Can California Go Rogue?

Why an Eclectic Fringe Festival in Fresno Is a Model for the State’s Future

Does California need to go Rogue?

I’m not talking about secession or flying Sarah Palin down from Alaska but about what may be the most important California arts event most Californians have never heard of: Fresno’s Rogue Festival. Founded more than a decade ago in the backyard of artist Marcel Nunis, the independent festival brings thousands of people from around the country and the world to Fresno the first two weekends of March for hundreds of performances in a dozen different venues. It is a remarkably open festival, a so-called “fringe” …

by Joe Mathews | February 19, 2014

Can the Free Market Cure Asthma?

A Group in Fresno Looks to Make Money While Helping Kids Breathe

by Lisa Margonelli | October 30, 2013

Is there a profit to be found in reducing children’s asthma attacks? A diverse team of public health advocates, asthma care providers, financiers, and foundations has set up a pilot …

California’s Coast Doesn’t Have a Sustainability Monopoly

How A Brown, Dusty San Joaquin Valley Town Is Going Green

by Lisa Margonelli | September 30, 2013

Rey Leon works on sustainability in the city of Huron, California. Sustainability is a common enough word on the California coast, where hybrid cars, organic food, and solar power are …

Hello, Asthma, My Old Friend

Growing Up in Fresno, Where There’s No Such Thing As a Good-Air Day

by Lauren Alejo | May 2, 2012

I don’t remember learning the word “asthma”–any more than I remember learning the words “pizza” or “dog.” In Fresno, California, where I was born in 1989, all those terms were …

Last Doctor For 50 Miles

How To Bring Decent Healthcare to the Central Valley

February 28, 2012

Rural healthcare in California is fighting an uphill battle–for better access, improved transportation, more coverage and reimbursement, and against doctor shortages. But there is cause for hope, agreed a panel …

What You City Docs Miss

Being a Rural Physician Is Different-Gratifyingly So

February 26, 2012

In cities, more and more of us are getting used to getting medical care that treats us as a collection of parts. We see a podiatrist for our foot, an …

California Can Reconceive the Arts by Offering More Choices and Ways to Participate

Demographic and Technological Shifts Could Let Arts in the Golden State Better Serve Communities

Is Fresno California’s Taco Capital?

In Search of a Galvanizing Narrative, a Growing City Looks to Its Taquerías

The Arts Can Do for California What Politics and Big Business Can’t

The Cultural Sector Retains Its Credibility, Imagination—and Ability to Bring People Together

Fresno Wants to Be Your Guinea Pig for Art

Don’t Underestimate the Central Valley As an Incubator of Galleries, Fringe Festivals, and Graffiti Art

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