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he homies of Backup Johnny enjoy their brew, a lot. How do I know this? Catch one of their cool live shows, and you'll know what I mean. Plus, on any given Tuesday night, you can catch lead vocalist, Joey Romley at Fishlips performing his “greatest jukebox hits” show featuring one of the members of his band. Their beer and Jaeger-soaked friends always come out to support and dance wildly alone or in groups. Now, the fellas are about to embark on a new adventure across the indie seas of dreams. With hopes of the occasional gas payout, plus the ever-present smell of feet in the van, they’re in this together. Their cover and inside shots are courtesy of photographer Holly Carlyle! Bako has events galore - get a preview of the Bakersfield Thunder Run happening on June 13. If you’ve never been before, here’s your chance to get loud and see bike designers with fans in their element. We also got NL’s book choices, Fall Out Boy, Fields & Foreclosures at The Basement. This issue is HOT! It was nice meeting you all at the KRAB Free For All 2! Stay tuned next issue for pix from Rockin’ Roots! Check out pix at: www.bakotopia.com/seen. Extra shout-out to Meathead, Miranda, and “Mr. Haterade” Francis, for having me on the KRAB Morning Show. Let’s do it again! Hey Francis, practice my pose in the pic to your left - you need some game, brotha. Celebrate, don’t hate! HA! Thanks to our advertisers for keeping Bako free for you and yours. Please support them back! Peace,
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Running! The 5th annual Bakersfield Thunder Run returns to burn, blaze, and amaze June 13! By Rick Ferguson, Bakotopia.com contributor f you hear a low rumble emanating from Central Bakersfield, you don’t have to worry that King Kong is tearing apart the Kern County Fairgrounds. It’s just the 5th annual Thunder Run, and all of its high-octane, motorcycle-fueled, activities. The Thunder Run brings world-class motorcycles of every persuasion to the fairgrounds on Saturday, June, 13, gates open at 9 a.m.! But the sounds won’t be limited to the roar of motorcycle engines. Local favorites, The Filthies will perform on Saturday and they won’t be alone. The Iron Outlaws, Fatt Katt & the Von Zippers, and the Dusk Devils round out one of the finer offerings of Bakersfield music to be assembled in one place. The Attica Freak Show and Ufonik will also appear. The musical acts start at 11:30 and don’t finish until The Chuck Palumbo Band takes the stage at 8 p.m. “Mixed in between the musical acts, we’ll have our $1,000 Bikini Contest, and it’s always a crowd pleaser,” says Jarad “Meathead” Mann, Thunder Run spokesman. “But that’s not the only smoky,
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hot entertainment we'll be having,” he added. “Due to popular demand, we’ll be bringing back the burnout contest again this year.” To cool things off, Jell-O Wrestling will provide a tasty dessert during the lunch hour. “And it really does cool you off in a way,” Mann said. The Thunder Run also pulls its share of world famous names from motorcycle popular culture. “Chica will be there,” Mann said of the craftsman behind Chica’s Custom Cycles in Huntington Beach, Ca., who also graced the cover of last year’s Bakotopia Thunder Run edition. “And for a lot of people in Bakersfield, this will be a rare chance to see one of his bikes in person, and for an even more select few, it’ll be a chance to buy one.” If financing a new bike purchase isn’t in your budget, don’t worry - plenty of vendors will be on hand to help you trick out the one you have, or dream for the bike of your future. “You definitely don’t need a bike to attend,” said Mann. “You just need to interested in the motorcycle lifestyle. But camping and RV spots are going fast, so make your reservations soon because I’m not letting anyone camp in my yard this year,” he
