The Fresnan

Saturday Fresgeek: Indoor Smog is Better than Outdoor

This is what you're doing tonight to get in out of the smoke:

Friday Fresgeek commits suicide

Bloggeraderie Month continues with our leading Friday-in-Fresno pick:  Fresnocentric will be all over Chinatown's Full Circle Brewery for Suicide Lounge.

Don't forget, Mike Oz will have more fliers and here are a few more (clickable) Friday picks:

More Downtown Lounging? I'm in

We here at The Fresnan are very happy to see this Van Ness Ave/Fulton Mall hotel, reopen. Even more stoked knowing The Sky Room (lounge), at the top of the new Holiday Inn, will be open soon.

Anything that brings more people downtown and on the Fulton Mall is good in this blog's Fresno book.

Monday Hangover: Not enough Sudz in the City

Didn't they used to give you like twenty drink tickets for twenty bucks?  It wasn't that long ago was it?  When it was held near the Water Tower, I think.  Those were the days.  Saturday, it was thirty dollars (day of) for eight little glasses of beer.  To me, what was worse: no bands of note played - sorry every blues based band in town that performed.

I suppose the thirty bones is fine if you wanted to donate to the Downtown Association anyway.  That's where the proceeds went.

The Fresno Bee's Paula Lloyd gave a great statistical rundown of Saturday's Suds in the City event - there were 4000 drinkers at The Chuck.  By the way, the Bee is damn lucky to have Paula.  I really love the stuff she writes and hope they keep upping her profile.

An Earlyass Fresgeek

Since we were lame and didn't post a Fresgeek Weekend this time, we'll preview next week:

Beer.  Food.  Downtown.  Beer.  Cleavage.  Music.  Beer.  Riot Police.

A Fresno favorite for shitfaced assholes, Sudz in the City, is Saturday May 24th at The Chuck.  Every drunk idiot in town will be in attendance...we'll see ya there.

Fresnan Famous

This past Sunday, FresnoFamous.com was gracious enough to kick out some Grizzlies tixs to TheFresnan.com.  We gave Famous nothing in return.  Well, we do help with this thing.

Check some video of Sunday's Chucker experience:

And peep some pics after the break...

RadeHoper Thursday

Until there is such a thing as BlogHop every month in Fresno, this will have to do:

May is kicking off wtih Art Hop.  That includes things like Bike Hop, Muralists at Yoshi NOW, movies at Arte Americas, blogger Ed Luv displaying his art and Rademacher at (where else) Tokyo Garden.

Rademacher will not be alone.  They play with Nic Freitas,  David Dondero and El Olio Wolof.

In case ya don't know what Rademacher is all about, check the vid' below. 

Rademacher on Pacific Noise

*Videos of all bands after the break:

Monday Hangover: Where did YOU spend Saturday?

We missed a busy Saturday night Downtown.  Too busy checking out what Northeast Fresno had to offer - it offers ample mediocreness.

That wasn't the case downtown with all of this:

The Fresno Coyote's home opener at Selland.
Evelyn Glennie world renown solo percussionist at Saroyan.
Smog City Roller Girls at Valdez Hall.
Fresno Fuego soccer at Chukchansi Park.
Tattoo Expo at the Convention Center.
Switchblade 327 at Milano's.
Steve Kuykendall and Jerry with Acoustic Highway at Full Circle Brewery.
Ultra Lounge 2039 had DJ Randy Mark West.
Smokehouse had DJ Dave Harris and DJ Shake.

Fresgeek Friday: Hot Dudes at the Fulton Mall!

Tonight.  The Fulton Mall.  Hot guys playing music.  Actually, I dunno if they're hot, that's what I'm told.

Victory Jump will be playing at Milano's inside the outside Fulton Mall.  So get down there at eight and see if this hot rumor is true.

The Dope: Hot. News. Chicks.

A reader of The Fresnan shared a elevator with Nicole Garcia from KMPH, and just a half hour before saw Malcolm Sosa from Rademacher at Cafe Corazon.  It pays to hang downtown sometimes.

The reader felt Nicole "...looks better in person than on TV."  It seems that most our newscasters are hotter in person.  I've seen Graciela (yeah, she's at one-name status) and Jennifer Brice around and they are even hotter in person.

If ya got some dope for us, give it up dammit: thedope@thefresnan.com