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Pasadena Playhouse Alumni, Associates Announce 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee

  The Pasadena Playhouse Alumni & Associates proudly announces it will hold its 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee on Sunday, June 9, 2013. The luncheon event will take place at the University Club Pasadena starting at 11:00 a.m. The world-renowned Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts trained many talented actors, writers, producers and directors who went ...

Randy Ertll Resigns at El Centro

Randy Ertll has resigned as Executive Director of El Centro de Accion Social, he said in an email today. “After serving for more than eight years as the Executive Director at El Centro de Accion Social, I write to inform you that I will no longer be with El Centro,” he wrote. “I am leaving ...

Pasadena Attorney Named to Superior Court Judgeship

Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed Pasadena resident Julie Fox Blackshaw to become a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge. Blackshaw, 59, has been has been deputy counsel to the mayor of Los Angeles since 2010. She was also a federal court special master from 2002 to 2010 and deputy general counsel to the Rampart Independent ...

Matt Denny’s Ale House Restaurant Presents The 11th Annual “Bob Mac” Classic Golf Tournament

Matt Denny’s Ale House is putting together their 11th Annual “Bob Mac” Classic Golf Tournament supporting the American Red Cross Arcadia Chapter and the Foothill Unity Center on Monday, June 3rd, 2013. The tournament will be played at San Dimas Canyon Golf Course. Tee time is a 7:00 a.m. and shot gun start. The price ...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to be at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to See a Prototype Ion Thruster

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Thursday will be at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena to see a prototype ion thruster being tested for NASA’s mission to capture and relocate an asteroid, it was announced today. JPL and NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland are developing the ion thruster jointly. The administrator, mission engineers ...

Wells Fargo to Sponsor 50th Annual “An Evening with Star Chefs”

On Saturday June 22 from 5-9pm at Pasadena City Hall, Rosemary Children’s Services will present “An Evening with Star Chefs,” an event founded by the famous chef and television personality Julia Child in 1963. Now, in its 50th year, as Pasadena’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious culinary benefit “Star Chefs” attracts more than 700 socially-minded ...

John Kennedy Sworn in as District 3 Councilmember

In a reception and ceremony that spanned 3 hours and brought together a diverse crowd of over 250, District 3 City Councilmember John J. Kennedy was sworn into office by Congresswoman Judy Chu Sunday evening at Pasadena’s Central Library one block from City Hall. Kennedy said his swearing in ceremony was the perfect opportunity to ...

Elton John, Carson Daly and the Rock Band “No Doubt” Step Up for Foster Soles

Dr. Drew Pinsky, host of the nationally syndicated radio show “Loveline,” along with his wife, Susan Pinsky, kicked off the Fifth Annual Hillsides Foster Soles, an online auction of celebrity autographed shoes, accessories, and other personal items along with their signed headshots at a launching party held at Bar Celona on Wednesday. Several other celebrities ...

Mackenzie Phillips Speaks

Living the Hollywood dream is what many aspire to live, however, not everyone knows the nightmare behind it. On Wednesday June 5, 11:30 am at the Pasadena Recovery Center, actress Mackenzie Phillips will talk about her own struggles with addiction and how she was able to survive. Known for her roles in American Graffiti and ...

The Langham Huntington, Pasadena Promotes Two Members within its Sales Team

The Langham Huntington, Pasadena is pleased to announce the promotion of Ms. Kathy Winterrowd to Travel Industry Sales Manager and Ms. Angel Romero to Catering Sales Manager. Both have excelled in their former roles within the hotel’s sales team and look forward to equally excelling in their new positions. Kathy Winterrowd has been with The ...

Librettist/Director Peter Sellars at All Saints Church

UCLA professor and world-renowned librettist/director Peter Sellars will be in the All Saints Church Rector’s Forum on Sunday, May 26, at 10:15 a.m., to speak about his recent experience in and around the world premiere of John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary with Gustavo Dudamel and Grant Gershon, the Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

San Gabriel Valley Chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives Hosts Scholarship Winners

On May 11, 2013 the San Gabriel Valley Chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives in conjunction with the United Fire Fighters of Southern California held their second annual scholarship breakfast at the Brookside Clubhouse in Pasadena. Over 120 people attended the event. Financial scholarships were awarded to seven graduating high school ...

Pasadena Chef Claud Beltran Named to “Best Chefs America”

Pasadena Chef Claud Beltran, Executive Chef/Owner of Noir Food & Wine, has been honored as one of the country’s top culinary talent as seen in the inaugural edition of Best Chefs America. This exquisite 386-page coffee table book is the first-ever peer review guide of U.S. chefs, who were chosen after extensive interviews between fellow chefs ...

Master Chocolatier Turns Her Attention to Teaching Kids

It is alluring…It satisfies something deep within us and has a melting point equal to our body temperature. In history, its delights have been reserved only for Royalty, yet today we have it at our fingertips to indulge in it’s silkiness and richness in everything from Cookies, Cakes and even a decadent Soufflé….yes of course ...