By Susan JAMES When Hollywood takes on Hollywood the results can be laugh-out-loud funny or a disastrous misfire. Fortunately for audiences, the Coen Brothers’ new journey through the looking glass at the Hollywood of 1951 is the former. Clever production whisks us back to the days when TV was still a gleam in the entertainment […]
Dignity Health Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center awarded $101,000 to four local organizations supporting their respective accountable care communities. As in past years, Glendale Memorial Hospital awards grants to organizations partnering together to respond to needs identified in our most recent Community Health Needs Assessment – including obesity, mental health, diabetes, alcohol and substance […]
By Charly SHELTON Red lanterns, Chinese food and plum blossom trees. It must be Chinese New Year. Monday was the official start of the Year of the Red Fire Monkey in the ancient Chinese lunisolar calendar and Universal Studios Hollywood celebrates it in a big way. The Universal Plaza in the center of the upper […]
Party On! For those sad that the holiday season has passed ending the chance for celebration, weep no more! The New Year brings plenty of opportunities to celebrate those non-profits that work so hard for our community. For example, this past Saturday night the Crescenta Valley Weekly Glendale/Burbank sales professional Sonya Marquez and I hopped […]
“We had a sunset of a fine sort. Marked in bands of sharply contrasted colors; great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze: the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purple and blacks…” ~ Mark Twain while living in California As predicted the Santa Ana […]
EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO ARTISTS The public is invited to an exclusive conversation between award-winning filmmaker Eric Nazarian and renowned photographer Scout Tufankjian tonight, Thursday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Glendale Adult Recreation Center. Admission is free. The presentation will be in English. Visitors receive three hours free parking across the street at […]
Hi, CV! You probably read about the passing of Kyle Dubin in last week’s issue. As was mentioned, Kyle and another teen were the reason behind the founding of this organization. Go to our website and read our origin story submitted by his mom, Susan Dubin, a founding member. I knew Kyle when Julia Rabago […]
Gladiator Youth Football And Cheer Signups Begin March 1st On March 1 the La Cañada Gladiators Youth Football and Cheer program will open registration for the 2016 football season. Football and cheer applications will be available on the Gladiator webpage at www.lcgladiators.org. The Gladiator program is open to girls and boys ages 6 to 14. […]
Valentine’s Evening Concert LeRoy McNees has been involved in bluegrass music for over 50 years and has traveled the world singing and playing his music. In 1961 he was on the Andy Griffith TV show with the Country Boys (aka The Kentucky Colonels). He is a former member of the First Baptist Church of La […]
Hearing that a local monument to the great flood of 1934 needed some loving care, Boy Scout Charles Pingry was ready to help. By Mary O’KEEFE Nothing gets historians in and around Crescenta Valley talking like a question about the great flood of 1934. It was after a large wildfire in the area that rains […]