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The heat outside the Pasadena City Council was, at times, turned up inside the chambers as the Council voted to decide whom to award a nine-million-dollar,...

For one not versed in the details of car design, the 2017 Car Classic at Art Center, October 22, presented a disorienting, if not dizzying, selection of...

“Pasadena plays big,” Terry Tornek declared, early on in his appearance at the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center on the evening of October 10. By Garrett...

Future shock, at least a civic part of the phenomenon, raised its protean head during the full-house meeting of the Pasadena City Council on October 2, 2017. By...

For the novice in such matters, the Pasadena City Council’s short-but-sweet, Monday-night meeting provided a lesson in the nuances of disclosure, where a city...

Issues macro and micro, that is, local and regional, dominated the Pasadena City Council meeting on September 18. By Garrett Rowlan On the regional side, the...

“A breakthrough program,” Pasadena mayor Terry Tornek said in Monday night’s meeting of the Pasadena City Council. By Garrett Rowlan He was referring to...

Things like the old miniature train track and surrounding village in the old Museum of Science and Industry in Exposition Park, and, much later in life, the...

The growing pressure on tenants in the city of Pasadena—manifest in double-digit rent increases, evictions, and the reluctant abandonment of...

After attending the Women in Industrial Design Forum on Saturday, July 15, 2017, at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, I was impressed by the...

REVIEW While it would be an exaggeration to say that every generation gets the eclipse it deserves, certainly the exhibit centered around the upcoming...

The total eclipse of the sun, scheduled across North America in August, is the inspiration for an exhibition at the Williamson Gallery at the Pasadena Art...

POCKET REVIEW Guilt is Mel Gibson’s catnip, be it cultural (Apocalypto), religious (The Passion of the Christ), or familial, as in the case with his latest...

Our Rating: [usr 4.0] By the time you read this, “Author: the JT Leroy Story” may be gone, but if you want a portrait of our cultural schizophrenia,...