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Important CalTrans Homes Hearing in South Pasadena: FRIDAY APRIL 26th at SPHS 5pm~8pm
As the curtain draws near on final acts in Caltrans' ill-fated, 70-year attempt to build a freeway through South Pasadena—disposition of the properties it acquired to do so—final rules are being put into place.
Caltrans...
ECLECTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL 2024
The 14th Annual Eclectic Music Festival and Arts Crawl returns to South Pasadena’s central business district on Saturday, April 27, 2024, from 3 pm to 10 pm. The free, family-friendly festival will host over...
BRIGHT STAR has a Powerful Story to Tell
The ebullient, young cast of Bright Star, at South Pasadena High School, leaves it all on the stage and sings their earnest hearts out in this tender, Americana bluegrass tale of young love, unbearable...
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 SPMS Spring Musical is offered as an Afterschool program by...
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 far away country only to find a solid footing years...
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 at South Pasadena High School. Student athletes from schools in Oregon,...
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 a large number of first place awards at the festival...
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 Counseling Department and the SPHS PTSA.
Professionals across a variety...
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 honor is awarded by Columbia University and a panel of...
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 achievement in the visual and literary arts, including architecture, painting,...
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 himself was beat by .13 seconds, highlighted by Keeran Murray’s...
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 and permanent home at the Fremont Centre Theatre building at...
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 the district's PTSA organizations with support from the SPUSD. Youngsters...
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 for its new production of the Tony Award winning musical...
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 Marty Axelrod. Heading into Eclectic Music Festival, let's get the...
Cuatro de Mayo! Float-lovers invited to May 4th “Fun-raiser” to support South Pasadena’s 2025...
The all-volunteer South Pasadena Tournament of Roses committee kicks off its herculean fundraising efforts Saturday, May 4, 2024, with its first fundraising event of the year, a “Cuatro de Mayo” Fiesta. Featuring performances by...
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, as well as academic enrichment classes, electives, and art and...
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 in contrast to the more thought-provoking, smaller pieces they do...
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. The middle school’s science department shared the science behind the...
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 its contents. Lights, microphones, mic stands, cables, tables and chairs,...
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 Finance Director, John Downs has told the city he will...
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 Green Power” product, is set to reconsider that decision at...
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 high-flying comedy, Misalliance.
Guillermo Cienfuegos (last season’s Much Ado About Nothing)...
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 Arizona. He also attended a screening of Lost Bird at...
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 life. Boston Court artistic director Jessica Kubzansky directs the world premiere of The Body’s Midnight by Tira...
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 peek” opening of SPARC’s new headquarters at Fremont Centre Properties,...
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 for murder. Home is the house he was raised in...
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.”! You’ll walk out humming the catchy songs and quoting the...
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 out upset with each other and the situation, but as...
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 in an intoxicating and deliriously funny production helmed by director...