Go & Do: Bakersfield Life

Twilight at CALM features free ice cream — July 26

What could be better than free admission to the zoo and complimentary ice cream? That’s exactly what is in store for children, ages 3-17, who visit Twilight at CALM (located between Lake Ming and Hart Park), July 26, from 5:30-8 p.m.

As a way of contributing to the community, La Rosa Fruit Bars & Ice Cream, Inc. will be giving away free ice cream to all the children who attend the California Living Museum that evening.

Visitors will also be treated to a wildlife presentation and a scavenger hunt for the kids. The Central California Children’s Railroad will be running with tickets priced at only $1 per person.

CALM has cared for animals that have been injured or otherwise cannot survive in their native environment for 25 years. For information, call 661-872-2256 or visit the Web site at http://www.calmzoo.org.

RaisingBakersfield.com's Preschool and Activity Fair

Meet representatives from local preschools, daycares, and activity providers all in one place, at the Riverview Park gymnasium, for free!

10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, July 26, 2008

Refreshments provided.

Brought to you by RaisingBakersfield.com, the online resource for local parents.

Mobile Blood Drive at SAVORY SOLUTIONS

Savory Solutions is Bakersfield's premier make-ahead meal kitchen. We do the shopping, chopping and prep work for you to quickly prepare your family meals. You come to our kitchen to make the mess and we'll clean it up for you!

On Saturday, July 26th we are hosting a Mobile Blood Drive through Houchin Blood Bank. Anyone who donates blood and orders at least 6 meals from Savory Solutions will receive a free dessert with their order!

Appointments are required: please e-mail savorysolutions@bak.rr.com or call 836-FOOD (3663).

General questions about Savory Solutions can be answered at www.savorysolutions.com.

Mobile Blood Drive at Savory Solutions

Appointments are required: please e-mail savorysolutions@bak.rr.com or call 836-FOOD (3663).

General questions about Savory Solutions can be answered at www.savorysolutions.com.

Please keep this donor requirements in mind:

* Must be 17 years old and bring a photo ID. * Must EAT A MEAL within 3 hours prior to donating. * Drink FLUIDS and AVOID CAFFEINE before and after donating! * FREE from all cold, flu, cold sores, or symptoms of infection, and be off antibiotics for 3 DAYS. * Know the names of medications you are taking; most are acceptable. * Must wait 12 MONTHS after a tattoo or body piercing.

The Shenandoah Spy BOOK SIGNING

Francis Hamit will sign and speak about and possibly read from THE SHENANDOAH SPY, his exciting new novel about Confederate Army spy and scout Belle Boyd. Belle was a 17-year-old girl in Martinsburg, Virginia in July 1861 when she shot a Union Army soldier who invaded her home and assaulted her mother. She was aquitted on justifiable homicide. Her passionat advocacy for the South led her to become a Confederate Army nurse, courier, scout and spy. As a spy she worked mostly from her uncle's hotel in Front Royal which had been taken over by the Union Army as its headquarters. Her affair with a Union staff officer allowed her to discover Union Army plans to trap Stonewall Jackson's Army. She made a 15-mile ride in the dead of night to find and alert Colonel Turner Ashby of the 7th Virginia Cavalry to the plan. A few days later, at the Battle of Front Royal, she ran across the battlefield under fire to deliver further intelligence to Stonewall Jackson. For this and other deeds she became the first woman in American history to be formally commissioned an army officer. Although this narrative is presented as fiction, it is based upon real people and events and provides insights not just into the early Civil War, but also military intelligence operations and the way that guerrilla armies operate.

Mr. Hamit is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop who once served in Military Intelligence. He lives in Kern County. The book is a trade paperback at $18.95 and is available at Russo's Books and other fine book stores.

RaisingBakersfield.com's Preschool and Activity Fair

The school year is almost upon us. Looking for a new preschool, daycare, or afterschool activity for your children?

Bakersfield's best online community for local parents brings you a chance to meet representatives of local schools and programs all in one place, on Saturday, July 26, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Riverview Park Gymnasium. Attendance is free for all families, parents, and children.

If you are a school or program interested in exhibiting at the fair, please contact Jason Sperber @ jsperber@raisingbakersfield.com by July 11. Registration is free if you can supply your own table and chairs, $20 if you need them supplied.

Avant-Garde at Narducci's

Exciting changes at CALM

Weekends at the California Living Museum (CALM) just got more exciting. Wildlife presentations are now scheduled four times on Saturdays (including Twilight at CALM) and three times on Sundays. CALM Animal Keepers focus on mammals, birds of prey or reptiles during individual presentations, providing visitors with up close and personal experiences with the animals.

During Twilight at CALM on Saturdays, the Curator of Animals conducts a lively, hour-long show introducing visitors to a large variety of animals ranging from tarantulas to baby skunks. Presentations are entertaining, and everyone leaves a little more knowledgeable about the wildlife around them.

The Central California Children’s Railroad is on track for rides Saturdays 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; during Twilight at CALM, and Sundays 1-4 p.m. This is not a kiddie train ride — adults enjoy it as much as children. Tracks run east of the zoo and during the eight minute ride passengers get a great view of the Kern River with frequent glimpses of wildlife in their natural habitat. Train tickets are only $1.

