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Artist Mikel Otxoteko’s impression of Bakersfield, California was colored by the fact that he always traveled around the city in a car. The audiovisual artist spent the month of May in the city as Cal State Bakersfield’s Frank Bidart Visiting Artistic Fellow. After he had been living there  for a… Read more »

This summer, a song in Euskera about the famous Basque poet sheepherder of Urepel, France is making its way from state to state, played for many audiences across the United States who have never heard lyrics in this language. I’m telling you this moving story from my personal perspective, as… Read more »

Basque soccer players on Spain’s Euro 2024 Team Spain has fielded a powerhouse soccer team filled with Basque players at Euro 2024. Here’s a rundown of who they are. Aymeric Laporte – Al Nasir, Saudi Arabia Aymeric Laporte, #14, currently plays center-back for Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr, which… Read more »

Three of the four Basque restaurants that made it on the 2023 list of the top 100 restaurants in the world continue to maintain their appearance on the list for 2024. While one of last year’s four top Basque restaurants, Azurmendi, did not make it to the best 100 restaurants… Read more »

The Kern County Basque Festival in Bakersfield, Calif. last weekend was a rousing success. The club was celebrating its 50th annual festival, which always takes place on Memorial Day weekend. On Sunday, the main picnic day, the club served 1.800 barbecue lamb lunches—probably the largest number of lunches ever served,… Read more »

Solange Igoa, lead singer for the indie rock band Glitterfox, got her start in music singing alongside her father at Basque events. Now, the talented musician has come full circle. She and the group have released a remake of a beloved Basque song, which they will play during a performance… Read more »

Not only had I never made Burnt Basque Cheesecake before, but I had never tasted it before the first time I baked it. But the minute I tasted it, I was an immediate fan. And you will be too. Burnt Basque Cheesecake is not a traditional Basque dessert. Marti Buckley… Read more »

Joseba Elosegi was the first person Xabier Irujo interviewed when he was doing research on the 1937 bombing of Gernika (Guernica in Spanish). The Basque soldier told Irujo that when a photograph was taken of him standing amid the smoking rubble of the historic Basque city the morning after the… Read more »

So you have heard about the Basques in Boise, Idaho and you are planning a visit to this large Basque community. What should you do? Here is our list of the top Basque-related things to do in the City of Trees. Basques started arriving in Idaho in the early 1900s,… Read more »

This Basque story begins with some French monks. In 2021, Carthusian monks from a small town in the French Alps decided they were going to limit the production of their Charteuse liqueur in order to “protect their monastic life and devote their time to solitude and prayer.” In the U.S.,… Read more »