McGegan Leads Lean and Trim PSO in Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Beethoven By Ted AYALA It was a slimmed down Pasadena Symphony that met the audience at the Ambassador Auditorium on Saturday night, March 31. Nicholas McGegan, respected conductor of Baroque music, turned his period performance touch onto the music of Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Though […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Fire engines from across Los Angeles County, including Glendale and LA County Fire, lined the overpasses of the Foothill (210) freeway this afternoon to honor a fallen comrade. Capt. David Bailey, 50, died while exercising at Camp 14 in Saugas. He was an 18-year veteran of LA County Fire Department. Firefighters stood […]
UPDATE Friday, April 6, 2012: Three men were arrested on Thursday suspected of robbing teens of a cellphone. The robberies allegedly occurred in the area of Pennsylvania Avenue and Foothill Boulevard. The men were arrested in the Vons Market parking lot in the 3200 block of Foothill Boulevard. In January similar robberies occurred. At […]
On Sunday, March 25, 2012, at approximately 7:45 pm, a female adult resident from Juniper Hills was driving on Angeles Forest Highway near mile marker 10.47 when she hit ice on the roadway which resulted in her vehicle sliding off the roadway. The victim and her vehicle came to rest 350 feet over the edge, […]
QUESTION: I thought I had forgiven my father who was a drunken tyrant when I was growing up; however, recently my adult daughter wanted to know the details of his abuse. I’ve never tried to keep our children from their grandfather, and have said very little to them about the fear my brothers, our mother […]
Easter Finds In The Montrose Shopping Park Remember how thrilling the Easter egg hunts were growing up? For me it was Chinquapin Park in Baltimore, a long stretch of park with a creek that ran the length of it. There were plenty of places to hide eggs among the rocks and grasses there and such […]
Scholarship Fundraiser – How You Can Help Join us Thursday, May 3 for the Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce’s 16th Annual Golf Classic and Scholarship Fundraiser at Verdugo Hills Golf Course! Not only does the event promise to be a fun day at a beautiful location in Verdugo City but it is a chance to […]
ABILITYFIRST HAVING 5K RUN/WALK Donors, sponsors and participants are still needed for the annual Santa Anita Derby Day 5K Run/Walk supporting AbilityFirst on April 7. Pre-event activities and registration start at 6 a.m. and the race starts at 8:15 a.m. Participants must be onsite by 7 a.m. due to street closures. Last year, AbilityFirst reached […]
By Susan JAMES If you liked the 2010 movie, “Clash of the Titans,” you’re going to love “Wrath of the Titans.” The general storyline for the new Warner Bros. film simply substitutes the monstrous Kronos, a gigantic Titan built of fire and lava rising out of the earth, for the monstrous Kraken thrashing up out […]
By Charly SHELTON In January, the CVWeekly started a four part series to showcase some upcoming movies over the coming year, broken down by season, every three months. This is part two of that series, featuring the biggest and best in upcoming movies of April, May and June. “The Raven,” director James McTeigue, starring John […]