Today, Community Health Alliance of Pasadena (ChapCare’s) Chief Executive Officer, Margaret “Margie” Martinez, will begin her prestigious Durfee Foundation Sabbatical Award. In an effort to replenish the stores of energy and inspiration for our community’s mos... More »
Pasadena resident and reality TV producer Bruce Toms has died due to natural causes at his home. He was 55. Representatives from the Beverly Hills-based talent agency William Morris Endeavor Entertainment LLC (WME) said Toms died on Christmas Day. Toms was mos... More »
Campers lined the streets, fires blazed and cotton candy vendors sold their wares. The annual tradition of camping out before the Rose Parade filled the streets with music, excitement and campfires. These passionate parade fans bring everything from air mattre... More »
William Christopher, known for his role as the sincere and unassuming Father John Mulcahy on the long-running hit TV show “M*A*S*H,” died at his home in Pasadena on Saturday at 84, according to his son and agent. John Christopher said his father died from the ... More »
The Langham Huntington, Pasadena, Southern California’s iconic landmark hotel, has announced the appointment of Morri Roberts as Director of Sales to its senior management team. Roberts brings a wealth of luxury hospitality experience to her new role at the Pa... More »
Leadership Pasadena (LP) is excited to announce Leadership Pasadena Alumni and Pasadena attorney Alan Romero has joined the LP Board of Directors. “Alan will create our Graduate Network, an initiative to keep our 200 alumni connected to LP and continue their l... More »
Legendary Craftsman arts professor and author Robert Winter, 92, was honored Wednesday evening by the Arroyo Seco Foundation with its Lifetime Achievement Award. The former Occidental College professor and Arthur G. Coons Professor of the History of Ideas, Eme... More »
Robin Salzer, owner of Robin’s Woodfire BBQ and founder of the Pasadena Hot Meal Program that provides free hot meals for low-income and homeless residents, is gearing up to celebrate having served 110,000 hot meals to hungry people in the community since th... More »
Lien Pham sometimes thinks of herself as a “spacecraft dressmaker.” She’s been making thermal blankets at Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 16 years. Just as clothing can be sewn too tight or too loose, thermal blankets — the glinting material each spacecraft is w... More »
A student from Hamilton Elementary School in Pasadena has been selected as one of the winners of the annual Southern California Metropolitan Water District Student Art Contest and was recognized at a ceremony at MWD headquarters on December 8. Matthew Vargas, ... More »
As the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining. Even when that cloud is 109,000 metric tons of methane. The Aliso Canyon leak, which began on October 23, 2015 at a SoCalGas natural gas storage facility and took nearly four months to plug, was one of the l... More »
Life can be as brutal as it is beautiful at times. La Salle football coach Russell Gordon was just wrapping up the Lancers’ team banquet last week after a record season. The Lancers won their first two league games (this season) since joining the very tough An... More »
