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☀️ Good morning! It’s Wednesday, July 24. This is Rob. Expect a high today in Fresno of around 107 as the National Weather Service’s excessive heat warning enters its third straight day. The warning is scheduled to expire Thursday night when temperatures peak around 106 before a slight and gradual cooldown heading into the weekend.
🥳Celebrate the reopening of Bookish, a used bookstore on West Olive Avenue in Fresno. First opened in 2021, store owners Vanessa Garabedian and Lorenzo Martinez closed the shop briefly earlier this year when Garabedian went on maternity leave. The reopening event is set for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at the store at 520 W. Olive Ave. The couple discussed their big plans for the store earlier this year with Fresnoland’s Julianna Morano.
🏛️ An appeals court sided with the city of Fresno, ending a yearslong dispute with Adventure Church’s efforts to purchase the Tower Theater, KVPR reported. The church sued the city in 2022, claiming the city illegally pressured the theater’s owners to back out of a deal with the church. But the appeals court said the church’s contract had expired when the city stepped in to take over. Residents and neighborhood advocates had urged the city to intervene over concerns that the conservative church presence would erode the neighborhood’s inclusive identity.
Fresno Art Museum carries on city’s legacy of honoring women artists with new exhibit this weekend
Wendy Maruyama doesn’t necessarily think of herself as a “feminist artist,” but this weekend she’ll be the face of a long tradition of celebrating artistic women in Fresno, a community with deep ties to the feminist art movement. The Fresno Art Museum welcomes the public to Wendy Maruyama: A Sculptural […]
