By Charly SHELTON Seventeen and a half hours. On Thursday, I spent 17-and-a-half hours sitting in the same chair, in the same movie theater, all to watch movies I have seen countless times before. And I paid for that. I bought a rather expensive ticket to sit there and see all the comic book movies […]
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 […]
Tickets are still available for the Glendale Pops’ final concert of the season on Friday, May 11 at the Alex Theatre at 8 p.m. featuring Dave Koz and Monica Mancini under the direction of Matt Catingub. By Ted AYALA When the month of May comes each year it brings – along with the usual assortment […]
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 […]
Pasadena Symphony Bids Adieu to Season with Richard Strauss Musical Farewell By Ted AYALA When the Pasadena Symphony’s artistic director and musical advisor James de Priest had to pull out of the orchestra’s season closing concert on a recent Saturday owing to an emergency heart bypass operation, a minor stir was created by those looking […]
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By Susan JAMES Newbie director Anne Renton’s art market film, “The Perfect Family” is a Catholic fairy tale with a happy ending. But along the way there are a lot of bruises and bumps, some of them filmed in a familiar locale outside Honolulu Avenue shops in Montrose. Kathleen Turner plays Eileen Cleary, an obsessive-compulsive […]
By Charly SHELTON There are a few days I really looked forward to as a kid. Christmas, Easter, birthday, last day of school. But one of the biggest days of the year as a kid was the first Saturday in May – Free Comic Book Day. Every year, the comic book shops of America give […]