Vida En El Valle Blogs: The Latin voice of the central valley.

As I was waiting for Friday night’s performance of Teatro de la Tierra’s play, ‘Esperanza and Luz,’ to begin, I noticed an older man setting up a video camera. There was something about the man that made me think: He must be someone special. I introduced myself during intermission. The man was George Elfie Ballis, [...]

Have you heard of Invisible Children of Uganda?  There’s many teens  here in Fresno who want to help them.  You’ll know which young people are out to make a difference for them by the shirts they’re wearing all this month.  The one that catches my attention is the one that says “I love the LRA  90% of the [...]

On April 25th students from Clovis West High will be abducting themselves in hopes that they can make a difference for children they’ve never seen. To fully understand what they will set out to do you’d need to watch the video at http://therescue.invisiblechildren.com/en/#/watch/ . It takes a little while to see the entire video, but [...]

The Fresno Bee’s blogging site, The Beehive, has a regular feature called “Did They Just Say Fresno?” This morning, I’m adding a post to that feature here on Vida’s blog site. A story in today’s New York Times discusses the increase of shantytowns in cities across the country. The story’s main focus is on Fresno’s [...]

Atwater, Patterson, Turlock, Manteca and Tracy all made it through to the lip sync state championship scheduled for Saturday in Modesto where they will compete against Sanger, Clovis West, Buchanan and Golden Valley High Schools.  A total of 11 schools participated last Saturday at a sold-out Modesto Centre Plaza and every single one of those [...]

This morning I had the honor to chat a bit with Oaxacan singer Lila Downs for next week’s entertainment story. I’ll be honest, just like I was with her; I had never really heard any of her songs before until a few days ago. Her publicist sent me her latest album ‘Shake Away’ and let me [...]