Monthly Archives: September 2009

Passions ignite at Scarlet Tea Room with live cabaret and burlesque soiree

Open publication – Free publishing – More torrance >>EAT It was a sea of red (one hoped it would never part) for a few nights in August at the Scarlet Tea Room. A sultry, live theatrical revue took up residence … Continue reading

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Video: Interview and in-the-kitchen footage with Lalo Sanchez, executive chef of Parkway Grill in Pasadena

>>EAT Read more about Sanchez, below, in Rose Magazine. Open publication – Free publishing – More torrance

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Because things in miniature are always cool: The Pasadena Model Railroad Club

>>PLAY The Pasadena Model Railroad Club puts the model town in “Beetlejuice” to shame, shame, shame. First of all, it’s one of the largest operating model railroads in the whole world and covers almost 5,000 square feet. Second, those itty-bitty … Continue reading

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That’s genius: Art Center students turn symphony experience on its ear

Open publication – Free publishing – More torrance >>THINK Art Center College of Design students have been thinking a lot lately about how to give the Pasadena symphony-going experience a fresh, visionary appeal. Students in Mikio Osaki’s “The Agency” advertising … Continue reading

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Nightlife: Climbing the vine at Noir Food and Wine in Pasadena

>>PLAY THE PLACE: Noir Food and Wine Bar opened not so long ago on North Mentor Avenue, a top-drawer addition to the developing wine scene in Pasadena. Noir is owned by Michael Farwell (also of Vertical Wine Bistro) and serves … Continue reading

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That’s genius: ‘E.T., e-mail home’ and other adventures in deep-space Internet with JPL’s Scott Burleigh

>>THINK Scott Burleigh of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is one among a consortium of scientists and computer programmers working to turn interplanetary Internet from science fiction to reality. The deep-space Internet, which had to be specially designed to withstand the … Continue reading

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What a girl wants: Robots and jazz

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That’s genius: By day, Kjerstin Williams is a robotics engineer; By night, she croons a smooth tune in Pasadena-area joints

>>THINK Kjerstin Williams is the second of three geniuses featured in Rose Magazine’s cover story. If you’re not green with envy over her day job — working with robots at Applied Minds — then her night job ought to do … Continue reading

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Meet the Rose Magazine cover artist: Zack Morrissette

>>INSIDER Theater marquee, below, and comic work, above, by artist Zack Morrissette. Los-Angeles based artist and designer Zack Morrissette created the Rose Magazine cover look, based on a photo shoot of Caltech’s John Dabiri, as captured by staff photographer Walt … Continue reading

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That’s genius: Caltech’s John Dabiri tells us why you should care about a brainless, boneless creature

Open publication – Free publishing – More torrance >>THINK Rose Magazine cover subject John Dabiri is only 29, and he’s already racking up serious accolades, like this one from the White House, for his research on jellyfish. Dabiri isn’t a … Continue reading

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