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Sweltering swamps and
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: > other spring break choices
Doesn't it make you laugh how far people will travel to find a
good time on spring break. I mean really, what's the point of flying
to Ft. Lauderdale, the MTV Lake Havasu spring break bash or
Padre Island in Texas just to drink and go wild. If you haven't
noticed, they do ttathere — on a regular basis.
, Ofcourse,Idon/tdothatWhiteeveiyoi%e*lseisoutliavingfun
and partying, I'm doing things for my community. Why, just the
other day.
1 realize that sitting on the"beach while thousands of half-
naked(pronounced neckid in my neck of the woods) college stu-
dents^rance around is good for the soul, but have you ever spent
a sunny afternoon at Millerton Lake? Yeah it looks like a giant
swelteringswamp at times, but that algae is actually good for ybur
skm.Andifyou'resufferingfrom ■ ■"■■■■■^^■^^■■■^^^^"
hay fever, valley fever or a cold, <j y ^ jttj '
the fumes from a hundred speed °
boats will open any clogged si-   on the beach While
thousands of
half-naked college
nus. Why hell, I've been breath¬
ing that stuff for years and it
noooot iffected meeeee at allll.
And.. .if you haven't heard
the big news, the Forestiere Un- Students prance .
dereround Gardens are open j • j r
again. According to the Fresno   aTOUnd IS gOOd tOT
visitorsbureau, they are Fresno's   tJie sou1   DUt nave
one true tourist attraction. Obvi¬
ously they haven't visited Dug's   yOU ever Spent Z
^?JS£&*» sunny afternoon at
is this giant garden that old man   MlllertOn Lake?'
Baldasare Forestiere dug in 1906   	
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to escape Fresno's heat. Ij^uess he couldn t get the swamp cooler to
work. Anyway, he dug a two-bedroom house in there as well. By
the time he died in 1946, he had dug some 50 rooms with a pick and
shovel including a vault for aging cheese, a room for making wine,
a ballroom with a stage and an 800-foot automobile tunnel. I guess
the guy had a little spare time on his hands.The gardens were closed
a few years ago amid legal problems and were recently reopened.
But like kryptonite to Superman, rains forced the closure of the
gardens last weekend. I don't know why they wciuld close them. In
my eyes, the second most popular tourist attraction in Fresno could
be the world's largest man-made mudhole. Now that would really
put us on the map^—'    *,
And what about those Fresno clubs. I've logged countless
Jxs in them — researching. My conclusion; plenty good. Why
this Friday in Club Fred is Fresno rock band East Side Indians
2 Lane Blacktop. Saturday night are Mtema ti ve bands Buzzbomn
and Plague Mosaic.
And if that isn't enough, how could you abandon Fresno when
Cafe Intermezzo will hold a Traditional Celtic Jam Session on
Sunday afternoon betWeei*3 p-.m. and 5 p.m. I can jus t see the Celtic
forefathers sitting around^dusting off some Hendrix and Stones'
covers. Maybe they'll do the bagpipe version of "Freebird." I mean,
you can't have a jam session without doing "Freebird."
Pick of the week: Friday and Saturday nights at The Fulton in
downtown Fresno is a band called John tine Conqueroo. I know it
sound silly, but they're actually way cool Fulton owner Joe Ramirez
described them as a "true American folk band." The instrumenta¬
tion includes pots arid pan?, wash tub bass, accordion and guitar.
They hail from Wisconsin and if they're anything like the cheddar
cheese from there, ifs going to be a good time. And you don't even
need a plane ticket, Ramirez also said the band's zydeco, cajun
sound was featured in National Geographic. Any band that makes
it to National Geographic has got to be at least as interesting as a
sn a ke. And, they're at The Fulton for two nights so if you like them
the first night you can go back again. \
In the lovely city of Hanford^another spring break ho t spot, will *.
be Glen Delpit and the Subterraneans at the Bastille restaurant and
nightclub on Saturday night Across the street from the Bastille it
Superior Dairy, home of big homemade ice cream.
Of course, if all else faib and you're stuck in Fresno on spring
break, you can always run through the sprinklers.
And what's my idea of a picture-perfect spring break? Running
through the Forestiere gardens ha If-neckid while eating a big
homemade ice cream. Hey, I live simply.
See ya out
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