Pasadena Restaurant Week returns Sunday, April 26 through Saturday, May 2, 2020. Given everyone is closed to dine-in guests, it is being redubbed as Pasadena Restaurant Week-With A Twist-Take Out Edition Pasadena’s restaurant community opens its doors to guests from throughout Southern California for the eighth Pasadena Restaurant Week. The Pasadena Chamber and the Pasadena Restaurant Association ... More »
Did You Know (The political process) Election time is here and we are looking at a changing of the guard in Pasadena. We will have a new Mayor and a new representative for District 1. With numerous forums candidate’s constant response was: when will I have time for another forum? The Pasadena Community Coalition took note of this fact and on February 13, 2015 posed the following questions to the... More »
[UPDATED] On behalf of the Redistricting Commission of the Pasadena Unified School District (“PUSD”), we, Co-Chairs of the Commission, are submitting the following for consideration by the County Committee on School District Organization. The PUSD Trustee area map you have before you is the result of careful deliberations by a citizen task force informed by public input received at four public for... More »
A community coalition’s public meeting Saturday heard a number of concerns voiced about the city’s handling of the Robinson Park Recreation Center renovation project even as the City Council prepared for an important Monday night vote on the project. Forty community members attended the public meeting discussing Robinson Park Phase II hosted by the Pasadena Community Coalition. The city’s Robins... More »
The Pasadena Community Police Oversight Commission will meet on Thursday to discuss community-police mediation models and a recommendation from the Policy Ad Hoc Committee that the Commission ask the Chief of Police to make a revision to the Department’s firearms policy. The Commission’s meeting will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Pasadena City Hall, located at 100 North Garfield Av... More »
The national reckoning with racism, white supremacy, and policing that consumed the nation after May 2020, was supposed to bring about change in Pasadena. In October 2020, city leaders promised the community that it would address these persistent issues by creating the Community Police Oversight Commission, a civilian committee for redressing concerns of abuse and misconduct by the Pasadena Police... More »
This past year, a new two-story building took shape in the northeast corner of the Caltech campus. Though modest in design, what takes place inside the structure could transform the future of computing. The building is the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, the result of a partnership between Caltech and Amazon Web Services, the cloud-computing branch of Amazon. The goal of the collaboration is to ... More »
Here is the full text of Mayor Victor Gordo’s 2025 State of the City speech, delivered Wednesday night at the Pasadena Elks Lodge. Resilient Pasadena: Rebuilding Our Community’s Future Welcome Welcome, and thank you for being here tonight. I want to acknowledge Vice Mayor Jess Rivas, my City Council colleagues, and our City employees who work hard each day on behalf of Pasadena. Thank you to my wi... More »
NASA’s NEOWISE mission captured images of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring, which is slated to make a close pass by Mars on Oct. 19, 2014. The infrared pictures reveal a comet that is active and very dusty even though it was about 355 million miles (571 million kilometers) away from the sun on Jan. 16, 2014, when this picture was taken. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This spring, JPL will be paying... More »
As local churches respect the city’s “Safer at Home” order, online services will connect with their faithful. Here is Pasadena Now’s guide to 36 online services today. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church Live streaming on Facebook Easter Worship 10:00 AM Link goes live 5 mins. before service http://facebook.com/abvmparishpasadena/live 2640 E. Orange Grove Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107 (626) 79... More »