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Censored: Life as it Shouldn’t Be New art show, ‘Fields and Foreclosures’ lets it all out - opening June 13 at The Basement By Jen Raven, Bakotopia.com contributor Even in the most liberal and artsfriendly environment, it is difficult to make it as an artist. The daily demands of life (family, jobs, school) can be obstacles to creating and displaying one’s work. But in a city as patently conservative as Bakersfield, artists find their obstacles multiplied, with art censorship often leading the way. The “Fields and Foreclosures” group art exhibit at The Basement Gallery, 1532 19th and Eye St. - opening Saturday, June 13 at 7 p.m. - will feature artists embodying the spirit of the locally misunderstood artistic genius. The theme of this show is ‘Life, as it is’ for artists living and working in Bakersfield. Show curator, Nyoka Jameson, encourages local artists to express their true emotions on this subject, whether they be positive, negative or anywhere in between. “I’ve been drawing since I was old enough to hold a pencil,” explained Audrey Jarvis, a local artist and BECA (Bakersfield Emerging Contemporary Artists) member. “I learned to draw by copying the female form, a beautiful and classical theme you can find throughout the history of art. I’ve been censored many times. Once I was out of the public school system, I thought I’d be free to paint whatever I wanted. I can’t even display my work at Barnes and Noble - they say there are too many nudes. Censorship is all around us in this town.” Jarvis shared another personal experience with suppression. Her painting, “Scandalous” is a work inspired by her first brush with censorship in high school. “We were given an assignment to repaint famous artwork onto paper ties, to be worn by the staff for art awareness month,” she remembered. “I replicated Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus.’ The next morning, my teacher pulled me aside. She loved my work, but her superior insisted the exposed breast be covered. I chose to not paint over it. It was a piece of history and should be valued as
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Above top - ‘Scandalous’. Bottom - ‘Empty’ by Audrey Jarvis. such, rather than thought of as soft porn. My work was removed from the project.” Jarvis’ disdain for the censors goes
deep. For this reason, she is eager to show her work in the “Fields and Foreclosures” exhibit. Plus, as no stranger to the balancing act of life,
she also feels other pressures during these hard economic times. “I have a lot going on in my life,” she said. “I’m a wife, a mother of two and I help out with the family business. This show is a chance for us as artists to open up a little more to show Bakersfield who we are.” From her painting titled, “Roots” that deals with the difficulties of balancing life and art to her drawing, “Empty,” which “represents the foreclosures side of the show in a literal form,” Jarvis has a lot to say on the subject. “The current economy has so many people feeling the pressure. You can only take so much before you just become numb and just want to lie on the floor and curl up,” she said. “The gamble of art lies in expressing one’s self honestly when times are hard. You can paint landscapes and flowers. There are so many other things in the world. I don’t want to paint landscapes! I’m trying to grasp something more substantive. “Besides, nothing is worth setting aside who you really are. I have a blank canvas in front of me, and ‘'m going to paint it with all the colors of my life, whatever the content may be.” - “Fields and Foreclosure” opening reception: Saturday, June 13, 7 to 11 p.m. - Closing reception: Saturday, June 20, 2 to 6 p.m. -$5 entry fee -Basement Gallery, 1532 19th St. -859-1904 Audrey’s work is also on display at ‘Fire it Up!’ Fireplaces, 900 24th St., in Bakersfield. www.myspace.com/activism4artists BAKOTOPIA 5
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2009 Summer Reading Put the video game controller down, dust off your imagination and check out these books in the shade! Story and Photo By NL Belardes, Bakotopia.com contributor t’s summer. You’re lazing on the patio and you're ready to escape to another world. But you haven't gone to the bookstore (or Amazon.com) for your summer reads. In fact, you’re not even sure what to buy. You just know your mind needs to take you really far away. Don’t worry, your summer reading list has arrived:
