WONDERKILLER
Because even though you don't want to know, I'm telling you anyway ...
He's selling out seats in Bakersfield — Ron White.
THEY CALL HIM "TATER SALAD": Tickets to see blue collar comic Ron White are selling out like mad. Rumor has it White's Aug. 15 show at The Rabobank has already sold 2,000 out of the 3,000 seats in the theater. Tickets are still available through the Rabobank box office and through Ticketmaster.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Local music promoter Nate Berg pled no contest after being charged with burglary and attempted burglary Tuesday. Both chargers were misdemeanors. According to documents filed by the Superior Court of California - Kern County, Berg was arrested on Sunday and was later sentenced on Tuesday to 15 days in jail. He was in for about three and was placed on three years probation. On Thursday Berg admitted he was in jail for a bit, but was back out and working. Berg is the music promoter at popular late night rock venue Jerry's Pizza and Pub.
MUSIC MAN: The mad Right-wing songwriter Dr. BLT has a new single up on his site. The man can't stop! He won't stop! He's like the Puffy Daddy of Republicans. Check out his new joint "Blog n' Roll" here. Dr. BLT has a new album out as well "Teen In Between" which includes his dittys on Brian "Head" Welch leaving Korn and the debacle at Downtown Joe's that resulted in a man's death earlier this year.
RANDOM ROUND-UP: ... DJ Pat Solo and Sabrina Sabertooth are now tearing up the joint at the new "Azul" bar and club (1514 Wall St. Alley). They're DJ-ing the Thursday night "Electric: Adventures in Modern Music" gig. You may remember Sabrina. She's the chick who designs the super cool, outré vintage clothes. She's also a great cook. I went to a X-mas party at her house once. It was sweet ... Street Level Productions is back. The R&B/Hip hop DJs are out hitting the streets will be turning Senor Pepe's (the old Red Pepper off Coffee Rd, behind Wal-Mart in Rosedale) and El Rio Restaurant (6051 White Ln.) into "LA-style" nightclubs on Friday and Saturday nights. Friday they will be at Senor Pepe's. Then on Saturday they break it on down at El Rio. Chuck Arias, the man behind Street Level Productions says they're "trying to bring whole different flavor to town."
LAST CHANCE: "The Texas Trilogy" and "An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein" are both in their closing weekends at the Empty Space.
QUOTABLE: Actor-now-country-singer John Corbett on his mid-life career change and people's negative reactions to him leaving Hollywood for Nashville: "I'm just f--ing bored with what I'm doing. These interviews are weird. People don't hear the irony in my voice. The laughing. I want to tell people I'm out there playing music. (I was so concerned about) being politically correct as an actor. Wanting to be liked. I'm really at that f--k it place. This is how a feel about playing. This is how I feel about acting and if you don't like it? You'll live your life and I'll live mine."
He's selling out seats in Bakersfield — Ron White.
THEY CALL HIM "TATER SALAD": Tickets to see blue collar comic Ron White are selling out like mad. Rumor has it White's Aug. 15 show at The Rabobank has already sold 2,000 out of the 3,000 seats in the theater. Tickets are still available through the Rabobank box office and through Ticketmaster.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Local music promoter Nate Berg pled no contest after being charged with burglary and attempted burglary Tuesday. Both chargers were misdemeanors. According to documents filed by the Superior Court of California - Kern County, Berg was arrested on Sunday and was later sentenced on Tuesday to 15 days in jail. He was in for about three and was placed on three years probation. On Thursday Berg admitted he was in jail for a bit, but was back out and working. Berg is the music promoter at popular late night rock venue Jerry's Pizza and Pub.
MUSIC MAN: The mad Right-wing songwriter Dr. BLT has a new single up on his site. The man can't stop! He won't stop! He's like the Puffy Daddy of Republicans. Check out his new joint "Blog n' Roll" here. Dr. BLT has a new album out as well "Teen In Between" which includes his dittys on Brian "Head" Welch leaving Korn and the debacle at Downtown Joe's that resulted in a man's death earlier this year.
RANDOM ROUND-UP: ... DJ Pat Solo and Sabrina Sabertooth are now tearing up the joint at the new "Azul" bar and club (1514 Wall St. Alley). They're DJ-ing the Thursday night "Electric: Adventures in Modern Music" gig. You may remember Sabrina. She's the chick who designs the super cool, outré vintage clothes. She's also a great cook. I went to a X-mas party at her house once. It was sweet ... Street Level Productions is back. The R&B/Hip hop DJs are out hitting the streets will be turning Senor Pepe's (the old Red Pepper off Coffee Rd, behind Wal-Mart in Rosedale) and El Rio Restaurant (6051 White Ln.) into "LA-style" nightclubs on Friday and Saturday nights. Friday they will be at Senor Pepe's. Then on Saturday they break it on down at El Rio. Chuck Arias, the man behind Street Level Productions says they're "trying to bring whole different flavor to town."
