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Stories That Move Us: Stories of Refugees

Lineage Dance Company joined forces with Street Symphony to present a series of performances that fused elements of dance, live music, spoken word and storytelling focused on a theme. I had the pleasure of...

Hit musical The Last Five Years comes to Pasadena’s Lineage Performing Arts Center June...

WHO: The Lineage Performing Arts Center. Written by Jason Robert Brown and directed by Marisa Echeverria and Hilary Thomas WHAT: The Last Five Years , an Off-Broadway musical that tells two different versions of the same...

PTSA Honors Several at Award Luncheon at SPHS

The PTSA Honorary Service Award Luncheon was held in the SPHS main gym where a lovely, Hawaiian buffet was served. Jon Primuth presided over the festivities which traditionally includes surprising honorees with their service...

Open House at Arroyo Vista Elementary

Arroyo Vista Elementary School families enjoyed a balmy evening of sno-cones, socializing, thanking teachers and looking at their childrens' work in classrooms throughout the campus. It was a festive atmosphere as every teacher had...

Eclectic Music Festival Draws Largest Turnout Yet

The Eclectic Music Festival was the biggest ever with the headliner, Ozomatli, kicking it up a notch in our fair city. Early in the day, there was a threat of rain, but the clouds...

Spring School Games at SPHS : SPUSD Snapshot

On Friday, May 12, 2017, SPHS student athletes participated in the 2017 San Gabriel Valley Spring School Games sponsored by the Special Olympics. The athletes were involved in several events including the softball throw,...

South Pasadena Library Presents ‘Shanghai, the City of Innovation, 2017’

The entire community is invited for an opening reception for a professional photography exhibition entitled “Shanghai, the City of Innovation, 2017”. The reception will be presented in the South Pasadena Library Community Room at 4...

Teen Concert in Garfield Park

Young local artists held a twilight concert in Garfield Park on Friday, May 19. Many gathered on the grass to watch blooming musicians showcase their talents to friends and family. The Frozen Gummies, seen here during...

SPUSD Snapshot : Expressing Feelings Through Art

Congratulations to SPHS Senior, Clara Ubalejo, for winning first place in the 2017 “Expressing Feelings Through Art” (EFTA) competition sponsored by the Light Bringer Project at Art Center College of Design. Fellow senior, Saliko...

SPHS Dance Company Wows with ‘Circus’

Last Thursday and Friday evening, SPHS Dance presented their spring concert, Circus, in the main auditorium. A raucous and appreciative crowd enjoyed dancing cards, hoops, balloons, lion tamers, mimes, sword swallowers, snake charmers and...

The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir For The Stage

Is there anything more confounding than family relationships, anything more fascinating than family lore? And is there anything more profoundly devastating than family wounds? Dan O’Brien has written a captivating memory play about the...

Young Mathletes Excel at the 26th Annual Elementary Math Field Day

South Pasadena’s finest young mathletes gathered at the 26th Annual Elementary Math Field Day, held Saturday, May 13, at Monterey Hills Elementary School. A total of 114 mathematically talented fourth and fifth grade students...

PCDA Welcomes Community to Open House May 23

Professional Child Development Associates (PCDA) will host its annual Open House, a FREE event open to the public on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at their facility, 620 N Lake Avenue, Pasadena from 5:30 p.m....

Seniors Display Their Colors at SPHS Chalk Day

On Friday, May 12, SPHS Seniors participated in the school's annual Chalk Day. The students convened at the Tiger Patio and created works of art emblematic of their future alma maters.  

World Renowned Navajo Artist, Ray Tracey, at Santa Fe Crafts

After a wildly successful trunk show in April, Santa Fe Crafts is thrilled to welcome legendary Navajo jeweler, Ray Tracey, to their South Pasadena shop for a very special trunk show June 2 &3....

Annie Jr. at Young Stars Theatre

I think most of us are familiar with the iconic images of Annie, the little orphan girl with curly, red hair in the red dress and her stray dog, Sandy. And who can forget...

Unbound Productions presents MYSTERY LIT: Holmes, Sherlock and The Consulting Detective

Unbound Productions Executive Director Jonathan Josephson, Artistic Director Paul Millet, and Producing Artistic Director Jeff G. Rack have announced the details of the company’s first fully-realized evening-length play: Holmes, Sherlock and The Consulting Detective,...

Memory 5D+ at Pasadena Civic Auditorium

Thousands of years of Chinese music meets the 2017 era of stagecraft in the rhapsodic and romantic live stage production “Memory 5D+ – An Immersive Musical Odyssey to a Distant Past,” created and devised...

A Magical Peter Pan at SPHS

South Pasadena High School put on a spectacular production of Peter Pan this past weekend that had the capacity crowds cheering. From the moment  Peter Pan burst through that London window on a flourish...

“The Originalist”- A Fascinating Play for our Time

As the lights dim slightly in the beautiful Pasadena Playhouse, Edward Gero as Antonin Scalia, comes walking forward in full Supreme Court robe as Opera plays to address us directly. The Opera is a...

Ensemble Shakespeare’s Innovative & Intimate “Lear’s Shadow”

From the moment I entered what appears to be a rehearsal room set up for a table read of a play; tables and chairs facing center, covered in scripts and cups of pens with...

A Daring “Man of La Mancha” at A Noise Within

A Noise Within boldly closes out it’s “Beyond Our Wildest Dreams” 25th season with a crackling reimagining of the musical “Man Of La Mancha”. Inspired by the novel “Don Quixote de La Mancha” by...

A Poignant King Lear at A Noise Within

ANW’s superb repertory company takes on Lear as a contemplation of one family’s journey through the devastating effects of dementia. It is at once disturbing and powerful as we watch the ravages of the...

Sublime “Ah Wilderness!” at A Noise Within

Written by Eugene O’Neill in three weeks during the depression, “Ah Wilderness!” is a delightful reverie about the family he never had. In fact, he said the story came to him in a dream...
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A Beautiful “Our Town” at SPHS

As patrons take their seats, an actor walks on stage to adjust a chair, pick up a prop and look about as the lights dim. He steps forward into the light and begins telling...

Cirque du Soleil Comes To Town With “TORUK”

Cirque du Soleil’s new adventure, TORUK, is visually spectacular storytelling that takes you on a journey to the world of Pandora in a way that only Cirque can do. It’s a bit of a...

Uproarious production of “The Imaginary Invalid”

A Noise Within opened a deliriously mad production of Moliere’s “The Imaginary Invalid” that is at once completely free and rigorously precise. Director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott takes on Moliere’s quintessential hypochondriac with all the sardonic...

Incandescent ‘The Fantasticks’ at Pasadena Playhouse

A small troupe of actors break into an old, abandoned theatre and begin scavenging for props and costumes as two musicians find their way to an old piano and a harp. A dashing and...

Gripping Production of THE MAIDS at A Noise Within

Jean Genet’s play “The Maids” is a multi-layered play of rituals, fantasies, masks and mirrors whose story’s origin borrows from the notorious Papin case of 1933. Christine and Lea Papin murdered their mistress and...

The Golden Dragon – A Potent Dish Served Up Hot

In the steamy, cramped kitchen of the Thai/Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant, The Golden Dragon, five cooks are madly chopping, frying and calling out orders, “Number 6: Thai soup with chicken, coconut milk, Thai ginger, tomatoes, button...
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