The revivified Pasadena Playhouse continues its musical new life with a short run, 10th anniversary presentation of George Gershwin Alone, Hershey Felder’s “play with music” (not a musical?) about Gershwin, America’s great synthesizer of popular and classical styles, cut down in his prime by a brain tumor. Felder, of course, is a concert pianist himself, [...]
The Music Circle is a new one for us, a concert series dedicated to Indian classical music at Occidental’s Herrick Chapel. The next show is this Saturday, when Sitar virtuoso Shujaat Khan and tabla (percussion) performer Abhiman Kaushal take the stage. Khan is a 7th generation Sitarist, with a Grammy nomination and gigs at Carnegie [...]
The mission of the wonderfully named Parson’s Nose Productions is to introduce “classic theater to family audiences,” through original one-hour adaptations of dramatic masterpieces. These staged readings are designed to be both smart enough for grownups and boisterous enough for kids. They used to put on shows at Jameson Brown Coffee Roasters, but have recently [...]
Once upon a time, there was an ostrich farm in South Pasadena, the Cawston Ostrich Farm, founded in 1886 by Edwin Cawston. In addition to providing visitors with rides in ostrich drawn carriages, Cawston made a living selling ostrich-feathered products: boas, capes, fans, and, of course, hats, which just so happens to be the area [...]
We don’t usually feature events with such forthright corporate credentials, but Toyota’s “Farm to Table Tour” seems worthwhile. It brings top local chefs to honest-to-goodness farmers markets to provide complimentary (!) nibbles to potential Toyota customers, who are given “the opportunity to experience Toyota’s newest hybrid vehicles”—a small price to pay for free eats from [...]
Last time we checked in with the PMC, in January, they were performing Mozart’s Requiem—fitting music for what passes for winter in these parts. With spring now in the air, it’s only fitting that the PMC would do… another Requiem? Yes! Brahms’ Requiem, in fact, which is a staggering piece of music. Brahms wrote an [...]
If anyone knows harmonica virtuosos, it’s American Cowboy magazine, which has the highest praise for five-time Western Music Association award nominee Gary Allegretto: “This good-natured cowboy singer-songwriter blows you away with his talent on that mouth harp.” He’ll be playing that mouth harp at the Coffee Gallery this Saturday with Ian Espinoza, also a singer-songwriter [...]
Yesterday was the opening of the 100th Annual California Art Club Gold Medal Juried Exhibition in the Main Gallery of the ever-delightful PMCA—a mouthful of the best the CAC’s artist-members have to offer. The CAC, as California art hounds know, is a little more than a hundred years old now, and remains dedicated to supporting [...]
I’m no authority on Korean food, but usually the words “Korean BBQ” entail a table-top grill on which customers cook their own meats—an ingenious form of culinary outsourcing. Gaon has no such grills, though one dish was served on a sizzling hot plate set over a dish of flammable pink jelly. But no temperature dials, [...]
On June 5th, the curtain will come down once and for all on A Noise Within’s Glendale location, their home of 19 years. ANW—Southern California’s premier classical repertory theatre company—is moving to a permanent space in Pasadena come the fall, a brand new facility right next to the Sierra Madre Gold Line station. But that’s [...]
