LOS ANGELES — Peter Mayhew, the towering actor who donned a huge, furry costume to give life to the rugged-and-beloved character of Chewbacca in the original...
Marisol Baca begins a two-year term as Fresno’s poet laureate Thursday. Baca, an English instructor at Fresno City College and prize-winning poet, is the first woman...
A Fresno photographer says she was welcomed on a recent visit to Iran, despite the Trump administration’s campaign of economic sanctions against the country. Helen Gigliotti,...
Filmmaker Norah Shapiro explained how and why she made “Time for Ilhan” recently during Fresno State’s Cineculture series. The award-winning documentary captures the political rise of...
By virtue of her background and a flair for visual story-telling, Norah Shapiro has emerged as an award-winning (and crowd inspiring) maker of independent documentaries. Valley...
Who is the most popular member of KISS? Perhaps the best way to figure it out is looking at which character fans emulated in the band’s...
‘My Sister, the Serial Killer’ Nigerian writer Oyinkan Braithwaite’s first novel is set in Lagos and, as its startling title suggests, it revolves around two sisters...
When I was in high school, my father worked at a gas station and wrote poetry late at night in our kitchen. He wrote old-fashioned poems....
NEW YORK — Two Ernest Hemingway stories written in the mid-1950s and rarely seen since will be published next year. The director of Hemingway’s literary estate,...
McLane High School’s ArtVenture Academy is displaying art recognizing the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001. Students created the art the following year in...