For fans of the photographer Rondal Partridge, there's never been a better time to be in Fresno.

Thanks to Summer Arts, I now am in love with the sound of flute and guitar together.

Community-theater Shakespeare can be a hit or a miss. The current production of "As You Like It," which opened the Woodward Shakespeare Festival's fifth summer season, belongs in the miss column.

Isn't it amazing where life takes you sometimes?

Here comes the man with the Best Job in the World.

A "new" play by Mark Twain is an event no matter the century. That "Is He Dead?" took so long to finally come to theatrical life -- it opened on Broadway in 2007 and reached Fresno last weekend, in the form of a Good Company Players production, the 2nd Space Theatre -- might be considered by some an ominous sign. How good could it be if it sat on a shelf all these years?

These aren't your grandmother's quilts. Lots of nifty new tools, including something called a rotary cutter (it works like a pizza cutter), are used by today's quilters. So is software that calculates fabric and allows designs to be moved around.

It’s time to hit the beach, Shakespeare fans. Director Michael Peterson is setting the Woodward Shakespeare Festival production of “As You Like It,” which opens Thursday, in the raging “Summer of Love” of 1960s Southern California.

In the annals of Clovis dance, you don't get much more influential than Demi Mehas.

It isn't every day that you get to see a "new" play by Mark Twain. "Is He Dead?" wasn't published until 2003, although scholars had long known it existed, and it opened on Broadway in 2007. The local premiere of the play is i

Firebaugh artist Daniel J. Keys was chatting with some friends on an online forum at American Artist magazine when he decided to post samples of his landscape paintings and still lifes.

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Tactile means Polly Victor.