaret Hudson, our great-hearted colleague who has been recuperating from an accident since the winter, has sent us one of her poems, with thanks “to everyone for their [...] Continue Reading

What We Could Carry

By Lorenzo Bassman On Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m., the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno presents Nikiko Masumoto in her one-woman show, What We Could Carry, a performance of Japanese-American [...] Continue Reading

In Defense of We Steal Secrets

By Robert Navarro My friend Tom Quinn has provided a rousing criticism of the movie We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. Tom knows more about the U.S. security state than anyone I know, and what [...] Continue Reading