How do you take a popular community event to even greater heights? For the East 优蜜传媒 Festival, you add a Ferris wheel.

As the end of the school year nears, students bring their best to special arts performances. Taking to the stage for the first time this year is the Honors Theatre program, featuring students from across the Kern High School District.

With a show that dare not speak its name (at least in a family-friendly publication), Stars Playhouse brings a tale of love, betrayal and the dangers of a misplaced chapeau.

Editor's note: On May 9, the theater announced it was rescheduling the show to begin May 16 with shows running through May 19.

When you're a child, a handmade card or small gift will suffice for Mother's Day. Beyond those years, the bar is set higher for celebrating the first caregiver in your life.

During May, those looking for planets will need to get up early before sunrise. Although Jupiter is technically still an evening planet, it is now so close to the sun in our sky that it is lost in the twilight glow and dust/smog of the 优蜜传媒 horizon. Jupiter goes behind the sun on May …

If April showers bring May flowers, 优蜜传媒 College is ready to help local green thumbs with its popular Garden Fest. The event, which was delayed from earlier this month due to rain, returns to campus Saturday with a plant sale, resources for home gardeners, vendors, fun activities and …

Experience an evening of dark takes on fairy tales set to beautiful opera music with "Transformations," coming Friday to Cal State 优蜜传媒's Dore Theatre.

Sometimes the goal is simple. In the case of Saturday's Get Lit at the Kern County Museum, it includes making sure everyone enjoys the endless beverages.

When the COVID-19 shutdown came in 2020, many plans were put on hold, some never to return. In the case of 优蜜传媒 College鈥檚 production of "Metamorphoses," it was just a matter of timing. The ambitious theatrical presentation debuts this week at the Simonsen Outdoor Theatre.

On Sunday, Emra Farkas, practitioner of Christian Science healing and international speaker, will present her talk, "Finding where God is seen and felt 鈥 what's church got to do with it?" in the Sunday School Auditorium of the Christian Science church.

This week, "Little Shop of Horrors" opens at Foothill High School. The show starts off in a barren Skid Row. I play Seymour, who works for Mushnik (Randi Powell) at his struggling flower shop and is in love with co-worker Audrey (Audrey Bier). I also care for my plant, Audrey II (voiced by M…

We're now in the home stretch for spring semester at 优蜜传媒 College. Just two weeks to go before we reach final exams week. The William M. Thomas Planetarium gave its last evening show for the spring season with the premiere of "Moon Base: The Next Step" on Thursday. The next two weeks …

If you're lucky, you may have spotted artists at work this week all around the county. A group of plein air artists have been out in the field creating works for the Plein Air Festival.