Shop Local. Shop Montrose for Holiday Treats It’s so fun writing about the unique shops in the Montrose Shopping Park. These last few weeks I have focused on some key categories for the holiday season such as Fine Gift Stores, Women’s Clothing, and Shopping For Kids. With close to 200 businesses in the shopping park […]
All She Wants… “Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Dear Santa, This year all I want for Christmas is…. support for all those suffering from mental illness to get the services they need to help them cope with issues facing them. This year all I […]
Step Back to 1923 Montrose with the Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce It is a crisp winter night, a starlit sky above. You turn north and find the foothills crowning the panoramic vista that seems to reach out from that narrow strip of silver – the sea – some dozens of miles to your south. […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU The scene is all too familiar: Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God, is born in the middle of a cold night in Bethlehem after his parents Joseph and Mary, unable to secure lodging for the night, are forced to take shelter in a barn. Surrounded by farm animals, the infant […]
Christmas Eve Service at CV Church Crescenta Valley Church presents “Christmas … Crazy or Miraculous?” on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, at 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Crescenta Valley Church welcomes everyone in La Crescenta, Montrose, Glendale, and beyond to enjoy two candle-lighting services that will get the family in the Christmas spirit. All are invited […]
DBSA Offers support group Depression Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) has a support group meeting every Tuesday at Vallejo Drive Adventist Church in Glendale every Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. DBSA provides hope, help, and support through peer-based, recovery oriented empowering services, and resources when people need them and how they need to receive […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Adapting a musical from stage to the movie screen has never been easy, especially if it is a well-known theatrical musical. For those with a theatre background, like myself, the play’s the thing – but I must admit “Les Misérables” is the closest thing to theatre I have seen on the big […]
By Charly SHELTON I am a stickler when it comes to big movies based on classic works. That stands for comic books, for books, for movie remakes – anything. I believe movies should be made just as the work was intended to be presented, not edited and changed to fit whatever the director felt because […]
By Ted AYALA The axles of time inexorably grind away, with the old year – it does not seem very long ago that 2012 was the “new year” – now having only a few scattered grains of sand in a spent hourglass, its surface painted with the residue of memories accumulated over the months that […]
By Charly SHELTON The associates of the Westside Center for Independent Living presented their annual literary tea at the private home of Betty Deutsch in Beverly Hills last week. The annual tea is a fundraiser for WCIL and features an author who speaks on a certain book or topic. This year’s guest speaker was James […]