Ice House Comedy: Sean Porter and Friends
2025-01-17 21:45 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice Comedy presents Sean Porter and Friends. Ice House doors open at 6:30pm Seating in the showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. Show starts at 9:45pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's Bookstore: Christine Mari discusses Halfway There
2025-01-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
A poignant young adult graphic memoir that follows one teen’s year abroad in Japan, as she seeks to reconcile both sides of her biracial identity.
Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was born in Tokyo but raised in the US, she knows all too well what it’s like to be a part of two different worlds but never feeling as though you belong to either.
Now on the brink of adulthood, Christine decides it’s time to return to the place she once called home. So she sets forth on a year abroad in Tokyo, believing that this is where she truly belongs. After years of feeling like an outsider, now she will finally be complete.
Except…Tokyo isn’t the answer she thought it would be. Instead of fitting in, Christine finds herself a fish out of water, as being half of two cultures isolates her in ways she’d never imagined. All she can do is try to stay afloat for the rest of the year—still figuring out who she is, what she wants in life, and whether she’ll ever truly be more than halfway there.

Ice House Comedy: Deez Nutz
2025-01-18 16:30 - 18:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Deez Nutz! Young stand-up comedians in SoCal gather to perform at the renowned IceHouse of Pasadena! Don’t miss the chance to see the rising stars of the comedy scene. Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Orny Adams
2025-01-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Orny Adams. LIVE IN THE LEGENDARY ROOM! The show starts at 7:00pm. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Home by 9 Comedy Show
2025-01-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Home by 9 Comedy Show. The show starts at 7:30pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Shindig Show & Frankie Quinones: Benefit Show for Eaton Fire
2025-01-18 21:00 - 22:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
This Shindig Show with Frankie Quinones and Paul Rodriguez headlining will go to benefit the Eaton Fire Relief Fund. If you would like to donate directly to help victims of the Eaton Fire go to: www.PasadenaCF.Org

Ice House Comedy: Jerry Garcia, Jonathan Kite, Dean Delray
2025-01-18 21:30 - 23:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Jerry Garcia, Jonathan Kite, Dean Delray. The show starts at 9:30pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House: New World Disorder
2025-01-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents New World Disorder with Francesca Fiorentini! LIVE IN THE CALIFORNIA ROOM! Ice House doors open at 7:00pm. Seating in sthe howroom begins 30 minutes prior to showtime. The show Starts at 8:00pm. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.
Help kiss Democracy buh-bye with comedian and podcast host Francesca Fiorentini & her hand-picked crop of powerhouse comics. Come laugh to not cry as we mark Trump’s ascension to power and all our jokes might soon be illegal! Remember, laughter is the best form of solidarity.

Vroman's Bookstore: Jessica Graham discusses Being (Sick) Enough: Thoughts on Invisible Illness, Childhood Trauma, and Living Well When Surviving Is Hard
2025-01-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Wise and witty essays on navigating pain, sex, trauma, spirituality, addiction, recovery, and grief from queer neurodivergent trauma resolution guide Jessica Graham. In an unapologetic look at living well with chronic illness, writer and meditation teacher Jessica Graham offers smart, funny, raw, and mindful insights on untangling—and embracing—the messy realities of being a human alive on this planet today.
Graham gives us permission to accept care—and accept that it’s ok to want care. They weave together personal stories and practical wisdom, grounded in their queer, chronically ill, and neurodivergent identities. They offer their take on managing symptoms, getting creative, setting boundaries, and healing from ableist tropes like “you don’t look that sick” and “we’re all a little ADHD.”
Graham also shares vulnerable personal history: the adverse childhood experiences that rewired their body and brain. The workaholism and addictions that kept their pain lying just below the surface. How illness and trauma intersect to obscure the knowledge that we’re each enough, wholly as we are.
Graham explores the parts of chronic illness life that don’t get enough airtime: how can we center sex and pleasure when pain gets in the way? How can we live well…while living through late-stage capitalist hell? How can we come into relationship with our pain without falling prey to self-blame, magical thinking, or toxic positivity?
Wise and embodied, fearless and necessary, Being (Sick) Enough is both a wild awakening and a love letter to your whole self: the pains and suffering, joys and brightness, and vital connections that hold each of us as we navigate what it means to be here, like this, right now.

