By Charly SHELTON From 1950 to 2000, the Peanuts comic strip ran serialized in newspapers across the world. It spawned more than a dozen movies, TV shows and, most memorably, holiday specials that are still played annually. The Peanuts characters are featured in Cedar Fair parks across the country with kiddie lands, character meet-and-greets, rides […]
BY STEVE ZALL AND SID FISH February 2020 “The Father” stars Alfred Molina in a tour-de-force role in perhaps one of the most awarded plays of recent times on two continents. André was once a tap dancer. He lives with his daughter, Anne, and her husband, Antoine. Or was André an engineer, whose […]
Bringing Business to Your Door in 2020 Now that the holidays are behind us it’s time to concentrate on the “little things” that make a difference between a business with mediocre sales and one making a “real splash.” For the month of February let’s start considering a few changes to the way you operate. The […]
2020 Brings a Renewed Perspective for the MVCC! Introducing the president of the Montrose~Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce Raffi Ashdjian, a multi-tasker who is multi-talented. He’s a busy man with his day job at the Glendale Area Schools Credit Union and realtor with Archetype Realty but, most importantly, is a wonderful husband and father. Raffi […]
PACIFIC CAMELLIA SOCIETY MEETING The next meeting of Pacific Camellia Society is today, Thursday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Birch Room at Descanso Gardens. Dr. Bradford King will be giving a PowerPoint presentation on camellia culture. Dr. King is president of the American Camellia Society, and the editor of the internationally acclaimed publication […]
Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Jerico Gonzales from Glendale poses for a photo after being promoted to second class petty officer at Naval Support Activity West Hampton Roads. Gonzales is a 2013 Hoover High School graduate and has been serving in the Navy for six years. Gonzales is following in his father’s footsteps who served in […]
The Lanterman House will sponsor an author talk by Lyra Kilston on Saturday, Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. at the La Cañada Flintridge Library. The talk, titled “Built for Health,” will explore how early 20th Century ideas about health impacted the evolution of architecture in sun-drenched California. Kilston’s talk will describe how sunlight was considered […]
Corey Loevinger and Sophie Champ, both from La Cañada Flintridge, earned a place on the dean’s list at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) in fall 2019. This status is granted to students who earned a scholastic average of 3.6 or better while carrying at least 12 hours of regularly graded courses. For more than 150 years, […]
By Michael LEVITSKY Coming off a three-point victory against Muir High School on Friday, Shawn Zargarian’s boys went into their final road game of the season hoping to get one step closer to that elusive Pacific League title. A 20-point victory against Tuesday’s opponents, the Hoover Tornadoes, surely helped. The last time these two […]
Crazed Murderer Captured in Turn-of-the-Century CV, Part 2 Last week we covered the story of Harry Clark, a handsome and charming young man. But he was also a man who was wildly impulsive, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and stole to support those habits. He had murdered a Chinese laundryman for a few dollars just […]