Playhouse Village Association

Ice House Comedy: Labor Day Comedy w/Sebastian Cetina
2023-08-15 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents hosted by Sebastian Cetina featuring Jerry Garcia, George Wang, and Victor Vasquez. Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's: Grace Lin, In Conversation with John Cho, Discusses Chinese Menu
2023-08-15 18:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
From fried dumplings to fortune cookies, here are the tales behind your favorite foods.
Do you know the stories behind delectable dishes–like the fun connection between scallion pancakes and pizza? Or how dumplings cured a village’s frostbitten ears? Or how wonton soup tells about the creation of the world?
Separated into courses like a Chinese menu, these tales–based in real history and folklore–are filled with squabbling dragons, magical fruits, and hungry monks. This book will bring you to far-off times and marvelous places, all while making your mouth water. And, along the way, you might just discover a deeper understanding of the resilience and triumph behind this food, and what makes it undeniably American.
Award-winning and bestselling author Grace Lin provides a visual and storytelling feast as she gives insight on the history, legends, and myths behind your favorite American Chinese dishes. Chinese Menu makes the perfect gift book for anyone who loves good food–and an even better story. (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
New York Times bestselling author John Cho is known as Harold from Harold & Kumar, Hikaru Sulu from J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek, or as the star of the highly anticipated live-action Netflix series, Cowboy Bebop, based on the worldwide cult anime phenomenon (news of which “broke the Internet,” to quote Vanity Fair). John is also a former 7th-grade English teacher who grew up as a Korean immigrant kid in Texas and East L.A. (among many other places). He is also now a proud father, with his Japanese-American wife Kerri, of two beautiful children — a 9-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old boy — who love to read.

Vroman's: Thomas Vozzo discusses the Homeboy Way: A Radical approach to Business and Life
2023-08-15 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Leading with heart, authenticity and purpose, Thomas Vozzo provides a clear path to a new bottom line–including 55 rules to break–bringing the Homeboy Way to life as the perfect anecdote to the massive tidal currents of social injustice and inequities.
By every traditional measurement of success, Vozzo was a clear winner. In his world of billion-dollar revenues and million-dollar profits, he knew exactly what shareholders wanted and how to get it for them.
Then, through a series of fateful events, Vozzo landed as CEO of Homeboy Industries, the most successful gang intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the country, founded by Jesuit priest Greg Boyle. “I arrived at Homeboy at a time when I needed to learn more about myself and my life’s journey,” Vozzo writes. “And after 8 years of working with the poor, forgotten, and demonized people of our society, I’ve come to learn that I didn’t really know as much about life as I thought.”
Vozzo’s enlightening journey leads to his recognition that a radical approach is needed in business and in life: “What Homeboy has taught me is that we need to do business differently . . . . We need to bust up the system, swim upstream, avoid herd mentality.”
Blending personal stories of his day-to-day with Fr. Greg and the Homies along with counterintuitive business ideas that are changing lives for the better, Vozzo shows you how you can live, lead, and shake things up with toughness, determination, compassion, and grit.
That’s the Homeboy Way.

Pasadena Presbyterian: Music at Noon: Grace Navarro (mezzo-soprano)
2023-08-16 12:10 - 12:30 | Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena , CA, 91101, United States
Enjoy music with your lunch Wednesdays from 12:10 – 12:40PM in the Sanctuary at PPC. If you love classical virtuosos or contemporary maestros, each week promises a captivating performance that will leave you mesmerized. Best of all, admission is free and accessible to all music lovers. For the schedule of upcoming performers, visit ppc.net.

Vroman's: Alex Brown, in conversation with Justine Pucella Winans, discusses 'Damned If You Do'
2023-08-16 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Queer Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Filipino folklore in this horror comedy about a high school stage manager who accidentally sells her soul to a demon.
Seven years ago, Cordelia Scott’s abusive father left without a word, and life has been normal ever since. The seventeen-year-old spends her days stage managing the school play (which is going great, if anyone asks), pining over her best friend, Veronica, and failing one too many pop quizzes.
She’s never been sad that her father left, but she knows something is…missing. When her school guidance counselor, Fred, reveals during a session that he’s actually a demon, she learns that something is indeed missing: a piece of her actual soul. Why? She unwittingly made a deal with him to make her father disappear – then bargained to have the memory erased. To make matters worse, Fred is here to make another bargain: Help him with a “little” demonic problem, or she’s doomed to spend eternity in Hell with her father.

Fuller: Elevation Film Screening
2023-08-16 19:00 - 22:00 | Landmark Theatre, 673 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Second Advance Screenings of George Nolfi’s next film, Elevation. Feedback to George will directly impact the final cut of this film. If you participated in the first screening and want to see it again, please bring someone with you who has not seen the film yet. George is looking for fresh eyes to watch the film at each of the three advanced screenings.
George Nolfi is an American writer-director best known for Bourne Ultimatum, Oceans Twelve, and The Adjustment Bureau. His most recent film, The Banker, starring Sam Jackson and Anthony Mackie won the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Best Independent Motion Picture. Nolfi is working with Brehm Film to host three advanced screenings of his next film. The feedback from these screenings will help him make the final cut of the film before it is released.
Your in-person feedback to George after the movie will directly impact the final cut of this film.
ELEVATION:
The world has changed. The only habitable place left for humanity is in the high mountains, above 8000 feet. Go below 8000 feet, and waiting for you are the very creatures that killed 95% of the human population less than three years ago. But what happens if — to save the life of his young son — a father (Anthony Mackie) is forced to do just that, to venture below “The Line” with two others, a scientist he despises (Morena Baccarin) but who just might hold the key to defeating the monsters, and a young woman (Maddie Hasson) determined to keep them both alive long enough to save the human race.

