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Learn About Arts Management Degrees
I just read this cool post from Experience L.A. regarding Claremont Graduate University’s M.A. in Arts Management program. They will be in Pasadena tomorrow, December 9th, to discuss their program with those who are interested. The event is free, s...
Up & Moving Pasadena
Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard, Fire Chief Dennis Downs and Israel Estrada, executive director of Pasadena Forward, will lead a 3.3-mile walk around the Rose Bowl Loop at 7:30 am tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct. 7, as part of Up & Moving Pasadena. If you w...
Pasadena’s Green Halloween
The Neighborhood Green Fair is an annual event that will occur every fall, and this year it’s on Halloween—a green Halloween! This event will increase awareness to help protect the earth and environment. Sponsors of ......
Make A Mark Event for Tweens
Make A Mark kicks off on October 10 in Pasadena, inviting girls between the ages of 9-14 and their mothers to participate in an afternoon of entertainment and learning. The event is designed to educate ......
Green Drinks Opens Pasadena Chapter
Green Drinks allows for anyone concerned about environmental issues to get together over a drink. The events are very simple, informal, unstructured, and self-organizing, but help connect the green network. Green Drinks is proud to ......
Communities Gather to Combat Crime
The 26th Annual National Night Out event took place last week all across the nation. National Night Out (NNO) is a crime and drug prevention program that occurs in cities all over the country as ......
Top 5 Cities to Visit in California
Pasadena named by WatchMojo.com as one of the top 5 cities to visit in California...
Project: Altadena
One month of shooting all that is Altadena, whatever aspects of it you wish to shoot. But you only have 27 frames. No digital cameras for this project! Now that may scare the heck out ......
JPL: What’s Up for July 2009
Early astronomers like Galileo used telescopes to map the Milky Way galaxy. This month, you can see the Milky Way in the late evening....
Vinita’s Beauty Opens 5th Salon in Pasadena
Vinita’s Beauty & Threading Studio opened its latest store on the historic Colorado Blvd in Pasadena. The Grand Opening drew a large number of guests and well -wishers. To make the occasion memorable, the salon ......
Fresh & Easy Wins Awards for its Exclusive Wines
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market recently won 29 awards at the Los Angeles International Wine Competition (www.lawinecomp.com) and the San Francisco International Wine Competition (www.sfwinecomp.com) for its exclusive wines. Nearly 60 of the 170...
Outdoor Film Festival in Old Pasadena
Old Pasadena Management presents the Old Pasadena Film Festival, a free three-week movie series that unites film with urban settings, happening on Fridays and Saturdays, July 10 through 25. Featuring twelve screenings, the Old Pasadena ......
83rd Annual Rose Bowl Fireworks
Pasadena’s 4th of July celebration in the Rose Bowl has kept our Star Spangled spirit flying for 83 years. The day combines a safe and entertaining family activity and a most patriotic tribute to our ......
New Tool for Exploring Pasadena
A touch-screen information kiosk has been added to the Metro Gold Line’s Memorial Park Station, thanks to the generosity of Pasadena Rotary, which donated $10,000 to help orient newcomers to Pasadena. The kiosk is located between ......
Famous “Corpse Flower” Ready to Stink it Up
When it bloomed at The Huntington in 1999, the gigantic Amorphophallus titanum (a.k.a. the Corpse Flower) created international headlines. Now, one of the famous Corpse Flower’s offspring is getting ready to make its debut. Propagated ......
Pasadena City College Swings Under the Stars June 12th
Pasadena City College students and community members are invited to dance under the stars on June 12 at 7:30 p.m. The event, hosted by the Performing and Communication Arts division, will take place on the ......
Dogfish Head Ale Now in Pasadena, CA!
About a year ago, TheFullPint.com got crazy excited, because the treat CBD Dan used to smuggle on a coast to coast plane ride, could now be bought in California. We are talking about Dogfish ......
Concours d’Elegance Car Show Sunday June 7th
The Concours d’Elegance has fast become one of the premier classic car shows in the country, and it’s returning to Brookside Park this Sunday. At dawn, more than 350 vintage automobiles will parade into the ......
Reuters Showbiz Week June 5th, 2009
The biggest celebrity and entertainment headlines from the week including David Carradine’s death, The Beatles come together and Whitney Houston announces her come-back....
Meet Dr. Tara Estlin, Mars Rover Driver, NASA-JPL
Bestjobsever.net catches up with Dr. Tara Estlin from NASA-JPL to talk about her job as a Mars Rover Driver....
Making Chocolate Nut Raisin Clusters for National Candy Month
You would think that February would be National Candy Month, or at least the candy makers would like it to be. But somehow June became our month to celebrate candy. So here’s Joyce Gardiner from ......
Nothing Says National Salad Month like A Coupla Fat Guys
May is also officially National Salad Month, so once again we went to A Coupla Fat Guys Cooking Show and Voila! A video recipe for creating a yummy Greek Salad. Please Note that mild profanity ......
National BBQ Month and A Coupla Fat Guys
It seems May is National BBQ Month (where do these come from?) and to celebrate, here’s a video for BBQ Pork Chops. This is from A Coupla Fat Guys Cooking Show (we really don’t come ......
Hunting for Planets with Kepler
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring at more than 100,000 stars for ......
Hubble’s Eye on the Universe
JPL’s camera aboard Hubble has taken some of the space telescope’s most memorable images. The camera will be removed and brought back to Earth during a Hubble servicing mission this month....
May: National Hamburger Month - Where Are You Eating?
May is National Hamburger Month, so we hope you’ve been supporting the cause. Now, you don’t have to eat a hamburger every day - but this is the perfect opportunity to suspend your diet for moment. After all, it’s practically your...
Win a Smart Sprinkler Controller during Water Awareness Month
May is Water Awareness Month, and Pasadena Water & Power is celebrating by giving away a smart sprinkler controller to one lucky PWP customer every day in May. These clever devices save thousands of gallons of water every year by automatically ...
New World Fair This Weekend @ PCC
The 3rd annual New World Fair is happening this weekend, May 16th & 17th, at the Pasadena Convention Center. The biggest attraction of the event is its 200 exhibitors who have come to Pasadena from across the nation. Strolling through the fai...
A Night with Travel Legend Arthur Frommer
Distant Lands Travel Bookstore hosts travel legend Arthur Frommer, live and in person, on May 13th! From his first guidebook to Europe (written for GIs with spare time to travel) to the definitive Europe on $5 a Day and on to a travel publishing and ...
JPL: Oceans of Climate Change
Latest video from JPL. What can a water balloon teach us about climate change on earth? Be sure to check this out......
