By Ted AYALA Residents living along Cañada Boulevard will soon find that the first and last stretches of their daily commute will be getting a little bit longer. Glendale City Council on Tuesday night approved a contract worth over $10,000,000 to Sully-Miller Contracting Co. of Brea for infrastructure improvements along a stretch of Cañada Boulevard. […]
By Ted AYALA Pacific Opera Project, or POP as its known to fans, has emerged in recent years as one of Southern California’s most exciting opera companies. Not the very least because of its irreverent and often outrageous productions of repertory classics. A “La Bohème” set among Highland Park hipsters? Check. “The Marriage of Figaro” […]
By Ted AYALA The local festivities for composer Tigran Mansurian’s 75th birthday, which Dilijan Chamber Series kicked off earlier this month, continues this Sunday at UCLA. Beginning at 2 p.m. at the school’s Schoenberg Hall, the Lark Music School Choir of Glendale will be joined by the VEM String Quartet and other performers in a […]
By Ted AYALA Now that 2013 has been cast behind, how will Glendale remember the work of the past year by its city council? Will it remember its work positively, as a recent survey conducted by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government intimated? Or will it remember 2013 in a starkly negative light, […]
By Ted AYALA Music lovers who could not get enough of Emo Philips’ outrageous narration of Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” at last January’s Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra concert have a chance to get another helping of the comedian’s absurdist naughtiness this weekend. Ringing in the first concert of 2014, the GPO has invited Philips […]
By Ted AYALA Montrose Italian restaurant Giuseppe’s Pizzeria was honored on Tuesday with a commendation from the Glendale City Council. The commendation was in recognition of the restaurant’s having been awarded the Taster’s Choice Award for its meatballs during this year’s 2014 Rose Float fundraiser meatball tasting competition. The city’s 2014 float entry prominently features […]
By Ted AYALA The results of the City of Glendale’s Citizenship Satisfaction Survey are in and according to a representative of the organization that conducted it, the results are “really good news.” The results of the survey are going to prove crucial to the city in the coming months as it prepares to move forward […]
By Ted Ayala Exhuming long-forgotten musical works can often be an arduous task. It can require months, if not years, of careful research, sleuthing, and sometimes a little luck to turn up a musical gem that hitherto lost in some dusky, dusty corner of musical history. Or if one is really lucky, as in the […]
By Ted AYALA The full Glendale City Council reconvened on Tuesday after a two-week break that started in November. Looking into next year’s special election, council voted on whether to hire a public outreach agency to convince the public to approve tax increases. The idea was floated late last month, with most of the council […]
By Ted AYALA Glendale boys and girls of all ages – be they naughty or nice – enjoyed an early visit from Santa Claus who took a break from his workshop at the North Pole to sit in as guest of honor at the city’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony at city hall on Wednesday. Approximately […]