Bakersfield Magazine

While some professionals are eagerly counting the days until they can swipe their time card for the last time, others say they can’t imagine ever leaving their work behind...

Gary Weichelt may not be swinging for the fences like he used to, but while most ballplayers his age are hanging up their cleats, the 57-year old is lacing his up, in his pursuit of senior softball’s crown jewel—a world title...

Lourdes Vargas Nilon is closer to her work than most people may realize, and for very significant reasons. “My son was born prematurely—right here, at Memorial Hospital. He only weighed four pounds,” she revealed...

You don’t have to be Scottish to join the Kern County Scottish Society (KCSS). You should, however, share a love and appreciation of Scotland, its culture, and its rich history. And it’s easy to do...

When a good dancer comes on stage with the power to possess your imagination and your emotions, you’re just gone. And that,” says Jana Morgret-Kirks with a conspiratorial laugh, “is very hard to teach...”

FASHION TIP Fitted jeans have a much cleaner, neater look

Precision Pharmacy, a locally-grown specialty pharmacy, has beaten the odds and turned what could have been just a sleepy little Bakersfield business into a leader of the medical compounding (preparing, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug or device according to a doctor’s specifications to meet a patient needs) industry...

Varon realized that the only constant in his life was music. More specifically, playing music...

We’d been planning this night forever. I’m not sure who appointed us—I imagine we took it upon ourselves, being part of a clique known as “the parking lot pack” at school, since that’s where we spent most of our Senior year. It was sorta like our unspoken obligation. Neither jocks nor nerds, we fell somewhere in the middle...

At the Bakersfield Country Club, there are a few things you can always expect to find: golf, tennis, fine dining, and plenty of sunshine—even on the darkest of nights...