Here is the paper for Thursday, December 13, 2012. 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 […]
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 […]