NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated on March 22, 2010. A transmission that will end on Wednesday, May 25, will be the last in a series of attempts. Extensive communications activities during the past 10 months also have explored the possibility that Spirit might reawaken as the solar energy available to it increased a... More »
Following the success of the recent menu relaunches at Sushi Roku’s 3rd Street and Santa Monica restaurant locations, Innovative Dining Group (IDG) unveils a new menu at Sushi Roku Pasadena showcasing inventive new signature dishes. Set to debut later this month, guests will find new additions to the lunch and dinner menus, and a brand new happy hour menu. Highlights include Tuna Tartare served ... More »
The number of students who left high school without a diploma in the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) has dropped by more than 50 percent since 2007-08, according to data that the district recently submitted to the California Department of Education. PUSD’s dropout rate declined sharply from 24.5 percent in 2007-08 to 11.7 percent in 2009-10, the most recent data available. Although the pre... More »
General Finance Corporation (NASDAQ:GFN)  (NASDAQ:GFNCL)  (NASDAQ:GFNCZ)  (“General Financeâ€), headquartered at East Union Street in Pasadena, today announced that its subsidiary Royal Wolf Holdings Limited (“Royal Wolfâ€) lodged a prospectus with the Australian Securities Investment Commission (“ASICâ€) on May 13, 2011 for an initial public offering by Royal Wolf of its ordinary shar... More »
Jet Propulsion Laboratories’ NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and a European Southern Observatory ground- based telescope have tracked the growth of a giant early-spring storm in Saturn’s northern hemisphere that is so powerful it stretches around the entire planet. The rare storm has been wreaking havoc for months and shooting plumes of gas high into the planet’s atmosphere. Cassini’s radio and plasma w... More »
When the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami struck off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, they caused widespread destruction and death. Using observations from a dense regional geodetic network (allowing measurements of earth movement to be gathered from GPS satellite data), globally distributed broadband seismographic networks, and open-ocean tsunami data, researcher... More »
A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds. The survey used data from NASA’s space-based Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Anglo-Australian Telescope on Siding Spring Mountain in Australia. The findings offer new support for the... More »
Much has been said about the smiling countenance of the new Mazdas so I will keep my comments short: I really don’t mind it. It’s fun to see people’s reactions to that maniacal grinning face in their rear view mirror. All grinning aside the 2011 Mazda3, 5-door Grand Touring was a great ride. My test car was equipped with a manual 6-speed transmission, which if you don’t do manual but want to, is o... More »
 Co-owners Hagop Giragossian and Shivie Dhillon With a name like Kings Row one would expect to be served tea and scones, not biscuits and gravy or chicken and waffles but as co-owner Shivie Dhillon pointed out Brunch does cover breakfast and lunch so it needs to be rib-sticking. We started our brunch with white sangria for me and a mimosa for my companion because brunch is just not brunch withou... More »
Two men were taken into custody by the Pasadena Police after committing a series of robberies from Beverly Hills to Arcadia. On April 25, 2011, between 11:30Â a.m. and 12:39 p.m., three armed robberies and one attempted robbery occurred in Pasadena involving two males armed with a handgun and driving a gray GMC Yukon. Approximately five minutes after the last robbery, police officers and police he... More »
