Wells Fargo, announced today that the financial services company will sponsor the first-ever closing ceremony in the Tournament of Roses Parade. The inaugural addition to the New Year’s Day tradition will tell the inspiring story of retired Staff Sargent, an... More »
The Pasadena Community Coalition’s letter to the Executive Board of the Tournament of Roses, received in their offices on November 24, 2014, requesting that they address the lack of hiring of any African-American males on their staff has yet to be formally ack... More »
Ever since I was a kid growing up in Altadena in the ‘60s and ‘70s, I’ve loved the Rose Parade. And while watching the vibrant New Year’s Day spectacle in those days, it never failed that my mom, dad or other adult relative would say something like, â€... More »
The globe may be warming, but Pasadena will be very, very cold indeed tonight along the Rose Parade route with the National Weather Service predicting temperatures that shatter the record cold of 32 degrees set in 1952. “Dress warmly in layers,†urged Pasa... More »
The Baseball Reliquary, Inc. has announced its list of fifty eligible candidates for the 2015 election of the Shrine of the Eternals, the membership organization’s equivalent to the Baseball Hall of Fame. This year marks the seventeenth annual election of th... More »
On December 29, 2014, South Pasadena Mayor Robert S. Joe presented 2014 Image Awards to former City Clerk, longtime resident, and community volunteer Sally Kilby, and the Institute for the Redesign of Learning at the South Pasadena Tournament of Roses Committ... More »
On December 30, 2014, the City of Pasadena released an investigation report prepared by auditing firm KPMG which discloses the theft of millions of dollars from the City’s Underground Utility Program administered by the City’s Public Works Department. The ... More »
[Updated: 4:40 p.m.] Pasadena city officials announced the arrest of a former city employee for allegedly misappropriating funds and embezzling $6.4 million. Following an investigation by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, Danny Wooten, 51, was... More »
A popular Old Pasadena restaurant was temporarily closed December 22 by the Pasadena Public Health department for a cockroach infestation and, eight days later, remains closed, city records and an official said. Wokcano, at 33 South Fair Oaks Avenue, remains c... More »
JPL’s Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft. Dawn launched in 2007 and is scheduled to enter Ceres orbit in March 2015. Dawn recently emerge... More »
For a city so proud of its mild, sunny winters that it created the Rose Parade to tout its climate, Pasadena—or, at least, Caltech—has become, somewhat paradoxically, renowned for its snowflakes. Every year, when flurries begin falling across the country, ... More »
Pages from section 10,270 of the “Yongle Encyclopedia,” 1562–1567. Photo courtesy of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. Two historians will discuss an almost 500-year-old Chinese manuscript recently uncovered in the Hunt... More »
