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When she as about 8 years old, Alejandra Vargas realized she had a special link to the other world. That’s when she purportedly had a premonition that a flood was going to hit the region whe...

Phil Hernandez looks closely at his friend Loren Stumbaugh’s vacuum tube amplifier, and within a few minutes of inspection, gives a prognosis: Burned out tube. Hernandez, 51, then quickly ...

Growing up in Guatemala, Dionicio Virvez saw very little hope around him. The country was in political shambles with a civil war raging. Violence was a part of everyday life. Public hangings a...

**Originally printed in Mas Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 17, 1-5-07 A bad case of “cellphone addiction” is actually a laughing matter for comedian Gabriel Iglesias. As seen in the 2006 h...

As she adjusts her bright blue, silk shawl, little Maria is instructed to secure the garment with her hand because pins just won’t work. Meanwhile, little José gets the final wardrobe ...

Call her a band nerd and it won’t faze her one bit.      East Bakersfield High School drum major, Kristen Torres unapologetically loves making music. She plays the flute, ...

Usually, two Bakersfield sisters dance from one cultural holiday tradition right into another — first performing in “The Nutcracker” and then off to spend time in Mexico with family....