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Hell’s Aquarium (action adventure) Action-Adventure: Back in the 1970s, reading “Jaws” (or watching the movie) kept your grandpa out of the water and in a paranoid fit. Look no further, the fourth installment of Steve Alten’s MEG series was recently released. We’re talking 76-foot sharks and a lost world of monsters tucked away beneath ocean plates. Turn on the grill ,but make someone else cook. “MEG: Hell's Aquarium” is an addictive heart thumper. When I asked Alten to describe his book in a short sentence, he said: “The most frightening sea monsters in history ... are no longer history.” Yikes. Pop Salvation (pop art) There have been a few books in recent years, both memoir and fiction, that depict the 1980s heyday of new wave and punk (when I was a teenager) but nothing like Lance Reynald's “Pop Salvation.” He delves into that sometimes effeminate 1980s world of broken self-identity (and Rocky Horror) and takes readers through a transformative world of sexuality and art, including a trip through art museums in Washington, D.C. during the twilight years of Andy Warhol. While Reynald said people should thumb through his book while anywhere, he added, “It’s an essential read before you pack yourself off to art school or visit the Getty.” He provides a great song list at the end of the book in the interview section that includes some decent brit pop. Out in late June. Everything Asian (Asians and strips malls) Whether you’re Asian or not, there's just enough sarcasm in Sung J. Woo’s “Everything Asian” to keep you near tears, slightly embarrassed BAKOTOPIA 6
and empathizing with the main character: a Korean kid working in his family’s gift shop in a New Jersey strip mall. Woo’s beautiful, witty sentences capture the immigrant experience in America and the transformative powers of families who go through hell when there are communication breakdowns at every turn. “The best place to read ‘Everything Asian?’ The food court at your local mall. The world of retail plays a significant part in my novel, and being surrounded by all those shoppers would put you in the right frame of mind,” said Woo. He added, “A plate of General Tso’s from Panda Express, an anvil of a Cinnabon, a few chapters from my book - you just can’t go wrong with that.” On top of it all, Woo recently admitted to being a Star Trek fan in the witty article, “Star Trek Through The Years.” Talk about writing about other worlds. Banned For Life (Gritty) D.R. Haney’s gritty debut novel “Banned For Life” captures realism, masculinity and is an in-your-face diatribe of the 1990s Los Angeles underground. The story is about a man seeking answers to his own tumultuous life as well as seeking and finding a washed-up American
punk rock icon. Haney says he sees his novel as “a subversive book in a bland, alienating, workaholic culture. So maybe it’s best read in a setting that reminds the reader of why rebellion still matters. You know, like a Starbucks, where everybody around you is talking about ‘American Idol,’ or standing in a long line to see a movie that’s really aimed at 12-yearolds, but you’ve been suckered into seeing it. Hopefully, ‘Banned’ will make you want to leave that line, and you’ll actually do it.” Sisters 8 (Kid Adventures) Kid Adventures Four books from Lauren Baratz-Logsted’s “Sisters 8” series have now been released. Greg (husband) and Jackie (daughter) both helped in creating the series. The premise is simple: Eight sisters each have a cat and each girl has a special gift or power. Their parents disappear and they desperately want to find them. Each book is an adventure revolving around one of the sisters. All four books released so far recently made Amazon Canada’s Summer Reading List for Kids. Not too shabby. Baratz-Logsted joked when asked who should be reading “Sisters 8” and where: “Everyone should be reading The ‘Sisters 8’ books and
they should be reading them everywhere. Why? Because we - not to mention the Eights! - will settle for nothing less than world domination.” It’s Never Too Late To Be What You Might Have Been (Self-Help) If there’s an encouraging writer out there who wants to empower you, it’s B.J. Gallagher. I especially like her chapter in “It’s Never Too Late To Be What You Might Have Been” on expressing creativity. She says that people need to expand their definition of what creative means to them. “It’s much more than music and fine art,” she writes. Think cooking, fashion, decorating your home, writing, gardening. She also says to let go of perfectionism when learning to create. But that’s not all. Gallagher provides a host of chapters of how to seize the day before it escapes you. And everybody knows that summertime is the perfect time for self-discovery. In a brief interview, Gallagher said, "it's the perfect book for those who want to know that life, love, creativity, and adventure don't end when you turn 40, or 50, or even 80!" She added, "You can read it at the beach, on the subway or in your carpool, on a plane or on a cruise, or in the evening before you go to sleep to dream about reinventing your future."
