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Porterville Recorder
Pint For Pancakes vouchers for Black Bear Diner
The Central California Blood Center is bringing back its second annual Pint for Pancakes campaign, partnering with Huckleberry’s and Black Bear Diner to give the community a delicious reason to donate blood this holiday season. From November 1 through December 31 all blood donors who give at a Fresno...
munroreview.com
For Chris Carsten in ‘Water for Elephants,’ the Saroyan Theatre is home. Sort of.
The last time we saw Chris Carsten perform in Fresno, he did it with an intensity so pummeling that it reminded me of turning up a stereo until the sound distorts. That was in 2022, in Good Company Players’ masterful production of “A Man for All Seasons” at the 2nd Space Theatre, and Carsten played the pivotal role of Thomas Cromwell with an explosive, even reckless, performance. It was stunning.
unearththevoyage.com
This Decades-Old Carhop Drive-In in California Still Brings the Burgers Right to Your Car
Some of the best meals happen at places you almost drove right past. In California’s Central Valley, there is a weathered little burger stand where a smiling server still walks your food out to your car window. One bite of a juicy bacon cheeseburger and a cold root beer...
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Fresno Chaffee Zoo names baby Sumatran orangutan Marigold
FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) — The Fresno Chaffee Zoo announced that the baby Sumatran orangutan has been named Marigold. The female baby has been named “Marigold” after the vibrant flower that symbolizes the sun. Marigold is four weeks old and made her debut in the Kingdoms of Asia...
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yourcentralvalley.com
One of Fresno’s smallest public parks is undergoing a $400,000 renovation project
FRESNO, Calif. (. ) – Trolley Park, one of Fresno’s smallest public parks near the Fresno High neighborhood, is undergoing a $400,000 renovation project. The upgrades, located at the intersection of Van Ness Boulevard and Weldon Avenue, will add new lighting and a playground shade structure. Funding for...
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Showdown: The best tri-tip sandwich in Fresno
Philly has the cheesesteak. Chicago has the Italian beef. LA has the French dip, New Orleans has the po’boy (and the muffaletta) Baltimore has the pit beef – even Pittsburgh has that sandwich with the french fries in it. You get it, lots of cities have a famous...
The Fresno Bee
Fresno is littered with empty pharmacy buildings. Some have new tenants with plans
Drive anywhere around the Fresno area and you’ll eventually see an empty chain pharmacy. It’s been a year since Rite Aid filed for bankrtuptcy and closed more than 2,000 stores — 17 of them in the San Joaquin Valley. And at least seven locations of CVS and Walgreens have closed in Fresno alone. So what’s happening with those stores? Some have new renters that haven’t moved in yet. Keep reading to find out who — including a new business that wants to move into the Rite Aid on the edge of the Tower District. Some are in the final stages of negotiating with renters or new buyers. And some are still sitting empty. These buildings are challenging to fill. Despite being in prime locations on busy corners, they are an odd size and shape, said Russ Moroz, managing director of investments for commercial real estate investment brokerage Marcus & Millichap , which does business in Fresno. They’re too big for fast food or other restaurants. Too small for regular grocery stores or big retail chains. Too short for the growing trend of kids indoor play centers , and usually lack the loading dock needed for showrooms selling kitchen tile or
The Fresno Bee
Fresno teen collected 450 Halloween animatronics; think scary clowns. Where to see them
Lucas Antonio is lost somewhere in a maze of clowns. There are a dozen, or more, set up at the entrance of the Fresno Fright Nights, the Halloween attraction that opened at Island Water Park this month. The contorted bodies are dressed in stripes and polka dots, bright shocks of colored hair atop plastic white faces with wide-smiles of monster teeth. Plug them in and the animatronics come to laughing, snarling life. “They’re all their own characters, with their own names,” says Antonio, an 18-year-old “Halloween enthusiast” who helps design and equip haunted attractions with a collection of scary animatronics that numbers in the hundreds. “They are just so basic and goofy, and I just have to have every single one of them,” he says of the clowns, which are designed and marketed through a company called Seasonal Visions International. Antonio has been collecting nearly his whole life and turned what had been a neighborhood haunt in his front yard into to a year-round gig. He has a partnership with Fresno Fright Nights, but also helped open Scare Factory in Fresno in 2024 and is senior director and specialist manager with the company ElsewhereFX, which tours pop-up Halloween attractions across