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Tower Theatre

CommunityJune 10, 2021

By Jaguar Bennett | jaguarbennett@gmail.com For 22 weeks, Tower District residents and supporters have demonstrated against the sale of the Tower Theatre to Adventure Church. No one is doing this for fun. The very survival…

Pride 2021: Le Entr’acte

CommunityMay 8, 2021

By Dave Fountinelle | dave@fresnoflyer.com Last year was supposed to mark the 30th anniversary of Fresno’s Rainbow Pride Parade and Festival. Fresno Rainbow Pride had initially planned a massive celebratory blowout. It was a journey…

Pride Visalia Goes Virtual

CommunityMay 8, 2021

By Noah Deeds and Nick Vargas When COVID struck in early March, 2020, we moved our programming online for what we believed to be just a few weeks. During that time our Pride…

Masks for Dummies pt. XI

OpinionMay 6, 2021

By I. smiley G. Calderón | smileygcalderon@gmail.com At this point, we know that masks work for both dummies and non-dummies alike. And, it’s really pretty simple: whip it out and slap it on your…

The Year of Living Contagiously

OpinionApril 12, 2021

By Dave Fountinelle | dave@fresnoflyer.com Shift Happens. That was the title of the April 2020 issue of The Fresno Flyer. It had been just over 30 days since COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic in…

The People’s Dispensary Gains Momentum

CannabisApril 12, 2021

By Dave Fountinelle | dave@fresnoflyer.com The People’s Dispensary Fresno has been selected out of hundreds of applicants to be one of only ten cannabis businesses to receive a $50,000 grant from Eaze, the largest cannabis…

Masks for Dummies X

OpinionApril 12, 2021

By I. smiley G. Calderón smileygcalderon@gmail.com We’ve definitely got to be some of the dumbest dummies of them all. To think that for the past year, we believed that the straightforward and easy practice of wearing…