By Charly SHELTON The Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts is now open and delighting guests with beautifully redesigned rooms across three levels of the house – the chic yet comfortable bedrooms and bathrooms upstairs, the grand and elegant entrance and dining hall downstairs, and the sunken patio and swimming pool area, with landscape redesign […]
“Music soothes the savage beast,” so the old adage goes. But can music that thrashes about like a savage beast be soothed? The premiere of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” became a watershed moment in musical modernism, not least for the unprecedented complexity and ferocity of its rhythms, aspects highlighted by the composer’s brilliant and […]
By Steve ZALL and Sid FISH Here’s what’s happening this month on the Southern California theatre scene: OPENING “The Gary Plays” chronicles the odyssey of unemployed actor Gary Bean, Mednick’s everyman/anti-hero who has been hailed by KCRW as “a sort of L.A. Leopold Bloom.” Audiences can choose to follow Gary’s journey over the course […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE Local pianophiles will want to keep their this Sunday. The reason: Local pianist David Rubinstein will be performing a recital of music by Beethoven, Chopin, Albéniz, Ravel, as well as his own works that afternoon. The Bronx native, who was born into a musical family, studied with George Kochevitsky, a noted Russian […]
The Assistance League of Glendale had a garden party tea and fashion show of their Thrift Alley fashions in March at their clubhouse at 314 Harvard in Glendale. President Mary Lo Follett introduced the chair (or tea hostess) Sue McGrew who, with her committee, presented a fabulous assortment of tea sandwiches, scones and wonderfully tiny […]
Mark Hafeman, a local artist, was awarded a Social Business Icon Award at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. He is pictured here with another award winner, Paula Abdul. Mark does plein air and landscape paintings and founded the group TULARIVA – Tuesday Los Angeles River Art – a group of artists that paints many of the […]
The La Crescenta Woman’s Club was pleased to receive a “big” check of $3280.50 for its participation in the Montrose Shopping Park’s first Wine Walk. It was such a big success that the merchants want to host another this fall. It was very kind of the merchants to choose the Club’s faithful ladies to work […]
On April 29, the Moose Lodge, which meets at the American Legion Hall at 4011 La Crescenta Ave., hosted a Spring Fling Dance. Members enjoyed a dinner of prime rib roast beef dip sandwiches, potato salad, pickles and dessert. After dinner they danced to the Generation Gap Band. The next event is the Cinco de […]
Wheaton College student Meghan Lacey of La Cañada Flintridge performed in “Confessions,” the annual spring dance show presented by Zoe’s Feet Dance Ministry. Zoe’s Feet is a Wheaton College ministry for dancers to use dance as worship and to the use their gifts to minister to others through dance. Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.) is a […]
Brandon HENSLEY Kenny Aceves provided the heroics for the Village Christian baseball team on Tuesday at Tujunga Little League Field, as the Crusaders walked off with a 2-1 win over Whittier. The victory, coupled with Maranatha’s loss, puts Village (18-4, 8-1 in league) in the driver’s seat for an Olympic League championship with less than […]