Monthly Archives: July 2009

Emma Jacobsen-Sive of the Pasadena Museum of California Art, dressed in black and white, was standing today inside the painter Annie Lapin’s parti-colored installation at the museum, “Parallel Deliria Iteration.” The piece is made up of flotsam and jetsam from … Continue reading →

Lily Burk, the 17-year-old Oakwood student who was found slain late last week in downtown Los Angeles, was the daughter of a longtime friend, Greg Burk, the former chief of the copy desk at the LA Weekly, and his wife, … Continue reading →

Below is Julius Shulman’s iconic shot of two Pasadena girls, Cynthia Murfee and Ann Lightbody, taken in 1960, as I mentioned in my column today. Oh yeah — it also includes Case Study House No. 22 by Pierre Koenig and … Continue reading →

Readers with long memories will recall that last year when we made the annual July trek to the Texas Panhandle for an O’Brien family reunion, the California contingent was met at the cabin in Palo Duro Canyon with a big-screen … Continue reading →

A friend alerted me to this new public art being installed just west of Fair Oaks Avenue on California Boulevard — in front of Huntington Hospital, but part of the new medical building that just went in on the corner. … Continue reading →

Julia McWilliams Child of Pasadena was, famously, 6-foot-2 as a girl and young woman. I was lucky enough to know her when she was in her 80s, writing stories about her, and twice she cooked lunch for Phoebe and me … Continue reading →

The other day, after a meeting at Pico Rivera City Hall, I noticed this statue across the parking lot at the Pico sheriff’s sub-station, and for the life of me, I can’t imagine what the deputy depicted is supposed to … Continue reading →

Reader Ariel Wisch sent this out this morning on the horse that ran away late in May in the upper Arroyo Seco in Pasadena after slipping on a trail and losing her rider underneath the footbridge to JPL. We covered … Continue reading →