By Brandon HENSLEY The graduation ceremony at Clark Magnet High on Thursday went off almost without a hitch, if you don’t count the young man who was escorted from the pavilion area after he committed the cardinal sin of using an air horn during the conferment of diplomas. First-year principal Lena Kortoshian, who replaced Doug […]
By Charly SHELTON The Guardians are trapped! The Collector has captured them and they are on display in his museum. Rocket Raccoon has escaped but he needs our help to get past the scanners and free the rest of his team by disabling the gravity generators on the museum ship. And, of course, being that […]
By Néstor CASTIGLIONE After a wide-ranging season that saw the chamber group exploring works from Beethoven to Weill, with a sojourn to the New England school along the way, the Salastina Society closes its season with a program of music devoted to the music of Los Angeles-born composers. The Saturday, June 10 program will consist […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The 34th Annual Montrose Arts and Crafts Festival filled the shopping park last weekend with booths of food, handmade crafts and clothing. This year, as most years, the temperatures were high but not too bad so spending a few minutes in the shade gave visitors enough energy to keep on shopping. There […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE Harry Zavos, professor emeritus at Loyola Law School and a regular presence at city hall, died on May 25 in San Diego from a terminal illness. He was 84 years old. Zavos was among the most prominent activists at city hall – which sometimes earned him the scorn of city council. Former […]
By Néstor CASTIGLIONE The popular image of Mozart is that of the precocious boy genius who composed astoundingly mature and original music at an age that most other children are barely learning to cope with basic arithmetic. The truth is a little more complicated than that. Mozart was no doubt a wunderkind: gifted with a […]
Do You Have a FOMO? It seems apparent that just about everyone today has a FOMO. It’s evident to me by the constant peering by folks – both young and old – at the little hand-held screens of their cellphones. And it doesn’t matter where they are or who they’re with; curiosity of what else […]
“Life is like Mother Nature, unpredictable. There are cloudy days and there are sunny days but you have the power to decide the weather of your life.” ~ Artyom Gross The first days of June arrived last weekend without the predicted fog and dismal gloom. These typical conditions had been forecast by the NWS; I […]
By Mary O’KEEFE With all the talk about American patriotism and immigrants there is one man in La Crescenta who has never, ever taken his path to citizenship for granted – Vito Cannella. Cannella immigrated from Italy in 1953 and in 1958 he opened Vito’s Barber Shop in Montrose. Cannella also served as the postmaster […]
By Charly SHELTON The ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System has been stricken from the federal budget for the coming 2018 fiscal year. Despite a request for $16.1 million annually for maintenance and operations reaching the White House in December of last year, the budget has come back without funding for the system, leaving the nearly […]