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Where in the World Is Bertolt Brecht?

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

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

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

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

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