Yearly Archives: 2024
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,...
Cultivating Motivation in Academic Pursuits
Cultivating Motivation in Academic Pursuits
Motivation is the silent engine that propels students toward success. It's the inner spark that encourages persistence in the face...
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....
Managing Test Anxiety
Managing Test Anxiety: Techniques to Stay Calm and Perform Your Best
Test anxiety is a common challenge faced by students of all ages, often hindering...
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...
Customizing Your Child’s Homeschool Education
Customizing Your Child’s Homeschool Education
In the evolving landscape of education, the one-size-fits-all approach is gradually becoming a relic of the past. Particularly in homeschool...
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...
KAIROS | World Premiere at East West Players
East West Players (EWP), one of the nation’s oldest theaters of color and the largest producer of Asian American theatrical works, presents Kairos, by...
Wine & Song at Lost Parrot Cafe | Teresa James, Clayton Chaney & Philip...
Join Brad Colerick at Lost Parrot Cafe on Wednesday April 3 at 7pm as he welcomes Teresa James and her band, The Rhythm Tramps,...
Restoration Concert April 7 Features AlmaNova Duo, Connie Kupka and David Speltz
A special Restoration concert is lined up for Sunday, April 7, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. featuring the AlmaNova Duo (flute & guitar) and Speltz...
Fire Chief Paul Riddle Says Goodbye to South Pasadena After 32 Years
I’m sitting in the South Pasadena Firehouse living room with Fire Chief Paul Riddle. It’s a place he’s called home for almost 33 years....
Hello Gorgeous! FUNNY GIRL Lands at the Ahmanson April 2-28
FUNNY GIRL, the sensational musical comedy revival, is coming to the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles for a limited four-week engagement from Tuesday, April...