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Local compadres are packin’ up the van to spread the vibes - CD release bash, June 26! By Tyler Moore, Bakotopia.com contributor ackup Johnny is not just another group of four musicians from Bakersfield. And for those of you that haven’t heard them before, BUJ write and play a musical style that not only has the local scene has lacked for many years, but quite simply, it’s a style that’s also been missing in the rock genre. You can’t place them in the “Bakersfield Sound” category - with bands like KORN or Buck - but they’re just as strong and driven. Most of the band’s members (Brett Mallard, drums; Tyler Evans, guitar; Nick Romero, bass; and Joey Romley, keyboard/vocals,) have been in the local music scene for years and have been changing their sound as they have evolved. Earlier this year, the band went back to B2 Studios in Bakersfield to start recording and editing their second record, a new
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five song EP titled “Dive.” The band is very excited about it and looks forward to unleashing it on their fans. The mixing, mastering and overall completion of the CD was produced by Joel Piper, from Fresno, Ca. One of the highlights of the “Dive” EP, is popular crowd pleaser “Ground Bound,” which the band also used for their first music video available for vieweing at the band’s YouTube video page: www.youtube.com/backupjohnny. Anxious fans will be happy to hear Backup Johnny will be hosting a CD release show June 26 at one of their favorite local watering holes, Fishlips, 1517 18th St., at 9 pm. The show is only $5 and you can guarantee that drinking and dancing will go late into the night! Looking to pack the place out, the June 26 show will not only debut the new CD, but serve as a bon voyage party. That’s right, the boys will be leaving the next day to kick-off a month long span of shows. This summer, the band will embark on a tour taking them through Southern Cali-
fornia down to San Diego before they head due east through hot spots (literally) in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. They’ll ultimately end up in Nashville before making the run back home, stopping for a couple of shows in Vegas, baby! After their summer tour is completed, you can then catch Backup Johnny’s return to Bakersfield at a “Welcome Home” show July 25 at The Dome, 2201 V St. So mark your calendars (and Blackberry’s) to come out to FISHLIPS for the big CD debut June 26 and pick up your copy of “Dive,” or some of their new T-shirts and maybe a few other surprises! Come down for this summer kickoff show and help give the band a great sendoff! Complete tour dates and locations can be found on the Backup Johnny Web site and they’d to see love a local turnout at any of their road shows!
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Top from left: Backup Johnny’s Joey Romley, Brett Mallard, Tyler Evans, and Nick Romero.
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Joe Trohman of Fall Out Boy EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! Guitarist for emo rockateers feels the weight walking in the footsteps of Chicago music legends - on tour with Blink 182! By Matt Munoz, Bakotopia.com Editor he Spring/Summer music festival circuit is familiar turf for a band like Chicago’s Grammy-nominated, Fall Out Boy. Their latest CD, “Folie A Deux,” has been a hot staple on local radio since its release, MTV and their legion of screaming fans keep them busy on tours like Bamboozle, and now preparing to join Blink-182 on their highly anticipated reunion tour, the quartet continues to try new ways of staying relevant in an ever-changing and competitive music industry. If you follow the tabloids, or bloggers like Perez Hilton, you’re bound to have read about guitarist Pete Wentz and wife, Ashlee Simpson. Hey, that’s showbiz! And what’s good for gossip is obviously good for record sales. Fall Out Boy guitarist, Joe Trohman, logged in some quality phone time with Bakotopia recently before hitting the stage at a sold-out show in Madrid, Spain. Here’s what he had to say: MM: I’m catching up on my Fall Out Boy history, and I read that you and Pete started the band in Chicago - a breeding grounding for some of the greatest musical acts of all-time. You can start with Howlin’ Wolf all the way to The Pumkins and Wilco. Do you feel like you’re living up to Chicago’s musical legacy? JT: I don’t know - it is really heavy. You think about all the great blues artists, that is just all vast and ridiculous, out of control. Then you start talking about bands like Wilco, The Pumpkins, Ministry ... There’s so many like really awesome bands. You ever have that thing where you’re a part of something you created, and you can never truly love it? I’m not saying I can’t love my band, but I can never truly look at it the same way I look at those artists. I think it’s something that can only be answered outside of the realm of my head. I hope we’re living up to the place? MM: Have you guys ever worried about being over-exposed? JT: Yeah, I think to an extent that’s why we took a break in between last record and this record. We didn’t do a whole lot in 2008, other than make a record. We try not to saturate the music with Fall Out Boy, but at the same time - we don’t wanna like, go away for too long, because I know how easy it is to forget a band. Unless you’re like The Stones, it’s just hard to do. You really have to make your mark and piss on your territory, so to speak, to hang around for awhile. MM: What’s the creative process like for the band? Do you guys do a lot of cross-country writing, or do you still do it the old-fashioned way in the garage?
