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I knew from the moment, I researched the subject of "pay-to-play" I was in for fight. Two years ago, I had this conversation with my dad on eliminating sports from high schools entirely, and I fought against his argument. Now, I agree with his stance. Maybe it's time to make students...
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The only Pug I've ever known hung it's tongue out the side of its mouth and snorted rather than breathed. It was a great dog though.
See more Bakersfield Pug photos here.
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Bakosphere hasn't posted about the Tilted Kilt in a while, but we couldn't resist sharing these interesting nuggets on the hiring process, courtesy of the Palm Desert Sun's Web site.
Palm Desert gets it's own Kilt in March, so the application process is about to begin. Quotes are from new...
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From an elephantparty tweet:
At the HIRE Committee strategic planning meeting. Mayor Harvey Hall gave his "I love Bakersfield" speech. He is such a nice man.
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CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT!
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CALL FOR TICKET INFO:
661 -...
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Just noticed this Inside Guide review of Rosemary's, the ice cream place on F street:
"I think someone is out to get us with these reviews. We try to provide the best and most comfortable experience we can. Come see for yourself and let us know personally what we can do better,...
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Quick quiz:
Where in Bakersfield can you get the following dishes for under $11?
Roast beef with Dauphinois potatoes
Halibut en Papillote
Tea-brined chicken breast with risotto
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Has anyone ever heard of Geocaching before? I had heard about it once or twice, but it didn't look interesting enough to research. Apparently, you log on to Geocaching.com and look through lists of Geocache pages, and the pages have precise coordinates leading to wherever the cache is hidden....
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There was a Bakersfield nightclub in the mid-90s called Oz. It was back behind the Mervyn's shopping center on Easton. At some point it hosted the under-21 set, ran on for a while and then burned out (apparently) on too much testosterone and not enough tolerance.
Or so the story goes. The...
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Don't want to boast or anything, but Bakosphere answered every question correctly.
Had we done this well in school, things could have turned out so much differently!
Take the quiz.
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The following story appeared on the Visalia Times-Delta Thursday morning:
A northbound Amtrak passenger train collided with a semi-truck at an uncontrolled railroad crossing just south of Corcoran this morning.
The train, a 701 San Joaquin bound for Sacramento from Bakersfield and carrying...
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Bakersfield watches & celebrates as Barack Obama becomes the 44th President of The United States - LIVE from Washington DC, via the big screen at the Bakersfield Fox Theater!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009!
SCROLL DOWN - WATCH VIDEO AT LEFT!
CONGRATULATIONS MR. PRESIDENT!
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Tweets from people passing through Bakersfield, having to spend a night in Bakersfield, on a work assignment in Bakersfield, or visiting family or friends in Bakersfield, usually make for a pretty depressing read.
Luckily Twitter limits users to 140 characters.
You'd be amazed at how often...
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Our flickr photo of the day is a fixer-upper somewhere in Bakersfield, complete with the requisite tumbleweeds, graffiti and boarded-up windows.
It reminds us of a home for sale we saw in a real estate brochure this weekend for $22,000. "Bring your tool belt," it said.
For the house...
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No one hates Bakersfield more than Men's Health magazine; we're consistently at the bottom of their lists.
So it should come as no surprise that we've made another thrilling Men's Health list, this time for the amount of sleep we get here in Bako.
On the list of 101 cities, we rank 97th for the...
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Imagine you're sitting in Johnny Rockets in the Marketplace, enjoying a burger and fries, when suddenly a brightly-dressed stranger has paid for your meal.
The Bakersfield Do-Gooders are exactly that. They wander around doing good deeds, whether it's delivering supplies to the rescue mission,...
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Bakersfield Blaze owner D.G. Elmore has heard it all before.
When Elmore bought the Blaze in 2005, the city had plans to build a new ballpark in the near future.
Four years later, the Blaze will play another season at rickety Sam Lynn Ball Park. But this is likely the dilapidated...
