Monthly Archives: August 2009

This photo from the Earth Snapshot Web site — www.eosnap.com; hat tip to Kevin Roderick at LA Observed — was taken yesterday from a satellite. It was taken Sunday afternoon, our time, clearly — as anyone who was around in … Continue reading →

The PCC Lancer Band Friday morning at the arts building groundbreaking. Pasadena City College may be absent a permanent president here two days before classes start with the school’s biggest semester ever. But it’s got a great interim president in … Continue reading →

Ken Wormhoudt was a Pasadena landscape architect for many years — the family lived in the Duncan-Irwin House near the Arroyo, back before anyone much cared about Greene & Greene — and the house is one of the brothers’ greatest. … Continue reading →

A Julia Morgan-designed staircase at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, just south of Monterey, where we stayed last week on NorCal vacation …. There’s a lot of interest in our own Julia Morgan, the exquisite, long-shuttered YWCA on North Marengo Avenue, … Continue reading →

IN the heat of this whole shouting match about health, I had an appointment Wednesday with my physician, Malathi Narayan. She naturally follows the politics of the debate with a professional passion. Like many people I’ve visited with this week, … Continue reading →

Photo credit: Rick Gough Thanks to our glorious friends Jessica Seaton and Keith Wilson, we got to spend a vacation week with them up at their classic NorCal beach house at The Sea Ranch in Sonoma County near the Mendocino … Continue reading →

Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard writes a note to say that there has been “a surprising” amount of interest as to whether he will run for another term as mayor in less than two years. As I speculated in a recent … Continue reading →