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A member of the In Tlanextli Tlacopan Aztec dance troupe performs Tuesday night in the monthly Indelible Ink series at Pop on Union Street in Old Pasadena. Beginning next month, the poetry, dance and music series moves down the street to Robert Simon's new AKA Bistro in One Colorado. It's always the last Tuesday in the month -- excepting December -- and I'll look forward to seeing you July 26.
Not Arroyo catching, however, as I wrote in a recent column about getting the line wet to no avail in the burnt-out canyon above JPL.
Soon I'm heading for the brown-trout swollen streams of the Eastern Sierra, however, where there is a better chance of landing the fatties.
At last weekend's 125th birthday party for the city of Pasadena, among the dignitaries and electeds, the real star was Pasadena Museum of History development and operations staffer Katie Brandon's baby, a darling harbinger of good things for the next 125: her lifetime.
A detail from Margaret and Christine Wertheim's "Hyperbolic: Reefs, Rubbish and Reason," on view at the Art Center Williamson Gallery.
Five thousand crocheters from all over the world helped the twin sisters create a landlocked version of the world's coral reefs in an effort to bring to the public's attention the fragile condition of these submarine miracles due to global warming and the proliferation of plastics. The result of their work is fantastic. Go see it.
Nancy Wadsworth of www.deliciousyogini.com makes cookies Thursday at the Chefs Center of California, the entrepreneurial cooking space on San Gabriel Boulevard just above Colorado, where food trucks will gather each Friday night beginning June 17 through October.