LAST CHANCE: "The Texas Trilogy" and "An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein" are both in their closing weekends at the Empty Space.
QUOTABLE: Actor-now-country-singer John Corbett on his mid-life career change and people's negative reactions to him leaving Hollywood for Nashville: "I'm just f--ing bored with what I'm doing. These interviews are weird. People don't hear the irony in my voice. The laughing. I want to tell people I'm out there playing music. (I was so concerned about) being politically correct as an actor. Wanting to be liked. I'm really at that f--k it place. This is how a feel about playing. This is how I feel about acting and if you don't like it? You'll live your life and I'll live mine."
posted by Danielle Belton @ 5:15 PM
8 Comments:
At 9:52 PM,
Anonymous said…
Best come see Shel Silverstein!
It's very weird and twisted... RIGHT UP YOUR ALLEY!
:)
At 6:54 AM,
Anonymous said…
any news article or more info on why the dooshbag (nate) was arrested?
At 9:55 AM,
Danielle Belton said…
Unofficially, (meaning the BPD haven't gotten back to me yet) Nate was busted for breaking into cars. I spoke to him last week and he said he was "homeless by choice."
Needless to say, he didn't look especially hot when I saw him but he was super cheerful and speaking in a British/southern accent. He said something about Ed Jagels. Then something about Gigantic Vintage and wouldn't stop bothering my record store homey with his inane chatter about why they couldn't be friends.
On a happier note, Nate told me I was pretty. I like being told I'm pretty.
I'll give an update on Berg if something new happens or if I get the car break-in confirmed. But feel free to post all your Nate Berg questions here and I'll try to get them answered.
And I'm sorry I missed Shel, Lively. I was going through some stuff this weekend I needed to work through.
At 9:34 AM,
Danielle Belton said…
I e-mailed Nate and asked him what was up with him and Jerry's. Here's the note he sent me for your perusal.
***
Danielle, its called a hiatus, thankfully, please release
For Immediate Release Re: Nate Berg Jerry?s Pizza
Now is the winter of our Discontent
Made Glorious Summer this House of York
And all the clouds the glowered around the house
Deep in the heart
Of the ocean buried
Plots?..
On the creation of Kings
I want to thank my colleagues for they indeed know what it is that they do
Remove the crazy General, let him fix the problem himself alone, in the privacy
Of the royal garden
Let him bring it on back, the guilded halls, the warrants on poles,
The decisions of what shall play in the court of the Kings
When his mind is free from the clutter of the country
I want to thank my collegues for they indeed know what it is that they do
This is my city, our city, my collegues, and I shall be back fortwith to service
Every last one of you, the Bakersfield Music scene, heralded lilies or stagnant weed
Hater, g, or barfly supreme, perhaps suburbanite teens who have been paying the Kings rates for a while now.
There is a reason I act like a royal in the city of the serf,
Richard III, Henry V, perhaps Henry VIII with his 8 wives, and Ann Boelyn beheaded
All treasoners shall be executed from this fiction, and I work for the good ones, the ones who know the face of Bakersfield and the music created therein
Nathaniel Berg/ Jerry's Pizza / Assoc of Numbskull Productions/ Goldenvoice
Ill see you all at the warped tour, ill shake your hands from backstage, sober as a lute
At 7:14 PM,
Anonymous said…
Is Nate what one might call "Challenged"?
At 7:19 PM,
Anonymous said…
What is a British/Southern accent? I have heard nate talk (unfortunately) on different occasions and it is very amusing that sometimes his accents goes away completely and other times it's heavier than ever. What gives? I have also heard he has been in Cali for a long long time. Don'tcha think the accent might fade a tad bit? Give it up nate, drop the fake accent, it isn't impressing anybody!
At 9:22 AM,
Danielle Belton said…
Well, for those who want to know, according to Bakersfield PD, around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 19 someone reported that a man in black clothing was breaking into their car parked around the 1900 block of K Street.
Police said the woman and some others shouted at the man as he began to break into another vehicle and he ran away. The police were called out. And the police picked up Nate around 20th and M Streets on suspicion of burglary and attempted burglary. As we already know he pled no contest in court and was put on probation.
At 6:36 PM,
Anonymous said…
I was with Nate during his whole "Southern" excursion. I like the man, although I know he is a bad man. I would not call him the, "Baseball Bat of Bad Conscience" (I hope I quoted that correctly). Moreso the necessary evil of the scene. Let us put all the shows and events that he did put together vs. the ones that he in someway threw a wrench in. Putting things in perspective plenty of people have all gone to a show that Nate was responsible for and had a great time. Very Likely they have some good memory or event that happened that night attached to it too. As far as the accents, I know his parents. They are in fact English, and they speak with heavy accents themselves. I know the truth about his accent. I must say though, it is more fun/annoying not knowing what is really going on with the Man's voice. Nate is not such a bad man, of course I am bias. He helped me get back home to California. Damn, there just might be some good in the guy.
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