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JT: Definitely more modern than some of the greats have done it. I think what we basically do is Pete writes in his book of lyrics, and he’ll give it to Patrick, and Patrick will kind of come up with an idea for a song, and he’ll fit lyrics into his idea for the vocal melody. Once he’s got like the skeleton for the song, then he’ll like give me some stuff. I’ll like layer some guitar melodies over that ... Then we’ll bring that to Andy and he’ll lay his beats down and he’ll help with the arrangements with Patrick. It’s hyper-collaborative, especially on this new record. It’s gone back to that which is good. MM: Your latest CD “Folie a Deux” includes collaborations with Gym Class Heroes & Lil Wayne, but also Debbie Harry & Elvis Costello. With all of that creative energy, how did you keep it all together to make it happen? JT: It’s kind of a little blown out of proportion. When you say “collaboration,” you picture getting into a room and you write. But really, the only person we did that with was Pharell - that’s when we went into the studio for two days and came up with some ideas from scratch. Other than that, they were all guests. With Lil Wayne, it was a little more collaborative. We would kind of send him something and he would send it back. He would do a little of his own style of what we had in mind for him, so we kind of took a little more of a creative swing at it. And I think Elvis Costello and Debbie Harry - they did it in their own way. I think it’s easy to keep it together, we just did it with the band. We would send the artists a recording of Patrick singing the part, then we’d tell them what we want them to sing and then they’d send it back. The
technology makes songwriting easier now, too. It’s hard to reminder what we were doing before that. MM: How much has changed in the way the band operates during these economic times? Tours, recording, etc... JT: You’ll definitely see less turnouts at some of your shows, record sales are not awesome and they’ve been not awesome for a longtime, but they’re probably the worst they’ve ever been. I mean you’ll see a few anomalies here and there, but it’s been pretty dead across the board. When it comes to recording, we haven’t had to like record at the bottom of this recession yet. Touring for sure … We can’t really like take out like a gazillion buses and spend a lot of money on that. We definitely have to spend thrifty if we can. We try to like fit all of us on a bus, instead of like two band buses. MM: I asked Chris Carraba of Dashboard Confessional this question, so I have to ask you the same one ... “What in the hell is emo?” JT: I don’t know what Chris Carraba said, but I have no idea. It used to be Fugazi … Me and Chris come from the same era of hardcore bands. I remember when he was in Further Seems Forever. I don’t know, it used to be different stuff. As a listener, it’s harder to swallow music if it’s not in a genre. It’s like if you go to a restaurant and you don’t know what cuisine you’re gonna get and the menu like just says food, you’re not going to like point to the food. Nobody likes to do that. So, I think people have the same idea about music - they have a hard time swallowing it, if it’s not labeled.
