Hunter Drohojowska-Philp has a hell of a name. She also wrote a hell of a book, Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s, which chronicles LA’s emergence as an international force in visual art in the late 50s and early 60s. It came out from Henry Holt in July, and has [...]
…and The Reinforcements, which is a good name for a backing band. And Shelby, Tieg, and Tara, who are not a backing band at all, but another band entirely, and are sharing Sunday evening, the 23rd, with Tracy Newman and The Reinforcements, for an evening of folk as only the Coffee Gallery Backstage can provide. [...]
As attentive readers are probably aware, yours truly works a day job at Red Hen Press, a non-profit, independent publisher of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Mostly I try to refrain from shameless plugs in this here space, but our fall titles were just released, which is really exciting, and to celebrate we’re having a [...]
It’s easy to forget how much stuff goes on at the Huntington: art and design stuff, botanical stuff, historical stuff. And Tai Chi! All this stuff is pretty cool, and there’s a lot of it going on on any given day, but our eye has just been caught by a conference on the Civil War [...]
Are you in need of a soul-nurturing weekend? Louise Hay and Hay House are hosting I Can Do It, a conference this Friday through Sunday at the Pasadena Convention Center. Louise Hay founded this conference four years ago as a place for like-minded people to gather, commune and heal. It intends to revitalize, re-charge and [...]
Jane Lynch wrote a book. She’s probably best known for Glee these days, and has been getting an absolute ton of work for the past few years—Party Down is a recent favorite—and, jeez, Best in Show was ten years ago? And now she has a book. And this is probably the wrong thing to say [...]
The Reduced Shakespeare Company made a name for itself by performing all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays… in 97 minutes! How can this be done, you ask? Hilariously, according to the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the theatre-goers of London, who made it that city’s longest-running comedy to date. Radi Os it is [...]
If the biggest hurdle in your pursuit of the Great American Novel is keeping all your brilliant thoughts organized, and you are a Mac user, then this event is for you. SGVMUG—the San Gabriel Valley Macintosh Users Group—is turning its next monthly meeting at the library into a demonstration, for creative writers, of Storyist, a [...]
Helen Lukens Gaut lived from 1872 to 1955. She was a successful photojournalist, with pub credits in a many magazines, including at least one that’s still kicking today—Cosmopolitan. She drove herself around California in the 1910s and 1920s taking pictures and writing about her travels, before seemingly giving this career up for private musical pursuits. [...]
Women won the right to vote in California one hundred years ago, nine years before the passage of the 19th amendment. To celebrate Women’s Equality Day, the League of Women Voters Pasadena and PCC are putting on a show by Amy Simon: She’s History: The Most Dangerous Women in America, Then and Now. Simon’s play [...]
