Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at Joselito’s This Sunday, May 5, is going to be a really fun day in the good ole’ Montrose Shopping Park! In addition to the Sunday Harvest Market, the annual Wags & Whiskers and Kids & Kritters events and Taste of Montrose, it’s also Cinco de Mayo celebrating Mexican heritage. Is […]
Getting Back to Basics “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~Sun Tzu I hear from many business owners that they realize that marketing and advertising are two of the most important aspects, but how much to spend, where to advertise and the never-ending maze […]
Free State-Funded Training for Small Business Owners in Montrose If you are the owner of a California company with between one and nine full-time employees, you qualify to receive free training in four business skills classes at the Professional Development Center of Glendale Community College in Montrose. Right here in our own backyard is a […]
The Third Annual Empty Bowl Fundraiser is scheduled for Sunday, June 2 benefitting Family Promise of East San Fernando Valley (FP-ESFV) in its efforts to provide safe shelter, meals and support to homeless families. The public is invited to stop by the First United Methodist Church of Glendale any time between 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 […]
QUESTION: As the parents of an 8-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son, we’re finding out that children are much more aware of world events than we thought they were. After the events in Boston, both our children came home from school filled with fear from what they had heard from other children. Their main concern was […]
Tuesday Table Talk On Tuesday, May 7, Bethel Church in Sun Valley will show the film “The First Grader.” Based on a true story, this inspirational drama profiles the amazing determination of 84-year-old Kenyan Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge, a Mau Mau freedom fighter who wants to take advantage of a new universal education decree by […]
ARC BELL CHOIR TO PERFORM The Leisure Club of La Cañada Flintridge will host a program of music performed by the ARC Bell Choir on Friday, May 3 at 1 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of Lutheran Church in the Foothills. ARC (Activities, Recreation & Care) is the largest national, community-based organization advocating for and […]
By Mary O’KEEFE There are times when an audience is taken to another realm, when the world around them seems to stand still, and all sit in awe of the performance on stage. That moment happened on a recent Saturday when Daniel Chaney, Kirstin Fife and Connie Grisham took to the stage for a benefit […]
By Ted AYALA The Pasadena Symphony Orchestra’s concert on Saturday afternoon marked not only the end of its 2012-13 season, it was also the final chapter in a brief, and sometimes turbulent, period in the orchestra’s history that was triggered in May 2010 by the unexpected dismissal of Jorge Mester. Mester had been the orchestra’s […]
By Charly SHELTON There is something special about seeing a movie on the big screen. It brings back memories of going to the movies with your parents and friends, seeing the now classic films in their heyday when they were new. Nobody expected “Pirates of the Caribbean” to be such a success. In fact, they […]