By Ted AYALA The effects of Gov. Edmund Gerald Brown’s shuttering of the state’s redevelopment agencies continued this week when the city sent lay-off notices to six of its employees. The positions – Economic Development manager, Neighborhood Services field representative, Redevelopment project manager, administrative analyst and a pair of planning assistants – received their notices […]
By Ted AYALA It’s the epic battle that has raged on through the ages. Or at least since the advent of the automobile. Motorists versus bicyclists. A seemingly innocuous enough debate – but one that can result in frayed tempers, flung insults, and other examples of unseemly behavior from usually well-behaved citizens. The matter has […]
By Ted AYALA If one were to think of traits that define what Latin American music means to audiences outside the region of its provenance, then surely it can be reduced to a single word: rhythm. Whether in popular music, in which dances have become known the world over, or in its take on classical […]
By Ted Ayala It’s the epic battle that has raged on through the ages. Or at least since the advent of the automobile. Motorists versus bicyclists. A seemingly innocuous enough debate—but one that can result in frayed tempers, insults flung, and other examples of unseemly behavior from usually well behaved citizens. The matter has been […]
By Ted AYALA In the first of two sessions held by the Glendale City Council this month to analyze the budget forecast for the next five years and how to cope with shortfalls in tax revenue, the city was immediately faced with the dire position of having to take extreme measures to shore up the […]
By Ted AYALA It’s not an uncommon occurrence to see a flurry of vehicular and pedestrian traffic wending its way over to Disney Hall on any night a concert is under way. But the sight that met the hall’s patrons last Thursday night was something else entirely. Slow traffic on Grand Avenue and its surrounding […]
By Ted AYALA It was a slimmed down Pasadena Symphony that met the audience at the Ambassador Auditorium on Saturday night, March 31. Nicholas McGegan, respected conductor of Baroque music, turned his period performance touch onto the music of Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Though the Pasadena Symphony’s smooth strings was lost by its reduction down […]
By Ted AYALA The annual Glendale Cruise Night, which has proven to be one of the city’s most popular civic events, has been the latest program to get hit by the fiscal crunch felt by the city and state. Approved by the City Council on Tuesday is a measure that reduces the costs of the […]
By Ted AYALA Throngs of Glendale Water & Power workers – joined by their colleagues from Los Angeles’ DWP and numbering in the hundreds – loudly paraded outside of Glendale City Hall Tuesday evening, many of them filling the chambers and the lobby on the first floor. The reason for their grievance is the rejection […]
By Ted AYALA The municipal free-for-all that was the wrangling for who would finally be appointed mayor found its apotheosis last Tuesday night. After the previous meeting, which had ended in a deadlock and some grumbling, the City Council finally named Councilmember Frank Quintero as the city’s new mayor. Outgoing Mayor Laura Friedman, who had […]