Vroman's Bookstore: Whodunnit Wednesday: Kemper Donovan and Nicholas George discuss Loose Lips and A Lethal Walk in Lakeland
2025-01-22 19:00 - 20:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Loose Lips
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. So goes the adage, but sometimes, even a first-rate ghostwriter and successful mystery author needs to make a buck. Even if that means setting foot on a cruise ship, something she vowed she’d never do. To top it off, the “Get Lit Cruise” is being organized by Payton Garrett, a very popular, bestselling author—and the ghostwriter’s long-time frenemy from back in their MFA days.
Over the years, Payton has reinvented herself. She gained a wife while ditching her journalist husband—who is also on board. And she’s acquired a rabid following who eagerly snapped up the invitations sent to a select few of her newsletter subscribers. The guests, all female, will receive personalized instruction from experts in five different writing genres, while basking in Payton’s reflected glow.
Between mentoring guests, flirting with Payton’s ex, and taking bets on how long before someone performs a reenactment of Titanic’s “I’m flying!” scene (answer: not long enough), there’s plenty to keep a ghostwriter occupied. But there’s one activity nobody expected: solving a murder.
When an attendee is found dead under suspicious circumstances and several others suffer symptoms of poisoning, there are numerous motives and suspects to choose from. But could it be that the victim wasn’t even the intended target? As the body count rises along with onboard tensions, no one is safe—except, perhaps, for a killer whose scruples have long abandoned ship. And of course, like every well-plotted mystery, this one has an extra twist . . .

A Lethal Walk in Lakeland
Chase has two compelling reasons for returning to England—a group walk along the famed Coast to Coast trail in the picturesque Lake District, and a chance to further his relationship with Mike, the handsome Devonshire doctor he met on his last trip. The walkers, including Chase’s dear friend and fellow Anglophile Billie Mondreau, assemble at a Whitehaven hotel and begin their adventure with the traditional “baptism of the boots” in St. Bee’s Bay. But they’ve barely begun traveling eastward with their genial guide than the group dynamics turns unexpectedly rocky.
The problem is the Uptons—a wealthy family who have arrived from Texas, and whose squabbling antics continually overshadow the bucolic surroundings. Brock Upton, tall and commanding, is traveling with his pint-sized wife and his three siblings, along with a family friend. Every member of the party cites a different reason for joining the tour, and Chase’s instincts tell him they’re all lying.
Brock’s heart condition hinders their progress through the Lake District’s hills and dales. But that proves the least of their problems when one of the Uptons is fatally poisoned. Years of secrets and grudges emerge, along with a decades-old family mystery. And only Chase’s investigative expertise can find the answers—and uncover a killer in their midst before tragedy befalls the tour again . . .

Ice House Comedy: New World Disorder w/Francesca Fiorentini
2025-01-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Help kiss Democracy buh-bye with comedian and podcast host Francesca Fiorentini & her hand-picked crop of powerhouse comics. Come laugh to not cry as we mark Trump’s ascension to power and all our jokes might soon be illegal! Remember, laughter is the best form of solidarity. Featuring: Francesca Fiorentini Host of The Bitchuation Room Podcast
As seen on MSNBC, AJ+, The Young Turks, Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Ice House Comedy: Wednesday's at the DL w/ DL Hughley & friends
2025-01-22 20:00 - 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Famed comedian DL Hughley is bringing a one-of-a-kind residency to the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena, CA this summer. Billed as “Wednesdays at the DL with DL Hughley and Friends”, the show will be a weekly show every Wednesday night at 8:00pm. The show Starts at 8pm. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Mas Locos w/Willie Barcena & friends
2025-01-23 20:00 - 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Mas Locos is a show featuring some of the most successful and talented Latino comedians in the world. It also introduces you to the next generation of Latino comics stepping into the spotlight of comedy. The show is hosted by the hilarious Willie Barcena.

