A friendly new reader tipped me off to this little bit of South Pas hiking history. It’s on Monterey, about a half block east of Foremost Liquor. I couldn’t see anything more than overgrown weeds but apparently, somewhere beyond this (blocked!)entrance 272 wooden steps lead all the way up the hill, topping out on Alta [...]
Welcome to Ashland! 11 plays, 100 actors, 1000 staff and volunteers, thousands of theater lovers! Hi, Chaos Crew… Back in my sister Liz’s bungalow in Bend, Oregon after a three- day side-trip to beautiful Ashland, Oregon with my sister-in-law Susan and my niece Fiona. I had always wanted to attend the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in [...]
The Last Day project has its merits, though I admit I’m losing interest. If you’re new here, Last Day is an idea I borrowed from Marley, a blogger from Cheltenham, England, who for one year posted a monthly photo of the same downtown corner in Cheltenham. It was fun to share the changes of season [...]
The highly-touted arrest of several burglary suspects by Altadena deputies and the Pasadena Police Department last week is falling apart, according to this PSN story by Dan Abendschein. Charges have been dropped or suspended, some of the suspects were actually arrested weeks before … Altadena deputies still think they can make a case against three [...]
By Candyce Columbus Friends of Foster Children (FOFC) Sugar Plum (SP) has a remarkable track record. Since the program began 34 years ago they have collected over 160,000 holiday gifts for children in the San Gabriel Valley foster care system and the facilities that support them. The all-volunteer organization has 80 active members 29 [...]
These dresses by Jill Giordano and Brian Scheyer are on view at the California Design Biennial at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. It’s a color shot — everything is just so black and white. Read the Full Story at Larry Wilson’s Public Eye
Wow! What do you do with these high powered figures in Hollywood? Roman Polanski managed to duck extradition on a rape charge, Oliver Stone’s been accused of anti-Semitism, and Mel Gibson and Lindsay … well, what else can you say about Mel Gibson and Lindsay Lohan? So here’s a conundrum… when you watch a re-run [...]
I couldn’t make out exactly what he was playing, but it was something kind of like this. Read the Full Story at Glimpses of South Pasadena
Nest Furnishings may look like it’s going out of business, but it might take a while. The store is located at 680 E. Colorado Blvd. on the southeast corner of Colorado and El Molino, where plans for the new IDS Playhouse Plaza building project have stalled. The proposed building apparently exceeds city size requirements. The [...]
Farnworth Park boomed Thursday afternoon with a rare U.S. performance by the Akafuji Daiko drumming troupe from Otsuki City, Japan. The group was in the U.S. to play at a Colorado Rockies baseball game in Denver (!) but stopped over here before returning to Japan. According to Angela Gallegos of the Los Angeles County Parks, [...]
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