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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 »
She never cooked a meal in Pasadena that anyone remembers. Then she left Southern California as a young woman, discovered food in Paris at 36, and spent four decades teaching a nation how to flip an omelet without fear. Yet when Smithsonian curator Paula J. Jo... More »
Two of the names on the Los Angeles Business Journal‘s 2026 list of influential litigators and trial attorneys belong to Pasadena women who don’t practice law. Mercy Tolentino Steenwyk and Emily Lou Steenwyk run ForensisGroup, a South Lake Avenue firm that sec... More »
For the first time in nearly two decades, the nonprofit that thousands of Pasadena and Altadena families often rely on to navigate the public school system has a new person running it. Jennifer Allan Goldman took over as executive director of the Pasadena Educ... More »
If you were to walk into Bil Clemons’s office in Braun Laboratories, it is likely that his 6-year-old Aussie doodle, Mila, would be the first to greet you. “The students love interacting with Mila,” says Clemons, a Caltech biochemist. “You can tell she’s frien... More »
Betye Saar, who grew up in Pasadena during the Great Depression and studied art and design at Pasadena City College before becoming a leading figure in the assemblage art movement, died Sunday in Los Angeles, four days before her 100th birthday. She was 99. Ro... More »
Huntington Health announced the appointment of Mariko Kita, MD, MBA, as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, effective September 29, 2026. Dr. Kita joins Huntington following a national search and was selected for her clinical expertise, and strong... More »
Rudolph A. (Rudy) Marcus, Caltech’s John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, passed away on July 16, 2026. The prolific chemist, who approached theory with infinite curiosity and the background of an experimentalist, was five days shy of hi... More »
Nathan Wolford lost both legs below the knee in a 2017 work accident in Michigan. This month, the City of Pasadena named him the 2026 recipient of its Robert Gorski Access Award. The award, established by the city’s Accessibility and Disability Commission, is ... More »
Wise, a particle physicist whose research focused on the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions, played a key role in the development of the heavy quark effective theory (HQET), a formalism that has allowed physicists to make precise predict... More »
Alfred N. Fonteh spent more than two decades looking for traces of Alzheimer’s disease before it announces itself — early precursors in the fats moving through spinal fluid, blood and urine, where he believed the disease left its earliest traces. Fonteh, a res... More »
The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine has appointed Patricia A. Thomas, MD, FACP, to its board of directors, the Pasadena-based medical school announced in a statement July 8. Thomas is Professor of Medicine Emerita at the Johns Hopkins Uni... More »
