An orderly rally on the steps of Pasadena City Hall Tuesday evening saw speaker after speaker decry the shooting of Kendrec McDade by Pasadena police and demand justice before a sign-waving crowd of about 150. Police stood nearby. McDade’s father, Kenneth Mc... More »
The Pasadena area is in for a wet, wet week as the National Weather Service issued a Special Weather Statement saying two storms will hit. First rain started to fall late Tuesday night and continues throughout Wednesday. According to the report, the first stor... More »
On Saturday, March 10, 2012, the City of Pasadena will be hosting the 6th Annual Pasadena Triathlon from 7:45 a.m. to noon. The event will utilize the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center, Brookside Park and the Rose Bowl Loop. The following street closures near the Rose ... More »
Pasadena City College is jazzed to announce that Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band will be playing with PCC’s own Lancer Jazz Big Band and the Studio Jazz Ensemble on April 13, starting at 7:30 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium. Populated by some of the Los Angeles area’... More »
The device ‘swooshing’ into a satellite is the vacuum tube, one of the main components of an atomic clock that will undergo a technology flight demonstration. When people think of space technologies, many think of high-tech solar panels, complex and powerful p... More »
From left to right, artist’s concepts of the Spitzer, Planck and Kepler space telescopes. NASA extended Spitzer and Kepler for two additional years; and the U.S. portion of Planck, a European Space Agency mission, for one year. The relative sizes of the artist... More »
In what may be the first of many actions by national civil rights organizations, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has backed local branch leader Joe Brown in a letter demanding Pasadena police answer questions about the fa... More »
The second-largest mass extinction in Earth’s history coincided with a short but intense ice age during which enormous glaciers grew and sea levels dropped. Although it has long been agreed that the so-called Late Ordovician mass extinction—which occurred ab... More »
This is an animation of ocean surface currents from June 2005 to December 2007 from NASA satellites. Watch how bigger currents like the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean and the Kuroshio in the Pacific carry warm waters across thousands of miles at speeds grea... More »
Rain and mountain snow is expected throughout the balance of the week with a second storm spreading rain and mountain snow across the area Thursday and Friday, the National Weather Service said in a Hazardous Weather Outlook statement issued Monday. Tuesday wi... More »
If on a summer’s night you look low in the southern sky, you will see the constellation Sagittarius, a centaur pulling back a bow and arrow. But to many, it looks more like a teapot, and if you look toward its spout, you will be staring straight into the cente... More »
The president of a major local civil rights group said the fact that no one representing the Pasadena police attended Saturday’s funeral service for Kendrec McDade was “a total slap in the face†to the family and the community. McDade was shot to death on ... More »
