mostly nonfiction and bakersfield news | November 13th, 2009
Two Films Have Sneak Peek At Bakersfield Comicon 2
I showed up late to the second annual Bakersfield Comicon. I was riding in the Hectic Films van getting a literal “Bird’s Eye View” with filmmaker Rickey Bird who was looking for some kind of attachment that could be used between a Mac computer and a projection screen. Don’t ask. He was frustrated, but all [...]
Lara Starr Talks ‘Wafflewich’ In Frugal Foodie Book
Bakersfield Day of the Dead 2009
Bakersfield Jam To Hold Open Tryouts Oct. 24 – 25 In Hawthorne
Dust off your old Air Jordans. It’s time for some professional basketball tryouts.
The Bakersfield Jam, the Bakersfield area NBA D-League team affiliated with the NBA Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers, are holding an open tryouts Oct. 24 and 25 at the HAX facility in Hawthorne, Calif.
Tryouts will be held from 8 a.m. to [...]
Commentary: Spanish Language Under Attack As CSUB Faculty Take Stand Against Possible Phaseout Of Modern Language, Chicano Studies Programs
One of Bakersfield’s economic and intellectual foundations has come under attack in Bakersfield: the Spanish language.
This time at an institution of higher learning where axing a Spanish program would make CSU Bakersfield the only CSU campus without a Spanish language program, and that as a campus embedded within a Hispanic community.
Don’t think there’s an economy [...]
Condors Downed 8-2 By Ontario Reign: Coach Leaves In Goalie For 7 Goals Before Pulling
It was the second game of the ECHL season and already a record was broken, not to mention the Condors morale for at least a game as they took on the Ontario Reign and were decimated 8-2.
Who knew the Reign could muster so much offense as a different Ontario team seemed to show against the [...]
Photo Of The Day: Ducks Truck
The Anaheim Ducks were in Bakersfield on Friday night at the opening of the Bakersfield Condors. So were the cheerleaders…
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Fistfight During Condors Opening Night
Opening Night: Bako Condors Crush Ontario Reign 5-0
After what some fans called a bloody ECHL preseason (not for the home team, but their opponents) the Bakersfield Condors trounced a dismal Ontario Reign team 5-0 Friday night for the first game of the season at the Rabobank Arena in front of 5,007 fans.
Of course the pre-game started off in style with the team’s [...]
Train Rides Through Museums And Mento Buru Criticisms
The San Joaquin Valley train winds along what seems like endless broken docks lining the southern shores of Suisun Bay. I wonder if each of their crumbled histories have been told.
The San Pablo and San Francisco bays have been left far behind when the gargantuan red-and-brown bricked C&H sugar cane factory comes into view. Many [...]
