Monthly Archives: April 2010

Last Sunday 100 or so of Lyla White’s nearest and dearest celebrated her birthday at a big backyard party at the home of Ann and Robert Hamilton. The former executive director of the Pasadena Playhouse has friends in high and … Continue reading →

Scripps College commissioned Alfredo Ramos Martinez in 1946 to create a mural in its extraordinarily contemplative Margaret Fowler Garden called “The Flower Vendors,” his most ambitious project. Martinez, not as well known today as his contemporaries Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros, … Continue reading →

Trying, to no avail, to keep legitimate hikers from using the Millard Canyon trail, though this was taken more than a mile downstream from the La Vina area, where a small cabal on the homeowners association recently lost an expensive … Continue reading →

Rachel Robinson, widow of Jackie, and Rachael Worby, music director of the Pasadena Pops, met up at the annual Jackie Robinson Foundation awards dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan honoring their mutual friend the opera great Jessye Norman. Rachael … Continue reading →

This flier arrived in (some — mine, at least) PUSD-area voter mailboxes on Saturday as part of the No on Measure CC campaign. If you don’t remember the novelty song “Fish Heads” by Barnes and Barnes I reference in the … Continue reading →

* sorry for tech difficulties with pic on some screens: working on that: When I mentioned the other day that the aesthetic of the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts that I got a preview of was Sophia Coppola meets … Continue reading →

Raising and spending has become an issue in the Arcadia City Council race, with some candidates going for the big bucks — mostly in the form of personal loans to the campaign or loans from wealthy family members — and … Continue reading →