Monthly Archives: April 2011

As part of Indelible Ink’s monthly fourth-Tuesday show at Pop on Union Street in Old Pas, Indian dancer Anupama Aranaprasad performed last night. She was joined by South Pas poet Ron Koertge, L.A. poet Wanda Coleman, Utah Poet Laureate Katharine … Continue reading →

This small jewel box of a cottage, a Henry Greene, created after brother Charles had decamped for Carmel in the early 1920s, after Greene & Greene’s heyday,* is almost entirely unknown and in an almost entirely unknown Altadena neighborhood called … Continue reading →

For voters in Altadena, Pasadena and Sierra Madre today, this is the way the editorial board advocates marking your ballot. It’s going to be a crazily small turnout — just after 9 this morning, only a dozen citizens had done … Continue reading →

If you walk around the campus at UC Berkeley early on a Sunday morning, you never know what you’ll run into. These wizards, for instance, were filming something for a local public-access television show, and even though they handed us … Continue reading →

Pasadena Red Cross head honcho Ben Green likes to open up a visit to the group’s Craven Estate HQ like this: “Back in 1926, when my dad built this place …” Ben’s Midwest boyhood was actually far from Madeleine Drive, … Continue reading →

You could practically hear the eerie Angelo Badalamenti music playing last Thursday as Steve Scauzillo, the opinion page editor, and I approached Crystal Lake. Creepy’s not the half of it! David Lynch has got to be inquiring about a weekend … Continue reading →

Patti Eisenberg and many others at the Pasadena Playhouse put together a mammoth party Friday night in the South El Molino Avenue theater itself, with guests entering through the stage door off the alley to find the stage itself extended … Continue reading →