LOCAL WINE HISTORY PRESENTED BY AUTHOR BYLES Author and local resident Stuart Byles is giving a wine history presentation at the Los Angeles Public Library, Central (downtown), on Saturday, Jan. 31 at 2 p.m. at the library auditorium. This is in conjunction with the recent publication of his book, “Los Angeles Wine – a History […]
“The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against the sky of weathered tin… The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of wood smoke, of distances and passing time.” ~ James Carlos Blake, American writer of historical […]
Glendale’s Tomas Sanchez – One of L.A.’s Greatest Sheriffs I recently visited the Casa Adobe de San Rafael in Glendale, one of two local remnants of the Spanish and Mexican eras in Glendale (Catalina Verdugo Adobe is the other). The site is gorgeous, located in a residential neighborhood between downtown Glendale and the Verdugo Mountains. […]
Vast and Often Anonymous Campaign Expenditures Threaten Our Political System I remember the first time I heard the ad on the radio. I was driving down the 134 Freeway, three weeks before Election Day in 2000, and in a very competitive race for Congress against the incumbent. An angry woman’s voice came on the radio […]
Tuesday Table Talk On Tuesday, Feb. 3, Bethel Church in Sun Valley offers a showing of the film “Chasing Ice” (rated PG-13). In this documentary, time-lapse cameras are deployed to capture a record of the world’s changing glaciers, compressing years into seconds to illustrate how these ice mountains are disappearing at a breathtaking rate. […]
Jan. 22 2900 block of Community Avenue in La Crescenta, a door near the locker room in the girl’s gymnasium at the high school was vandalized with graffiti between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Jan. 21 4400 block of Rockland Place in La Cañada, a gym bag containing several items including cash was stolen from […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Between 8:45 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday morning, a person/persons broke a small window of a home in the 5300 block of Pineridge Drive and gained entrance into the residence. No one was home at the time. When the resident returned home she found her home safe had been stolen, said […]
The office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris issued an information bulletin Tuesday morning indicating the need for collaborative efforts between law enforcement and university officials regarding campus sexual assault. The bulletin comes after the passage of two campus sexual assault bills in the last year, AB 1433 and SB 967, which dictate how campuses […]
By Jason KUROSU After working with the Downtown Glendale Association on its website, Sedna Solutions and the Downtown Glendale Association have renewed their partnership with the creation of a free, online directory app which encompasses all that Downtown Glendale has to offer. The Downtown Glendale app allows users to see what’s available amongst a variety […]
The Crescenta Valley Water District (CVWD) has been a public Special Water District since the mid 1950s; however, the name does not describe all that CVWD does. Since the late 1970s, CVWD has been operating and maintaining a sewage collection system in La Crescenta, Montrose and adjacent parts of the City of Glendale and the […]