Ask Phyllis! Home Selling: When to Start Packing? Dear Phyllis, After two months on the market, we finally accepted an offer and started escrow. Having lived in our home for more than 10 years, we have a lot of stuff and were hoping to finish packing. But our agent advised us that it is too […]
The Lee family took the CV Weekly to Seattle over Thanksgiving. The family photo is of dad Justin Ma and mom Vanessa Lee with kids Penelope and Garrison Ma. CV Weekly loves to travel! Take us along on your next trip and send us a photo. You may find yourselves on the pages of the […]
By Ted AYALA The shadow cast over Russian Late Romantic music by the somber, larger-than-life figure of Rachmaninoff is difficult to escape. Not only for audiences –how many other Russian Late Romantics can you name besides Rachmaninoff? – but also for those Russian composers unlucky enough to be born around the same time as the […]
Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Josefina López has written a new play funded in part by a 2013 grant from The California Endowment. The play’s subject matter addresses health care and The Affordable Care Act. “A Cat Named Mercy” is a dark comedy about Catalina Rodriguez, a Latina licensed vocational nurse working at Elysian Estates […]
By Sabrina WALENTYNOWICZ Imagine a February filled with clouds, winter winds and torrential rainstorms. It might be wishful thinking these days, but back in 1978 it was reality for the Crescenta Valley. La Crescenta’s neighbors to the west in Tujunga were trying to stay dry indoors when on Feb. 9 the remains of 55 corpses […]
By Isiah REYES The Arcadia Performing Arts Foundation featured Air Supply in its inaugural season at the Arcadia Performing Arts Center on Jan. 25. The Australian soft rock duo, consisting of Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell, played popular classics such as “All Out of Love” which got the crowd buzzing. The set list included a […]
QUESTION: Christmas can be a trying time when it comes to gift giving and receiving. Of course, I remember the true meaning of Christmas; however, often I receive gifts that just aren’t anything I can use or even want. Many of my relatives who give me gifts also include a gift receipt. This year I […]
Members of the board of directors of the Italian Catholic Federation (ICF) branch at St. Bede the Venerable Roman Catholic Church in La Cañada Flintridge were installed at the annual ICF Los Angeles Archdiocese District Council installation luncheon on Jan. 19. The installation took place at Casa Italiana at St. Peter Church on Broadway in […]
LCCRS Hosts Events On Friday, Feb 7 at 7 p.m., the Center for Spiritual Living spiritual movie night features, “What the Bleep Do We Know?” The film is a radical departure from convention. It demands a freedom of view and greatness of thought so far unknown; indeed, not even dreamed of since Copernicus. It’s a […]
We Have A Fresh Rose For You! It was a crisp night in January when our Marketing Committee met at Copy Network to discuss plans for our Valentine’s Day event. That evening we were expecting a new visitor, Tara Grand of By the Bloom, with her one-of-a-kind flower truck. When we heard the sound of […]