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A 30-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of drunken driving and hit-and-run charges stemming from an early morning crash into a natural gas pipeline in west Bakersfield, the California Highway Patrol reported.
The 3:08 a.m. crash prompted voluntary evacuations of people and...
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Celebrity sightings in Bakersfield are rare, unless you include Roy Ashburn at Dagny's or the bearded lady in our lobby downstairs.
So when celebritybabies.com reported that Brooke Mueller Sheen, the pregnant wife of "Two and a Half Men" star, Charlie Sheen, was seen eating at...
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Over Ninety Percent Local
According to the air district, which is required to do extensive studies on the matter, over ninety percent of our local air pollution problem in Kern County is not transported from outside the region. Excuses are made by the uninformed that we get...
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Q. Can you find out why the Oscar-buzz film “Milk” is not playing here in Bakersfield, even though it has already opened in such gay-rights hotbeds as Modesto and Stockton? Or perhaps you can get the theater managers to confirm an opening date?
— Whitney Weddell
A. Actually,...
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By the time the new "Star Trek" movie comes out, we'll have seen so many trailers (authorized or not), we won't have to actually watch the movie.
Here's another, probably unauthorized, video from the Bakersfield location.
Who knew the CHP were such big Trekkies?
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We've all been secretly hoping for that massive earthquake which would wipe Taft and everything west off the map, thus giving Bakersfield the beach front location it so richly deserves.
But the imminent extinction of hundreds of thousands of people is now not necessary, for it has been...
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Most unhealthy for women. Most illiterate. Poorest air quality. Best Prop 8 street corner scuffle.
Oh yes, we've made some lists in our time.
And now there's another:
Forbes Magazine has named its 10 most boring cities in the U.S., and surprise, surprise, we're on the list. But we're not No....
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Bako haters are sometimes the slyest little creatures. They conceal their distaste of our fair city in the long (and often quite boring) paragraphs of their blog posts. They start talking about dogs and big beds and offer fascinating descriptions of dogs sleeping on big beds. And then all of...
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Mixed martial arts fans across America are quite happy to hear about the 9-year-old Bakersfield boy who put a chokehold on a feisty pitbull.
More details here.
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A 5th District Court of Appeals judge ruled Tuesday that the Kern County prosecutor's office should not have been disqualified from handling a case in which a Bakersfield man was accused of setting his girlfriend on fire.
The ruling sends the trial of Israel Evaro back to Bakersfield for a a...
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Just found this story on the Marin Independent Journal's Web site.
According to the site, the Bakersfield lawyer's name is Mark Joseph Madrigali.
There's loads more information here.
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HAS YOUR BEST BETS FOR
BAKERSFIELD NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTIES!
(CLICK PIC BELOW AND FIND THE BEST BASHES IN TOWN!)
BE SAFE! DON'T DRINK & DRIVE!
SEE YA' IN '09!
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Bakersfield has ended up on the wrong end of yet another list, this time for being close to the bottom of the most well-read cities.
We may not read much, but if there was a list for number of lists appeared on, we'd be pretty darn close to the top. So there.
The latest study focused on...
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Attention Bakersfield! Beware of Jack in the Box. If you recently purchased ,or received as a gift, a JACKCASH gift card, then beware when trying to cash it out when you have less than $10 remaining on your balance. According to California law, passed in early 2008, any gift...
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Last year during this time the Department of Fish and Game planted trout each week at Lake Ming, Hart Park, The Park at River Walk and Truxtun Lake. They have only done this one time this year. Can you tell us why?
— Douglas Johnson
The Department of Fish and Game doesn’t...
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Only the luckiest employees get to work on Christmas Day.
"I've got a news tip," the voice at the other end of the newspaper's main phone line said. "The first baby born on Christmas Day at KMC. That's news, right?"
I replied that that was probably bigger news to her than to...
