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John O. Dabiri (PhD ’05), Caltech’s Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, and Joseph Lazio, a visiting associate in astronomy, have been named 2025 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the ... More »
On March 9, 1951, near a place called Taemi-Dong in Korea, a company of American soldiers was pinned against a hillside by withering machine gun fire. Their captain, a 31-year-old Chickasaw Indian from Pasadena, rose alone. He charged uphill through a storm of... More »
The Eaton Fire Collaborative has selected Pasadena native Michael Ocon as its first Executive Director to lead long-term recovery coordination across Altadena, Pasadena, and Sierra Madre, the organization announced March 13. Ocon, a Pasadena High School gradua... More »
Jerry Kohl has called the Hollywood Bowl “a place of legends, a place that stays in people’s hearts for a lifetime.” Now his name, along with his wife Terri’s, will be permanently fixed to one of the Bowl’s newest structures. The Los Angeles County Board of Su... More »
Assemblymember John Harabedian (D-Pasadena) honored Sheri Bonner, the retiring President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley, as Assembly District 41’s 2026 Woman of the Year during a ceremony on the Assembly Floor in Sacramento this mo... More »
Dr. Lucy Jones, the Pasadena seismologist who spent a career translating earthquake science into plain language for millions of Californians, was honored Monday as the Fifth District’s Woman of the Year by Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger. The reco... More »
Pasadena entrepreneur and event producer Victoria Williams was recently honored by NBC4 Los Angeles during Women’s History Month for her work expanding educational access and opportunity across Southern California. Williams is the founder of the Black Educatio... More »
A Noise Within in Pasadena announced the appointment of Conner Criswell as its new managing director. Criswell steps into the role after serving as the company’s general manager during his first three seasons with A Noise Within. The theater said he holds an M... More »
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor made three stops in Pasadena during a multi-day visit to the Los Angeles area in early February, speaking to high school students, reading her children’s book to fifth graders at the Pasadena Playhouse and j... More »
A public memorial gathering honoring Joanne Nuckols, the South Pasadena preservationist whose legal expertise and coalition-building helped stop the 710 Freeway extension from displacing thousands of homes in South Pasadena, Pasadena, and El Sereno, will be he... More »
An attorney whose career has spanned three professions — law, real estate and family therapy — has been named partner at Lagerlof, LLP, a Pasadena law firm that traces its history to 1908, according to the firm. Dena L. Klotz, a member of the firm’s Private Cl... More »
Robert Hartstein, the new-ish general manager and CEO of the University Club of Pasadena, settled into a corner of the sunlit dining room for a lunchtime conversation Wednesday, reflecting on a career that has spanned fine dining, hotel management, and private... More »
