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ArtCenter College of Design will present its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Diana Thater on Saturday, September 27 in Pasadena, honoring a career defined by vision and resilience. Thater, chair of ArtCenter’s Art Department since 2024 and a faculty member ... More »
The American Red Cross honored Pow Wow on Parade Foundation leaders Baltazar Fedalizo and Peter Roybal with the Certificate of Extraordinary Personal Action on September 17, spotlighting their courageous rescue of families during the January Eaton Fire. Two ot... More »
Caroline Quinn, a 1990 graduate of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, was credited as Senior Set Designer on “The Pitt,” which won Outstanding Drama Series at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 14. ArtCenter College of Design publicly celebrated Qui... More »
Robert Redford—whose iconic screen presence and enduring influence bridged blockbuster cinema and independent film—has died at 89, leaving a legacy entwined with Old Pasadena, where unforgettable scenes from “The Sting” were filmed decades before the area’s tr... 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 »
David Baltimore, the former president of California Institute in Technology in Pasadena who won a Nobel Prize at the age of 37, has died at 87, officials confirmed Sunday. Baltimore died Saturday at his home in Massachusetts. The cause of death was not immedia... More »
As accounting firms merge into ever-larger entities, one accountant in Pasadena has chosen another route: working alone. Angel Zhen, 36, has built a one-person practice in Old Pasadena into a business generating about serving hundreds of clients across Pasaden... More »
The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association set aside its famous New Year’s Day preparations Sunday to honor the first responders who battled the devastating Eaton Fire that killed at least 17 people and destroyed more than 9,000 buildings. The recognition ce... More »
South Pasadena resident David Blekhman, professor of technology in the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at Cal State LA, received the President’s Distinguished Professor Award during the University Convocation and Investiture on Aug. 18... More »
The Armory Center for the Arts new Director of Exhibitions Taylor Bythewood-Porteras assumed her new position this month. “I am a curator and writer whose work centers Black feminist thought, material culture, and the aesthetics of the African Diaspora,” Bythe... More »
Rev. Hovhannes Haladjian will embark on a 2,800-mile motorcycle journey across five western states to raise funds for 200 orphans and widows in Armenia and Lebanon. The 65-year-old Pasadena pastor at Pasadena Armenian Church of the Nazarene, who was himself o... More »
William “Bill” Thomson Jr., who as Pasadena’s 48th mayor spearheaded the transformation of Old Pasadena into a thriving business and arts district, died on Sunday. He was 89. Thomson served as mayor from 1988 to 1990 after being elected to the City Council in ... More »
