Brandon Rodriguez, a Staff Member at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Chosen as Lead Science Communication Fellow for Ocean Exploration Trust’s 2024 Expedition Brandon Rodriguez, a staff member at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, has ... More »
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger will honor Rlene Mijares de Lang, co-owner and executive officer of Pasadena’s renowned Mijares Mexican Restaurant, as the Fifth District Woman of the Year at the upcoming Board of Supervisors meeting. The recogniti... More »
Retired softball head coach Sandi Iverson, a member of the Pasadena City College Sports Hall of Fame, passed away on Monday due to complications from cancer. Iverson had a magnificent 27-year career as Lancers softball coach (1979-2006), winning six conference... More »
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved a motion aiming to bestow Los Angeles County Historical Landmark status upon the gravesite of renowned abolitionist Owen Brown. Situated atop a hill at the northern terminus of El Prieto Road... More »
Paul Sternberg, the Bren Professor of Biology, has received the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal from The Genetics Society of America (GSA). The award, given for lifetime contributions to the field of genetics, is named after Nobel Laureate Thomas Hunt Morgan, who fou... More »
Few local landmarks—and there are many—ring as many cultural bells as The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, nestled just south of San Marino’s border with Pasadena. The world-class facility boasts some of the world’s most well-known and re... More »
Dr. Lisa Genova is not your typical scientist. She is also a novelist, a speaker, and a movie producer. She has a rare talent for making complex medical topics accessible and engaging for a wide audience. On Wednesday, Feb. 21, she will share her insights and ... More »
A special event commemorating Black History Month will be held at the Pasadena Senior Center on Cultural Thursday, Feb. 22, featuring TV director and actress Karen Bankhead, starting at 2 p.m. The event, co-presented by Annie Laskey, Director of Events at the ... More »
Mary Jeannette Falkingham, a well-known local floral designer and owner of Mary Falkingham Floral Designs, passed away unexpectedly on January 30, 2024. She was 79. Her passing was announced on Facebook and by the Altadena Chamber of Commerce. Falkingham’s Alt... More »
Maya Chupkov, a Burbank native and the innovative mind behind the Proud Stutter podcast, is making waves with her latest endeavor — a comic book dedicated to shedding light on the stuttering experience. Chupkov, alongside Proud Stutter’s board member Julian B... More »
Adam Wierman, professor of computing and mathematical sciences and director of information science and technology, has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). “Many of these new 52 Distinguished Members have been sel... More »
One of Pasadena’s longest-serving and most-beloved journalists has completed and published a true-crime murder mystery that was 15 years in the making. The book “Death in the House of Broken Hearts” (available on Amazon) was a passion project for Kevin Uhrich,... More »
