Monthly Archives: April 2008

Saturday night in the Wind Tunnel at Art Center’s South Campus the Pasadena Art Alliance held its latest biennial art auction. Pieces from many of Southern California’s leading artists were sold, and the tens of thousands of dollars in proceeds … Continue reading →

You hate to be relativistic in natural disasters. Wait: Let me amend that right away. You’re supposed to hate being relativistic. In California, where we have plenty of them, the mudslides, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis and the fires after fires affect … Continue reading →

When any of our brave firefighters are injured by a Southern California wildfire, we get properly reverential, along with our proper thanks for the women and men who do a killer job in killer conditions. So far, with the Santa … Continue reading →

When I went by the homage to Allan Kaprow’s “Fluids” Friday in Memorial Park, Walt Mancini, the best photographer in the business, was already there: Walt will have photos in Saturday’s Star-News and an online gallery on our Web pages. … Continue reading →

Its not that I was too young in the heyday of the Happenings to get hep to the jive. I mean, I remember my parents and their circle going to Be-Ins and whatnot and my mother and step-father participating, with … Continue reading →

In Pasadena, it isn’t really a major bash or benefit unless Peggy Dark’s Kitchen for Exploring Foods is catering it. In fact, before you take one of those passed canapes, it’s best to ask the wandering server, “Kitchen?” If she … Continue reading →

Kidspace is having its 12th annual butterfly release ceremony on Saturday at 9:30 in the morning at 480 N. Arroyo Blvd. in Brookside Park, but I won’t be there. Or at least I won’t be there with my bug. Because … Continue reading →

Raleigh Renick Young, Theresa Kelley, Ella Young — pictured above — and other family and friends of Pasadena native Jeanne Thiel Kelley on Sunday celebrated the publication of her gorgeous and massive new cookbook, “Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes: Recipes … Continue reading →

I hear that Geneva Overholser, the esteemed (and honestly well-liked and even revered) former editor of the Des Moines Register will be announced Monday as the new head of the Journalism School at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC. … Continue reading →

Walking down Lake Avenue today on my way to a lunch meeting, I saw this new Audi R8 at the curb. “Dag, it looks like a Lamborghini,” I said. “That’s because it pretty much is a Lamborghini,” said Amanda McAlpin … Continue reading →