Crescenta-Cañada Rotary: 1940-2016 The Crescenta-Cañada Rotary has helped the community for 76 years, leaving it a million dollars richer. The World War II Years: Members took turns standing watch for enemy aircraft that may have been off course in the hills above La Crescenta and held a successful war drive to help purchase an airplane. […]
By Charly SHELTON e’ve all heard the stories. Someone who meditates so deeply he can go days without food or water, or can walk on coals, or can even hover above the ground. And those who pray to their various gods for salvation, love, money, or cure from disease are answered through voices or […]
LCIF Continues Overview of First Corinthians The community is invited to join Lutheran Church in the Foothills at its 10 a.m. worship service on Sunday, Jan. 15. Pastor Scott Peterson will continue a series of sermons from First Corinthians with this Sunday’s sermon titled “Come.” Nursery care is provided during the service for infants […]
MAPS TOPIC OF LITTLE LANDERS MEETING Glen Creason will be the speaker at the Jan. 14 meeting of Bolton Hall Museum and the Little Landers Historical Society. Creason has been the map librarian for the Los Angeles Public Library for the past 27 years and a reference librarian in the History Dept. since 1979. […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE n Tuesday, Jan. 17, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will celebrate the 80th birthday of composer Steve Reich, one of the great living musical masters. The Green Umbrella program will consist of two classics from the composer’s catalog bookending a West Coast premiere. Reich’s art, which crackles with that peculiarly American sense of […]
2016 was the annus horribilis of our still young 21st century, if one is to believe the cacophony of op-eds that bid last year farewell. I tend to be skeptical of hyperbole myself – especially of the sort projected and magnified to apocalyptic proportions by the internet. (After all, nothing generates page clicks and ad […]
To kick off the new year a family-friendly musical fantasy set in the fictional Middle Eastern city of Agrabah will come to life on the Main Stage of CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights as a beloved Disney princess finds true love with a commoner boy with a magic carpet in a land inhabited with […]
La Cañada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Assn. honored its major donors (sponsors and those with $150 and above membership) at a festive tented party “Under The Bridge” on Dec. 30. As they arrived, about 100 attendees had the opportunity to preview the city entry Backyard Rocketeer, then in the process of becoming the spectacular float […]
The La Crescenta Republican Women Federated gathered at the Oakmont Country Club for its installation and Christmas party. From left are Treasurer Margaret Lyons, Secretary Danette Erickson, 3rd VP Joan Taylor, 2nd VP Sharon Hales, 1st VP Pat Di Gennaro and President Coral Weston, with installation by Marie Cruz. Cruz is president of the […]
Verdugo Hills Women’s Chorus (VHWC) and Burbank Singers are gearing up for the 48th annual California Women’s Chorus, Inc. (CWC) convention and concert April 30. Sharon Schlarb and Diana Tyson, concert music committee co-chairs, have announced the guest director and accompanist for “California Dreamin,” which will be held April 30 at the Glendale Hilton Hotel, […]