Ask Phyllis! How to Avoid the Tax Man Dear Phyllis, I enjoy your weekly real estate advice. My wife and I have owned our La Crescenta home for more than 25 years and our mortgage is nearly paid off. We are quite proud of our nest egg and hope to retire in the next couple […]
By Ted AYALA Last weekend’s California Philharmonic concerts contained the usual frothy mix of film scores, musicals, and classical warhorses. But the inclusion of John Corigliano’s 1997 “Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra” proved to be a surprising deviation from the orchestra’s well-trodden path of accessible music and into the realm of musical idioms that […]
Here is the paper for Thursday, August 14, 2014. Check back every Friday to get your copy on your computer, Smartphone, eReader or tablet to take with you on-the-go! If it works or doesn’t work on your device, let us know and we can make a note of it to improve the experience, or if […]
Photos by Dan HOLM By Mary O’KEEFE he film industry lost three innovators and icons this week, a comedian and actor who first came on screen as an alien that captured our hearts, an actress who defined sultry and taught us all “how to whistle” and the man who blew up the Death Star […]
By Charly SHELTON On Sunday, the Hollywood Arts Council held its annual event, the Children’s Festival of the Arts. This yearly festival is held at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood as a free event to get children interested and involved in the arts. Exhibitors from L.A. Zoo, L.A. Metro, Kind Snacks and more came out to […]
It’s Time to Start Cracking Crab! Being from the Chesapeake Bay area I was practically born with a mallet in hand and blue crab in mouth. Back east we would spread our table with newspaper, the Baltimore Sun mind you, and have at it. Now we have a similar, but all together different, version of […]
Run when you can. Walk if you have to. Crawl if you must. Just never give up. ~ Dean Karnazes The Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce invites you to the annual Running the Foothills 5K Run-Walk and Kids Fun Run. Like the Nike slogan says, “Just Do It.” Join hundreds of other runners for this […]
Oktoberfest 2014 The 37th Annual Oktoberfest is around the corner and the countdown has begun! Please join us from noon on Saturday, Oct. 4 to help us kick off the Oktoberfest celebration! We expanded the event last year and it was a great success. The event will once again extend from Montrose Pet Hospital at […]
Jess Penner, a local artist from Sunland, celebrated the release of her brand-new CD “Building Heaven” (available on iTunes) at Crescenta Valley Church’s annual Summer Nights concert in La Crescenta on Sunday night. A full house of over 200 fans was treated to an opening set of summer favorites like Pharell Williams’ “Happy” and other […]
On Sunday, Aug. 17 at noon, Glendale Mayor Zareh Sinanyan will join Rabbi Rick Schechter, Cantor Steve Hummel, and other community leaders at Temple Sinai of Glendale as the shofar is blown during the “Check in at Sinai” celebration signaling the start of Jewish New Year preparations. The shofar, a wind instrument dating back to […]