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Join the fun at the lake on Sunday, July 22 at 3 p.m. Bring your picnic lunch and the kids to enjoy the easy sounds of Jerry Mulkins, Gloria Yeager, Joy Gray, Steve Hall, Pat Shoptaw and any other...

Any self-respecting fan of Alfred Hitchcock will instantly recognize the title of TCT's next production, "The 39 Steps". However, that same fan may be surprised to find the stage play of Hitchcock's...

Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" opens at the BeeKay Theatre on June 1, bringing a trainload of laughter in this spoof of Hitchcock's 1935 thriller film. Although the script for the stage comedy is...

Gallery 'N' Gifts concluded its Youth Art Contest with a reception on Saturday, April 7, where the winners of the contest received there awards. Forty local school age children, from kindergarten...

Bear Valley Springs Cultural Arts Association is presenting a special Bear Valley Springs resident, Meg Prior. She will expand our knowledge of the longest running war in American history,...

Maybe we're drawn into loving "Steel Magnolias" because we see real life truth in it. Inspired in the heart of author Robert Harling after he had lost his own beloved sister, Harling found solace,...

Local Tehachapi artist Chris Paschke is one of only twenty-five artists that are being featured in the current online exhibition "In Search of Hidden Meaning", March 12 through June 12, 2018. An...

The children from Wednesday's Art for Kids at the Treasure Trove are so excited. Their artwork is on display through the month of March at Kohnen's Country Bakery, 125 W. Tehachapi Blvd. Ste. D....

Opening night had our BeeKay audience bring in standing ovations to Tehachapi Community Theatre's presentation of "The Importance of Being Earnest", directed by Kenny Chugg and produced by David Steel...

Alicia Garver has been teaching art classes in the Antelope Valley for 20 years. She is now teaching in Tehachapi at Slice of Life on Wednesdays. Her students have won county, state, and national art...

The cast was deep into rehearsals of "The Importance of Being Earnest". I was following along with the script when I thought I heard an unknown voice chuckling at the back of the BeeKay Theatre. I...

Artist and teacher Debbie Haeberle is making her debut at Gallery 'N' Gifts as the featured artist for the month of January! Debbie is a new resident of Tehachapi and currently teaches art at...

Introducing BVSCAA art donor Robert Hardy "Having worked for forty years as a professional photographer, with most of them devoted to advertising photography, I went into fine art landscape...

Can your Tehachapi Community Theatre enhance your life? The Gockel family share some of their thoughts about being a part of TCT. "Whether you're stepping into theater as an individual, or as an...

First Friday at Gallery 'N' Gifts this Dec. 1 will feature all new work in a showcase of TVAA "Artists Unleashed". Stop by from 5-8 p.m. for complimentary refreshments, closing bids on our silent...

In the same manner that the crystal opal shines many colors, so TCT's real life Opal Lawler possesses a brilliant range of talent from singing, dancing, acting, writing, and choreography to set...

Tehachapi was well represented at the recent Kern County Fair. ZiYu Hansen and Betty Finch entered their art work at the Kern County Fair. ZiYu Zeng-Hansen gives special thanks and a shout-out to...

On Sunday, Oct. 22, at 2 p.m., carpool up to the intersection of Stirrup and Sunset, near Jacaranda, to be part of the Invocation of the Bear Valley Springs' Historic Kawaiisu Preserve. It will be a c...

California City Arts Commission is excited to host Rich Gallego, an accomplished Plein Air Painter, for their August workshop on Saturday afternoon, August 19 from noon to 3 p.m. The class will be hel...

TCT's next production begins August 4, 2017, presenting the hilarious musical comedy, "The Drowsy Chaperone". Directed by Christine Guarante, Drowsy begins with a 'man in the chair', (played by Jason...

The votes are in! The winners of Tehachapi Community Theatre's Gold, Silver and Bronze Quill awards were announced after the final performance of the 2017 Playwrights' Festival on June 25. The winning...

Once again, Tehachapi's very talented Christine Yandek has been invited to participate in the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival held in Buffalo, New York beginning Sunday, October 29, 2017....

TCT's B.K. Bear holds SilentWolf's 2016 Playwrights' Festival Gold Quill Trophy for the top winning play, "The Tiniest Goodbye". Here we see B.K. and SilentWolf seated on Centennial Plaza's John King...

My interview with Alex Zonn, president of Tehachapi Community Theater (TCT), took place while Zonn was directing "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, which opened Friday, May 5, at the BeeKay Theatre....

Bakersfield Museum of Art at 1930 R Street Bakersfield, Calif., will present the exhibition "Mysterious Muse" by Tina Dille from May 18 to Aug. 12, 2017. Gallery hours are 10 to 4 p.m., Tuesday throug...