Monthly Archives: November 2009

That’s Oaxaca, as seen from Monte Alban, which, for the sake of argument, and because I love it, I named as my favorite city Monday night. I was starting, and didn’t want to choose a place that would be the … Continue reading →

Iconoclastic Luxembourgian urban planner and critic Leon Krier – best-known to Americans as “Prince Charles’ architect” — spoke at the Pasadena Center Monday night, weighing in against what local architect Stefanos Polyzoides, his host in town, called in an introduction … Continue reading →

Photo credit: James Duck On my annual November birthday San Onofre surfing safari on which I’m always lucky enough to be accompanied by a crew of great surfers and campers from up and down California, Pierre Smith this year brought … Continue reading →

Learning Works Charter School out on light-industrial Daisy at Walnut in Pasadena has an extraordinarily clear target group of students: drop-outs. Since being approved by the PUSD board last year as the district’s fifth charter, it now has over 200 … Continue reading →

A bunch of us guys (plus two women) who ride Rich Harbour’s surfboards out of Seal Beach got together Saturday at Bolsa Chica to celebrate Rich’s 50th year shaping boards. A lot of them are on view above. The waves … Continue reading →

Staff Photographer Walt Mancini took this shot of the 20 acres of Annandale Canyon in the Linda Vista Hills in far west Pasadena that last week were formally dedicated in perpetuity to open space. He’d been having a hard time … Continue reading →

When I went to my polling place, the Linda Vista fire station, this morning at 8:20 to vote, the combined precincts there were staffed by eight election workers. But after the polls had been opened already for an hour and … Continue reading →