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A recap of what happened at Pasadena City Council meeting on Monday, June 4,...

Budgetary discussions delayed Monday’s night meeting of the Pasadena City Council. Finance meetings had run since earlier in the day and Mark Jomsky, City...

“I just want the press to know,” Mayor Terry Tornek said, glancing anxiously at a couple of seated figures, hunkered in the back of the otherwise...

The Pasadena City Council’s Monday-night meeting dealt with weighty issues. By Garrett Rowlan It began with a proclamation from representatives of the...

Like a crew of professional operatives in a heist film, seven members of an installation team rented, altered, and photographed a room in the Trump...

Monday night’s meeting of the Pasadena City Council was a front-loaded affair, with the numbers swelled by health advocates and realtors, an unlikely pairing,...

Selfies, those winks of shutters’ eyes that hold the ego at arm’s length, are many things to different people. They are handheld mirrors. They are markers...

Issues Not on Agenda Fill Council Chambers to...

While the main campus of the ArtCenter College of Design sits atop a high hill in Pasadena, the ivory tower myth hardly applies, the latest demur to that canard...

In the crowded City Council chambers, where one felt relieved by a gust of fresh air when someone entered or exited the room, the (relatively) clean air and...

As the future races forward, the past is a resource that continues to guide and to inspire. By Garrett Rowlan Such was the general impression after reviewing...

What happened at the Pasadena State of the City...

Judging by the excitement of a few teens and pre-teens gathered at the Allandale branch of the Pasadena Public Library, prior to the arrival of the 2018 Royal...

Editor’s note: Link to video of the entire council meeting has been added below. Normally at 6 pm, a half-hour before the meeting of the City Council...

“The past is a foreign country,” H.E. Bates wrote at the beginning of his novel, The Go-Between, “they do things differently there.” By Garrett Rowlan...

GUEST OPINION Book signings are usually a placid event with a sparse crowd of fans, invitees, and the author’s friends gathered in numbers that—it is...