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Ian McFeron band Fishlips 1517 18th St. 8:30 p.m. / 21+ / 324-2557 Karaoke (Every Thurs. & Sun.) The Belvedere 3090 Brundage Ln. 9 p.m. / 21+ / 325-2139 DJ Danny Boy / DJ Damage (every Thurs.) Cabana Palms 3001 Calloway Dr. 9 p.m. / 21+ / 588-5888 Foster Campbell & Friends The Marketplace 9000 Ming Ave. 7 p.m. / FREE / All Ages
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Eights & Aces Dark Star Records B-Day T-Bone's Steakhouse Jam! District & Gosford 7:30 p.m. / 21+ / 398-1300 w/ live music & festivities! Dark Star Records 1024 Truxtun Ave. Really Big Midgetz (Also 12 p.m. / Free / All Ages Sat.) 859-0241 The Belvedere 3090 Brundage Ln. “Baby Angel Fundraiser” 9 p.m. / 21+ / 325-2139 Bike Ride & Concert in Park 10 a.m.: Harley Davidson of JUNE 13 Bakersfield - Pre-ride activities & ride begins. Mento Buru - LIVE! 12 - 2 p.m.: Beach Park McMurphy's Irish Bar Free concert by Mento Buru 14 Monterey St. & Legion of Thieves. 9 p.m. / $5 / 869-1451 Info: 578-0836
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JUNE 15 Alisa's Karaoke Nation (Every Mon.) Riley's Tavern 1523 19th St. 9 p.m. / 21+ / 324-3268
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JUNE 18 Easy Star All Stars are “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Dub Band” Fishlips, 1517 18th St. 8 p.m. / 21+ / $15 Sky Eats Airplane w/ Eyes Set To Kill & more The Dome, 2201 V St. 7 p.m. / $15.50 / 322-5200
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SPOTLIGHT SATURDAY, JUNE 13 Bakersfield Thunder Run Bike show, Burnout Contest, Bikini Contest, Live Music, BBQ, Vendors! KC Fairgrounds 1142 South P St. 9 a.m. - ? / $20 - includes free camping / Kids 12 & under free info: 661-472-2111 www.bakersfieldthunderrun.com Rock Out 2 Knock Out RSD! w/ No Name Band BRyder’s 7401 White Ln. 7 p.m. / 364-1559 “The Grateful Palate” w/David Townsend Imbibe Wine Bar 4140 Truxtun Ave. 6 p.m. / 21+ / 633-WINE
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The BCT One-Act Festival Get outta the heat with some cool theatre right in your backyard - opens June 12! By Brian Brown, Bakotopia.com contributor he Bakersfield Community Theatre Playhouse has been striving for no less than top notch shows and performances for the past 82 years. This year, for the 22nd Annual Original One Act Festival, it will be no different. The One act festival at BCT has done what other theaters have not - given a voice to local playwrights. For 22 years, this festival has been a proud moment for the theater and to Bakersfield in general. Allowing local playwrights produce their latest play, giving new directors an opportunity to learn and try something new, to enhance their art … that is what this festival is about. The theatergoer can expect to hear raw dialogue, see new and different situations, and have thoughts provoked well after the house lights come up and you exit your seat to greet the actors.
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Everyone involved in the festival is part of this community. Whether it is the writer or the director or even the actors, they are your next-door neighbors, being given the opportunity to express their voices and their art, and being allowed to live out their dream whatever it may be. This festival has made that happen for 22 years, and hopefully many more to come. This year on the slate, we have magnificent shows by some already established local authors, as well as some newcomers. First up is “Life After Faith,” written by Brian Brown and directed by Deanna Rodgers; second is “Can You Hear Me Now?” written by Terrence G. Phillips and directed by Alex Mayes; third is “Bob,” written and directed by Michael Mejia; fourth is “Freezer Burn,” written by Michael Mejia and direct-
ed by Michael Pawloski; and fifth is “Roommates,” written and directed by Andrew Price. This will be a fine year for the festival, you will NOT want to miss this one! As usual, the audience will get to vote for its favorites before leaving. The BCT Playhouse is located at 2400 S. Chester Ave. Parking is around the back of the building on S. “O” Street. Ticket Prices are: $12 for adults and $10 for students, seniors and active military. Dates and times for this show are June 12, 13, 19 & 20 at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7:30; and June 14 and 21 at 2 p.m. Doors will open at 1:30. For reservations, please call (661) 831-8114.
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