Picture a desolate empty space. A lone road stretches out into the horizon and all around is dry earth. This is what brought Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant to Kern County in 1959. Now, 46 years later it is what brought back the film they shot here.
On July 11, Charles West, director of Cooperative Education/ Work Experience at Bakersfield College, and Abel Nunez, vice president of Taft College, were awarded the John W. Rice award for Equity and Diversity. The award is named after the late John W.
For many, community college is a purgatory to work out the shortcomings of the past, and for others, community college is a confusing limbo they have landed in because of the shortcomings of previous schools attended and because of a need for extensive academic guidance.
By DOTTY BURNS Opinion Editor For those of you who aren't familiar with the first film, 2002's "The Transporter," was about Frank Martin, an ex-forces operative who transports packages for the criminal underworld. The most captivating component in the first film was Frank, who appeared to be a bit of a flat character in the first few scenes with his inhumanly composed disposition, but just like anything unusual it tends to grow on you.
Nick Belardes, novelist, photographer and grassroots media workhorse, is now bringing Bakersfield another cultural step forward, with the first podcasting out of Bakersfield, "The Buck City Podcast.." When, late last year, his mentor and publishing world contact suddenly died as he was completing his novel, he didn't "get depressed, lethargic or blame God.
By VICTOR GARCIA Associate Editor Bakersfield College has made an impression on Mildred Lovato. Lovato was recently hired as BC's vice-president of student services, and she replaces interim vice-president Bill Cordero. "I researched the college itself, and I was very interested a lot in the progression and history behind the college," Lovato said.
By Michael Plaza Rip staff writer If you have only seen Stereotactic on a flier or heard about them from someone in Bakersfield, you may shrug them off as just another struggling band in an ocean of struggling bands. If you talk to band members Kyle, Todd, Mike, or Trout, they would disagree.