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
Arts & Crafts
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
The Prison Press: Poetic Justice Project — A Prisoner Reentry Program for the Arts
By Boston Woodard “Every human being has a spark of something in them that can be ignited for the good of mankind…Someone getting out of prison has to make their own choices. Whether they end up [...] Continue Reading
Wilde, Williams, Guiraudi or Hermeneutics, Style and Bareback Sex
By Alfonso C. Hernandez In a seminar on Marcel Proust at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, one of the participants asked if the reason why Proust was able to write his masterpiece, Remembrance of [...] 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
I Lost It at Filmworks: On Viewing We Steal Secrets
By Thomas Quinn With eager anticipation I attended the Aug. 9, Fresno Filmworks showing of the documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks by Alex Gibney. About 4/5ths through it I walked out [...] 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
Progressive Voice: Roy Zimmerman’s Wake Up Call
By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji Progressive singer satirist Roy Zimmerman says, “I get accused of preaching to the choir, but that’s not how I think of it. I think of it as entertaining the troops.” What [...] Continue Reading