Gogol published The Government Inspector in 1836, and then again in 1842. It’s about a poor clerk whom the corrupt officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia mistake for the titular official. Hijinks ensue. As with most classic satires, the people in it are generally no good at all. Boston Court is partnering with Pasadena’s Furious [...]
It’s Levitt time: six weeks of free concerts, Wednesday through Sunday, in good old Memorial Park. As we do every year, we’ll be spotlighting one show a week for the duration. Because, you know, we’re curators. Our pick this week is the Ernie Watts Quartet, a jazz outfit led by the eponymous two-time Grammy winner. There’s been a lot of [...]
We, as a society, cannot get enough of abbreviation and acronym, particularly when it comes to geography. The latest exhibit: NoCo, or North of Colorado, as in the Boulevard. The first ever NoCo Week started today, Monday the 30th, and lasts through Sunday August 5th. What does NoCo week mean to you? Free stuff. Or [...]
It’s the last week of the Old Pasadena Film Festival, which is a shame, because few things are as pleasurable as sitting outside on a warm summer evening, watching a movie. And there are some good ones this week: Napoleon Dynamite on Thursday, What’s Up, Doc? and Vicky Cristina Barcelona on Friday, and a Streetcar Named Desire and Psycho on Saturday. Click here for specific locations and [...]
It’s Levitt time: six weeks of free concerts, Wednesday through Sunday, in good old Memorial Park. As we do every year, we’ll be spotlighting one show a week for the duration. Because, you know, we’re curators. Our pick this week is Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, a nine-piece modern rock, soul, and blues outfit from the Big [...]
Every year, the folks of Old Pasadena Management screen (mostly) good movies three days a week for four weeks in One Colorado Plaza, Distant Lands bookstore, and Central Park. Here’s the lineup for this, the penultimate week of festivities: at 8:30 at One Colorado it’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane on Thursday, The Philadelphia Story on Friday, and High [...]
It’s Levitt time: six weeks of free concerts, Wednesday through Sunday, in good old Memorial Park. As we do every year, we’ll be spotlighting one show a week for the duration. Because, you know, we’re curators. Our pick this week is Border Radio, a Hometown favorite whose gigs at the Coffee Gallery we’ve covered before. They’re an acoustic bluegrass/folk outfit [...]
Rachael Worby’s new project, MUSE/IQUE, is about a year old now. MUSE/IQUE, in case you missed it, is an orchestra, a community-oriented orchestra playing both highbrow classics and otherbrow standards in non-traditional locations (i.e., not the concert hall). Worby, its mastermind (or “artistic director” if you prefer), was the music director of the Pasadena Pops [...]
It’s Levitt time: six weeks of free concerts, Wednesday through Sunday, in good old Memorial Park. As we do every year, we’ll be spotlighting one show a week for the duration. Because, you know, we’re curators. Our pick this week is Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, who, in a week of strong acts, takes down the [...]
I don’t know John Vorhaus, or how he pronounces his last name, but I think we can be forgiven for thinking it looks and probably sounds more than a little like “Voorhees,” as in Jason Voorhees, the, ah, moral center of the Friday the 13th movies. Ordinarily we’d allow this similarity to pass unmentioned, but there’s a [...]
