Monthly Archives: January 2011

Behavioral scientist and champeen animal advocate Temple Grandin came to Pasadena’s Villa Esperanza to help celebrate its 50th year of aiding developmentally disabled children. Grandin, who became nationally famous when profiled a decade ago in The New Yorker as the … Continue reading →

Here’s a link to a reproduction of the resignation letter from his former post with the city of Los Angeles by Vince Bertoni, the newly named planning director of Pasadena — courtesy Curbed LA. Pasadenans who care about such things … Continue reading →

Stephen Hawking, the great English physicist who tries to spend a month every winter at Caltech, did a star turn at Beckman Tuesday night. And what a turn. What a testament to perserverance: can’t move, can’t talk, don’t whine: stay … Continue reading →

Caltech physicist Richard Feynman famously developed an obsession with the tiny northern Asia country sometimes known as Tannu Tuva. Though he continued to try to travel there late in his life, his quest to actually get to the remote place … Continue reading →

Actually, Dick Feynman is sadly no longer with us. But some who maintain his living memory around Pasadena have bumper stickers on their cars — “Feynman lives!” and “Tuva or bust!” My mom had the former on her own car … Continue reading →

This morning at tree-sitting central the two protesters who were “allowed” up against this gate at the oak woodlands in northern Arcadia were directly into the sun from my lens, so I shot this guy off to the side. By … Continue reading →

Do the two golf courses of Brookside count as open space for the city of Pasadena? You have to pay to be out there, after all. I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about open space lately, and this shot … Continue reading →

A Pasadena friend who is a longtime (inactive) member of the Tournament of Roses just wrote me: “Larry, I was really appalled to see that the Rose Parade was sponsored by the Church of Scientology! This implies validity to the … Continue reading →

The best place to see Rose Parade floats up close is on Columbia Street, the border between Pasadena and South Pasadena, just before midnight on New Year’s Eve. A bunch of us walked up from the party and gathered the … Continue reading →