Yearly Archives: 2017
BREAKING NEWS: Explosion and Structure Fire in South Pasadena
SOUTH PASADENA, CA- On August 15, 2017 at 6:33 A.M., South Pasadena Police 9-1-1 Dispatch received several calls reporting an explosion and smoke coming...
Kirsten Vangsness Inaugurates Jonah Beadle’s New Theatre with MESS
When Jonah Beadle was 9 years old, he had a vision; in looking at a rectangle storage room on the bottom level of his...
Three Cheers for Annie Warbucks at YST!
YST’s delightful Annie Warbucks alights at Fremont Centre Theatre to close out the summer with a bang! While most of us have had some...
Screening of LA LA Land in South Pasadena
A very special screening of the film La La Land will be presented at the South Pasadena Library on Thursday, August 24 at 7:00...
YST Musical Theatre Workshop | A Chat with Jack and Gloria Bennett
It will be two years in December since Young Stars Theatre made their South Pasadena debut with a stellar production of A Christmas Carol...
Scholarship and Financial Aid Specialist, Trevor Ramos
On Thursday, August 24 at 7 PM, Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse welcomes scholarship and financial aid specialist Trevor Ramos for a presentation and discussion...
Welcome Back Tigers!
A bit bleary-eyed but also excited, South Pasadena High School Tigers began registering this morning at 8 a.m. The line at the library was...
Finding Balance | Back To School With Janet Anderson
As we gear up for the start of school here in South Pasadena, high school principal, Janet Anderson, is getting excited. Explaining that while...
School Board Heads Into New School Year
Kyle Bender was introduced as the new assistant principal at Arroyo Vista Elementary who replaced Lindsay Roach. The very tall Bender comes to us...
South Pasadenan Tracy Macrum Joins the Keller Williams Team
Congratulations to South Pasadena’s own Tracy Macrum as she joins the Keller Williams Pasadena International Market Center as a real estate sales professional. Tracy...
Spectacular Night with Youssou N’Dour | Ignite@TheFord!
The newly renovated Ford Theatres kicked off their exciting new series IGNITE@TheFord! with an exhilarating concert by Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour. Even those who...
Band Camp Continues at SPHS
Despite the summer’s increasing heat, students of the South Pasadena High School Marching Band and Color Guard are hard at work getting ready for...
Mayor Cacciotti – How He Came To His Green Ways
I meet the Mayor at the Gold Line as he gets off the train with his bicycle, as he does every day. It’s a...
JPL’s Sandy Krasner Speaks on Climate Change at WISPPA
JPL Engineer Sandy Krasner spoke at the Saturday WISPPA meeting, sharing powerful information on how and why Climate Change is indeed happening, what we...
Follow Your Dreams – Celebration of Life for Anne Disselhorst
It was standing room only with a line out the door for the celebration of life held in honor of Fiore Market Café matriarch,...
Closing Night at Movies at the Museum
Shout out to South Pasadena Preservation Foundation and their generous sponsors, Girl Friday, Hurtado & Sokolow, McGrail Tutoring, Evans and Associates, Mdi, Susan Masterman...
Anne Disselhorst – A Handcrafted Life
Sadly, the “Mom” of the Mom & Pop culinary gem that is Fiore Market Café has passed away suddenly. Anne Disselhorst suffered a massive...
YST’s Final Summer Camp Show Annie Warbucks
South Pasadena’s resident youth theatre company at Fremont Centre Theatre started the summer off with a Broadway revue and followed that up with their...
City Votes to Implement District-Based Election System Under Threat of Lawsuit
The City of South Pasadena is undergoing a transition to district-based elections after the City Council adopted Resolution 7524 on July 19. The unanimous...
Contemporary Artist Shenping Wang Donates Two Paintings to Library
A very special art exhibit showcasing striking Chinese-themed paintings and sculptures by emerging artist Shenping Wang was presented in the Library Community Room on...
National Night Out a Success in South Pasadena
On the first Tuesday in August, South Pasadena, along with over sixteen thousand other communities, participated in the National Night Out event; a community...
‘Upstairs Downstairs’ Tour at Gamble House
This summer the Gamble House will once again open its servants’ quarters for exclusive “Upstairs Downstairs” tours. Visitors to the Gamble House from July...
Impassioned Discussion at Chamber Shop Talk Breakfast
Under a humid, rainy Tuesday morning sky, chamber members gathered for an unusually impassioned discussion during their monthly breakfast at Mike and Anne's restaurant....
WISPAA “Climate Change and Human Impact on the World”
Sandy Krasner is an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab; he makes sure that the computer systems on the spacecraft and the Earth all...
Shout Sister Shout! Takes Us To Church!
Sister Rosetta Tharpe is on a mission from God; to save a despondent, young musician by showing him a thing or two, by taking...
Norton Simon Museum Presents Tootie Heath
Pianist and composer Richard Sears brings his septet to the Museum to reprise his Altadena Suite, commissioned by the Los Angeles Jazz Society in 2013...
Father Pleads Guilty in Court Tuesday Morning
Aramazd Andressian Sr., the father who was arrested under suspicion of the murder of his 5-year-old son, Aramazd "Piqui" Andressian Jr., has pleaded guilty...
The Sound of Music – A Joyful Summer Evening
The air was electric with anticipation as friends, family and community members settled in for Upstage’s summer production of The Sound of Music. Throughout...
City Council Considers District-Based Electoral System
On July 19, 2017, the South Pasadena City Council adopted a resolution of intent to transition from at-large elections to district-based elections for members...
Baseball Night with Jon Soohoo
Jon SooHoo, the official photographer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, will be joining us in South Pasadena on Thursday, August 17th at 7:00pm. He...
