At risk of sounding like a shareholder in the place (I'm not, though by the degree of pastry flakes in the cockpit of the jetta, you'd think they bribe me with croissants.)
Liz is an astonishing woman in the kitchen... (well, she's astonishing anyways, (what, you thought it was the caffiene that keeps Leo grinning so much?)
CafeCorazon has a monthly open mike night, is open late (midnightish) Friday and Saturday Nights, --and so far their poetry/spoken word/whatever nights have gone quite well.
Excellent food, (brkfst/lnch/sandwiches/pastries) (soups and quiche for brkfst and lunch etc.)
--and stunning coffee.
The atmosphere is elegant and quite cozy, is a natch for small venue (spokenword/accoustic mild elect.) performances, and (again,) is basically plug-n-play in terms of venue ready.
-They're down on the Fulton Mall (gasp-horrors, the monsters (that don't exist,) will gobble up the local villagers (who are strangely absent as well.) -call them at the 'Fulton Cafe/Fulton Mall' number.
They've got good business going on business days, but things get a bit quieter after folks book back to their humble (and not so humble) abodes, --though, again, their open mic nights have been well attended, and their ArtHop nights also bring in a nice crowd, (I think they're open M-thru-Th till Eight, Fri-Sat till Midnight, and Sundays till late afternoon...
PS:
Regarding the 'ashamed to live near Riverpark,'
Don't be.
-Fresno is Fresno is Fresno.
The sooner folks around here stop yapping and grousing about living in one section or another (and demanding some sort of cultic allegiance for one neighborhood, or (in the case of Riverpark,) AGAINST another, the place will grow up beyond the seventh grade, and people will be a lot less (needlessly) guilt ridden and just plain enjoy the town.)
--This is not to say that folks can't LOVE their section that they live in, (that's great,) -but doing such with contrast (against) another section is just moronic and backward...
(And TellTale, you seem hardly moronic and backward ;)
-specially with flower pedals, poetry, and candles being used to romance the missus... (sly dog, you.)
they've already got a monthly thing going...
CafeCorazon
At risk of sounding like a shareholder in the place (I'm not, though by the degree of pastry flakes in the cockpit of the jetta, you'd think they bribe me with croissants.)
Liz is an astonishing woman in the kitchen... (well, she's astonishing anyways, (what, you thought it was the caffiene that keeps Leo grinning so much?)
CafeCorazon has a monthly open mike night, is open late (midnightish) Friday and Saturday Nights, --and so far their poetry/spoken word/whatever nights have gone quite well.
Excellent food, (brkfst/lnch/sandwiches/pastries) (soups and quiche for brkfst and lunch etc.)
--and stunning coffee.
The atmosphere is elegant and quite cozy, is a natch for small venue (spokenword/accoustic mild elect.) performances, and (again,) is basically plug-n-play in terms of venue ready.
-They're down on the Fulton Mall (gasp-horrors, the monsters (that don't exist,) will gobble up the local villagers (who are strangely absent as well.) -call them at the 'Fulton Cafe/Fulton Mall' number.
They've got good business going on business days, but things get a bit quieter after folks book back to their humble (and not so humble) abodes, --though, again, their open mic nights have been well attended, and their ArtHop nights also bring in a nice crowd, (I think they're open M-thru-Th till Eight, Fri-Sat till Midnight, and Sundays till late afternoon...
PS:
Regarding the 'ashamed to live near Riverpark,'
Don't be.
-Fresno is Fresno is Fresno.
The sooner folks around here stop yapping and grousing about living in one section or another (and demanding some sort of cultic allegiance for one neighborhood, or (in the case of Riverpark,) AGAINST another, the place will grow up beyond the seventh grade, and people will be a lot less (needlessly) guilt ridden and just plain enjoy the town.)
--This is not to say that folks can't LOVE their section that they live in, (that's great,) -but doing such with contrast (against) another section is just moronic and backward...
(And TellTale, you seem hardly moronic and backward ;)
-specially with flower pedals, poetry, and candles being used to romance the missus... (sly dog, you.)