FRESNO - Philanthropy Inspired by the Needs of our Community (PINC), a unique Fresno nonprofit founded in 2008 to benefit other local nonprofits in the community, has announced the beneficiary for its 5th annual fundraising event to be held on June 15, 2013. The beneficiary for the event, titled “PINC-A-Palooza,” will be Catholic Charities – Diocese [...]

BASS LAKE - There are some truly infallible signs of spring: wildflowers blooming, the return of some migratory birds, and The Forks Resort and Miller’s Landing opening for the season on Bass Lake. Located about 20 minutes from the southern gate to Yosemite National Park, Bass Lake is a popular destination for visitors looking for a [...]

FRESNO – Venues Today Inc. has ranked Fresno’s Selland Arena number four on the Top 5 List of best arenas with live entertainment based on box office sales and attendance figures during the 2012 calendar year.  The rankings were for venues with 5,001-10,000 capacity. Rounding out the list are Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles #1; [...]

Nicole Emmert-Hamaker is the owner/founder of the very popular Pinch My Salt blog. She is a 2002 graduate from the University of Oregon who over the last few years came to realize that creating a meal in her own kitchen is not only healthier and more economical than eating out, but a lot more fun. [...]

MADERA – The Madera Arts Council will commemorate 30 years of promoting art and artists in Madera County with a community celebration March 23. The event will take place at the Hatfield Hall at the Madera District Fair Grounds from 6 to 9 p.m. “Thirty years ago Nancy Clute, local artist and educator, gathered a [...]

FRESNO – Competing against actors from 55 colleges and universities, Fresno State Theatre Arts majors walked away with every major acting award at the 2013 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for Region 8 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. The Fresno State sweep marked the first time a single university has won all the acting [...]

Jarrod Lyman studied broadcast journalism at Northern Arizona University, and left after a couple of years to report the news at a network of radio stations in his hometown of Lake Havasu City in Arizona.  Several years later he got into his first tourism promotions and destination marketing organization, the Lake Havasu Convention and Visitors [...]

 OAKHURST - The California Carver’s Guild, along with the Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau and Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce have announced the 6th Annual Oakhurst Woodcarver’s Rendezvous will take place April 14 through 21. The event will once again be held at the Oakhurst Community center. “This special week of carving is guaranteed to be fun [...]

FRESNO - On January 25 & 26 the Fresno Monsters Hockey Team held a Children’s Hospital Jersey Auction Weekend at Selland Arena.  The Monsters live auctioned the North American Hockey League team’s game-worn specialty jerseys featuring the Children’s Hospital logo and George the Giraffe throughout the games that weekend.  The Monsters have announced the team collected $10,000 for [...]

CLOVIS – Jared Eben of Clovis is currently one of 52 baseball fans competing for a spot in the 2013 MLB Fan Cave. All of the applicants submitted videos of themselves in a contest where the top 30 participants earn a trip to the MLB Fan Cave and earn the distinction of being a “Cave [...]

Christina Musson is a native of Fresno, and graduated from Edison Computech School in 1999.  She then went to college at New York State University and its Tisch School of the Arts, studying musical theater.  A severe case of stage fright led her to pursue another career, this time in journalism. Her first job after [...]

FRESNO – The Big Fresno Fair was recently honored at the Western Fairs Association’s 90th Convention & Trade Show, in which roughly 125 fairs from throughout the Western United States attend to gather new ideas, attend seminars and participate in the annual Achievement Awards. The Achievement Awards recognize the very best efforts that a fair [...]

Alysia Sofios is an award-winning journalist who is known in the Fresno area for her exclusive stories about the Marcus Wesson murders.  She was the first reporter to hear about the story from police and the only reporter to obtain interviews with most of Wesson’s family. Sofios majored in journalism at Michigan State University, and [...]

FRESNO – Emmy Award-winning composer, philanthropist and New York Times best-selling author Peter Buffett took time Friday to visit students and faculty in arts programs at local schools and prepare for his “A Concert & Conversation” performance at Fresno City College Saturday evening. The benefit performance is expected to raise between $150,000 – $200,000 for [...]

FRESNO – Peter Buffett, Emmy Award-winning composer, philanthropist, and New York Times best-selling author will be visiting local schools tomorrow to visit with students and faculty to promote arts education.  He will be performing a benefit concert in the Old Administration Building Auditorium at Fresno City College this Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Buffett is the [...]

Byron Watkins is the creative director and a partner at Windsong Productions.  In the company’s first year of inception, Watkins has led Windsong Productions to numerous awards locally, regionally and nationally.  He oversees all creative, directing, writing, conception, producing, editing and whatever needs to be completed to make a production happen.  Watkins is in the [...]

NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Billboard announced today it has relaunched its iconic magazine and digital properties with bold new designs, exclusive content, dynamic charts and multi-screen synchronization to solidify its spot as the most important destination in music media. With unparalleled authority and access to music’s biggest names, Billboard will continue to lead and [...]

FRESNO – Vicente Fernandez, beloved singer known throughout the world as “El Rey de la Cancio” or “The King of Ranchera Music” has rescheduled his previously canceled worldwide tour.  Accompanied by his son, Vicente Fernandez Jr., the legendary singer will bid farewell to his loyal fans in the Central Valley on Friday, April 12 at [...]

Reggie Ellis has been a journalist in California for over 17 years, and is the current publisher and managing editor of the Foothills Sun-Gazette.  He also oversaw the launch of the Central Valley’s first full pay-wall newspaper website, fsgnews.com, and is the founder of Central Valley Medical Magazine. Ellis was raised in Hanford, and attended [...]

FRESNO – Several tourism entities and representatives from three National Parks unveiled a new cooperative promotion highlighting Kings, Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks during a press conference Tuesday, Jan. 8 at Fresno/Yosemite International Airport. The program, called Majestic Mountain Loop, will help visitors looking to experience some of California’s most popular attractions, was created by [...]