It’s the last day of the year, and that means more than just icing the champagne and tuning in to watch the Times Square ball drop… It means there is still time to make a 2009 tax-deductible contribution to a worthy cause! Two of my favorite charities really need help: KivaThis group has made microfinance [...]
On the last day of September I began this monthly theme: a photo of the same spot from the same angle. The idea is to view it at different seasons and watch it change over time. I’ve taken lots of pictures from this spot overlooking Johnson Field at Hahamongna Watershed Park. I chose this for [...]
Each year Pasadena is host to hundreds of thousands of visitors, many of whom come to see the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl football game(s). Over the past few months the city has been preparing for the single biggest day of the year, Jan. 1 2010. The Pasadena Independent has covered many events leading [...]
Finally, finally– the Ice Cream Snowmen arrived in my inbox from makinglifebetter.com as part of the 31 Days of Confection Perfection! I saw this little guy when I got a sneak peak of the 31 days calendar way back in October. That, I thought, is right up my alley. It’s the only snowmen we’ll have [...]
As college football’s “Bowl Season” descends on a football mad country, the debate around the dinner table will reach beyond a national championship for Alabama or Texas, or even the mediocre records of USC and UCLA—instead the Bowl games brings back the debate over a true playoff system for college football, in place of the [...]
District 9, The Lives of Others, and Pan’s Labyrinth are just three of the best films since 2000, according to users of Internet Movie Database (IMDB). As the noughties come to a close, guest host David Lazarus and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig of USA Today and Wade Major of boxoffice.com look back at the [...]
I went back into my files for this image of South Pasadena police chief Dan Watson driving a vintage squad car in the last 4th of July parade. It’s a great example of our chief’s personal involvement in our city. (I’ve even heard a rumor that he manned the beer tap at one of the [...]
Horses have been part of the Tournament of Roses Parade since its beginning in 1890. This year is no exception: 23 different equestrian groups will prance down Colorado Blvd. with the floats on New Year’s day. As kids we watched all the big holiday parades–the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with its huge balloons, the Hollywood [...]
We aren’t crazy about every aspect of the Rose Parade — as the parents of teenage daughters, for instance, we’re a little disturbed by the message that the Rose Princess thing sends out. And while the floats are astonishing displays of technical and floral accomplishment, the more corporate ones are, well, a little too corporate. [...]
Fat liberation, fat politics, fat science—it’s a new and, yes, growing area of academia. As more Americans join the ranks of the obese, scholars are reevaluating fat as a health issue, and as a social and cultural one. The new field aims to take a critical lens to fat stereotypes, question media messages about weight [...]
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