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Paperback Writer: A Bakersfield, California literature, music and news blog

New Rich Ferguson Video Looks At L.A. Urban Streets - By N.L. Belardes

Take a look at this video from L.A. Spoken Word Poet/Rockster Rich Ferguson:



You can read more about it on the ABC23 Buzz Bands blog. There's also a link to a video I once shot of Ferguson busting out a poem on the streets of L.A.

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California's Central Valley loses a Dust Bowl poet legend- By N.L. Belardes

A Central Valley legend passes...

She is, without a doubt, the finest writer to emerge from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl exodus to California during the 1930's.
--Franz Weinschenk, Valley Public Radio, Fresno/Bakersfield

Wilma E. McDaniel, 88, of Tulare died Friday, April 13, 2007. Visitation will be 2-7 p.m. Thursday at Miller's Tulare Funeral Home. Recitation of the rosary and Mass will be 10 a.m. Friday at St. Rita's Catholic Church, 954 South O St., with burial at Tulare District Cemetery.

Tulare Advance-Register


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New Noveltown contests are on the way? - By N.L. Belardes

Bakersfield's Indie press, Noveltown (That's us) is gearing up for some cool contests. Get ready. Get your thinking caps on. Get your game on... Keep checking the Noveltown site for details... go there now for some hints...

You ready?

-n.l.

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