Bakersfield

Related Search

Blogs
November 16, 2006
Tonight @ Detroit: Totimoshi / Fu Manchu
Buck Owens is Black Sabbath and Totimoshi knows why: distinctive guitar tone and songs about Satan make a boy from Bakersfield do good, and Totimoshi guitarist Tony Aguilar learned the necessary lessons from both. Central Valley-raised—where he grew up on country/western as much as rock & ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2006
Coming Attractions
Cast your mind back to one of the grimmer spectacles of the grim days of 2004: the Bush/Cheney reelection campaign. If you recall, it was impossible to tell the difference that year between the official functions of President Bush and the fearmongering and pandering of Candidate Bush. Every official ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2006
Happy Motoring
USA Today, the newspaper designed for people who'd rather be watching television, brings us news of a new survey ranking the two hundred largest American cities in terms of driving safety. Compiled by Allstate Insurance, the survey measures the average rate at which drivers in a city are involved in ... More >>
Blogs
November 27, 2006
Oily characters
The holidays are a time for celebrating tradition, and a story from The Associated Press reminds us of one of our country's greatest traditions: corporations screwing the public and lying about it. Confirming what you've suspected as you stand at the self-service gas pump, swearing under your breat ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2007
Diocese of Fresno Lies to OC Weekly, Spins for Brown
The holidays are a time for celebrating tradition, and a story from The Associated Press reminds us of one of our country's greatest traditions: corporations screwing the public and lying about it. Confirming what you've suspected as you stand at the self-service gas pump, swearing under your breat ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2007
Be on a DVD!
ZOMBIE FARM, directed by SoCal Independent Film Fest organizer Brian Barsuglia, will be coming out on DVD December 17th, and is currently available for preorder. However, Brian and friends aren't done making the thing yet -- and they'd like YOU to be a part of it. They'll be screening it this Sunda ... More >>
Features
January 7, 1999
The Year in Fabulous Celebrities
ZOMBIE FARM, directed by SoCal Independent Film Fest organizer Brian Barsuglia, will be coming out on DVD December 17th, and is currently available for preorder. However, Brian and friends aren't done making the thing yet -- and they'd like YOU to be a part of it. They'll be screening it this Sunda ... More >>
Music
November 18, 1999
Goat Ropers Romp, Blues Lovers Stomp!
Buck Owens and B.B. King in the same week
Blogs
January 13, 2009
Santa Ana Bores Forbes
Santa Ana, boring? Our hopping county seat, where dudes kidnap boys, bullets rain from the sky, the Cham live free, municipal workers are laid off as trash fees rise, violent crime has dropped but still rules the county, air conditioners are cranked up to 11 in January, Lamborghini dealerships come ... More >>
Music
December 4, 2008
[Aural Reports] DJ/Student Mono/Poly Violates No Anti-Trust Laws With His Beats
Santa Ana, boring? Our hopping county seat, where dudes kidnap boys, bullets rain from the sky, the Cham live free, municipal workers are laid off as trash fees rise, violent crime has dropped but still rules the county, air conditioners are cranked up to 11 in January, Lamborghini dealerships come ... More >>
Blogs
February 18, 2009
Orange County Register Readers Meet Their Nuttier Competition
*UPDATEDIt appears Orange County Register readers watch the Channel 4 news. Or, at least, some of the comments left on KNBC's online version of a breaking story about a man committing suicide this morning on the altar of Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove read as if they could have been lifted from o ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2009
Incoming: No Doubt Returns to Orange County! Eventually.
Full tour dates have finally been announced for archetypal OC success stories No Doubt's tour with Paramore--we've known for a while that they were going on tour at some point and the first date would be May 3 at the Bamboozle Festival in NJ, but now we've got the whole sched, and the three month-is ... More >>
Music
October 25, 2007
Aural Reports
Quiet Storms: Jeff Perez Had to Head South to Make Northern Rise
Music
March 1, 2007
Feelin' It
David Serby & the Sidewinders
