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Do This: Fill Out A ValleyWho Bracket
This ValleyWho thing by those Beehivers is genius. Like Fresno Famous said yesterday, we're pissed we didn't do this first. But, then again, it looks like it was a lot of work so screw it. Congrats, Beehive.
If you haven't figured it out yet, ValleyWho is a tournament modeled after the NCAA basketball tourney (Go Lady Dogs!) except college basketball teams are replaced by local celebrities. Everyone votes to try and get their picks moved on. Cool shit.
Before we throw our stupid opinions out there, we give a solid fist bump to the Beehive for putting this out there and creating a balanced-as-you-could-realistically-get bracket. That said, we would have like to seen Tony D, Tom Flores, Famous Whitewater, Margie Wright, Henry Ellard and the Guitar Playing Sign Twirller at Shaw & Blackstone up in there.
Some other things we feel like being a dick about:
- Anthony Taylor a 13 seed? Seriously? That's some friends propping up friends stuff right there. Only us local Internet nerds know Taylor and we don't think he's even been around Fresno for very long, has he?
- Parker (a 16 seed) going up against William Sorayan is worrisome. The Grizzlies are going to rally around this and probably bump Bill out in the first round. Sadness.
- Graciela will likely be battling Bubba in the second round. Too damn early for tough decisions like this. That goes for other second round problems like Seaver vs. Radka and Tark vs. Laval.
- Crazy Bernie is in this? Hasn't he only been around a few months? Plus, the creepy as hell picture of him on his sign and billboards insures that we will never buy furniture in that fuckers place, ever.
A printed version is in today's Bee. Go vote here. This should be fun. Check out our bracket after the jump:
Well That Sucks: Matt James Laid Off By The Fresno Bee
Sadly the Fresno Bee is doing another round of layoffs. This one is cutting into some bone as sports columnist, Matt James, is being let go (and not replaced). Matt has done some really good work, specializing in stories you wouldn't have know about otherwise and having different takes on local sports news and personalities.
So basically the Bee Overlords are removing more original and local content, and then hoping to sell more papers. Remind us why we should keep our daily subscription again?…
Listen to Matt talk about his layoff and his plans for the future by listening to his segment on Tony D's Sportsline (KYNO 940 AM) by clicking here. Or use the player:
Matt James on Sportsline with Tony D'addato
UPDATE: In Matt's column today he talks about his departure and writes the exact kind of column we're going to miss.
Exactly How Many ‘Kids Day’ Papers Does It Take Until We No Longer Feel Guilty?
Well, the number of papers isn't two because we still feel guilty after buying
just two for $2. Yep, we should have bought more, or spent more or whatever. Luckily for those of us that
didn't give enough today, there are other ways of donating to Valley
Children's.
And no, we didn't go to any celebrity corners, just a good corner with
mildly hot high school girls nice folks that didn't try and
kill themselves getting their two bucks.
Bloggiest Moment OTW: ‘The Blogfather’ Regains Control
The Beehive's Mike Osegueda, aka "The Blogfather", had another one of his solid weeks of posting. Wednesday in particular.
Wednesday, Mike Oz posted seven times (one short of the record). But this day was maybe more impressive than a simple number. All his posts were different, not just video posts and even broke news.
The posts ranged from Tiger Woods and the Grammys, to breaking the news about Hero's and a viral local video about a rapping reckless driver.
All impressive and all the Bloggiest Moment Of The Week.
Bloggiest Moment Of The Week: A Record Posting Holiday
While you were getting drunk enjoying Thanksgiving with family and friends, not giving Fresno's blogosphere a second thought (like any sane person), the Beehive's H-Mac was busy posting videos for those that had nothin' else to do on the holiday than refresh the Beehive. How nice.
Purposely or not, McLane tied the record for Most Blog Posts By A Fresno Blogger In One Day by posting eight times. She now shares the record with… herself.
That certainly deserves a WTF Moment Of The Day and a Bloggiest Moment Of The Week nod, all at once.
