Anne Le Baron’s ‘Crescent City’ Pushes Opera Envelope

By Ted AYALA If you’ve been around since at least the 1990s, you’ve heard of them. “Extreme.” “Max.” “Uber [insert noun, verb, or adjective here].” They’re products and genres that take familiar ideas and push them further than you thought possible. Those Doritos too boring for you? Try their “extreme” cousins. Just make sure you […]

»MUSIC NEWS

GYO to Perform Finale The Glendale Youth Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Brad Keimach, will have the season finale concert of its 23rd season at 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 20 at the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale. The concert will feature concerto winner Se Jun Kim of Hoover High School. A silent auction […]

Disney Store Opening is Truly Grand

By Charly SHELTON In 1987, a new store opened at the Glendale Galleria. One of the best, most successful malls in the state, the Galleria has seen many new retail concepts come and go, as this is the mall where new ideas are tried out. Some fail miserably; others have a few locations open up […]

Kiwanis Travelogue Features Doug Jones

The Kiwanis Club of La Cañada presents its popular travelogue on Saturday, May 12 at the Flintridge Prep auditorium beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tom Burrows will provide the piano entertainment prior to the program beginning at 7:10 p.m. The program will be “Around The World: One Man’s Journey,” a travel film memoir by Doug Jones. […]

Kiwanis Club Elects New Officers

  At the annual general meeting of the Kiwanis Club of La Cañada held April 18 at Descanso Gardens, the 2012-13 slate of officers of the club were unanimously elected to serve effective Oct. 1, 2012. Kiwanis photo by Al RESTIVO

Wanted: Cancer Survivors!

If you are a cancer survivor, we want to honor you at the American Cancer Society Foothills Relay for Life at 9 a.m. Saturday morning (May 12) on the athletic field at Clark Magnet High School, 4747 New York Ave., La Crescenta … a few blocks north of Foothill Boulevard. The survivor lap is the […]

Ask Phyllis!

Questions About Today’s Real Estate? Ask Phyllis! How long must our home stay in show condition? Dear Phyllis, Last year we tried for five months to sell our home and it never happened.  In March, we relisted with a different agent, who suggested a couple of repairs to tweak the home.  We took her recommendations […]

RBAC to Host Pre-Olympic Game

On Friday, June 1 at 5:30 p.m. the U.S. Men’s Olympic water polo team will go head-to-head against the Croatian Men’s Olympic water polo team in an exhibition game. This will be the final game before the two teams, which are regarded as gold medal contenders, leave for London and the Olympics. Sponsorships are now […]

People Making the News

Villanova University named the following students from La Cañada to the dean’s list for the fall 2011 semester: Alexis Budzyn, enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Samara Cahill, enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Brittany Ek, enrolled in the Villanova School of Business. Villanova University dean’s list recipients […]