Up-and-coming South Pasadena Gallery SPACE launches its tenth show this weekend with an opening for Textiles on the Edge, a collection of textile-based works by ten local artists, including Karen Green, Lilian Montalvo-Hardy, Joan Weinzette and Melanie Ciccone. They all offer twists on the conventions of traditional textile arts. The gallery is walking distance from [...]
The Spago of Pasadena, Parkway Grill made a big splash when it first opened in 1985, bringing California pizzas and organic vegetables to then-stodgy Crown City. Today the concept is less fresh, and the kitchen execution isn’t as crisp as it once was, but we still love the casually elegant space—soaring wood rafters, exposed brick, [...]
Hardcover Fiction House Rules, Jodi Picoult Blood Hina, Naomi Hirahara Help, Kathryn Stockett The Man From Beijing, Henning Mankell The Postmistress, Sarah Blake Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson Split Image, Robert B Parker Hardcover Nonfiction [...]
You may think you know the best Thai market in Hollywood, noodle house in San Gabriel, wine shop in the Valley, and French restaurant in Culver City, but even the most diehard foodie doesn’t know it all. Hence the arrival of the book EAT: Los Angeles 2010: The Food Lover’s Guide to Los Angeles. Created [...]
Thank heaven for little girls… born to professional musicians! When their parents are inspired to create great children’s music, like Pat McIntyre is by his daughter Cecilia Jude, we all benefit! His inspiration led to the creation of the Saturday Morning Sing-a-long in South Pasadena. This joyful celebration of music and dance was started by Pat [...]
Okay, so it’s kinda corporate and chain-restauranty, but we love this huge pub/restaurant anyway. It has the most diverse crowd of any Pasadena bar—all ages, all ethnicities, all social strata—it has some 150 beers on tap (and a full bar), and it has much better food (Korean BBQ beef, ahi salad, excellent burgers, a yummy [...]
For some people Sunday morning is about slippers and the newspaper; for others it’s about going to Fish King to get something delicious for Sunday dinner. These people know their seafood, and they get the good stuff, from wild salmon and sushi-grade ahi to opah, ono and other Pacific fish. Don’t miss the refrigerator and [...]
This Saturday morning, our local chapter of the League of Women Voters celebrates “sunshine laws” by offering a community forum that promises to be an intelligent antidote to the, ahem, less than impressive level of political discussion on the public airwaves. So turn off the radio and TV and commune for a moment with the [...]
Hardcover Fiction Apple Turnover Murder, Joanne Fluke The Kingdom of Ohio, Matthew Flaming Help, Kathryn Stockett The Man From Beijing, Henning Mankell Infinities, John Banville The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson The Postmistress, Sarah Blake Split Image, Robert B. Parker Half Broke Horses, Jeanette Walls Horns, Joe Hill Hardcover Nonfiction Devotion, Dani Shapiro [...]
Count us among the legion who are addicted to Saladang’s yellow curry, light fried calamari, spinach-and-duck salad, beef satay and rad na noodles. The best Thai food in the SG Valley is served by a quick-moving staff in a chic modern room with exposed ducts, colorful table settings and handsome rattan chairs. The lunch specials [...]
