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Where The Pavement Was Dust
Think you know Porterville? Rewind the clock 50 years, as everything changes. Picture way fewer buildings, massive empty fields and a completely different vibe. You wouldn’t even recognize it at first, as a different world appears! Porterville, California, was founded in 1860 and officially incorporated in 1902. Porterville is best known as the gateway to the Sequoia National Forest and Giant Sequoia National Monument.
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Trip to ‘Crystal Lake’ ends up being killing experience
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The summer of 1982 changed Brad Caleb Kane forever. That’s when he saw “Friday the 13th, Part III” and it became what he describes as “the gateway drug to the wider world of film genre.” He would eventually become a TV and film producer/writer with projects ranging from “Fringe” to “Black […]
Porterville Recorder
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7 Basque Dishes from the Boarding Hotel Tradition of Nevada, Idaho and California
I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. The Basque boarding hotels that opened in Elko, Winnemucca, Boise, and Bakersfield starting in the late 1800s were not restaurants in any conventional sense. Historian Jeronima Echeverria, in Home Away From Home, her 1999 history of Basque boardinghouses from the University of Nevada Press, describes them as the center of Basque immigrant life across the West. Sheepherders came off the range after months alone in the high desert and needed a place to sleep, eat, and speak their own language again, and the hotels gave them a bed, a bath, and a seat at a long pine table with whoever else showed up.
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A celebration of culture, cuisine at Coptic Festival
St. Demiana Coptic Orthodox Church is again ready to invite the community for a celebration of vibrant culture, delicious food and lively music. Since 2008, the church has held its Coptic Festival, now a two-day celebration of culture, church history and cuisine, featuring foods from Egypt and the Middle East.
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Bakersfield Greek Food Festival is rolling back into town
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Bakersfield Greek Food Festival is rolling back into town with delicious treats. Lauren Holcomb and Anthony Vasquez get a tasty peek at what is in store for the Bakersfield Greek Food Festival this weekend. Tanya Alsheikh is a committee member with the festival who has a personal connection to the […]
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‘Angel and the Badman’ puts twist on western format
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Zachary Levi played an NFL quarterback in “American Underdog” and he portrayed a reluctant spy in the TV series “Chuck.” He’s also portrayed a superhero, a master of a purple crayon and a caring father. Despite being a professional actor for a quarter of a century, the Louisiana native had not […]
Bakersfield Californian
'Gaslight' brings psychological thrills to BCT stage
Most people know the term "gaslighting," but fewer know its origin. Luckily Bakersfield Community Theatre has a thrilling lesson for you with its production of "Gaslight." Director Petra Carter said she first fell in love with the story of marital deception and mental manipulation through the 1944 film adaptation starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.
Porterville Recorder
The Wild, Wild West: Pioneer Days transforms Main Street
The smell hit first. Smoke, barbecue, and the unmistakable sweetness of ribs cooking low and slow drifted through downtown Porterville on Saturday, drawing crowds toward Main Street as the city stepped backward in time. For a few hours, downtown sounded less like modern Porterville and more like the Old West.
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Delano City Council recognizes Koumba Diallo, Delano native on ‘The Voice’
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A Delano teen who advanced on “The Voice” Season 30 was recognized during the Delano City Council meeting Monday. “We’ve seen Koumba grow up and truly, you know, find herself and find — literally — her voice here in our community,” said Delano Mayor Salvador Solorio-Ruiz. Koumba Diallo, a 15-year-old girl […]
Porterville Recorder
Ricky, Ricky didn't show, but Buzzard Fest still fun
The 20th annual Buzzard Fest was filled with a variety of good music, some good food, and entertainment by the ladies from the Crack O'Dawn Dancers. Ralph Bourne, host and and talented founder of the Buzzard Fest at the Barn Theater welcomed the large crowd for the evening, and sang his original songs welcoming the buzzards to roost in their eucalyptus tree habitat that surrounds the theater. Bourne sang the song of the "Lost Fisherman", "Ricky Ricky Come Home" asking a young buzzard to come home and roost, and eat his "fill," and his classic, "I Ain't Dead Yet."