We trolled around Pasadena’s best-known trick-or-treating streets to see how things are shaping up for Saturday night, and things are looking plenty spooky. Here’s a look at the haunted houses around town:
Driving north on the 210 from central Pasadena this afternoon, I saw what looked like another fire — thick brown smoke on top of the clouds. Circumstances wouldn’t allow me to check it out, but before long I heard from my friend Bruce Moision, who works at JPL. He said they were in the middle [...]
I didn’t live in Pasadena back in the glory days of Jiyayr Zorthian’s famed and rather decadent parties/happenings, but I’ve read Larry Wilson’s descriptions. What I saw on Saturday at Altadena Heritage’s tribute to Zorthian and fellow merrymaker Gus Albrecht was a thoroughly civilized affair, with nary a naked nymph in sight. Zorthian might have [...]
Permit us to share some in-house joy: At the annual Southern California Independent Bookseller Awards Saturday night at the Biltmore, Susan Campoy’s cookbook, Celebrating with Julienne (which we distribute) won Best Nonfiction Book 2009. It was chosen by the booksellers themselves as their favorite nonfiction book published in the last year by an author with [...]
Update: The Irish came. Unbelievable sound from our Prospect Park back yard. We hosted an impromptu party with friends (adults and teens) who were going and parked at our house, then listened from a distance (but still crystal clear) to great shows by the Black-Eyed Peas and the great U2. Here’s the best local’s report [...]
This is a departure from the usual nightstand novels and nonfiction, but I just can’t resist sharing the charms of this goofy new cookbook by La Cañada gal Cherie Mercer Twohy. The cover and design are pretty dreadful, but they’re dreadful in the homespun spirit of Trader Joe’s, so I can forgive that. Her writing [...]
Sixteen?? This girl is sixteen???? How the heck is she a senior in high school at 16, let alone the new Rose Queen? But indeed she is both, and she is Natalie Innocenzi, a senior at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy. She’s a tennis player, a volunteer and apparently an all-around wonderful girl. And, we might [...]
You live in a town for almost 18 years and you think you know it — and then something happens and you realize you hardly know it at all. That happened to me today, when I attended the YWCA’s Women for Racial Justice Breakfast, as a guest of Ann Erdman, Pasadena’s public information officer and [...]
A lively bunch of Altadenans and Pasadenans, led by Altadena historian Michele Zack and her colleagues at Altadena Heritage, are bringing back the spirit of legendary Altadenans Jiyayr Zorthian and Gus Albrecht this weekend, and arts lovers won’t want to miss it. Fifty years after artist Zorthian and chemistry professor and musician Albrecht put on [...]
Something’s going on at the formerly sleepy Pasadena Museum of History — its roster of fall events is remarkably rich. If you’re a reader and/or a writer — and who isn’t at least one of those? — take note of two upcoming events with a literary bent. The first is a Chinese meal and discussion [...]
