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ArtView: Graffiti Summer

ArtView: Graffiti Summer

Art ViewBy Jim Christiansen May the Fourth be with you. Reminder George Lucas Star Wars started a  trend in sci-fi Art. Check out any cos-play event, comic con, see where that fits in. May blooms with art events all over the area, and plenty of workshops and classes local and regional. Check the schedules at […]

By April 29, 2019 Read More →
GeekView Things are looking Super for Invincible Comics

GeekView Things are looking Super for Invincible Comics

  Things are Looking Super for Invincible Comics in 2019 and Beyond by Alan Falconer For any geek, Wednesday is often the best day of the week; when new comic books arrive on the shelves at our friendly neighborhood comic book stores. For Modesto, one of those stores happens to be Invincible Comics, a relative […]

By January 3, 2019 Read More →
ComedyView Winter Cooties

ComedyView Winter Cooties

ComedyView: Winter Cooties By Felicia Aleman Hello, hello, hello. Happy new year. A time for new beginnings and changes and welcome the baby New Year.  I’m sorry to say that it is also time for another visitor: The Cootie. Cooties and I have been getting to know each other well. The kind of cooties that […]

By January 3, 2019 Read More →
Noel the Musical comes to the Gallo Center

Noel the Musical comes to the Gallo Center

NOËL – THE MUSICAL HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NORTH AMERICAN TOUR COMES  TO THE GALLO CENTER THIS DECEMBER 17TH   BEST SELLING CHILDREN’S AUTHOR AND AWARD-WINNING COMPOSER TEAM UP TO CREATE A MAGICAL NEW HOLIDAY MUSICAL! NOËL, the stunning new Holiday musical from top-selling children’s author Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl) and preeminent Irish film composer Liam Bates is coming […]

By December 11, 2018 Read More →
InterView – Dr. Jim Johnson

InterView – Dr. Jim Johnson

InterView By Chris Murphy Jim Johnson – Gallo Center Repertory Company Modesto is so fortunate to have local stars that are champions of stage and theatre performance. Not only that, we are fortunate the drama and performing arts are strong in our local schools and notably at Modesto Junior College. One of these local stars […]

By December 4, 2018 Read More →
PoetryView – The Ill List

PoetryView – The Ill List

PoetryView Ill List Poetry Slam One of the most amazing nights of the year happens at the State Theatre as poets from all over the USA converge to go head to head in verbal poetry combat. The Ill List, produced by Sam Pierstorff and Ruhi Sheikh is an annual sold out success and the creativity […]

By December 4, 2018 Read More →
PerformingView – December Classics

PerformingView – December Classics

PerformingView By Kaye Osborn & Chris Murphy The last month of the year has finally arrived. We become busy with holiday shopping, festivities, cooking and decorating. It is a good time to relax and de-stress by going to the theater. It’s time to create new family traditions. I coordinate the annual Dickens Faire at the […]

By December 4, 2018 Read More →
ArtView

ArtView

ArtView Note: Jim Christiansen’s regular column this month can be found at www.modestoview.com We would like to welcome a special guest ArtView author, local artist and gallery supporter Betty Kenney. Great Things in December By Betty Kenney The Modesto Area art community is really doing great things in December. Join us for “Holiday Shopping Spree” […]

By December 3, 2018 Read More →
Art – Jim Christiansen December 2018

Art – Jim Christiansen December 2018

December Art View 2018 By Jim Christiansen Update on the point of the Graceada Park Performance Art Project. Even though I’ve returned to Riverside, California, my birthplace over the past 40 some years I’ve been in Modesto, I have no immediate plans to move back, just visit Riverside events like the opening of the Cheech […]

By November 30, 2018 Read More →
MJC Theatre stages Agatha Christie¹s ³Spider¹s Web²

MJC Theatre stages Agatha Christie¹s ³Spider¹s Web²

MJC Theatre stages Agatha Christie’s “Spider’s Web” The Modesto Junior College Theater Department presents the Agatha Christie mystery “Spider’s Web” on November 29 and 30, and December 1, 6, 7 and 8 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. in the Little Theatre of the Performing Arts Center on East Campus, 435 College […]

By November 23, 2018 Read More →
Never Letting Go

Never Letting Go

Never Letting Go  by Dave Storm Far beyond the smoke and the haze. In the midst of the fire and the flames. Go our prayers for the lives that they save. For the ones, with their lives, that they gave. For the love that is selfless of blame. Because saving lives, is no game. It’s […]

By November 21, 2018 Read More →
JazzView – Fall Chill Hot Jazz

JazzView – Fall Chill Hot Jazz

Blues&JazzView by Eric Benson What’s new with Jazz and the Blues News? If you luv music you’re gonna love this Well, fall is upon us and there are changes in weather, temperature and political climate, I feel a chill! But whether you vote Blue, Red or Sepia Brown, if you believe in change just Vote. […]

By November 15, 2018 Read More →
ArtView – Eleven Years, Memories and Observations

ArtView – Eleven Years, Memories and Observations

ArtView By Jim Christiansen This edition of Modesto View Art View is my 11th anniversary of joining the in-print edition of Modesto View, usually page 7, at the invitation of my friend, visual artist and musician Chris Murphy. This past Art Walk was great, and though officially no Third Thursday, your usual Art Walk venues […]

By November 15, 2018 Read More →
98° InterView

98° InterView

98° InterView By Efren Martinez In five short years from 1997 to 2002, 98° sold a staggering 10 million records, scored a chart-topping single, “Thank God I Found You,” with Mariah Carey and Joe, and collaborated with their collective idol, Stevie Wonder, on “True to Your Heart,” for the 1998 animated Disney film, Mulan. Their […]

By November 7, 2018 Read More →
ComedyView: Laughs are Getting Stronger

ComedyView: Laughs are Getting Stronger

ComedyView: Laughs are Getting Stronger By Felicia Aleman Hello, hello, hello. It’s my View-a-versary! One year ago I started writing the Comedy View column. Thanks to all five of you for reading. Send cake. October = MAMA’s. During a lapse of judgement, I asked the comic MAMAnees why they should win. Taylor Evans: I want to show other crappy comics like […]

By October 6, 2018 Read More →