By Maddy PUMILIA and Charly SHELTON Crescenta Valley Weekly is hosting a treasure hunt to celebrate the end of summer and to get everyone outside to enjoy the warm weather before it fades into the coolness of fall. The game is simple. Using the clue below, searchers can follow it to local landmarks, businesses and […]
By Ted AYALA Southwest Chamber Music’s (SWCM) cycle of the Mozart String Quintets continued last weekend, on August 6 and 7 at the loggia of the Huntington Library. Sandwiched between the Third and Fifths String Quintets was a delightful, contemporary chamber work that very nearly stole the spotlight from Mozart. Charles Wuorinen has long been […]
By Jackie HOUCHIN “Water, water, everywhere …” is your first amazed impression upon entering the Tujunga home and studio of artist Danielle Eubank. Large canvases of liquid beauty grace the walls in blues and aquamarines with swirls of beige, black, ochre, burnt orange and brick. To the uneducated eye, the paintings seem abstract, even fanciful. […]
By Ted AYALA It’s hard for the casual listener listening to the Larghetto from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet – with the tender, melancholy voice of the clarinet floating softly above a tapestry of gentle, muted strings – to not be carried away by the music’s hushed beauty. This becomes especially difficult when one hears […]
Supreme Master Television is bringing star-studded entertainment to the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Saturday, Aug. 27. The two-part extravaganza begins at 2 p.m. with the world premiere of the new musical “The Real Love” and ends with singer/songwriter Don McLean in concert performing the biggest hits of his career including “American Pie.” “The Real Love,” […]
by Susan JAMES When Daniel Craig’s Jake Lonergan wakes up in 1873, barefoot and gunless in the scorching heat of the Arizona desert, a new screen hero is born. Like so many Western heroes before him, Lonergan is a man carved of flint, straddling both sides of the law, on a mission of revenge. […]
By Ted AYALA Marvin Hamlisch, the Pasadena Pops Orchestra’s new principal conductor, cut the ribbon on his inaugural season with the Pops on Saturday night in a stylish concert played under the shade of the Rose Bowl. The program beckoned the audience to follow Hamlisch along in a sentimental journey that shined a spotlight on […]
By Susan JAMES The cosmic collision of entertainment that was Comic-Con 2011 might have been short one “Bones” panel but it was long on drama. From the “Glee” cast controversies to the “Castle” questions about Beckett’s survival to the big “Bones” reveal of Booth and Brennan’s pregnancy, this year’s convention had a lot of fans […]
By Charly SHELTON The swag wasn’t that good this year. That is always the first question I get when I say I went to Comic-Con. I’m asked, “Hey did you get any good stuff?” So let me answer that first – the swag wasn’t that good this year. And no, I didn’t see the […]
Not everyone who attended the annual convention was eager to be there, however once involved it was an experience like none other. By Sabrina WALENTYNOWICZ I was not looking forward to Comic-Con. I didn’t want to go. I didn’t even really know what to expect. After listening to my boyfriend for months begging and pleading […]