Everyone is invited to this free and innovative weekend Mt Sierra College proudly announced recently that they will be hosting the 2019 Global Game Jam (GGJ) for the second year in a row. GGJ starts at 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 25 and ends on Jan. 27 at 5 p.m. What is GGJ? GGJ is a…
The Pasadena Tournament of Roses® Board of Directors has confirmed Laura Farber as President for the 2019-2020 Tournament of Roses year. Farber will provide leadership for the 131st Rose Parade® presented by Honda and the 106th Rose Bowl Game® presented by Northwestern Mutual on Wednesday, January 1, 2020. Farber announced “The Power of Hope” as the Pasadena Tournament of Roses theme to encourage creativity in float entries, marching bands and equestrian participants. “With hope – anything,…
Pittance Chamber Music, known for featuring the extraordinary resident artists of the Los Angeles (LA) Opera pit and stage, presents Piano Quartets with Robert Thies, the second concert of the 2018/19 season taking place in Barrett Hall at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music on Jan. 20, 2019 at 3 p.m. A pianist of “unerring, warm-toned refinement, revealing judicious…
By May S. Ruiz Qianjiao Ma, known to her friends as ‘Q,’ is a long way from her birthplace in Northern China but is very much at home in her adopted city of Arcadia. She is one of twelve ‘Illustrators of the Future’ winners to be honored during the 35th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement…
Caltech Chamber Music, directed by Maia Jasper White, will kick-off its Winter Concert Series on Friday, Jan. 25. All concerts will take place in in Dabney Lounge on the Caltech campus. The Winter Concert Series will have performances on Jan. 25, Jan. 26, Jan. 27, Feb. 1 and Feb. 3. The program will include works by Beethoven,…
“Ragtime: The Musical” will run from Feb. 5 – March 3 The Pasadena Playhouse will transform the historic theater with an all new version of “Ragtime: The Musical” as it returns to Los Angeles more than two decades after its premiere at the Shubert Theatre. With 21 actors and a 16-piece orchestra, this is one…
The Pasadena Community Orchestra (PCO) will perform Mozart’s, Symphony No. 40, J.S. Bach’s G Minor Fugue, Walton’s Spitfire Prelude & Fugue and Liszt’s Les Preludes under the baton of Music Director Beth Pflueger on Jan. 25. Mozart’s iconic Symphony No. 40 is scored in four movements. Written in 1788, its passionate tone makes it an…
This play will run in repertory with ‘Stuart Little’ Mitch Albom, on his graduation day from Brandeis University, promises to stay in touch with his beloved sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz. Mitch gets busy with life and doesn’t keep his promise. At first, he’s a jazz pianist, but abandons that career when he becomes successful as a…