We go to Bakersfield to sample a few gems in a city with a bad rap; Jim Tully, "the most hated man in Hollywood;" Brains On and living with a volcano.
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If you have elderly parents who own a home, there's one word that strikes fear in your heart: probate.
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• 5:50
William Pope.L's "Trinket" — at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary — is just a flag in the wind, but it's also so much more.
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Maya Sugarman didn't even pick her alma mater, UCLA, to win. When they beat SMU, her colleague was there to catch the reaction.
Dunes is made up of former members of Mika Miko and Abe Vigoda. "Circles" is a new single, produced by David Scott Stone
In a richer city, maybe the historic, pristine Woolworth's would have been torn down or irretrievably modernized. Not in Bakersfield.
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The Buena Vista Museum of Natural History is the only museum anywhere that documents the geology, zoology and paleontology of California’s great San Joaquin Valley.
If Bakersfield doesn’t yet have its own school of painting, it’s certainly taking the right steps toward creating one.
A 100-mile-plus mile drive from Los Angeles will take you to Santa Barbara. It will also take you to Encinitas, or Big Bear Lake. Or it can take you to Bakersfield.
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On Sunday, March 15, veteran Broadway actress Patricia Morison will observe her 100th birthday with one more performance. We knew the perfect person to talk with her.
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The story of Jim Tully, a former hobo who became Hollywood's "most hated man" — and the two men who spent 20 years rediscovering his life.
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Off-Ramp contributor RH Greene says James Franco's USC film school course is a model of collaborative filmmaking that Hollywood should emulate.
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What does Mars sound like on a piano? Pianist Josh Nelson came up with one answer on his latest album, "Exploring Mars."