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Bakersfield, An Incestuous Land of Dying Theatre, Too Much Theatre, Or…?
Aaron Mauldin of Theatreaddict.com is trying like crazy to take a Bakersfield theatre scene and get his arms around it, digest it, and spin its balkanized incestuous soul into something digestible, easy to navigate, and worthy of perusal...
Posted by thenovelist - Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:29:35 PDT -- 0 comments

Local Artists Believe Bakersfield 'Life As It Should Be' Slogan Needs Cleaning Up
When I arrived across the street from Bakersfield Superior Court at 5pm, the downtown area was bustling with traffic and only a few pedestrians. The big downtown bell tower square itself was empty. Empty that is until a lone cowboy was...
Posted by thenovelist - Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:42:16 PDT -- 0 comments

Author Greg Goodsell and Tiny the Dog Bring You a Chuck Norris Preview of Noveltown's Upcoming E-book
I first met Greg Goodsell in an interview at Bakersfield's Empty Space Theatre during a 'Day of the Dead' art show. He had a microphone and he put me on the spot. Darn him. Nice interview though. We talked about Bakersfield's creepy...
Posted by thenovelist - Tue Jun 13, 2006 23:17:08 PDT -- 0 comments

Bicoastal Babe Cynthia Langston Hangs Out On The West Coast With Her New Book
She’s a Playboy writer, a film buff and reviewer, and a self-proclaimed bicoastal babe. She’s a jet-setter who travels from coast to coast in a fast-moving trend-setting life of her own. And she’s a past controversial...
Posted by thenovelist - Mon Jun 12, 2006 18:28:09 PDT -- 0 comments

Cortnie Fan Site Exposed Day After Dalloways Sing Controversial "Kenny Filthy" Song
This weekend I was hoping to show up for some punk rock over at Vinny’s. I didn’t make the punk gig but heard Bakersfield’s Box Jumper did some kind of fusion with Tehachapi’s Empty Handed while Clay Pigeon from...
Posted by thenovelist - Sun Jun 11, 2006 15:19:57 PDT -- 0 comments

Get Ready For Bakersfield Independent Film Festival Version 1.5
I wandered upstairs at the Spotlight Theatre today to an office past ghostly theatre chairs and strange costumes hanging from the old bank ceiling. I swear ghosts peered at me from shadows. Walking into his office, I saw Roger Mathey...
Posted by thenovelist - Fri Jun 9, 2006 10:02:27 PDT -- 0 comments

Tipped Off To Participata And The New Bakersfield.com Profile Tools. Join Now!
Last night I was tipped off by a software engineer/journalist/visionary Californian employee of the latest cutting edge technology pouring out of the bakersfield.com media machine. I already knew that members could make...
Posted by thenovelist - Fri Jun 9, 2006 09:58:06 PDT -- 1 comment

Diversity in entertainment rocks the RocknRoots Festival at Bakersfield's Stramler Park
I never saw a schedule for the RocknRoots event at Stramler Park in Bakersfield, Ca. I just went where my feet would take me and kept in a path that literally followed the sound of music. A portion of the time I hung out with Matt Munoz...
Posted by thenovelist - Sun Jun 4, 2006 22:48:04 PDT -- 0 comments

Mulligan's Pennies: Peeling Fact From Fiction
'Mulligan's Pennies': Peeling fact from fiction Read the review and meet author at Russo's Books on St. Paddy's Day - 3/17/08! By NL Belardes, Bakotopia.com contributor Sometimes it’s hard to peel fact from fiction....
Posted by thenovelist - Mon Mar 3, 2008 17:14:54 PST -- 1 comment

Politopia brings sleazy Bakersfield Republican political phone calls to the world of trance music
Made entirely from Republican party phone messages orchestrated to bring down certain candidates within their own party ( all taken from just one answering machine), Politopia brings trance mixdown humor to the world of Bakersfield/Kern...
Posted by thenovelist - Fri Jun 2, 2006 08:53:20 PDT -- 1 comment

California literature novel, Lords: Part One scares the hell out of Norma T.
I get emails every so often from people who have read Lords: Part One. They are usually polite emails from readers who enjoy some aspect of the novel: the Central Valley landscape, the Bakersfield urbanscape, the big dust storm of 1977...
Posted by thenovelist - Thu Jun 1, 2006 15:23:28 PDT -- 0 comments

Bakersfield Independent Film Festival Is Back This June! Submit Now!
BIFF needs your movie and short film submissions! Last year I helped out with the first ever Bakersfield Independent Film Festival (BIFF) at the Spotlight Theatre. I made some posters, helped promote, and talked on the radio a little...
Posted by thenovelist - Tue May 30, 2006 17:01:44 PDT -- 0 comments

Just discovered: Bakersfield band Box Jumper hit the Latino wedding circuit in April
June 9th is going to be a great night for punk music... I was browsing through local band blogs and just found a great story... Now, if you’re in the mood for punk rock and you’re getting hitched, then I know of a...
Posted by thenovelist - Tue May 30, 2006 12:00:25 PDT -- 0 comments

Talking with California State Assembly candidate Stan Ellis about politics
Country music statesman: I’ve been covering the Bakersfield music scene for more than a year and a half and finally heard the story about Buck Owens’ telecaster with the red-white-and-blue flag painted on it. It’s an...
Posted by thenovelist - Fri May 26, 2006 15:45:47 PDT -- 0 comments

Fatt Katt invites Paul Cartwright, Catfish, and Sonny Langley to the Crystal Palace
I don’t think I have to go into detail that finding major events for kids’ lives to grab hold of and be inspired by are rare. Tonight was inspiring because Paul Cartwright was invited along with Catfish and Sonny Langely to...
Posted by thenovelist - Thu May 25, 2006 23:28:45 PDT -- 0 comments

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