By Charly SHELTON Last weekend was the LA Travel and Adventure Show. This was the annual convention, held at the LA Convention Center, for travelers who are looking for their next destination. Representatives from exotic locales in far away lands were found at the show, offering a taste of what travelers can expect when visiting […]
By Charly SHELTON This year in the Chinese zodiac is the Year of the Pig. Pigs are seen as slow, clumsy and stupid and also good-natured and able to attract wealth. Though the Lunar New Year has come and gone and we are now within the Year of the Pig, the celebration continues at local […]
By Charly SHELTON For a while there weren’t many female-led action movies. The leads were mostly guys like Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. There was, however, Linda Hamilton. Sarah Connor from “Terminator 2” was the bar to hit for a female cool action star. Now James Cameron, the man who brought us Sarah […]
BY STEVE ZALL AND SID FISH February 2019 Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: OPENING “The Importance of Being Earnest” features two carefree bachelors, Jack and Algernon, each with a carefully hidden double life. But when Algernon discovers that Jack has been posing as a […]
Broadview and Verdugo Courtesy of the Historical Society of CV Then » In this shot from the late 1940s, this car, recently customized by local car customizer Link Paola, has just pulled into the Krieger gas station on the northwest corner of Broadview and Verdugo. Check out the gas prices! Fitzsimmons Market can be seen […]
By Charly SHELTON Last week, I teased out my recent trip along the western part of Route 66 that runs from Pasadena to the eastern edge of Arizona. With a storied history uniting the country along one road, the eventual decline and then the revival in its popularity, this road is an American icon. All […]
By Charly SHELTON I traveled Route 66 from Chicago to Flagstaff in 2014 with my sister on her way home from college for the summer. We made it to Flagstaff and then turned south to visit my grandmother in Phoenix, leaving the northern part of the route in Arizona unfinished. We picked it up again […]
On Sunday, Feb. 10 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., the La Cañada Presbyterian Church Ovations series will present violinist Jacqueline Suzuki and pianist Brendan White in a program of works by Faure, Beethoven, Messiaen, Liszt and Debussy at the church sanctuary. Free admission, but there is a suggested $15 donation. The program includes Violin […]
The Queen Mary presents an evening of romance and old-world glamour at My Vintage Valentine on Thursday, Feb. 14. Two evening seating times will offer a signature four-course dinner and special show featuring vintage burlesque performances, a steamy tango duet, and captivating contortionists celebrating love, playfulness and beauty. Set in one of the Queen Mary’s […]
By Susan JAMES Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle I wasn’t expecting to find gourmet cuisine. Yes, Oslo has six Michelin-starred restaurants offering sophisticated spins on Nordic food, but I was exploring my Norwegian roots in Tromsø, so far north it seemed like the edge of the known world. Nansen and Amundsen had […]