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Monthly Archives: December 2009
A magazine built for you … out of flowers
>>PARADE So we had this crazy notion to reproduce a digitally-designed Rose Magazine page using flowers and organic material — just the way the real float builders do, in large-scale, every year. It seemed like a tangible way of translating … Continue reading
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Tagged A Cut Above The Rest, design, float, flowers, guide, Ohio State, Oregon, Pasadena, project, Rose Magazine, Rose Parade, Sully Sullenberger
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Rose Magazine special parade issue available now
>>INSIDER Rose Magazine’s winter issue is now available around town. In addition to our regular feature stories and departments, you’ll find inside the ultimate guide to the Rose Parade, Rose Bowl and beyond. We also cover the best of local … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, culture, dining, official guide, Pasadena, Rose Bowl, Rose Magazine, Rose Parade, shopping
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Got a question about the Rose Parade? Send a text and get an answer
>>INSIDER Folks with questions about anything related to the Rose Parade and associated events can get answers via text message, Tournament of Roses officials announced today. To submit questions, text the word “Roses” followed by a question to 95495. A … Continue reading
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Tagged information, Pasadena, questions, Rose Bowl, Rose Parade, technology, text, Tournament of Roses
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Pasadena area real-estate and development roundup
>>LIVE We’re playing catch-up around here, since we were working around the clock to get our winter edition of the Rose Magazine to press. Here’s what’s been happening recently on the Pasadena real-estate scene: Private, all-girls Westridge School is expanding … Continue reading
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Tagged BlockShopper, Brigham Yen, CurbedLA, energy, Gold Line, Home, houses, KPCC, Lake Avenue, LEED, real estate, solar power, Westgate, Westridge School
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Where are they now? — Rose Queens edition
>>PARADE From this weekend’s CityBeats column in the Star-News: “Upscale stores often pride themselves on giving customers the royal treatment. Maybe the Nordstrom store at Westfield Santa Anita in Arcadia comes closest — the 1960 Rose Queen, Margarethe Bertelson (Knoblock) … Continue reading
Hope floats on the Rose Parade route
>>INSIDER Three Rose Parade float sponsors have traditionally invited either patients, survivors or their families to be guests of honor as float riders. Donate Life’s float riders are either organ transplant recipients or families of organ donors; the float also … Continue reading
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Tagged City of Hope, Donate Life, donors, Duarte, float, Kaiser Permanente, Rose Parade, survivors
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UPDATED: Public art in Pasadena: Evaluate or eviscerate?
>>THINK **UPDATE: Janette Williams will revisit this issue with a story in the Sunday Star-News. Apparently, the Chase Bank is still remodeling its lobby, and there may be no room for the 50-foot Millard Sheets mural. The city is working … Continue reading
Snowboarding bulldogs: Slopes not just for bunnies anymore
>>PLAY Cute overload: Queen Natalie and the Rose Princesses got to visit with the Natural Balance snowboarding dogs. These furry little guys — and one gal, named Rose — will be snowboarding down a slope on the pet-food company’s Rose … Continue reading
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Tagged bulldogs, Natural Balance, Rose Court, Rose Parade, Rose Queen, snowboarding, too cute for words
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Civil War: To the victor go the Roses
>>PLAY “Oregon and Oregon State have come a long way since, uh, competing in a game in 1983 that was so artless it came to be known as the Toilet Bowl.” So the lede goes in a USA TODAY story … Continue reading
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Tagged Beavers, Civil War, Ducks, face-off, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac-10, Rose Bowl, USA TODAY
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Historic Cravens Estate will be the 2010 Pasadena Showcase House of Design
>>INSIDER The Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts organization announces today that its 2010 design transformation will take place at the historic Cravens Estate on what was once Pasadena’s Millionaire’s Row. [Slide show below] The nearly 20,000-square-foot estate, built in … Continue reading