Yearly Archives: 2024
SPMS Spring Musical FOOTLOOSE this Weekend
Join South Pasadena Middle School students as they kick off their shoes and perform in the Spring Musical production, "Footloose," on April 25-28. The...
8th annual West Coast Kubb Championship coming to South Pasadena Sunday
While its name might sound new to some, oh make that many, the game itself has been around for centuries, deeply rooted in a...
SPHS Hosts 2024 Tiger Invitational
On April 5, 2024, more than 197 schools from across the country and one school from Canada participated in the 2024 Tiger Invitational held...
SPMS Drama Students Earn First Place Overall at DTASC 2024
On April 20, 2024, the Drama Teachers’ Association of Southern California (DTASC) held its Shakespeare Festival Competition in Valencia, Calif. SPMS drama students earned...
SPHS Students Explore Various Jobs During Second Annual Career Fair
This week during lunch on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, SPHS students are experiencing the second annual Career Fair, a special event co-hosted by the...
SPHS Tiger Newspaper Wins Gold Medal Award
Tiger Newspaper has received a Gold Medal award from the prestigious Columbia Scholastic Press Association for all work completed throughout the 2022-2023 school year.
This...
SPHS Students Earn 134 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
This month, South Pasadena High School (SPHS) students earned 134 regional awards in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Competition. The Awards recognize student...
SPHS Track | Three New School Records set at Mt. Sac
On Friday night (April 19, 2024), in the top ranked boys invitational 4 x 800, a 44 year old record set by Coach Parkinson...
SPARC 15th Year Celebration Inaugurates New Permanent Home
Members of the South Pasadena Arts Council, along with city officials and South Pasadenan arts advocates gathered at the site of SPARC’s new gallery...
South Pasadena Hosts All-City Track Meet
Student athletes from all schools in the South Pasadena school district were invited to participate in the annual All City Track Meet sponsored by...
Jelly’s Last Jam comes to Pasadena Playhouse
Danny Feldman, Producing Artistic Director of Pasadena Playhouse, the State Theater of California and recipient of the 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award, announces casting...
Wine & Song at Lost Parrot Cafe | James Kirby, Aireene & Marty Wednesday...
Join Brad Colerick and the gang this Wednesday April 24 at 7pm for this week's Wine & Song featuring James Kirby, Aireene Espiritu and...
Enrollment Fall 2024 | Hodis Learning & Music Homeschool is Open
Enrollment is open for fall 2024 homeschooling with Hodis Learning and Music (HLM)!
Homeschool programs are offered for all common core subjects for grades K-12,...
SPHS Drama Ready to bring an Uplifting BRIGHT STAR to South Pasadena
South Pasadena High School Drama Department has done quite a list of terrific, big and splashy musical theatre comedies for the spring show, usually...
SPUSD Students View Historic Partial Eclipse
Students, faculty, staff, and administration viewed a partial solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024.
All SPUSD schools celebrated the partial eclipse in different ways....
Mamma’s Backstage: Eclectic Fest pays tribute to Bob Stane’s Coffee Gallery Backstage
When Coffee Gallery Backstage impresario Bob Stane shuttered his venerated Altadena listening room last spring after a 25-year run, colleagues organized a sale of...
City Finance Director Exits South Pasadena After 13 Months
Only days before the April 17 kickoff of the city's accelerated budget process and four months since formally taking over as South Pasadena's permanent...
Electric Bills South Pasadena | Clean Power Alliance (CPA) Arrangement is on The Chopping...
South Pasadena, which four years ago opted to rely solely on renewable power for city operations under the Clean Power Alliance’s (CPA) “100 percent...
Shaw’s ‘Misalliance’ is subversive, wild fun at A Noise Within
Eight marriage proposals and a plane crash, all in one afternoon. A Noise Within closes
out its 2023-24 “Balancing Act” season with George Bernard Shaw’s...
Wine & Song at Lost Parrot Cafe featuring Michael McNevin, Kray Van Kirk and...
South Pasadena's Wine & Song host, Brad Colerick, returns home this Wednesday April 17 at 7pm after doing some shows in Utah, Colorado and...
The Body’s Midnight | IAMA & Boston Court team up to present World Premiere...
The IAMA Theatre Company and Boston Court Pasadena have joined forces to present a poetic and surprising new play about the complicated, ridiculous, awe-inspiring trajectory of...
SPARC Gallery Finds New Home
MEDIA RELEASE
South Pasadena, CA, April 12, 2024: Come celebrate a milestone in the growth of the South Pasadena Arts Council (SPARC) with a “sneak...
Staggering Performances in King Hedley II at A Noise Within
It’s Reagan-era 1980’s in the working class Hill District of Pittsburgh when a young, African-American man, King, returns home after seven years in prison...
MEAN GIRLS Jr on its way to Young Stars Theatre
Don’t want to end up in the Burn Book? Better head to Young Stars Theatre for their super fun production of “Mean Girls Jr.”!...
KAIROS Asks if We’d Like to Live Forever | East West Players
Gina and David are two young professionals in their early thirties who are having a meet-cute after they’ve had a fender bender. They start...
FAT HAM Serves up a Ghost at the Cookout | Geffen Playhouse
UPDATE: Extended through May 11, 2024
James Ijames’ 2022 Pulitzer Prize winning and Tony nominated play, “Fat Ham”, is now playing at the Geffen Playhouse...
BRIGHT STAR coming to South Pasadena High School
The South Pasadena High School Drama program is excited to announce their upcoming production of the bluegrass-influenced, Tony-nominated musical "Bright Star". Written by
comedian Steve...
Hodis Learning & Music Celebrates 3 Years in Business! Message from the President
Hodis Learning & Music Celebrates 3 Years in Business!
Message from the President
This week, Hodis Learning & Music is celebrating three years of business! I...
Funny Girl | Eileen T’Kaye is Mrs. Strakosh at the Ahmanson
After a prolific 45+ year acting and producing career, Eileen T’Kaye is on her first Broadway National Tour, as Mrs. Strakosh in Funny Girl,...
City Finance Commission Meeting | Finance Panel Pushed for ‘Corrected’ Answers, Defined Issues, as...
With the caveat that Finance staff will provide City Council a “high level understanding” of requested budget data, the South Pasadena Finance Commission on...