Music
December 21, 2006
Cuzz Yore So Sweet
Dec. 21-Dec. 28 Get Out! Nightlife and More
Features
June 22, 2006
June Gloom Boom
Its getting hot in here . . . wait, no it isnt
News
March 30, 2006
Welcome Home, Mr. Haidl
Web Exclusive! Gang rapists finally get shipped to state prison
Columns
January 26, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
Jan. 18 - Jan. 24
News
January 12, 2006
This Week in Real Rasslin'
Five-Counties Invitational
Features
October 20, 2005
Brea
Five-Counties Invitational
News
March 31, 2005
Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
LA punks are so OC. Or is it OC punks are so LA?
Columns
June 13, 2002
Prison Blues
Visiting time at Wasco State
Columns
May 17, 2001
Letters
Visiting time at Wasco State
Columns
May 10, 2001
Dont Come Back Dead
Local bands invade Kern County
Columns
July 6, 2000
Fight Night!
Chicks, violence, implants and fists of fury!
Music
March 16, 2000
Kick Out the Jams!
A flood of seriously good new roots CDs
Columns
June 3, 1999
Letters
A flood of seriously good new roots CDs
Columns
May 13, 1999
All You Got to Do Is Act Naturally
A trip to country's real home: Bakersfield
Blogs
April 22, 2009
Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Child Molester Who Worked For Dana Rohrabacher?
Singing & Dancing in Prison?At least twice a month, someone asks me: Where is Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, the Orange County conservative activist who worked for years as a Washington, D.C. aide to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) and is now a convicted serial child molester?Answer: McFarland, ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2009
Flier of the Week: The Sequence Tour Kickoff at DiPiazza's
That's a pretty fun one, right? I like it mainly because the guy on the left is dressed as Solid Snake. The rest are all video game characters, too, and there's even more video game fun on their MySpace (Squirtle!). Plus, it promises a party. Who doesn't like parties? Punch bowls, pin the tail on th ... More >>
Blogs
October 23, 2009
Wild Rivers to Finally Close and Become... A Water Park
We missed this item on the LA Times's Funland blog on Monday. Apparently, Irvine water park Wild Rivers, which has spent the better part of its decade proclaiming it would soon shut down but never actually doing so, may finally see its last day in 2010.In its place would be a seemingly identical ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2009
Eat Local, Recycle Your Food Waste Miles and Miles Away
Not to be outdone by their North County counterparts, who recycle sewage into drinking water through the revolutionary Groundwater Replenishment System, South County communities are banding together to turn food waste into compost.While the regional pilot program sounds meritorious, one thing abo ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2009
Five Awful Office Food Smells
8182757@N05 @ flickr.com CC BY 2.0Please, please, no more cod, sauerkraut and marinara sauce casserole!All right, look. Nobody likes the person who whines about the smells in the office all the time, and it's a free country, and you can eat what you want in your office......but that doesn't precl ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2010
New UCI Research Will Have You Looking at Earthquakes and Lawns Differently
UC Irvine researchers have discovered new ways to look at earthquakes and your front lawn. No, not how shakers rip up your green playground. We're talking one study that dispels notions about how experts estimate the potential for the next so-called "Big One," and a second that disproves the idea th ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2010
Supreme Court Weighs Orange County Poop
The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to let Orange County's poop go . . . to Kern County.
Blogs
July 23, 2010
The New Limb Tour Diaries: Days 1 & 2
(Alt-pop four-piece the New Limb went on tour for the first time EVER this week, so they're sending Heard Mentality missives from the road. They're going to take turns guest blogging; first up is lead singer/guitarist Joey Chavez about Santa Cruz and San Francisco--Ed.)These past two days have be ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2011
Social Distortion at the House of Blues Anaheim Last Night
John Gilhooley/ OC WeeklyMike NessSocial DistortionJanuary 12, 2011House of Blues AnaheimCelebrating their ten-year anniversary, House of Blues Anaheim smartly booked Social Distortion for a high-energy, sold-out birthday party. Social D is no stranger to the House of Blues Anaheim, having played ... More >>
