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Mariko Kita will become senior vice president and chief medical officer of Pasadena’s Huntington Health on Tuesday, Sept. 29, according to the hospital’s earlier annoucement. Huntington Health, a Cedars-Sinai affiliate at 100 W. California Blvd., said in a Jul... More »
Yvette Lopez-Ledesma was named Tuesday as the inaugural executive director of the Los Angeles County Parks Foundation, where she will oversee fundraising, philanthropic partnerships and efforts to expand access to parks and recreation across the county. Lopez-... More »
The Pasadena Tournament of Roses has named Karen Marshall, Ania Norwood and Adam Schwerner to judge the 24 float awards of the 138th Rose Parade in Pasadena on Jan. 1, 2027. The panel picks the winners, the Sweepstakes Trophy among them, and the awards are ann... More »
Bob Mackie, the costume designer whose sequined and feathered creations dressed Cher, Carol Burnett and Diana Ross across six decades of American television, died Monday at a hospital in Palm Springs. He was 87. Mackie’s route to Hollywood ran through Pasadena... More »
On September 11, 2001, Pasadena resident Lynn Angell was living a full and busy life when the monstrous reality of 9/11 struck. Lynn and her husband, David, an Emmy-winning television writer and producer known for “Cheers,” “Frasier,” and “Wings,” were aboard ... More »
A Pasadena police officer who was injured in the line of duty in March was recognized on the field at the Los Angeles Dodgers’ First Responders Night this week, the Pasadena Police Department said. Officer Bryan Vasquez, a five-year veteran of the department, ... More »
James “Jim” Marrin, a graphic designer who helped found Pasadena Heritage in 1977 and designed the preservation group’s first logo, died Aug. 19 at 86, about five weeks after the organization honored him at Castle Green during a ceremony opening its 50th-anniv... More »
A Caltech professor who helped build an AI weather model that runs tens of thousands of times faster than the forecasting systems that came before it has been named one of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence by TIME. Anima Anandkumar, t... More »
Alumnus Benjamin M. Rosen (BS ’54), chair emeritus of the Caltech Board of Trustees, a life member of the Caltech community, a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA) in 2007, and chair emeritus of Compaq Computer Corporation, passed away on August 2... More »
Otis Triplett, an 88-year-old Army veteran who has spent nearly three decades patrolling Pasadena streets as a police volunteer, was named Congressional Volunteer of the Year for Pasadena and Altadena at Representative Judy Chu’s annual Congressional Leadershi... More »
Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Pat Kelly was the third child of Ray and Allene Windham. In 1947, she moved with her family to Glendora, California, where she would live for a combined fifty-three years. She later moved to Mt. San Antonio Gardens in Claremont with ... More »
Most people think of Southern California as beaches, podcaster and new Sierra Madre neighbor Phil Hendrie said, but it is the mountains that actually frame the place, the ridge above every valley town doing more to define the landscape than any stretch of coas... More »
