“Mule train: clippetty-clopping along the mountain chain. Seems as though they’re gonna reach the top. Mule train: clippetty-clopping through the wind and rain. … Get along mule, get along.” ~ “Mule Train” by Frankie Laine, 1949 Sung by Gene Autry in the movie “Mule Train,” 1950 “100 Mules Walking the L.A. Aqueduct” arrived just in […]
Toasting Jan In the late ’50s my mother was engaged to a man named Jerry Leadingham. Through Jerry, Mom met Jan Leadingham who was married to Jerry’s brother Jack. Jerry and Mom didn’t work out (the engagement ended by mutual agreement) and Mom went on to marry my dad Ron. But that didn’t end her […]
July 11, 1931 – Sept. 22, 2013 A memorial service for long-time Tujunga resident William Edward “Bill” Petteplace Sr. will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 19 at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 808 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada at 3:30 p.m. He passed away on Sept. 22. Bill was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on July 11, […]
Memorial service will be held on Nov. 16 at 3:30 p.m. at La Crescenta Presbyterian Church, 2902 Montrose Ave., La Crescenta. With great sadness, the family of Marla J. Foxgord announces her passing. Marla was born at Glendale Memorial Hospital to Joe and Dorothy Johnson on April 13, 1951. Her favorite childhood memories included being […]
Ruslan Biryukov, Elayne Boozler, and friends ring in the return of the Positive Motions concert series in Glendale. By Ted AYALA If you’ve been paying attention to the news, it wasn’t such a great week recently for American classical music fans. New York City Opera, the Big Apple’s “people’s” alternative to the posh Metropolitan Opera, […]
By Ted AYALA The Pasadena Symphony has been navigating some choppy waters since its management and long-time music director Jorge Mester parted ways less than amicably in 2010. Choppy waters not because the orchestra has faltered technically in the three seasons. (Its excellence and polish remained, thankfully, intact.) Nor has it exactly been hurting for […]
By Ted AYALA Even 130 years after his death, Richard Wagner is a person that for many music-lovers—and especially for those who have never heard a single note of his music and know him only by his (bad) reputation—remains difficult to love. His vanity, his shrill self-promoting, and the ease with which he stooped to […]
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Goblins, ghosts, witches and ghouls roamed the playgrounds and fields of the local elementary schools this Halloween. And Iron Men, minions, Harry Potters, Marios, cats, creepers and hobbits, just to name a few more. Despite the commotion caused by a chase through the Crescenta Valley area, and with some of the schools postponing or pausing […]