By Charly SHELTON I dressed like Han Solo at Comic Con this year. I made my girlfriend dress as Slave Leia. I operate a website based around a Stormtrooper toy. I have beaten “Star Wars Battlefront” campaign time and again. Even now, as I sit in my office at the Crescenta Valley Weekly, I am […]
By Charly SHELTON What did they see? Who is the woman in black? Can Daniel Radcliffe pull off any character that isn’t a boy wizard? All these questions and more are posed by the new film, “The Woman in Black.” The ghost story is about a grieving mother whose child was lost in a marsh […]
Like other high schools in the area – namely, Crescenta Valley, St. Francis and La Cañada – the robotics team at Clark Magnet High School – Team 696 – is working hard to design and engineer a robot to compete for the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Regional Competition in […]
By Charly SHELTON A Crescenta Valley original, Los Gringos Locos, has moved locations. Bent Hansen, Los Gringos Locos owner, asked for the community’s help in moving two blocks down to the new location in the Plaza de La Cañada, sharing the complex with stores like Vons and T.J.Maxx. From the original Los Gringos Locos location […]
By Charly SHELTON Vampires. Exploding fire hydrants. Movie stars. Just another week in the Crescenta Valley. Montrose and the surrounding community seems to be experiencing a resurgence in popularity as a location for shooting scenes for movies, television shows and commercials. Last week, HBO’s “True Blood” filmed in Montrose where spectators could see a vampire […]
By Charly SHELTON Our little town has that quaint, hometown feel of Anytown, U.S.A. And because we are conveniently located only 15 minutes from the film and TV capital of the world, it is a lot easier to bring a production up to Montrose than to fly them out to the Midwest or Washington or, […]
By Charly SHELTON Thats right folks, its Oscar time again. The Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m., and before the red carpet is unfurled or the Kodak Theatre is decked out in all its regalia, you get to choose who you think will win. For the past few years, […]
By Charly SHELTON It’s a tale as old as time, and a movie as old as me. The classic Disney film, “Beauty and the Beast” has just been released in stunning 3D. This adds a whole new dimension to the classic love story about a beautiful girl who falls in love with a hideous monster […]
By Charly SHELTON Back in the 1990s, there was a TV show that many people knew and my generation grew up with. It was on the Sci Fi channel Saturday mornings and it was what I watched instead of Saturday morning cartoons. It involved a space station in the not-too-distant future, somewhere in time and […]
By Charly SHELTON The year 2011 is over, and now there is a whole new batch of movies to look forward to. Throughout the year, the Crescenta Valley Weekly will be giving you, our readers, a heads up on what movies to look for in the coming months. Here is part one: January through March. […]