Kind Beats – Spooky 2011

If you think that how long you’ll live is based on how long your grandparents and parents live, you’re only partly right. While genetics certainly have an impact, you have more control than you might assume. “By the time you turn 55, only about 30% of how quickly you age is based on your genes, [...]

By Donald Munro / The Fresno Bee The Vang brothers knew they had a story that hadn’t been told on film before. After working for three years on their screenplay about a topic that many in Fresno know about but with which few in the U.S. are familiar – the CIA’s “secret war” against communism [...]

Fresno’s Kelly Vang has written “Star Watchers” (BookFarm, $14.95), a book of poetry where poems are intertwined. “Each poem is like a piece of a puzzle,” Vang says, adding that once a reader starts putting the pieces together, the broader image becomes clear. Vang had written a handful of poems before coming up with the [...]