Culture
January 27, 2011
Forever 21 Is Foreverywhere
[Trendzilla] The fast-fashion giant is coming to a mall near you
Blogs
January 26, 2011
Jason Bailey Discrimination Suit Against Anaheim Ducks Begs the Question: Jews Play Hockey?
Jason Bailey, a right winger who formerly played in the Anaheim Ducks organization, is suing the NHL franchise for religious discrimination, claiming his former coaches with the Bakersfield Condors minor-league team continually harassed him because he is Jewish.A pro sports team in a town settled ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2011
Cal State Fullerton Wrestling Pinned to the Mat
Tuesday came and went, possibly taking the Cal State Fullerton wrestling program with it.The university in September informed Titans grapplers they would have to raise $450,000 by March 1 if they wanted their sport to remain on campus."It doesn't look like we're going to make it," head coach Dan ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2011
Food Profiling: Hopkins AG Almonds
When I hear the term "nonpareil," visions of candy and Rolls-Royces normally come to mind. To Dustin Hopkins, this is a French term for unparalleled; It's also the variety of almonds his father farms in Bakersfield. What began in 2009 as an alternative means of income in a single market has bloss ... More >>
Calendar
May 5, 2011
Merle Haggard
City National Grove of Anaheim
Blogs
July 4, 2011
Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Stealing a Charity Box!
Ever wonder which of those ubiquitous boxes near cash registers at fast-food restaurants and liquor stores are honest-to-goodness non-profits, and which are scams? Maybe that's what was going through the mind of the gentleman who tried to rip off a charity box from Taco Bell.
Blogs
September 1, 2011
Rick Perry to Bring His Anti-Social Security Message to Orange County's GOP Social Security Recipients
The day after the Sept. 7 Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Texas Governor Rick Perry will navigate the Southern California freeway system (or probably fly over it) for private meetings with fat-cat donors in San Diego and Newport Beach.But worry not, mortgaged ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2011
A Brief History of Tamales in Santa Ana
You know that book about the history of Mexican food in the United States that I mention in every other post? I released a brief, brief preview of it in the Food section of today's Los Angeles Times, specifically on the tamale wagons that ruled the streets of Southern California in the late 1890s ... More >>
Music
September 22, 2011
Velorio Mix Up Their Sound
The Bakersfield band inject all their influences, from Nirvana to norteno, into their music
Blogs
October 5, 2011
READ: An Excerpt from Duff McKagan's Memoir, 'It's So Easy: And Other Lies'
The following is an excerpt from Duff McKagan's memoir, It's So Easy: And Other Lies, out now via Simon & Schuster. McKagan is a weekly columnist at our sister paper, seattleweekly.com/reverb. He's be signing books at the Barnes & Noble at South Coast Plaza at 2 p.m. on Saturday (901 B So ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2011
Allied Management Group Special Investigation Unit of Santa Ana Accused of Being Sham Health Care Fraud Finders
Allied Management Group Special Investigation Unit (AMG-SIU) bills itself as "The Total Health Care Fraud, Waste and Abuse Solution." But the Santa Ana fraud finders find themselves at the center of a lawsuit that accuses AMG-SIU of being a "shell company" for corporate greed.
More >>

Find A Coupon

Popular Coupons

BOGO Burger Wednesday

SUDS Sports Grill

5932 Warner Ave
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
Dinner Specials $13.95

Mario's A Taste of Italy

4507 W Coast Hwy
Newport Beach, CA 92663

More Popular Coupons »

Browse Voice Nation

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Features

Music

Blogs

Music

Blogs

Blogs

Music

Music

Music

Features

News

Columns

News

Features

News

Columns

Columns

Columns

Columns

Music

Columns

Columns

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Culture

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Calendar

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Music

Blogs

Blogs

Most Popular Stories

for free stuff, news info & more!

Find A Coupon

Popular Coupons

Now Click This