Ice House Comedy: TJ (Tanael Joachim)
2025-01-24 19:45 - 21:15 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
TJ (Tanael Joachim) is a Haitian-born stand-up comedian currently based in New York City. TJ has a very laid-back, smooth, and conversational style. He jokes about race, society’s idiosyncrasies, and the inherent contrast between life in Haiti and America. He has appeared on Gotham Comedy Live (AXS TV) and Good Day New York (FOX). The show starts at 7:45pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Auguste Derose-Jones & Jokers: Eaton Fire Show
2025-01-24 21:30 - 23:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Auguste Derose-Jones & Jokers. The show Starts at 9:30pm. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's Ed - Fiction Writing Class with Diana Wagman (8 weeks)
2025-01-25 10:30 - 12:00 | Atrium Building, 709 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
(This 8-week class will be held on Saturdays from 10:30am-12:30pm except for 2/1 & 3/1, which will be from 9:30am-11:30am. Class meets on the following dates: 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22, 3/1, 3/8, and 3/15.)
This Fiction Writing Class is for writers interested in working on short stories or a novel. There will be an optional weekly exercise and suggested readings, but it is predominately a workshop to discuss and advance each other’s work, concentrating on the elements that make fiction compelling: character, point of view, setting and description, conflict and resolution. Each writer will share work twice, the ultimate goal being a complete short story or a novel chapter.
Diana Wagman is the author of six novels. Her second, Spontaneous, won the 2001 PEN West Award for Fiction. Her fourth, The Care & Feeding of Exotic Pets, was very briefly a best seller. She has had many short stories and essays published, most recently in Conjunctions and Prairie Schooner, and is an occasional contributor to the Los Angeles Times. She has taught as adjunct faculty across southern California, from Loyola Marymount to CalArts to Cal State San Bernardino.
TO SIGN UP FOR THIS WRITING CLASS, PLEASE CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE AT (626)449-5320 BY 1/24/25.
*This class will be held on the following dates – 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22, 3/1, 3/8, and 3/15. All classes will take place in the Vroman’s Meeting Room located next door to Vroman’s Main Store in the Atrium at 709 E. Colorado Blvd. Suite 120.
If for any reason you cannot attend this set of classes you have signed up for, please give 24 hour notice, before the first class, of your cancelation in order to receive a refund.

Vroman's Bookstore: Wendy Little presents A Frog Named Toulouse
2025-01-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Toulouse has a hunch Chef might want him for lunch! Toulouse the Frog is hopping along when he encounters a chef who wants to use his legs for a stew. Oh dear! See what happens when Toulouse tries to convince Chef not to use him as an ingredient in his dish. A delightfully fun book to read aloud!

Ice House Comedy: Ladies Love Comedy
2025-01-25 19:30 - 21:00 | CA
Ice House Comedy presents Ladies Love Comedy. The show starts at 7:30pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Chinedu Unaka, Leslie Liao, Brett Riley + more
2025-01-25 21:30 - 23:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Chinedu Unaka, Leslie Liao, Brett Riley, and more! The show starts at 9:30pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Archetype Yoga: Full Moon Sound Bath
2025-01-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Archetypa Yoga, 638 e colorado ave, pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Need clarity or direction? Let the Lunar Energy of the Full Moon guide you in this transformative workshop. Here’s what you can expect:
🛁 Relaxation: Soothe your nervous system with a therapeutic sound bath.
🔮 Insight: Discover what the cards reveal during your tarot reading.
☕️ Comfort: Choose from our selection of loose-leaf teas to enjoy.
📚 Reflection: Don’t forget to bring a journal, pen, and your favorite mug!
Join Archetype Yoga for an evening of relaxation, reflection, and cosmic inspiration.Yog

Pasadena Heritage: Millennial Preservationist Happy Hour
2025-01-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Pasadena Heritage, The Blinn House 160 N Oakland Ave, Pasadena, 91101, United States
Pasadena Heritage invites you to partake in Millennial Preservationist Happy Hour! Connect with peers who are passionate about preservation and exploring fresh ideas.

Vroman's Bookstore: Pico Iyer discusses Aflame: Learning from Silence
2025-01-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat
Pico Iyer has made more than one hundred retreats over the past three decades to a small Benedictine hermitage high above the sea in Big Sur, California. He’s not a Christian—or a member of any religious group—but his life has been transformed by these periods of time spent in silence. That silence reminds him of what is essential and awakens a joy that nothing can efface. It’s not just freedom from distraction and noise and rush: it’s a reminder of some deeper truths he misplaced along the way.
In Aflame, Iyer connects with inner stillness and joy in his many seasons at the monastery, even as his life is going through constant change: a house burns down, a parent dies, a daughter is diagnosed with cancer. He shares the revelations he experiences, alongside wisdom from other nonmonastics who have learned from adversity and inwardness. And most profoundly, he shows how solitude can be a training in community and companionship. In so doing, he offers a unique outsider’s view of monastic life—and of a group of selfless souls who have dedicated their days to ensuring there’s a space for quiet and recollection that’s open to us all.
Radiant, intimate, and gripping, Aflame offers ageless counsel about the power of silence and what it can teach us about how to live, how to love, and, ultimately, how to die.

