Author: Matt Hormann

Editor’s note: This article appears in our February 2026 print edition. We are publishing it online ahead of schedule to include updated information about the...

Located on North Avenue 66, the Victorian home was once a way station for women’s rights activists.

“We need the tonic of wildness,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. “We can never have enough of nature.” This philosophy inspired the creation of...

It’s a cloudy day in Highland Park and there are horses in the Starbucks drive-through. Yes, horses. With riders. They patiently wait their turn behind a...

The Santa Fe train station that once stood at the corner of San Gabriel Boulevard and Walnut Street made a brief appearance in Frank Capra’s 1946 holiday...

Five Pasadena congregations are joining hands and hearts together to pray for hope and peace in our community on Wednesday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00 pm at First...

Racial Boycotts and Anti-Asian Violence Defined Early Pasadena“Resolved, That it is the sentiment of this community that no Chinese quarters be allowed within...

Author, social reformer, and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote her most famous short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” while living in a...

The Peacemaker By Matt HormannL.A. Times Pasadena Evening StarPacific Medical Journal StarLancet-ClinicReading Times Los Angeles Herald Los Angeles HeraldL.A.

Two plaques were unveiled in Old Pasadena Tuesday, January 9, memorializing the burning of a Chinese laundry and the expulsion of Chinese immigrants from the...

“German Aliens Must Go On Records” stated the headline in the on January 26, 1918.“Registration in Pasadena Will Begin at Police Station Feb. 4.” By...

HISTORY CORNER In the 1880s, the small settlement known as Azusa — then consisting of two ranchos — was ripe for acquisition. “Some of the most beautiful...