By Alfonso Hernandez Paris in July offers free rock concerts by top world bands and singers in front of City Hall. There are also free and for-pay concerts in churches, museums, theaters and parks; [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Crafts
Fresno’s Reel Pride Film Festival
By Kaylia Metcalfe This month marks the 23rd anniversary of the Fresno Reel Pride Film Festival, which will take place September 19–23, once again in the historic Tower District. This year’s event [...] Continue Reading
Keeping It Real with Dr. Jean Kennedy: Don’t Count Me Out – September 2012
By Dr. Jean Kennedy I recently interviewed a young woman on my radio show heard on KFCF 88.1 FM. I met Star Brown through her brother, who took my women’s studies class. Star approached me to help [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner: The Question
Edited by Richard Stone Visalia’s Uncle Bill does it again with a really fine mind-twisting poem definitely needed in the wake of the 10-year commemoration of 9/11 used as another opportunity for [...] Continue Reading
SunMt after George Elfie Ballis: Remembering George on the Anniversary of His Passing
By Maia Ballis (Editor’s note: The Community Alliance asked Maia Ballis for an update on the work at SunMt that she and Elfie carried on as a team for so long.) George Elfie Ballis and his video [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner: Fresno Street Subway (Underpass)
Edited by Richard Stone Stephen Barile, a past contributor to the Poetry Corner, is a Fresno native who teaches writing. He lives near downtown. Here, he gives a bit of Fresno history with some [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner
Editor's Note: Three Rivers resident and accomplished writer Alfonso C. Hernandez submitted the following excerpt from a longer work. In the light of our police situation in Fresno, if not around the [...] Continue Reading
Whispers from the Streets
What good is art, anyway? These days, we are flooded with images everywhere we turn, and the corporate world produces such pretty pictures to fill our heads with how lovely life can be if only we just [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: Elusive Peace by Douglas E. Noll
In his new book, Elusive Peace, nationally recognized mediator and peacemaker Doug Noll asks some bold questions. How does one mediate peace in the face of evil? This question has perplexed [...] Continue Reading
Blake Jones and the Trike Shop
I grew up a big fan of science fiction movies. One of my all-time favorites is a classic from 1951, The Day the Earth Stood Still. If you’ve seen the movie, then you probably remember one of the more [...] Continue Reading
Progressive News Briefs
Dream What We Can Become and Rejoice Almost 50 years ago in the fields of the Central Valley, a movement formed to bring dignity and collective bargaining to the plight of farmworkers. As the memories [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Folklore Society
Despite what those old Our Gang episodes would lead you to believe—you know, the ones where Spanky and the other Little Rascals are averting some crisis by brainstorming overnight a staged show where [...] Continue Reading