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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 »
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 »
