Monthly Archives: May 2009

You post a story like this one below, No. 2 with a bullet on our most-read this Friday afternoon, and it really brings on the outrage, and properly so. (‘Course it also brings out the wack jobs sprinkled in among … Continue reading →

I don’t know him, but I always enjoyed the dispatches from L.A. Times reporter Hector Tobar when he was stationed in Mexico City, and I’ve been enjoying his column since his return to Spring Street. Tobar did an especially good … Continue reading →

After insisting to me and thee that it was up to absolutely nothing nefarious — no man behind the Hahamongna curtain — it was interesting and a little bit gratifying to see the city of Pasadena this week admit it … Continue reading →

Apparently everyone else but me knows about these solar-powered compacting trash cans now dotted around Pasadena, but I saw this one at Lake and Green for the first time the other day, and was amazed, and you’ll just have to … Continue reading →

I was getting a sneak preview of the soon-to-open Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art at the Huntington Library when I saw this marble angel known as Puck (by Harriet Goodhue Hosmer about 1854) over in the corner under … Continue reading →

Pasadena police Chief Bernard Melekian had the day off Monday and was driving through Santa Barbara on 101 when a car in front of him on the freeway veered to the right and crashed into a culvert. The driver jumped … Continue reading →

Consultant (and CPA) Martin Truitt is one of the three most knowledgeable political operatives — with Jon Fuhrman and Fred Register – in Pasadena. Of the trio, he’s the only one known for usually taking on the more conservative candidates … Continue reading →

Sunday I got to thinking as I read Geoff Nicholson’s essay in The New York Times Book Review about how: Franz Kafka “was a food faddist, a sometimes passionate vegetarian, a drinker of vast quantities of unpasteurized milk and, according … Continue reading →

When a newspaper guy goes to see a newspaper movie, from “The Front Page” to “All the President’s Men” to this spring’s “State of Play,” it’s as much about watching for the things the filmmakers get right and wrong about … Continue reading →