The Pasadena Tournament of Roses, in collaboration with Pasadena City College, welcomed nearly 500 high school and college students from across the San Gabriel Valley and Los Angeles to the fourth annual #ThisGen2024: A Youth Empowerment Forum on Wednesday. The event, designed to empower the next generation of leaders, featured an impressive lineup of panelists from influential sports, entertainme... More »
The Playhouse Party, Pasadena Playhouse’s second annual benefit event exceeded all expectations by raising over $675,000 on Saturday, April 13, in a remarkable display of support for the iconic theater institution. Co-chaired by Elizabeth Hall, Y-Vonne Hutchinson, Anita Lawler, and Leigh Olivar, the event brought together more than 300 guests for an evening filled with entertainment, philanthropy... More »
Hop Hopkins, the director of organizational transformation for the Sierra Club, is set to deliver an inspirational message about the environmental justice movement at the upcoming Environmental Justice for All event in Altadena, California, on Saturday, April 20. The event, organized by the Altadena-based Soul Force Project in collaboration with the Pasadena Chapter of the United Nations Associati... More »
Democrats completely dominate California’s state government, and one aspect of that hegemony is their ability to act without compunction. When doing whatever they want to do, Democratic officeholders don’t have to worry about competition from the state’s shriveled-up Republican Party nor, for the most part, criticism from equally shrunken political media. Thus, the Capitol has become an echo chamb... More »
Pasadena will experience a cooling trend Friday as strong onshore flow brings extensive low clouds and fog, according to the National Weather Service. A deep marine layer will struggle to clear throughout the day, with only partial afternoon clearing expected. The marine layer is expected to slowly shrink into Saturday. A warming trend is forecast for the weekend. Sunday is likely to be the warmes... More »
Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo likes to often refer to Pasadena as “the center of the universe” in his public addresses. On Thursday that universe included France. Pasadena’s Alliance Francaise, part of the Federation of Alliances Françaises USA, celebrated its 100th year in Pasadena on Wednesday at the Pasadena Hotel and Pool, with French champagne and a French chanteuse cooing French love songs. G... More »
Pasadena-based HEAR Center has received a $25,000 grant from the S. Mark Taper Foundation through a partnership that’s poised to significantly enhance accessibility to crucial hearing and speech screening programs across Los Angeles County. As HEAR Center continues to evolve and adapt to the changing needs of the community, the grant represents a critical step towards realizing its vision of a fut... More »
It’s that time of year again when Pasadena Unified School District is transformed by musical mania. PUSD students are staging a lineup of Broadway hits that would make even the most jaded New Yorker nod appreciatively Rehearsals, dance numbers, set building, and costume creations are well underway for several Broadway musical productions running now through mid-May at every middle and high school ... More »
Every year on this day Armenians the world over honor the memory of our 1.5 million martyrs of the Armenian Genocide. But we also know that the Genocide is not over. It continues silently, relentlessly, insidiously. The scars are not healed. The wounds are still festering, and the suffering is real. Today, the trauma, the pain continues. We are still haunted by the emptiness that comes from losin... More »
Since 1998, the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans have been awarded to immigrants and children of immigrants for their graduate studies in the United States. This year, the fellowship was awarded to 30 graduate students, including Abigail Jiang, who graduated from Caltech in 2023 with a double major in materials science and history, and is now studying applied physics at Harvard; an... More »
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