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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Going co-op for groceries in Altadena
>>INSIDER Public Editor Larry Wilson picks up in his column the story on a potential cooperative (meaning, member-owned) food market that’s gaining steam in Altadena: Right now, in the organizing phase, Arroyo is looking for 500 members to come in … Continue reading
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Tagged Altadena, Arroyo Food Co-op, co-op, cooperative, food, green, groceries, Larry Wilson, market, sustainability
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Scenes from ‘Baby It’s You’ at the Pasadena Playhouse
>>GO Now at the Pasadena Playhouse: “Baby It’s You,” a musical about the groundbreaking girl group, The Shirelles, and the woman who discovered them. She was Florence Greenberg, a New Jersey housewife who went on to build her own independent … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby It's You, Florence Greenberg, musical, Pasadena Playhouse, reviews, Scepter Records, The Shirelles, theater
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Arcadia’s WWII history and the Santa Anita Assembly Center
>>THINK There’s a new exhibit at the Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum that offers up a dark and lesser-known side of the city’s past for examination. In the 1940s, Arcadia’s Santa Anita Park was the location of a … Continue reading
Fashion weekend: Sinking ships and Betsy Bloomingdale
>>GO The Sidney D. Gamble Lecture Series opens its 2009-2010 season tomorrow with two fashion-oriented engagements. At 10 a.m., Kevin Jones — curator of the museum at downtown’s Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising — will speak at Art Center … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Center, Betsy Bloomingdale, Bloomingdale's, couture, designer, fashion, FIDM, Gamble House, haute couture, Kevin Jones, lecture series, museum, Titanic
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Actress Lauren Potter makes appearance on ‘Glee’
>>INSIDER Rose Magazine caught up with actress Lauren Potter back in July, when she was getting some new head shots taken by photographer Kendall Roclord in his Pasadena studio. Roclord had opened up the studio to actors, like Potter, with … Continue reading
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Tagged actress, Down syndrome, entertainment, FOX, Glee, Kendall Roclord, Lauren Potter, photography
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On the lookout: Rodarte for Target
>>SHOP The Rodarte for Target line is among the most anticipated of year. By now, we’ve come to expect no less from the Mulleavy sisters — the dominating fashion duo who hail from Pasadena — especially after their coup d’tat … Continue reading
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Tagged Dakota Fanning, fashion, fashion week, Lucky Magazine, Rodarte, Rodarte for Target, shopping, Target, Teen Vogue
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‘A Cut Above’: Tuskegee Airmen will take wing at 2010 Rose Parade
>>INSIDER By Claudia S. Palma The West Covina Rose Float Association held its fifth annual Evening of Wine and Roses fundraising event with a 1940s USO theme on Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Charisma Floats warehouse in Irwindale. The warehouse … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, A Cut Above The Rest, Charisma Floats, float, Rose Parade, Tuskegee Airmen, Veterans Day, West Covina
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Missing-man formation in the skies above Pasadena
>>THINK Coincidentally, I was location scouting for a photo shoot this morning in Defenders Park next to the Colorado Street Bridge. I stopped to read the plaques on the monuments in the park, like this one below, a granite structure … Continue reading
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Tagged Condor Squadron, Defenders Park, flyover, history, missing man formation, monuments, Veterans Day
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Nightlife: The Chalet’s shift to The Black Boar is no identity crisis
>>PLAY THE PLACE: An Eagle Rock standard, The Chalet, was closed down in the summer to undergo a metamorphosis. The result was The Black Boar, a British-style pub with lots of cheap, craft beers on draft. The shift was met … Continue reading
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Tagged beer, cocktails, Eagle Rock, nightlife, review, The Black Boar, The Chalet
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Pasadena area real-estate and development roundup
>>LIVE Both halves of the Greene & Greene-designed Herkimer Arms apartment building are now in their new location at 470 N. Raymond Ave. The second, 115-ton half was moved early this morning. [Photo] The city is converting an unused alleyway, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcadia, BlockShopper, Brigham Yen, CurbedLA, El Taquito, Gold Line, Herkimer Arms, homes, Hometown Pasadena, Pasadena, real estate, San Marino, T. Boyle's Tavern
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