By Jemmy Bluestein I have a present to give the English-speaking world. It’s a virtually unknown poem of the late, great Fresno poet and former U.S. poet laureate Philip Levine. Though there have [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Crafts
The Rise of the Chicago Police Department
By Jonathan Luevanos The Rise of the Chicago Police Department (2013) by Sam Mitrani is a book that fills in a gap in Chicago’s working-class history and shows how and why police departments were [...] Continue Reading
En Recuerdo and Dia de los Muertos event at Arte Americas
By Community Alliance Staff Throughout the month of November, downtown Fresno museum, Arte Americas, put on an exhibit of artwork celebrating the iconic Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. It was called [...] Continue Reading
Why Is Recent Film “Too Political”?
By Angela Price As a Board member of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, I routinely seek films that we might show, films that are “cutting edge,” often beautiful to look at and always provocative. [...] Continue Reading
POETRY CORNER
Poetry Behind Bars The following poems were written by individuals incarcerated in Valley State Prison in Chowchilla. Some of the authors are poetry and drama students from the Alliance for [...] Continue Reading
Spain
By Alex Vavoulis Spain by Nikos Kazantzakis (translated by Amy Mims). Ditros, Athens, 1957; English edition, Simon and Schuster, 1963. Nikos Kazantzakis is one of the great literary figures of the [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change: Is the Paris Conference Doomed to Fail?
By George B. Kauffman Editor’s note: The sources for the information included herein are available in the online version of this article. The UN Conference on Climate Change meeting at Le Bourget, [...] Continue Reading
Review of ART
By Cherylyn Smith The innovative theater company Curtain 5, under the direction of Jerry Palladino, presented ART, by Yasmina Reza, at the Fresno Art Museum in late October. A superlative cast was [...] Continue Reading
Just Mercy
By Maria Telesco Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. Spiegel & Grau, 348 pages, $15. Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu called him “America’s Nelson [...] Continue Reading
Shenandoah
By George B. Kauffman Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal by Sue Eisenfeld. University of Nebraska Press, $19.95 (paperback). Award-winning writer, hiker and history lover Sue Eisenfeld [...] Continue Reading
Fulton Mall Update: It Still Can Be Saved
By Ray McKnight On Feb. 27, 2014, the Fresno City Council voted 5 to 2 to proceed with the Fulton Mall Reconstruction Project, a plan to turn the pedestrian-only mall into a street. The city has [...] Continue Reading
John Lewis and Selma in Fresno
By Hannah Brandt Congressional Representative and civil rights leader John Lewis (D–Ga.) was a guest at the Warnors Theatre in downtown Fresno on Aug. 19. A discussion with Lewis' Central Valley [...] Continue Reading