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Music Center: The performing arts come to life in Los Angeles

The Music Center serves as the premier performing arts center of Los Angeles County and is one of the three largest and most highly regarded centers in the United States.

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Music Center: The performing arts come to life in Los Angeles
  • Olvera Street: A little Mexico frozen in time
  • U.S.S. Midway Museum:  Visit the USAs longest serving aircraft carrier
  • The Gentle Barn: Teaching kindness and compassion through animal therapy
  • A King Kong Comeback at Universal Studios Hollywood

Olvera Street: A little Mexico

Those who may want to browse and munch along L.A.’s deeply historic past may have to hurry up. Olver...

U.S.S. Midway Museum: Visit t

The longest serving aircraft carrier in U.S. history is now an official Southern California museum! ...

The Gentle Barn: Teaching kind

Founded in 1999, by Ellie R. Laks and Jay Weiner, The Gentle Barn serves to rescue injured and negle...

A King Kong Comeback at Univer

King King, the mega-ape of the silver screen, remakes his close-up on the revamped Universal Studios...

  • Pink's: This dog's for you
  • Umami Burger: Umami Me, Baby!
  • LAX Encounters
  • Street: LA's trip to Latin culinary culture

Pink's: This dog's for you

Pink’s has been putting hot dogs into the hands of Angelenos since before most of us were born and t...

Umami Burger: Umami Me, Baby!

OK, we have five senses. But did you know we also have five tastes? Count ‘em: sweet, salty, sour, b...

LAX Encounters

There’s romance in the air at the Encounter Restaurant at LAX. That is, a romance for retro and a ce...

Street: LA's trip to Latin cul

Street food goes gourmet at The Street restaurant, which opened a year ago under the knowing eye of ...

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La Escalera, Cuba


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Don't Hate You


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A song about loving you.

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Scene and Screen at the W Westwood this Summer

Scene and Screen at the W Westwood this Summer

Get your Entourage jones satisfied at the backyard pool parties at W Westwood this summer..

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Pasadena Movies

Inception

A thief (Leonardo DiCaprio) who enters people's dreams and steals their secrets gets a shot at redemption when he is given the dangerous task of planting an idea in someone's subconscious.

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Pasadena Facts and Places:

Newspapers are Pasadena Star-News, Pasadena Weekly
Pasadena Sports teams are
Local Schools are USC - University of Southern California, Pasadena Jazz Institute

About Pasadena, California

All my life Pasadena has been the home of the Tournament of Roses Parade. Believe me, in January when it's cold and dreary where I live, Pasadena has looked many times like paradise. And, I do like to watch. At parade time, there's something unusual onscreen and everyone wears one layer of clothing to boot. Comfort certainly defines paradise for me. (I guess my response played right into the hands of the originators of the parade, eh? But, a good idea is easy to recognize.)

So, Salut Rose Bowl Parade!! That’s what I've always called it. And, even better, the 1970s came and brought Pasadena the Doo Dah Parade, a satire on the Rose Bowl Parade. Participants include a barbecue marching grill team and other silly groups to pay attention to. Sounds ideal to me. I’ll laugh.

Once upon a time there were grand homes along Pasadena’s South Orange Grove Boulevard, but they were replaced by apartments and condos. However, the grounds are still well kept. This modicum of decency is unheard of back east. When grandness goes, often so does pride in upkeep. But, not in Pasadena. Yay!

Parrots are important in Pasadena. They like the cedar trees.

Many cities has sister-city affiliations with other cities in the world and so does Pasadena. Uniquely Pasadena also has a "friendship agreement" with a Japanese city, Kasukabe. The distinction from sister city isn't clear, but each city does send delegations of citizens to the other city. They alternate years, though. Sounds ideal again.

Sadly, Pasadena may have lost the Emmys this decade, but they gained the Miss Teen USA pageant. It’s still show business, though. And, speaking of show business, Jack Larson is from Pasadena. (Hey, Jimmy! Where’s Clark?) Finally, after show business is said and done, let’s not forget CalTech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. There are both beauty and brains together in the same "neighborhood."

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