By Charly SHELTON It’s Oscar™ time again and that means our Oscar Ballot Contest. CV Weekly is proud to present its fourth annual contest. Ballots can be found online and then returned by email, delivery to the office, post mail, drop box, Pony Express, carrier pigeon or any other viable transmission service you wish […]
Gallery of pictures from the MENSCH For All Seasons Award presentation, January 29, 2013 and the gallery art of Robert Sutz.
By Charly SHELTON Its Oscar time again and that means Oscar Ballot Contest. CVWeekly is proud to present its fourth annual Oscar Ballot Contest to be found online and then returned by email, delivery to the office, post mail, Drop Box, Pony Express, carrier pigeon or any other viable transmission service you wish to use. […]
By Charly SHELTON This week at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, the Public Broadcasting Service – PBS – debuted its upcoming specials and ongoing television series that will come to screens in early to mid 2013. Normally when one thinks of PBS, it conjures images of “Sesame Street,” classical concerts and antiques shows. But their […]
By Ted AYALA The “Latin American boom” was a time of unprecedented growth and exploration in the literature of Hispanophone America; a time when writers like Julio Cortázar, Manuel Puig, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, among others, enriched their literary soil with an infusion of the modernism of the U.S. and Europe. It was […]
Steven Geiger, MENSCH International Foundation founder. The MENSCH International Foundation and Steven Geiger, the foundation’s founder, will present the 2013 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Program honoring two-time Academy Award-winning producer, Branko Lustig (“Schindler’s List, “Gladiator”) with the 2013 MENSCH For All Seasons Award. The presentation will be held at the Writer’s Guild Theater, on Tuesday, […]
By Charly SHELTON Paul Carafotes has lived in the Crescenta Valley area for over four years now. One of his favorite places in the community is Jeremy’s Coffee Shop on Honolulu Avenue at Ramsdell Avenue. So when Carafotes authored a popular children’s book, “The Adventures of Charlie Bubbles,” Jeremy’s seemed a great place to hold […]
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By Charly SHELTON Once in a while a movie comes along that will define a genre of film for its generation. “Iron Man” defined what a super hero film should be (after the disappointing Hulk and X-Men movies), “Love Actually” defined what an ensemble cast romance film should be, and now “Gangster Squad” has defined […]
A solo photography exhibition was on display recently at the Glendale Hilton to benefit the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry. The exhibition was organized by the La Crescenta resident Ellen “Alenoush” Moradian whose keen eye and passion for life and landscapes were evident in her photographs, taken during her travels around the U.S. and abroad. […]