Its nooks and crannies filled with little wooden tables, English beer signs and old kegs, this rabbit warren of a pub has 63 brews on tap. On warm evenings people sit on the alley patio, sip British and Belgian beers and locally brewed Craftsman ales, and talk for hours. The jukebox is stuffed with ‘70s [...]
Hardcover Fiction House Rules, Jodi Picoult The Surrendered, Chang-Rae Lee The California Roll, John Vorhaus The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson Murder in the Palais Royal, Cara Black Angelology, Danielle Trussoni Help, Kathryn Stockett Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver The Spellmans Strike Again, Lisa Lutz Hardcover Nonfiction Tattoos [...]
Hardcover Fiction House Rules, Jodi Picoult Help, Kathryn Stockett Angelology, Danielle Trussoni The Man from Beijing, Henning Mankell Silent Sea, Clive Cussler Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson The Postmistress, Sarah Blake Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel Infinities, John Banville Hardcover Nonfiction Tattoos on the Heart, Gregory Boyle [...]
The world’s largest Rice Krispie Treat — a 10,460-pound creation that seemed spawned from Willy Wonka’s factory — came to be on Sunday on the field outside the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge. A new TLC show called Mega Bites, hosted by San Diego restaurateur and Top Chef season-three finalist Brian Malarkey, created the [...]
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 [...]
