Category: The Chuck

Eat These Tonight: Tacos

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Wanna bet Colorado Springs doesn't know how to do a Taco Throwdown? Yeah, these are the kind of things that make Fresno cool. It's Taco Truck Throwdown #2, happening again at The Chuk. The Beehive has all the details cabbage on the event.

Basically, you go to a Grizzlies game and a taco truck fight breaks out. It was wildly successful last year so getting there at 5:30 might not be a bad plan – plus you get to see batting practice…if you're into that sorta thing.

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Tonight @ Fresno: An Excessive Amount Of Things

Fresno's really showing off now. It's Spring and there's too damn much going on, especially for one shitty blogger to keep up with. ArtHop is tonight with dumps of stuff (artists love it when you refer to their pieces as "dumps of stuff") all over at places like this:

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Also, that blog that has never stopped believing that blogs are popular, the Fresno Beehive, are putting on another Tweetup with the Grizzlies, poolside:

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Downtown Fresno is all into doing stuff on Thursday nights now:

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Arthop is so popular it produces bi-product events:

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Oh yes, there's the normal during Arthop live music like the Light Theives playing…

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…And post-Arthop live music as well:

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There's probably a buncha other junk happening too…after all it is Fresno: lot's of stuff happens here.

Do This Tonight: Eat Tacos. Watch Baseball. Drink.

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Pretty genius event going on at Chukchansi Park tonight. During the Grizzlies game against the River Cats (Go A's!) will be the Taco Truck Throwdown. Local taco trucks competing for your tastebuds' affection. All the info on the event can be found over at our friendly rivials the Fresno Beehive or Fresno Tacos. Tacos AND Thirsty Thursdays? Look. Out.

Wonder if the Pedal Junkie's will be a taco dashing to it:

Fresno: Catch Up On Your Sleep

For some reason it's always entertaining hearing what somebody traveling through Fresno thinks of Fresno.

Tacoma Rainiers radio announcer, Mike Curto, recently posted on his blog about how he uses the Fresno trips to catch up on his sleep. According to Mike…

"…there is nothing to do in Fresno, except go to the park and work. It’s
too hot and smoggy to walk anywhere, and there really isn’t anywhere to
walk to anyway. There is no nearby post-game bar
scene to get caught up in. This is, in a word, a great trip for sleeping."

Man. Next time Tacoma comes though town, one of us has to take this guy around and show him all of Fresno. Apparently he thinks the area between his hotel and The Chuck is all there is.

Here, Mike talks about what we assume was the days when the Grizzlies played at Beiden:

"It was always 100 degrees and smoggy. The ballpark was worse than a
Class-A stadium, with no broadcast booth and no air conditioning
anywhere. The hotel was 20 minutes away, in a completely decrepit
downtown area. The whole thing made me miserable – not to mention
sweaty, stinky & gross."

Well, at least we're improving in Mike's eyes:

"First of all, after years of starts and stops, they finally opened their new downtown ballpark -
and it’s a great facility, one of the top six or seven in the league.
The hotel is strong, and you can walk to the park. We’re still in
downtown Fresno, and it’s still kind of decrepit – but not as decrepit
as it was 12 years ago."

That last line has given us the best tagline for downtown ever…

Downtown Fresno: Not As Decrepit As 12 Years Ago.

[Source: Archop's Twitter feed]