The Kiwanis Club of the Verdugos (KCOTV) announced its first-ever Verdugo Wine Fest, a premier community event scheduled for Saturday, April 18 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Hosted at the Glendale Community College (GCC) J. Walter Smith Student Center & Terrace, the festival offers an afternoon of fine wine and fellowship. Guests will enjoy […]
At a time when opera faces headwinds nationally – from Jonas Kaufmann’s candid remarks about the pay disparity between Covent Garden and the Met to Renée Fleming’s recent resignation from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as an artistic advisor – the Pasadena Vocal Competition (PVC) stands as a beacon of commitment to the future of the art form. Now […]
GLENDALE KIWANIS The Kiwanis Club of Glendale meets on Fridays at noon. On March 27, Joy Stone will talk about the Meet the Masters program. The cost to attend Friday meetings, which includes lunch and program, is $25. All are welcome. The Club meets Friday afternoons at the Elks Lodge, 120 E. Colorado St. in […]
By Charly SHELTON Knott’s Boysenberry Festival has long been the park’s most defining event – a food festival built around the berry that put Knott’s on the map. And now it’s back for another year of putting boysenberry into everything you can think of. In recent years, the festival has leaned hard into experimentation, sometimes […]
The free admission Glendale Noon Concerts series performs live at the sanctuary of Glendale City Church, 610 E. California Ave. in Glendale. On Wednesday April 1 from 12:10-12:40 p.m. a flute recital will be performed by Ellen Burr, flute and Lorenzo Sánchez, piano. They will perform selections from Erwin Schulhoff’s (Austro-Czech, 1894-1942) “Sonata for Flute […]
LCIF Observes Holy Week Lutheran Church in the Foothills (LCIF) invites the community to observe the journey from reflection to celebration during its upcoming Holy Week services. The week’s observances begin with the Palm Sunday worship service on March 29. Attendees are asked to gather in the church courtyard at 9:45 a.m. for the traditional “Procession of the […]
In a world shadowed by conflict and loss, music has long served as one of humanity’s most powerful calls for peace. The La Cañada Presbyterian Church Chancel Choir and LCPC Orchestra invite the community to a profound and moving afternoon concert on Sunday, March 29 at 2 p.m., exploring the urgent theme of World Peace […]
AB 2478: Kinship Family Approval California currently has more than 37,000 children in our foster care system. These are children who are placed into our care due to abuse or neglect. They’re trauma survivors and though they’re removed from their parents for their own safety, they’re facing an unfamiliar and daunting system that hasn’t always […]
The Last Trolley Ride – Dec. 31, 1929 Private trolley lines in Los Angeles were created largely to sell land. The business plan, pre-automobile anyway, was to buy cheap land in an outlying area, develop it into lots and run a trolley line to it. The big money was made selling the lots to people […]
Wanted: Mutual Respect Last December, Glendale Community College (GCC) made a presentation to Montrose Shopping Park Association members, outlining plans for developing its Honolulu Avenue buildings, collaborating with USC Keck Medicine and Verdugo Hills Hospital. The former Citibank building will be demolished, a new GCC Montrose Campus building will be built, and the Professional Development […]