Recipe – Not Just Your Regular Egg Salad

Now that Easter has come and gone, what can we do, just what can we do, with all those hard boiled eggs? I say let’s make a lot of delicious egg salad! Anna Loutsos Ingredients: 2½ dozen hard boiled eggs, cleaned, roughly chopped and chilled 2 shallots finely chopped 6 celery stalks finely chopped 1½ […]

Taken out on a Date Night

By Charly SHELTON Fall in love, get married, have kids, become a boring couple from New Jersey, pose as mobsters, run from real mobsters, save the day, fall in love all over again. This is the course for Phil (Steve Carrell) and Claire Foster (Tina Fey) when they try to shake things up and break […]

“Mayberry” Always and forever

Normally my wife, Mary, writes this column.  This week she graciously granted me her “space” so that I might share with the CV Weekly readership my personal “hasta la vista” as co-owner (with Mary) of Mountain Rose Gifts, which we recently closed on Honolulu Avenue. The Rose, as I affectionately call it, brought us 10 […]

Celebrating your inner child

The Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce would like to help you have a happy childhood. Please join us to find your inner child at our 5th annual Hometown Country Fair on Saturday, April 17. It truly is a great day of family fun and entertainment at Crescenta Valley Park at the corner of Dunsmore and […]

Waistline-expanding goodies – and more – in Montrose!

By the time you read this article, I may be somewhat unrecognizable as I’m sure to have gained at least 50 lbs. by then. So much for watching my trim, girlish figure! But why I have allowed my waistline to become so distended, you may ask? Because I’ll still be reeling from our April mixer […]

Recipe

This week’s recipe is provided by Judy Reilly of Mi Casa Cooking Workshops. Fettuccini and Lemon-Parmesan Sauce 1 half lb. fettuccine 2 tbs. extra virgin olive oil 1 medium onion, halved and thinly sliced 2 zucchini, sliced on the bias 1 package of frozen tiny green beans, thawed 2 tsp. grated lemon peel 1 1/4 […]

Calendar this

EXTENDED SPRING HOURS FOR DESCANSO’S BODDY HOUSE The historic Boddy House will be opened more days this spring for guests to enjoy the architecture, views and beauty of this 1939 Regency-styled home. Spring hours for the Boddy House will be 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays. Free docent tours take place only on […]

Clash 1; Titans 0 in ‘Clash of the Titans’

By Susan JAMES Warner Bros. new 3-D offering, “Clash of the Titans,” enters with a roar and goes out with a whimper. Starring Sam Worthington, the sci fi soldier of “Avatar,” and helmed by French director Louis Leterrier, “Titans” is a non-stop cymbal crash of breathless battles against monsters so familiar you will find yourself […]