SCPR Moves to new Digs
The Pasadena Independent toured the new broadcast headquarters of Southern California Public Radio (SCPR), The Mohn Broadcast Center & Crawford Family Forum Thursday morning .
The Public Radio facilities which used to call PCC home are now a far cry from their humble beginnings.
The 35,000 square-foot building includes new studios, a generous sized news roomcomplete [...]
Baroque and Brazil to Flavor Santa Cecilia Orchestra Concert
The Santa Cecilia Orchestra claims a special mission to serve the Latino community to stimulate interest in classical music but it serves all of us with its programming. This season the orchestra has scheduled five concerts, the third being held this Sunday, Feb. 21 at 4 p.m. in Thorne Hall on the campus of [...]
Monrovia City Band Was Rose Parade’s First
Pasadena may have the Tournament of Roses, Arcadia may boast of being the home of the Rose Queens and Sierra Madre may have a prize winning float, but what’s a parade without a band? That’s were Monrovia comes into the picture. Well, maybe not this year, but the first band ever entered in the [...]
Rose Queens Past and Present Convene for Conversation, Cuisine and Comradery
2010 Rose Queen Natalie Innocenzi came to celebrate the history of the tournament at Tournament House Tuesday morning where she and 35 former Rose Queens attended a luncheon in their honor celebrating the Tournament’s rich and lengthy history.
The oldest-living Rose Queen, 88-year-old Margaret Main, the 1940 Rose Queen, and Sally Rabsaman, the 1941 Rose Queen, [...]
Local Princess: Found, and Headed to Vroman’s
New Book by Local Author Offers Story of an American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected them All.
On Sunday, November 15th at 3:00pm, Sarah Culberson and Tracy Trivas will present and sign their new book at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena.
Over the past two years Sarah Culberson’s story of the search for her [...]
Musical Flights of Fantasy to Open Pasadena Symphony Season
A new season starts for the Pasadena Symphony on Saturday, Oct. 24 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Several changes have been made for the 2009-2010 season. First, a starting time for the symphony, 8:00 p.m., is new this year. Also, no formal dinner has been planned as the Symphony and its wealthy supporters are downsizing. [...]
“The Foreigner” Arrives at the Sierra Madre Playhouse
Such mystique a foreigner can bring to a small town full of folks who’ve never had the chance to travel to other countries! Charlie Baker is endowed with that mystique when he arrives at Betty Meeks’s fishing lodge in Georgia. In actuality, Betty is the one who does the endowing.
She’s never traveled nor met a [...]
MAFA Draws Crowds to Eclectic Selection of Fine Arts and Music at Library Park
Last weekend, MAFA expanded its annual event by working in collaboration with the Nuvein Foundation for Literature and the Arts to present live entertainment and art venues throughout Old Town Monrovia. There were poetry readings as well as a self-publishing panel, a comic panel on storyboarding presented by Ralph Navarro and cartoonists presenting ‘live draws’, [...]
Arcadia Public Library to Celebrate Chinese Music
The fifth season of the Arcadia Public Library’s A Classical Kaleidoscope begins at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21 in Cay Mortenson Auditorium at the library when Zhiming Han and Cynthia Hsiang return for their second appearance at this series with the music of both contemporary and ancient China.
Cynthia Hsiang, an adjunct professor of Asian Music [...]
Temple City Athletes Wrestle Free Gifts from Unsuspecting Local Artist
Local artist/illustrator, Terese Nielsen, was in a flurry getting ready for a major post office run when she heard unfamiliar steps approaching her studio door.
Unaccustomed to public visits, she was surprised when Calvin and Daniel, (both on the TCHS wrestling team) suddenly pounced with a double shot when she opened the door. Before she had [...]