CALM is located at 10500 Alfred Harrell Highway (between Lake Ming and Hart Park). For more information, call 661-872-2256 or visit our Web site at http://www.calmzoo.org.

Lipizzaner Stallions

2008 represents the 38th Anniversary season of The Lipizzaner Stallions. All new music, choreography and routines have been incorporated in this anniversary edition with a major emphasis on the historical background and foundation of the Lipizzaner breed, from its original breeding and use as a horse of war to a horse of nobility and aristocracy to a living form of equestrian art. The show emulates the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria, in its presentation of Lipizzans, and maintains a traditional as well as entertaining performance similar in many ways to what you would see at the Spanish Riding School of Vienna.

Also included in the performance is a segment called the "Airs Above the Ground." These are the spectacular leaps and maneuvers, once used by riders in saddle to protect and defend themselves on the battlefield, which are now preserved as an equestrian work of art. When you see the Lipizzans perform, it is like stepping back four hundred years and viewing one of the greatest equine ballets in history.

The Lipizzan is a rare and unique breed; its history and culture is known worldwide. The Walt Disney movie The Miracle of the White Stallions, depicting General George S. Patton saving them at the end of World War II from certain extinction, created an even greater world-wide interest in the Lipizzaner breed. Had it not been for Patton, there would be no Lipizzans today.

Although the Lipizzans star in this presentation, the ancestral forefather of the Lipizzan, the Spanish Andalusian, is featured in a high school presentation with special wardrobe themed to traditional Spanish music.

Not only is the Andalusian shown in saddle, but also in a unique presentation where the rider performs all the maneuvers of the Grand Prix Olympic level dressage on the longline, while walking behind the horse and guiding him through his paces.

Click Below to Purchase Tickets

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Karaoke King Show Live at Club Odyssey in the DoubleTree with DJ Kyle of Good Time Entertainment

Karaoke King Show

Watch - Sing - Be A Star
Wednesday Nights

That’s right Wednesday Night with DJ Kyle, Joe & LeeAnn. This show will be at Club Odyssey inside the DoubleTree Hotel.

The show is open to 21 and Over only at will start at 9pm.
Bakersfield’s Best Karaoke Show with over 52,000 karaoke songs (Click here for our online Karaoke Database)

Come in early for a chance to win prizes From Midas, What a Racquet, Whitewater Carwash, Rainbow Carwash, 34th Street Carwash, Rainforest Carwash, Wave Runner Carwash & Good Time Entertainment

Can't Make The Show watch it live online right on our home page every Wednesday night Click here to watch

Club Odyssey inside the DoubleTree Hotel
: 3100 Camino Del Rio Court, Bakersfield, Ca 93308
: 661-633-1949
: Host: Good Time Entertainment
: 9:00 PM
: 21 and Over

Russo's Books Breaking Dawn Midnight Release Party

Please join us for the release of the highly anticipated novel "Breaking Dawn" by Stepehnie Meyer. This book concludes the thrilling Twilight Saga. The fun starts at 10:00pm on Friday with the book being released at midnight. We will have games, a costume contest, and prizes! We hope to see you there!

Lopez House Historic Films Fund-raiser - Aug. 1

It will be Kern County on the big screen as “The House with Three Lives” and “Wild West Country: The Lure of Gold” premier for a one night only screening at the majestic Fox Theatre in Bakersfield beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 1. Proceeds from the $10 per person, non-profit, fund-raiser will be used for the ongoing preservation of the historic J.J. Lopez House at the Kern County Museum. Tickets can be purchased at http://vallitix.rdln.com or by calling (661) 322-5200.

Presented by the museum and Kern River Valley Historical Society, the event will even have a 19th Century feel outside with horses and “Wild West Country…” actors in period attire greeting visitors, along with members of the pioneer Lopez, Coppock, Hill, Rankin and Powers families.

“The House with Three Lives” is a 30 minute documentary detailing the history and preservation of the house built in downtown Bakersfield by Spanish immigrant and Tejon Ranch Manager J.J. Lopez in 1906. It became the home for Otis Coppock, who moved it to Rosedale Highway and Calloway Road in 1953, and later the Hill family that purchased it in the 1960s.

Inspired by the late Bob Powers’ books, “Wild West Country…” is a 90 minute docudrama about the county’s South Sierra region, featuring Joseph Walker’s discovery of the pass that bears his name in 1834 through the Kern River Gold Rush and the establishment of gold camp, Whiskey Flat — now known as Kernville.

The films were produced by veteran filmmaker Chuck Barbee, whose credits include work on the Peabody Award network series “Hot Dog” and Emmy Award winner “Night Court.”

For more information, please call Heather Fowler, Kern County Museum Foundation executive director, at (661) 852-5020.

Monty Byrom & The Buckaroos - FRI, AUG 1st

Monty Byrom and The Buckaroos

Fri. - Aug. 1st, 7:30pm

Crystal Palace 328-7560, $5.00

Wild Blue Rose LIVE @ The Rocket Shop Cafe

Wild Blue Rose LIVE at The Rocket Shop Cafe Friday night August 1st from 8pm til midnight. No cover before 10-pm. All ages welcome.

Drink & Dinner specials

Black and White Party @ The Element Lounge Downtown!

Come down to The Element Lounge for a Black and White Party on Friday August 1st! $2 beer and shots! Hip Hop, House, Top 40!