The following column is by our friend and Hometown Santa Barbara author Starshine Roshell — she’s not a Pasadena local, but her column this week in the Santa Barbara Independent sure rings true for so many of us in our trying-hard-to-be-sustainable town. You can read more of Starshine’s witty and wise columns at starshineroshell.com and [...]
Sixteen?? This girl is sixteen???? How the heck is she a senior in high school at 16, let alone the new Rose Queen? But indeed she is both, and she is Natalie Innocenzi, a senior at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy. She’s a tennis player, a volunteer and apparently an all-around wonderful girl. And, we might [...]
You live in a town for almost 18 years and you think you know it — and then something happens and you realize you hardly know it at all. That happened to me today, when I attended the YWCA’s Women for Racial Justice Breakfast, as a guest of Ann Erdman, Pasadena’s public information officer and [...]
I know, I know, I’ve been going on quite a bit about the three shows now on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. But that’s because they’re so freaking amazing. And I haven’t yet paid proper due to the one with the deepest roots here — Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints [...]
I’m sorry to report that our historic hometown theater, the Pasadena Playhouse, is in dire financial straits, although the situation is not hopeless. New executive director Stephen Eich, who recently discovered that the Playhouse’s debt was more daunting that he’d realized, has pulled theaters through tough times before; he hopes to use the same strategies [...]
Some towns note the arrival of fall with an profusion of red and yellow leaves. In Pasadena we herald the season by celebrating our profusion of Arts & Crafts bungalows. That’s right, it’s almost time for Pasadena Heritage’s Craftsman Weekend. For 18 years, it’s been drawing both locals and aficionados from all over the country [...]
We just had to share Lian Dolan’s column today on Chaos Chronicles, her national blog about life as a modern working mom. Once again, her dream of making the Rose Court has been denied, but she’s made her peace with it, and even shares some grooming tips picked up from examining the photo of this [...]
Okay, greater Pasadenans — and yes, we mean you up in Altadena and you down in South Pas and you over in Eagle Rock or Sierra Madre — we want you to know about a resource that until now has been too hidden on our site. It’s called Concierge, and it’s basically Angie’s List, except [...]
A triple-exhibit opening at the Pasadena Museum of California Art is bringing one of the most appealing shows in years to town. The headline exhibit is devoted to the work of California painter Wayne Thiebaud, with a survey of more than 100 of his works, from his famed bakery paintings to lesser-known landscapes and still [...]
Altadena funny guy Tom Gammill, creator of the Doozies comic strip, a Simpsons writer and a regular YouTube video producer, took his Doozies show to the other coast recently, visiting the hallowed halls of the New Yorker to see about getting published. Will he be hanging out with George Booth and sharing cover time with Roz [...]
