Monthly Archives: February 2010

Barbara Double is well-known to Pasadena bibliophiles as a long-time books — mysteries, especially — columnist in the Friends of the Public Library’s newsletter. She’s also an operaphile, if that is a word, and graciously had us up to the … Continue reading →

Among the three striking and fabulously dissimilar shows opening this weekend at the PMCA on Union between Oakland and Los Robles is a pen-and-ink filled room from the Los Angeles collective Sumi, in which many artists young and old get … Continue reading →

At the Kidspace benefit Saturday night in massive tents in the Parkway Grill parking lot, The Sky’s the Limit was the theme, and the costumes — most everyone in the crowd of many hundreds were good sports and wore them, … Continue reading →

The Gourmet Gulch on Shattuck in Berkeley is both getting too crowded and spinning off restaurants like crazy to more affordable storefronts in Oakland. I get up to the East Bay five or six weekends a year on business for … Continue reading →

Sometimes I think Caltrans and other government agencies get a little … trigger-happy about closing the Angeles Crest Highway into our mountains after the various disasters that plague the forest-area roads. Fire. Floods. Motorcycles down. But Lori Paul of Altadena … Continue reading →