The Fresnan Presents: Flowing With Famous – ‘Ask Paula’ Edition
Mr. Fresno Famous, Famous Whitewater, and Fresno's Town Goob are back with another episode of Fresno's first podcast: Flowing With Famous. This episode, we are lucky enough to hang out with Fresno Bee writer Paula Lloyd. We talk about Paula's awesome Monday column, Ask Me, Fresno history, newspaper reporting and many more podcast-y things.
Download it: flowingwithfamous123.mp3
Or play it:
Focused On Fresno: They have got to try something
The Evening Post: If You ‘Ask Me’, Paula Is Awesome
The most underrated columnist on the Fresno Bee's staff is Paula Lloyd. Her Monday column "Ask Me" where she fields general questions about Fresno, is sweet gooey Fresnoness. In today's column, a one Bryan Harley asks Paula about the history of the Old Liberty Theater in downtown Fresno. Here is Paula's response:
building, telling its history: "Liberty Theater" painted on red brick
on the side, "Hardy's" on the marquee and "Mexico" mounted on brackets
on the front.
The red, white and green Mexico sign has since been removed.
The
Renaissance Revival-style Liberty Theater was built in 1917 at 944 Van
Ness Ave., near Tulare Street. The Kinema on Fulton Street, built in
1913, was probably Fresno's first motion-picture theater.
The
Liberty Theater closed about 1929, but reopened to show "sound
pictures" in 1931, after sound equipment, a new marquee and other
improvements were installed. It was named Hardy's by its new owner,
Gerald Hardy.
Hardy's was bought in 1967 by Trans-Beacon
Theaters, which went out of business in 1971. In 1976, the theater was
used for religious concerts and seminars.
In 1978, it was renamed the Mexico Theater, showing Spanish-language movies and staging live entertainment.
You may have heard Downtown Czar, Craig Scharton, recently talk about the Liberty on Flowing With Famous. He said it was a vaudevillian theater and is a perfect mid-size venue for concerts since it's made for stage acts and not showing movies (like the Crest or Warnors). This is big in this blog's book; a dedicated midsize concert venue that's built for good sound.
Please. Somebody. Paula, Craig, Bryan, Mayor Swearengin, anybody, bring the Liberty back to life again.
[NEW! Photo Credit: Bryan Harley]
Bloggiest Moment of the Week: Singing. Dancing. Blogging?
It takes a dinner theater full of guts for a critic to become a participant in the very thing he critiques. That's what The Fresno Beehive's Donald Munro did when he became a cast member for the Good Company Players production of "The Producers."
Donald's six part blog series contained a very detailed account of his run in a Good Company production – sometimes maybe too detailed for us loser attention deficit types.
D-Mun's series is one of the most comprehensive postings I've seen in Fresno blogoshpere history and even had some Will-A videos and CK photos to enhance the bloggieness.
All of that makes Donald's ending to his series, the bloggiest moment of the week.
[Photo: Craig Kohlruss]
Did they just say Fresno…Bee?
Because the FresnoBeehive can’t catch every Fresno mention, even if it was in the paper: The Fresno Bee got some product placement action a couple Sunday’s ago in the comic Pearls Before Swine. If you click the pic on the right, you can see what I’m talking about.
We could have something to do with it too. Some time ago I did a vlog about the Bee removing Get Fuzzy for Pearls. I didn’t like the move and I did some Swine bashing.
A couple days after posting the vlog, the creator of Pearls, Stephan Pastis, emailed me and said he saw the video – whoops. Except he wasn’t pissed, he thought it was funny (kinda). He was just worried because most people who like Fuzzy, like Pearls – Stephan happens to be best friends with Fuzzy creator Darby Conley by the way. He later relayed that he and Darby were bummed Get Fuzzy got bumped from the Bee at the same time Pearls caught on.
But it all ended happily because the Bee saw their error and brought Get Fuzzy back while keeping Pearls Before Swine. So now, we can get stuff like this:
The Fresnan 