Next weekend the streets of Sierra Madre will come alive with charity, jazz and wine. The 4th Annual Sierra Madre Wine and Jazz Festival takes place the evening of October 3rd, benefiting cancer research and treatment at City of Hope. Wine will be provided by Riboli Family Wine Estates and San Antonio Winery and local [...]
Besides giving us a blessed three days off, Labor Day weekend brought the opening of the L.A. County Fair. I love the fair, always have. I love the looks on city faces when they realize how big a pig really is. I love the pointlessness of putting everything on a stick, of deep frying everything [...]
The Pasadena Master Chorale will kick off its first full season this weekend with a brief concert series in Altadena and Pasadena. This first of seven concerts throughout the year, the September program will focus on Songs of the World, featuring American classics, European tunes and more traditional folk music from around the world, sung [...]
This Sunday, South Pasadena’s Mission Street, a leg of the old Route 66, will be lined with with more than 400 classic cars. The 5th Annual Cruz’n for Roses Hot Rod and Classic Car Show promotes the city’s float in the Rose Parade — the oldest self-built float in the tournament. Each year South [...]
Though the heat of September is upon us, we can still dream of midsummer at the Descanso Gardens with the help of the Crown City Theatre Company. For four performances, the company will bring Shakespeare’s classic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the Under the Oaks Theater. Hopefully the smooth comedy will bring some refreshing [...]
Hardcover Fiction
Homer & Langley, E L Doctorow
Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
South of Broad, Pat Conroy
Help, Kathryn Stockett
Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
White Queen, Philippa Gregory
Blame, Michelle Huneven
The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
Best Friends Forever, Jennifer Weiner
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L.A. Noir, John Buntin
Golden Dreams, Kevin Starr
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
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Grandmothers Are Like [...]
Attention artists: It’s time to pul out your paintbrushes and set up your easel for a good cause — because this Saturday is the second annual Plein Air Paint-out. Artists will set up easels all over the “City of Trees” (full disclosure: I’ve lived in South Pas all my life and had no idea it [...]
Slow Food USA has declared this Labor Day a “day of action” to demand better nutrition and better quality food in public schools. To draw attention to the cause, concerned civilians everywhere are holding “eat-ins,” community potlucks to eat and discuss the future of public-school lunches. Potluckers will sign petitions, call members of Congress and [...]
Hardcover Fiction
Help, Kathryn Stockett
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
South of Broad, Pat Conroy
That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
Even Money, Dick Francis
White Queen, Philippa Gregory
Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon
WWW Wake, Robert Sawyer
Elephant Keeper, Christopher Nicholson
Hardcover Non-Fiction
Lighting Their Fires, Rafe Esquith
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
LA Noir, John Butin
Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
Furry Logic, Jane Seabrook
Nurtureshock, Po Bronson
Golden [...]
Wednesday, August 26
Habla Blah Blah (Spanish for children) @ 7 p.m., Levitt Pavilion, 85 E. Holly St., Old Pasadena, levittpavilionpasadena.org
Thursday, August 27
The Duhks (Canadian folk rock) @ 8 p.m., Levitt Pavilion, 85 E. Holly St., Old Pasadena, levittpavilionpasadena.org
Friday, August 28
ON Ensemble (Taiko drumming/electronica) @ 8 p.m., Levitt Pavilion, 85 E. Holly St., Old Pasadena, levittpavilionpasadena.org
Saturday, [...]
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