For the Love of Books

Feeling Bookish

Despite the advent of the digital age, where television, the Internet and social networking rule the media, books in all forms remain as popular as ever. From electronic to traditional paper and ink, books are here to stay while reading remains a skill worth practicing. And this is what World Book Night, celebrated every April ...

Keep Kids Cute

The Kindest Cuts of All: Little Kuts Adds Cute to Any Kid

Little Kuts is a hair salon especially geared towards children, providing a unique and fun experience for the children as well as their parents. Lil Kuts offers a wide range of services for a perfect kids “hair cut” experience, incorporating soft colors, a unique playroom, and various toys in effort to keep children as relaxed ...

Breakfast Specials

Strawberry Fields for the Summer: Signature Pancakes Feature Fresh California Strawberries

With strawberry season in full bloom, Coco’s Bakery Restaurant is offering up some very sweet treats. From their breakfast menu to an exquisite strawberry pie, Coco’s is serving strawberry therapy. There’s the fresh strawberry breakfast supreme: buttermilk pancakes topped with fresh strawberries and whipped topping, served with eggs, bacon, sausage and home-styled potatoes. And the ...

Heat Quencher

Cool, Cute and Fresh: Cucumber Mint Iced Tea Fusion at Bird Pick, Tea and Herb

Something sounds so refreshing; Bird Pick has brought back their delicious cucumber mint iced tea fusion, sure to quench your thirst during the summer months. Sprung from a trusted herbal shop in Chinatown, Bird Pick has spread its wings into a unique tea-house in Old Town Pasadena. Bird Pick is also a featured retailer of ...

Interior Decor

Living Room Makeovers: Local Treasure Troves of Great Finds

They have always said that the difference is in the details, whether you’re donning a new lipstick, or showing off a new hairstyle, you create a certain ambiance about yourself. That new refreshed me appeal can be captured in your most trusted living courters with some unique, yet versatile accessories and furniture. Apply a one ...

Kids Summer Program

The Langham Huntington, Pasadena Launches Summertime Programming

Beginning Memorial Day weekend, The Langham Huntington, Pasadena will offer a host of fun summertime programs and activities for guests, including a special Summer Escape Package, a poolside BBQ menu with “skinny” cocktails, and a kids program with delightful children’s amenities and cooking classes. The Langham is the perfect place to get away from it ...

The Summer Camp

Summer Kids Get A Ticket To Ride

There are summer camps, and there’s the summer camp. Tom Sawyer Camp is the summer camp. With other camps, you drop off your kids, they do fun activities, you pick them up after, then listen to them regale you with their adventures. Tom Sawyer has all those, and more. But what sets Tom Sawyer Camp ...

A Collector's Paradise

Comic Book Store Redefined

When it comes to comics, there are two types of readers: the hard-core fanatics and the casual ones. Collector’s Paradise caters to both but focuses on the casual reader. “We’re a different type of store, different from many comic book stores that you see. Most comic book stores sell a lot of older comics, older ...

Summer Camps

Not Your Usual Summer Camp

The urban jungle during summer is no place for kids. To be able to live by the ocean, however, is another matter. Catalina Island Camps is a 14-acre site just off Howlands Landing, on the west end of Catalina Island with programs and activities that will surely pique even the most introverted child’s interest. According ...

Spa Specials

The Huntington Spa Announces Spring Spa Specials

The perfect spa remedies to stimulate your senses and get your skin glowing for spring are now available at The Huntington Spa, April through June 2013. Guests will receive discounted pricing for the Watermelon Vodka-Tini spa services, including a manicure, pedicure, body scrub and massage, ideal to invigorate and nourish the skin and body. • ...

Shopping

Pasadena Ranked Among the Least Frugal Cities in U.S

Pasadena is rated among the nation’s “least frugal” cities in a national ranking of the most and least frugal American cities released by Coupon search engine provider ShopAtHome.com. Pasadena and Los Angeles County residents in general residents seem to shy away from online coupon clipping as the survey places local residents among the least frugal ...

Retail News

Runway Pasadena: Nikki West Opens Grandly with Fashion Show August 1

New women’s fashion retailer Nikki West is set to open Wednesday, August 1 in Old Pasadena’s One Colorado with a 7 p.m. plein air roped-off-VIP-and-public-can-watchit-too runway show that will see owner Nicole Winnaman’s signature fashion collection go down the catwalk in public for the first time ever. “It’s been really great. It’s very, very, very ...

Look Younger

Renowned Anti-Aging Specialist To Hold Seminar on How to Look Years Younger

Pasadena’s very own “Leonardo of Anti-Aging” Dr. Robert B. Seltzer will be holding a free seminar on keeping a youthful appearance on Wednesday, July 25, 2012, at his clinic’s building on East Green Street, Pasadena. The seminar aims to keep Pasadena residents looking youthful without having to resort to surgical processes, which are not only ...

Successful Gardening Tips

Hassle Free Horticulture: Benefits of a Raised Bed Garden

Experienced gardeners will often use raised beds to sidestep a laundry list of gardening challenges. These controlled experiments in plant parenthood are so easy, in fact, that they’re also well-suited to novices picking up a shovel for the first time. No need to worry about quality of dirt, because you will fill the raised bed ...

Eat Healthy

Garlic Sweet Potato-Fries: Healthy Alternative to French Fries

Here’s a great recipe for the grille-gods; garlic sweet-potato fries. Make the larger wedges to saddle up on the grille; comes fully equipped with two sauces to dunk them in. Ingredients Sweet Potato-Fries -2 large sweet potatoes, scrubbed clean and cut lengthwise into 1/2-inch-thich wedges -1/2 cup olive oil -1/2 cup fresh parsley -4 cloves ...