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This photo was texted in from a cell phone user. It was accompanied by the following message:
Rainbow leading to bakersfield as seen from Arvin
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From the Bakersfield Police Department:
Murder investigation:
On 12-25-08 at about 1:47 a.m. officers responded to an apartment complex in the 3400 block of Loyalton Avenue for a 911 call regarding an unknown situation. The caller advised that a possible gunshot had been heard. When officers...
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HOMICIDE
NEWS RELEASE
KERN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
CORONER DIVISION
This news release is prepared under the direction of the Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator for the convenience of news reporters. Facts concerning news events of major importance, which occur after the...
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NEW YEARS EVE @TROUT'S & THE BLACKBOARD STAGES!
The Blackboard Stage - $40.00 per person
featuring ** WADE HAYES! **
** THE BLACKBOARD PLAYBOYS! **
** DEUCES WILD! ** 8:30pm
The "Legends" Stage - $25.00 per person
featuring ** KEVIN BLAKE WILLARD...
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The author of the blog, Beat Diaspora: Beats, Buses, Bricks, visited Bakersfield recently and drew parallels between Buck's blinged-out Pontiac and rap music's excesses.
But it was a visit to the Black Gold exhibit at the Kern County Museum which really got the author going:
I choose to live a...
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It's always good to be original. That's why tattoos have lost all semblance of chill. As soon as the middle school teacher from Bakersfield got a butterfly tramp stamp, and the real estate agent who fancied himself as a beach volleyballer because he spent a year being unsuccessful in Huntington...
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We're working on a story about Flying J's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
We're adding to it as we get new information, and we invite readers/bloggers to get in touch with us about it.
You can call me in the the newsroom, 395-7234, or share your thoughts on this blog, Money Talks.
Looking...
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The American Red Cross responded to two incidents this afternoon. Four Red Cross volunteers responded. The Bakersfield Team responded to a total loss on T Street. There was a mother and her two children ages 16 years and 4 years. We helped them with food, clothing and 3 nights in a hotel. We also...
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So much for Bako and Fresno being indistinguishable in every facet of daily life other than carjackings (they win) and minor league hockey attendance (we win).
The Fresno Bee has a story about displaying the "In God We Trust" slogan in city halls (a movement spearheaded of course by...
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Not sure who would pay for this service if it wasn't free, but we're here to help, so give this number a call and chat about the meaning of life, why there are so many single socks in the world, and why Michelle deserved to win the "Biggest Loser."
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One of our Growth and Economy reporters has been looking into the new Hooters coming to Bakersfield for an Ask The Californian question.
She has discovered the exact location and a pretty specific opening date, but it was an interesting titbit from a Hooters official that really caught our...
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Q: I was looking for information on the new Hooters coming to Bakersfield, but couldn’t find any recent information or an estimated date of the completion. Do you have any new info?
Thanks,
Cecilia Peters
A: The restaurant at Rosedale Highway and Fairhaven Drive is under...
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A typo in the wording for Prop 8 means that Bakersfield resident Patricia Millard is legally banned from marrying her boyfriend.
There's lots of layers to this story. Bit like an onion!
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The location: Seven Oaks Country Club.
The event: A work Christmas party.
The lure: Free booze.
The result: A particularly well-written blog post about dodgy outfits, Coors Light drinkers and ornate, but over the top decor.
Enough with the blogs about politics and pets. Time to tell some...
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What's one to do when a canine companion dies suddenly and leaves a gaping hole in your heart?
Go to a Delano animal shelter and get 27 others to replace him!
That's exactly what a Nevada woman did recently and now she's trying to find homes for her new family before her husband gets back...
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There's a Starbucks on every corner. The roads are full of gas-guzzling SUVs. The air is so bad you can't see the mountains. Blah, blah, blah.
This is Bakersfield, baby — the land where time stood still!
Is that Jack Kerouac's legs dangling out of the box car?
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The Fresno Bee has a story on its Web site about the theft of 200 chickens from a Chowchilla farm. Six people from Bakersfield were arrested in connection with the theft.
When roughly 200 clucking chickens vanished this weekend from a Chowchilla farm, Madera County sheriff's deputies...
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