Ice House Comedy: Guy Torry's Phat Tuesdays
2025-01-28 20:00 - 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Guy Torry’s Phat Tuesdays. In the tradition of comedians who have made the transition from the stage to the screen, such as Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby, multi-talented Guy Torry has made the leap to comedic actor with great success. The show Starts at 8pm. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Pasadena Heritage Annual Meeting
2025-01-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Pasadena Heritage, The Blinn House 160 N Oakland Ave, Pasadena, 91101, United States
Pasadena Heritage invites you to join them at Blinn House for an Open House with refreshments from 5PM-6PM followed by the Annual Meeting from 6PM-7PM.

Vroman's Bookstore: Jorge Cham and Dwayne Godwin discuss Out of Your Mind
2025-01-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
From the creator of WE HAVE NO IDEA, an introductory journey into your own mind—if your inner voice had a Ph.D. in brain science, cracked jokes, and drew cartoons.
Why do you love? Why do you lie? What makes you happy? Every single thought you have comes from one place: your brain. But what makes it tick? How much of it have we decoded, and how much of it remains an impenetrable mystery?
Join best-selling author and online cartoonist Jorge Cham and neuroscientist Dwayne Godwin on a deep dive into the fascinating world of the human brain, in which they will explore questions such as: What is consciousness? Where are you in the brain? And do we have free will? All while illuminating everything we know (and DON’T know) about one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Think of it as conversation-ammunition for your next cocktail party, or a quick fascinating read while you’re in the bathroom (don’t worry, the chapters aren’t that long). Centered around questions we all ask ourselves at some point but don’t usually have answers to, Out of Your Mind is an illustrated book about the brain that isn’t too brainy. Playful, accessible, and deeply insightful, it’s the one brain book that’s truly accessible and suitable for all brains.

Ice House: ONLYFANS Presents: LMAOF
2025-01-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents LMAOF! Live in the Legendary Room! Ice House doors open at 7pm. Seating in the showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. The show Starts at 8pm. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.Pla

Ice House: Sklar Bros, Momo Rodriguez, Al Madrigal
2025-01-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Sklar Bros, Momo Rodriguez, and Al Madrigal! LIVE IN THE CALIFORNIA ROOM! pla

Vroman's Bookstore: Walter Mosley discusses Been Wrong So Long it Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel
2025-01-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Joe King Oliver’s beloved Grandma B has found a tumor, and at her age, treatment is high-risk. She’s lived life fully and without regrets, and now has only a single, dying wish: to see her long-lost son. King has been estranged from his father, Chief Odin Oliver, since he was a young boy. He swore to never speak to the man again when he was taken away in handcuffs. But now, Grandma B’s pure ask has opened King’s heart, and through his hunt, he gains a deeper understanding of his father as a complicated, righteous man—a man defined by women, a man protected by women, a man he wants to know. Although Chief was released from prison years ago, he’s been living underground ever since. Now, King must not only find his father, but prove his innocence, and protect the future of his entire family.
Simultaneously, King finds himself in a moral bind. Marigold Hart, the wife of a powerful Californian billionaire, has gone missing, along with their seven-year-old daughter. Orr is brutish and dangerous, and King realizes after locating her that it’s in her best interest to stay hidden. But are his motives pure? There is something magnetic about Marigold; he can’t help but want her near.
In the latest installment in the Joe King Oliver series, no good deed goes unpunished. Emotionally stirring, pulse-pounding, and undeniably sexy, Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right shows Walter Mosley at his best.

Vroman's Bookstore: John McMahon discusses Head Cases
2025-01-31 19:00 - 20:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Head Cases follows an enigmatic group of FBI agents as they hunt down a murderer seeking his own justice in this electrifying—and commercial—series debut.
FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He also has a blind spot on the human side of investigations, a blindness that sometimes even includes people in his own life, like his beloved seven-year-old daughter Camila. Gardner and his squad of brilliant yet quirky agents make up the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit, the FBI’s hidden edge, brought in for cases that no one else can solve.
When DNA links a murder victim to a serial killer long presumed dead, the team springs into action. A second victim establishes a pattern, and the murderer begins leaving a trail of clues and riddles especially for Gardner. And while the PAR team is usually relegated to working cold cases from behind a desk, the investigation puts them on the road and into the public eye, following in the footsteps of a killer.
Along with Gardner, PAR consists of a mathematician, a weapons expert, a computer analyst, and their leader, a career agent. Each of them must use every skill they have to solve the riddle of the killer’s identity. But with the perpetrator somehow learning more and more about the team at PAR, can they protect themselves and their families…before it’s too late?

Ice House Comedy: Crazy Woke Asians’s Loud Snakes
2025-01-31 21:30 - 23:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Crazy Woke Asians’s Loud Snakes. The show starts at 9:30pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.
