Jennifer Self
The Bakersfield Cali
Bakersfield, CA, United States
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Community Voices: On World AIDS Day, we salute progress and consider remaining challenges
In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, there weren’t enough Cal Dennys. An openly gay man in Bakersfield – which took a measure of courage back then – Cal → Read More
JENNIFER SELF: Bowling, laser tag, booze — new Bakersfield fun center to have it all, in 45,000 square feet
"New Entertainment Venue Coming to Bakersfield!" That was the somewhat subdued subject line — exclamation point aside — of an email sent to media organizations earlier this week by the project's PR firm. But there's nothing subdued about The BLVD, billed as "an exciting new entertainment and dining concept, opening later this year." The 45,000-plus-square-foot venue will occupy the long-vacant… → Read More
Kern County Fair lineup: LeAnn Rimes, Steppenwolf, En Vogue and ...
The Kern County Fair announced the slate of free concerts for this year's 12-day entertainment extravaganza, and it's a list replete with the four C's of the fair circuit: country, → Read More
Charles Pierce, the pioneer Bakersfield forgot, gets his due
A man with the chutzpah to stick "dale" on the end of his name and designate the subdivision he owns a "town," is the kind of man who wants to → Read More
'He's home': Emotional family honors Merle, boxcar
For a man who wasn't there, Merle Haggard was everywhere Sunday at Kern Pioneer Village: His hits on the sound system, his T-shirts on the backs of fans, his essence → Read More
The boxcar house: A timeline
1911: The only known date stamp on the boxcar, found on a metal plate on the subfloor. What that tells historical architect George Taylor Louden is that the boxcar itself → Read More
Home again: A place to commune with Merle
No telling what James Haggard thought that day in 1935 when he laid eyes on an old Santa Fe boxcar, obsolete by railroad standards even then. → Read More
Faux-out! Tributes to Beatles, Floyd, ABBA at amphitheatre
Nostalgia has always been hot at the city's amphitheatre, but rather than bring back bygone boomer bait like last summer's Kenny Rogers, the Beach Boys and Lynyrd Skynyrd — who → Read More
Movie chain wins race to quench thirst for booze
At the suddenly hopping corner of Rosedale and Calloway in the northwest, there is a din of hammers and electric saws, but the noise will eventually give way to the → Read More
Fabious Worthy, 1950-2017: Soul food restaurateur was the grill deal
A joke, a hot link, a well-timed compliment: Gregarious restaurant owner Fabious Worthy was into making people feel good, and he usually relied on the potent combination of humor, Southern → Read More
Why did museum CEO leave and what's next?
The directors on the Kern County Museum board said they wanted "a catalyst for change" when they hired Zoot Velasco as CEO last year, but change, as they say, can → Read More
Update: Departing museum CEO to stay in Bakersfield
Editor's note: Kern Pioneer Village CEO Zoot Velasco emailed The Californian Friday morning with information about what he plans to do after he leaves the museum later today: → Read More