By Alfonso Hernandez The Fresno Philharmonic directed by Theodore Kuchar and the Tulare County Symphony Orchestra (TCSO) under the direction of Bruce Kiesling each initiated their current season [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Crafts
Musicians’ Strike Settlement
By Larry Gardner On Oct. 24, Fresno Grand Opera (FGO) management and the musicians’ negotiating committee for the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 12 came to a tentative agreement. The [...] Continue Reading
Imagine…
By Jessica M. Hanna The Manchester Experiment, located in the Manchester Center (on the third floor above the Sears entrance), presents “Life, Liberty & Property” by Brandon itheyus Jacobs and [...] Continue Reading
Newzapalooza: Celebrating and Supporting Independent Media
By Rick Flores Local musicians are devoting their talents in a fall fund-raiser fittingly called Newzapalooza for local alternative/progressive media: the Community Alliance newspaper and radio [...] Continue Reading
American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music
By Frank Delgado Beginning Nov. 17, Arte Américas in Downtown Fresno will feature a traveling Smithsonian exhibit titled American Sabor. The exhibition documents the roles of post–World War II U.S. [...] Continue Reading
Homophobia and the Death Penalty
By Alfonso C. Hernandez The Ice House Theater of Visalia has courageously produced “The Laramie Project,” written by Moises Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project (TTP) and directed by [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner – November 2011
Edited by Richard Stone No new submissions this month, however, a recent acquaintance let us know about another venue for you poetry writers out there with a different kind of subject. Here is the [...] Continue Reading
The Earth, Our Only Home: Can It Be Saved?
By Janet Capella and Alex Vavoulis Professor Thanasis Maskaleris would answer the question in the affirmative. Translator and editor of a recently published book, he is coming to Fresno to read from [...] Continue Reading
Soul Calling: A Photographic Journey through the Hmong Diaspora
By Paul Gilmore Over the years—from the time I was a kid in Baraboo, Wisc., to just last week at the bar—I’ve run across a great many people whose formative experiences had something to do with what [...] Continue Reading
American Voluntarism
By Alfonso C. Hernandez One of the best qualities of the American people, not much touted about, is the quality of voluntarism. Everywhere one looks, there are volunteers: in churches, schools, [...] Continue Reading
Guelaguetza Regenerating Oaxaqueño Roots in Fresno
By Rosalba Lopez-Ramirez As a large number of Oaxaqueños have migrated from Oaxaca, Mexico, to California, they continue to embrace their distinctive identity that is tied to their homeland. Various [...] Continue Reading
Oakhurst’s Connection to the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame
By James Martinez The digital 10th anniversary edition of Local DJ is a wild narrative on rock ’n’ roll culture from the late 1950s to the present. A prominently featured DJ in Cleveland’s Rock ’n’ [...] Continue Reading