By Ted AYALA The shadow cast over Russian Late Romantic music by the somber, larger-than-life figure of Rachmaninoff is difficult to escape. Not only for audiences –how many other Russian Late Romantics can you name besides Rachmaninoff? – but also for those Russian composers unlucky enough to be born around the same time as the […]
Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Josefina López has written a new play funded in part by a 2013 grant from The California Endowment. The play’s subject matter addresses health care and The Affordable Care Act. “A Cat Named Mercy” is a dark comedy about Catalina Rodriguez, a Latina licensed vocational nurse working at Elysian Estates […]
By Sabrina WALENTYNOWICZ Imagine a February filled with clouds, winter winds and torrential rainstorms. It might be wishful thinking these days, but back in 1978 it was reality for the Crescenta Valley. La Crescenta’s neighbors to the west in Tujunga were trying to stay dry indoors when on Feb. 9 the remains of 55 corpses […]
By Isiah REYES The Arcadia Performing Arts Foundation featured Air Supply in its inaugural season at the Arcadia Performing Arts Center on Jan. 25. The Australian soft rock duo, consisting of Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell, played popular classics such as “All Out of Love” which got the crowd buzzing. The set list included a […]
The Kiwanis Club of La Cañada has raised $26,000 toward a five-year goal of $74,000 to eliminate child deaths from tetanus. The Kiwanis theme is saving the children of the world, one child at a time. The ongoing worldwide Kiwanis goal is to raise $100 million to eradicate neonatal tetanus, a preventable disease that kills […]
Proceeds from event will benefit Play to Learn pediatric medical center. By Michael BRUER On Wednesday, Feb. 12, the community is welcome and encouraged to enjoy a Valentine luncheon that features Armenian food and to participate in a silent auction at Glendale Adventist Medical Center. In addition, several members of the Women of Jewelia group […]
By Charly SHELTON Valentine’s Day is coming up. For some, that means sitting in their apartment alone, avoiding television stations that might play “The Notebook” while trying to view being single in a positive light. For others, it’s a chance to do something fun with your sweetie to show how much you care. And for […]
By Ted AYALA The music of composer Arturo Márquez has, over the 40 years spanning his career, earned the distinction conferred to his forebears – Silvestre Revueltas, Carlos Chávez, José Pablo Moncayo – of being the most often performed outside of his homeland of Mexico. Though saying “homeland” may be putting things too simply. Márquez […]
Leisure writer Ted Ayala offers his take on Super Bowl craziness. Renée Fleming sang at the Super Bowl yesterday and it didn’t take long for my Facebook and Twitter feeds to blow up accordingly. In the two weeks since the announcement that the “People’s Diva” was scheduled to sing during half-time – and with a […]
Review by Ted AYALA “Light and Dark” (original title: Mei-An) by Natsume Sōseki, translated from the Japanese with an introduction by John Nathan Columbia University Press, 420 pp., $35 There were moments while reading Natsume Sōseki’s Light and Dark—newly translated with an introduction by John Nathan—that I felt all too keenly the frustration Madam Yoshikawa […]