THE FRESNAN

TONIGHT @ AUDIE'S: Taking Flight Again?

Fresno's Flight 409 has been quiet lately. They came out loud and strong last year when they released their album "We Don't Dance" and looked to be making the leap from  being big among Fresno's high school girls to Fresno mainstream and out-of-town success. But, for some reason, they are still in town, simply hanging out. Fine with us. We get to see them tonight at Club Fred Audie's Olympic.

Flight will be playing with We Shot The Moon and Lawrence, Kansas band, Big Surrender. Both are stopping by Audie's in support of their "Pickin apples makin' pies" Western tour. [Time: 9 Cost: 5]

And now some We Shot The Moon:

Bootlegged in Fresno: The Aircrash

It's about that time to release another Fresno bootleg. This go around the ambient audio is of Fresno's The Aircrash. They have been impressing us, along with other local bloggers, lately. This song was recorded at Turtle's birthday show at Starline in December. Have a listen to "Stair Spook" by downloading it here or playing it with the player below:

The Aircrash will be playing KuppaJoe's next Friday night.

Lance Armstrong Expecting Clovis to Suck Today

Well no, he doesn't really. Actually, we have no idea what Lance expects of Clovis when he and his team roll into town today. All we know is, he had a nice dinner at some Modesto restaurant last night [pictured right -stolen from his Twitter feed].

Wonder where in Fresno/Clovis he'll be tonight. Do you know? Did you see him? Did you join the army? Were you one of the 25,000 plus expected in Clovis for the Amgen Tour of California? Did it kick ass and stuff?

UNDERRATED: Berrock Shop

Introducing a new segment (you might have heard on our last podcast) called "Underrated." We just pick something that might be a little under appreciated and tell you about it. First off, Northwest Fresno eatery: The Berrock Shop.

This spot has been around a long time and for good reason. We've yet to hear of or have a bad experience at this place - food or service wise. It has got a very "old Fresno" feel when you walk in, and we like that. The tri-tip, burgers, chicken potpies and (of course) berrocks are perfect. Plus the prices ain't bad either. Try this place out or reaquaint yourself, soon.

Indie Tuesday: Unplugged Fresnans at Starline

Sooo, the indie has returned to Tuesdays at Starline in the form of mellow acousticness (as apposed to, um, hardcore acousticness, I guess). Tonight's lineup: Mind Away, Reed, Amanda Rose and Windowsill Rose.

Sample some Windowsill:

The P-Town vs Fresno battle continues... in my head

On Monday, Fresno was cold and wet and windy - much like a certain rival city we know. Only, PDX was actually clear and quite pleasant, Monday. Well played, Portland. Well played. You win this round, fair and square. But, showing one of Fresno's favorite residences a good time last week, that's just plain dirty.

Focused On Fresno: Liquor Makes Fresno Happy

Presidents' Day is one of the drinking holidays, right? Good. Then this picture of Downtown Fresno's Happy Liquor Store sign, makes sense today. Thank you for making our Presidents' Day a little happier, Dave Van Hulsteyn's photostream.

Fresno's Bloggiest Moment of the Week: Dyer's Kids at it again

I'm reluctantly giving the bloggiest moment of the week to the video taped Fresno police beating of a homeless man. The story had two major posts around the blogoshpere and made national news, so I guess it deserves it. But I'm done seeing that beatdown - too depressing for snarkyass blogs. Attention local news broadcasters: We've all see the damn tape. You don't need to continuosly show it every time you talk about some story that relates to it.

