“Honest, simple design expressed in hand-made creations by skilled craftsmen.” It’s time to purchase your tickets for Pasadena Heritage’s 22nd Annual Craftsman Weekend, October 18-21. Tickets for the myriad of events and activities go on sale Wednesday, August 7th. The weekend opens Friday, October 18th, with the “Excursion to the California Club.” Guests travel by coach to [...]
She’s trying to change the dialogue. From her Cal Arts project to her newest endeavor Eye ♥ Art, Aja Guy is looking to bring a different dialogue to children’s art. She has opened her visual arts program and art workshop almost right where Pasadena meets Altadena, looking to teach kids and teens the fundamentals of [...]
A taut thriller set in Istanbul just after WWII, Istanbul Passage features a compelling compact narrative, an intriguing multinational and fully drawn cast of characters, and moody musings on morality and patriotism. The clipped dialogue, à la Robert MItchum, may be a deal breaker for some, but it’s worth sticking with as the action becomes [...]
Andalusia smells like saffron, stones, rosemary, and dirt. The gypsies reckon the devil lives in me and move to the other side of the square when I walk past. They make their living telling palm-carved fortunes. One binds your wrists, smiles square in your eyes, tell you [...]
Ingredients: 3 cups chopped stone fruit—a variety of peaches, plums, nectarines, etc. ¼ cup flour A few healthy shakes of cinnamon 1 cup raw oats ¼ cup packed brown sugar A few pads of butter Directions: Mix fruit with flour. Spread out in baking pan. Sprinkle oats, then cinnamon, then brown sugar over top. Put [...]
They started with a coffee cart and small business events. Kip had experience in the food and beverage industry. Bernard was a bartender. The third in the group, Ayo, was a photographer. But there weren’t a lot of coffeehouses in the area, so they opened Sidewalk Cafe at Woodbury and Los Robles, “where Pasadena and [...]
What’s happening here? With apologies for the morbidity, in the photo to the right, City of Pasadena public safety personnel look over the rubble left behind after a grandstand collapsed during the Rose Parade on Jan. 1, 1926. Eight spectators died. It was a terrible tragedy that, thanks to resulting regulations for careful construction and inspection [...]
Ever wondered what your child could construct from something as simple as marshmallows and pasta? La Pintoresca Branch Library invites kids to come create spaghetti structures, test them for earthquake resistance, and judge them based on creativity. To sign up children, call 626.744.7268. Spaghetti Structures, Tuesday, July 30th, 3:30 p.m., La Pintoresca Branch Library, 1355 N. [...]
Avi Roth has trademarked the word “coffeegraph,” which is described as “the process of applying coffee grinds and coffee by-products as organic pigment without a binder to solid and porous surfaces by way of staining, layering, and water burning.” Coffeegraph® and other mediums of art are on exhibit at the original Euro Pane just east [...]
The exhibit named “Summer’s Edge” at Louis Jane Studio in Old Pasadena features “the personal relationships of five artists to the natural world. The twenty works in ‘Summer’s Edge’ explore inner connections to the natural realm in a wide array of styles and voices.” Exhibitor Janet Bothne states that color is her “natural anti-depressant.” I see color [...]
