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National Small Business Week   Every year since 1963, the President of the United States has issued a proclamation announcing National Small Business Week, which recognizes the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners. More than half of Americans either own or work for a small business, and they create about two out […]

Keeping Alive the Sweet Music of the St. Luke’s Chimes

By Charly SHELTON In 1926, a La Crescenta couple donated a set of Deagan Company chimes to St. Luke’s of the Mountains church in honor of their son, Emory Watchorn. Emory was a WWI pilot who flew large, three-engine Caproni bombers from Italy to Austria on bombing raids. His path took him over the Alps […]

Notes & Nods

Metaphysical ad Artisan Faire Quality Artisans, Unique Products Nestled in the upscale community of La Crescenta on Dunsmore Avenue in the county of Los Angeles, holistic teachers, healers, Artisan presenters and unique products will be combined in one event. Faire producers are currently accepting holistic teachers, healing practitioners, artisans, and those selling unique products. The […]

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‘MAN MADE’ COMING TO BRAND LIBRARY Brand Library & Art Center presents Man Made, an exhibition that explores the urban ecology of our built environment through the distinctive artwork of seven women: Jacqueline Bell Johnson, Anita Bunn, Chelsea Dean, Jennifer Gunlock, Jenene Nagy, Michelle Robinson and Sinziana Velicescu. Each artist, through her own unique practice, […]

‘Guardians of The Galaxy 2’ Brings the Fun

‘Guardians of The Galaxy 2’ Brings the Fun

By Susan JAMES One thing that has kept so many marvelous Marvel sagas spinning in the air is their makers’ recognition that behind all the explosions, superpowers and angst-ridden apocalyptic adventures, what is real is the way in which the characters relate to each other. Family and the definition of family have been major themes […]

Alex Film Society Celebrates Bogie And Bacall In ‘The Big Sleep’

By Susan JAMES “They don’t make them like they used to” is the lament of every film lover of Hollywood’s Golden Age. In a time before CGI and the glorification of endless comic book bacchanalias, when the censor ruled supreme and box office gold depended on sharp dialogue and charismatic actors, audiences could revel in […]

The Many Stories of Showcase House

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 […]

Symphony of a Great City » nestor CASTIGLIONE

“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 […]

Scene In L.A. May

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 […]