Saturday FresGeek: Tonight. Cupid Dies

Since there is no matching Friday's amount of goings on, tonight there is just one pick for your VTD. It's a kinda anti Valentines Day event at Audie's Olympic - aww, poor Cupid:

Friday Fresgeek: So much Fresno nightlife, so little time

One of these Fresno spots will be the place to be tonight, you decide which one:

PALOMINO'S: "Stankonia" is tribute night for Outkast? For realz? Outkast? Um, okay. But hey, it's free and we do trust Ms. Soulflower and her putting-on-party-skills, so this can't be bad, even if it's Outkast. [Time: 9:30 Cost: Free]

CLUB FRED/AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: Fresno's Aesop will surely be preforming stuff off his new album "Living the Dream While Awake." Also joining in are DJ Swamp the Fay Wrays (fuck yea) and Benny and the Vets. [Time: 9:00 Cost: 10]

STARLINE: Super Lucky Catz and Bungalowdowns. See if you can get SLC to talk about their reality show tryout. [Time: 9:30 Cost: 5]

TOWER THEATER: The Fresno Filmworks people will be showing the movie "Ashes of Time - Redux." It's apearantly: "Elliptical, sweeping, lovely and thoroughly confusing" according to some dude at the Cron. [Time: 5:30 and 8:00 Cost: 10]

KUPPAJOE'S: Almost forgot this one, great lineup of indierock (and a pretty awesome flier) with Circles and Circles, From Indian Lakes, Racelegs and Awesome A Lot. [Time: 7 Cost: 6].

DCAC: The Downtown Community Arts Collective will have more Teresa Flores artwork and music by Paz. [Time: 5 to 8 Cost: Don't worry about it]

Would You Watch This? Timmy T's Reality

Regular readers or people from the eighties know about Fresno's own Timmy T, right? Did you know a local production company (we think this one) is shopping a reality show centered around Timmy and his girlfriend? According to Timmy's blog, they plan to follow Timmy around Fresno doing extreme Fresno stuff (we imagine), like: pumping gas, getting on blogs, waiting for a table at BJ's, getting a paper, hoping to run into Graciela at Save Mart but never doing it, bitching that people don't know how to drive on the freeways here. You know, intense Fresno stuff.

So, would you watch this?

Streaming Fresno: Robots Love Thrash

Because MySpace music players are cumbersome as monkey, we're firing up a new way to sample Fresno music without the slow loading crappyness. We'll just pick a song from a particular local band and let you listen to it with our player.

Fresno's Robots Love Thrash (damn awesome name) is the first band featured. They are (as you might have guessed) a experimental thrash band and kinda awesome.

So wake your ass up and play "Car vs Pedestrian" from RLT:

Audie's Tonight: Cans O' Beer and Fresno Music

Tonight's all Fresno lineup of bands that will be enjoying cans of beer from a big tub at Audie's Olympic is: Love Pollution, Style Like Revelators, The Blooming Hands and maybe a special guest because it seems Oakland's Belly of the Whale has canceled - fine, more cheap-ass beer to go around.

Fresno Famous and the Fresnan Present: Flowing With Famous- Downtown Edition

Once again, Famous Whitewater of FresnoFamous and the nerd from TheFresnan, team up to bring you the latest edition of Fresno's original podcast: Flowing With Famous. This edition is all about Downtown Fresno, as guests from the Mayor's Downtown team [Craig Sharton and Elliot Balch] talk about many things, such as:

• Downtown projects that are still happening [Legacy] or might not happen [Forest City].
• A pefect midsize concert venue is already on the Fulton Mall.
• How will the group help current Dowtown business.
• The upcoming Downtown festivals.
• Does Joshua Tehee deserve his own day?
• Downtown better than River Park someday?
• The age old Fulton Mall open to traffic debate.
• Plus much much more (it's a long one, people).

Download here or listen below:

Mindhub Report: A Downtown Fresno Question

You know we love your ass Mindhub, but sometimes you can be tedious and annoying to scroll through (especially if we get a few days behind). I wish somebody would put the more interesting stuff in a blog post form for an easier reading experience. Oh wait, WE have a blog, let's just do this ourselves then!

This is a thread on Mindhub started by, of all fucking people, Jerry "Captain Northeast Fresno" Duncan - too bad Jerry didn't think about downtown when he was a councilman, he might be mayor now. Jerry poses this question:

Everyone talks about revitalizing Downtown Fresno and there are lots of really good ideas. Ok, I challenge Hubbers to actually define a revitalized
Downtown Fresno. At what point will you say "Hey, Downtown Fresno is
revitalized". - Jerry Duncan

The hubbers respond: