All right, cultured FresYes readers, it's time to test your museum game. Sure, there are the standards like the Fresno Art Museum, but how deep have you dug when it comes to your museum touring? If you've visited all six of these museums, you win a thousand (meaningless) points, and I will celebrate you in the comments. 1. Fresno County Museum Located in Fresno and open to all during The Big … [Read more...]
Check out these 5 new exhibits at the Fresno Art Museum
Interested in working more art and culture into your life? Five new exhibits recently opened at the Fresno Art Museum as part of the museum’s Winter/Spring show, and they'll be on display through June 10. There are three solo exhibitions and two group shows. There’s a little bit of everything: paintings, drawings, wood carving, and photography. “Each curator spent six to 12 months … [Read more...]
Saturday’s Free Museum Day is your chance to museum hop
Attention fans of art, history, and things that are just cool: The Greater Fresno Alliance of Museums and Educational Sites is hosting a free museum day on Saturday, Oct. 28, and it's basically your chance to museum hop. The variety of museums participating is broad: from fossils to friendly turtles to fine art, there's something to interest pretty much anyone. Here's the scoop on 10 local … [Read more...]
Find Gold & Other Cool Treasures in Mariposa
Last week, I had the opportunity to visit Mariposa, CA, along with my son and his fourth grade class, as a field trip chaperone. I expected to handle the responsibilities of chaperoning and keeping the eight boys in our group focused on educational activities versus making spit wads, accidentally throwing fidget spinners across the room, or whatever else fourth grade boys frequently do, but what I … [Read more...]
Watch a Clovis bank get robbed this weekend
Clovis is generally considered to be very peaceful and quiet. In fact, it's been called the number one city in which to raise a family in California. However, there's one bank in town that gets robbed Every. Single. February. Thankfully, it's just a melodramatic reenactment of the Great Bank Robbery of 1924 and not the real deal. Still worth watching, … [Read more...]
Places to go: Fossil Discovery Center
Last Thursday I had the opportunity to chaperone my son's class field trip to the Fossil Discovery Center in Chowchilla, CA. I'd heard of this place a number of times previously, but had this idea in my mind of what I thought it'd be like, and wasn't in a huge rush to visit. I thought it would be a small place with lots of models of fossils - more of a tourist-y experience that appealed to little … [Read more...]