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Arts & Lit

Finding truth, justice and the Pasadena way in the arts and literature.

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Arts & Lit

Welcome to Wang Mansheng’s Imagination

A Huntington art exhibit invites meditation.

June 11, 2025
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Arts & Lit

Welcome to Wang Mansheng’s Imagination

A Huntington art exhibit invites meditation.

June 11, 2025
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Arts & Lit/Politics

Boston Court Calls for Urgent Support as NEA Ends Grants to Individual Arts Organizations

Loss of key federal funding puts innovative Pasadena theater at risk.

May 8, 2025
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Arts & Lit

Urban Vernacular: The Enduring Echo of Deco

A new book celebrates Art Deco architecture at its most eclectic.

May 7, 2025
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Arts & Lit

Tracking Genius

A speculative biography of the young Octavia E. Butler.

May 3, 2025
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Arts & Lit

Two Poets, Many Voices

Altadena Co-Poets Laureate bring grace and gravitas to Litfest in the Dena.

April 29, 2025
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Arts & Lit

The Omega Sci-Fi Project Celebrates Young Writers

Teens boldly go where no writer has gone before.

April 23, 2025
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Arts & Lit

Women of the Lens Celebrated at PAC LA

Nonprofit makes fine art photography accessible to all.

April 16, 2025
JOAN QUINN BROCHURE
Arts & Lit

Doyenne of the Diaspora

Joan Agajanian Quinn feted in Glendale as a champion of artists.

April 9, 2025
Arts & Lit

Beans and Worms, Under Glass

Mandy Palasik vibes the shiny, floaty, trippy 1960s in her 'Soft Surrealism.'

March 26, 2025
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Arts & Lit

Picturing History in LA’s Architecture

This is your parents’ LA. Or your grandparents’ perhaps?

March 19, 2025
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Arts & Lit

The Poetry Gathering at Washington Park

Pasadena seniors gather to read and discuss.

March 14, 2025
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Arts & Lit

Muse at the Half-century Mark

The Norton Simon Museum gets a midlife makeover.

February 28, 2025
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Arts & Lit

Double-X Marks the Spot

Women novelists convene for the annual Festival of Women Authors.

February 17, 2025
ARTIST TOM TOMLINSON
Arts & Lit

Picking Up the Pieces

Found objects create poignant assemblage art.

January 22, 2025
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Arts & Lit

Secret gay codes in iconic, world-renowned works of art

The Podcast.

December 23, 2024
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Arts & Lit

Decoding Homoerotic and Queer Art

Secret gay codes in iconic, world-renowned works of art.

December 23, 2024
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Arts & Lit/Limelight

Lisa Vroman: The Forever Ingénue

'Phantom of the Opera' actress finds a home in Pasadena.

December 1, 2024
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Arts & Lit/Neighborhood 411

Starlight, Star Bright

Light and shadow celebrate winter's wonders at Descanso Gardens.

November 27, 2024
Arts & Lit

Lian Dolan Inducted into Vroman’s Walk of Fame

The author was honored during the bookstore's 130th Anniversary Celebration.

November 25, 2024
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Arts & Lit

It’s Hammer Time with Chloeography

It's more than a 3-ring circus with metalsmith Chloe Kono.

November 13, 2024
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Arts & Lit

Genre-bent Paintings, Re-contextualized Truths

Artist Annie Lapin paints to make us reconsider gardens.

October 6, 2024
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Arts & Lit/Science & Nature

Ecological Awareness, from Local to Planetary

The Huntington Library Exhibit "Storm Cloud" Stages a Consciousness Shift.

October 5, 2024
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Arts & Lit

Welcome to the Neighborhood

Being a neighbor has challenges and many satisfactions. No kidding.

September 28, 2024
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Arts & Lit

Bowling Alley Architecture Author Splits to Vroman’s

"Bowlarama" celebrates the golden age of opulent ten-pin palaces.

September 18, 2024
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