Ice House Comedy: Unwoke AF Comedy Tour
2023-08-16 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Unwoke AF Comedy tour featuring Sam Tripoli, Jason Collings, and Kira Soltanovich. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: An Evening of Jazz
2023-08-16 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Chaun Tucker’s “An Evening of Jazz” guest hosted by Jonnae Thompson and Friends. Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Erik Griffin
2023-08-17 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Erik Griffin. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.
Erik Griffin Bio
A veteran stand-up headliner, Griffin performs in venues across the world, but most often can be seen at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, CA. Griffin’s comedy is immortalized on his debut comedy album, TECHNICAL FOUL: VOLUME ONE, his Comedy Central special THE HALF HOUR, in addition to his two-hour-long comedy specials titled THE UGLY TRUTH, and AMERIKAN WARRIOR, which are available to stream NOW on Amazon and Showtime respectively.

Ice House Comedy: Dirty Sets
2023-08-18 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Steve Hernandez, Clayton Thomas, Leslie Liao, Chimedu Unaka and friends. Live in the California room! 21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Don't Let Your F-Stop Comedy Show
2023-08-18 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Don’t Let your F-Stop Comedy Show a Michael Schwartz production. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Rick Martinez, Carlos Kremer, Aaron Villagran
2023-08-18 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Rick Martinez, Carlos Kremer, and Aaron Villagran. Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: No Egos Amigos
2023-08-18 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents No Egos Amigos hosted by Brett Riley and friends. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vromans: Final Destination Party with artist Brady Smith
2023-08-19 11:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
When you BOOK A TRIP, it’s a good idea to check out the local art scene.
As we approach our final destination, Brady Smith — artist and writer of RANDOM ACTS OF DRAWNESS and the LOUIE AND BEAR graphic novels, to name a few — will be on hand to help us celebrate the completion of Vroman’s Bookstore’s 2023 Summer Reading Program, and WOW us with his artistic skills!
Brady will read his book, BUG SANDWICH! Then he’ll take art prompts from the crowd, which Brady will draw in 30 seconds or less!
Be a part of the party! Chat about books and trade tales of thrills and adventure with your fellow travelers!
COLLECT YOUR REWARDS AND PRIZES!
And always remember, “No matter where you go, there you are!”
View Brady Smith’s art at www.bradysmith.com and witness his family’s shenanigans on Instagram: @bradysmithhere
Please make a reservation: rsvp@vromansbookstore.com

USC PAM: Exhibition Tour Imprinting in Time
2023-08-19 11:30 - 12:30 | USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join guest curator Danielle Shang as she explores USC PAM’s newest exhibition Imprinting In Time- Chinese Printmaking at the Beginning of a New Era. During this gallery tour, Shang will provide an in-depth look at the extraordinary prints of Chinese artists from the 1980s to the present featured in the exhibition.
More About the Exhibition:
Imprinting In Time surveys printmaking by Chinese artists from the 1980s to the present, examining the unique narrative of the medium within the contexts of cultural, academic, sociopolitical, and economic changes in recent Chinese history. From its inception, the woodblock has been given singular priority for articulating social commentary and nationalistic sentiments since the 1930s. The emergence of etching, lithograph, silkscreen, and digital devices in the 1980s added new energy to the medium. In response to the current decline of printmaking in the art market, a handful of artists are searching for ways to advance the medium and participate in global conversations.

More About the Guest Speaker:
Danielle Shang is a Los Angeles-based art historian and exhibition organizer. Her research focuses on the impact of globalization, urban renewal, social change, and class restructuring on art-making and the narrative of art history. She has organized exhibitions by artists such as Amalia Pica, Katie Ryan， Simphiwe Ndzube, LIU Wa, CHEN Zhou, and ZHOU Yilun, among many others. She was also responsible for organizing campaigns and large group exhibitions of Porsche Young Chinese Artists of the Year and Net-A-Porter Incredible Female Artist Award.

The Mixx: Wham Bam Thank You Glam
2023-08-19 17:00 - 20:00 | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Rescheduled to Saturday, August 19th.
What do glam rockers and burlesque dancers have in common? Feather boas, rhinestones, and GLITTER. Join The Mixx Pasadena for a very special burlesque tribute to Glam rock featuring the music of David Bowie, T. Rex, Queen, The New York Dolls, and more! Dress in your most outrageous 70’s best in an intermission costume contest, and enjoy rocking performances by…
Anita Cristal
Daddy Longlegs
Vita DeVoid
Joey NoHo
Daphne Moon
Cherry Wilde
and your hostess, Gigi Noree!
Stick around afterward for a glam dance party by DJ Ané Uno!

Ice House Comedy: Rudy Moreno & Friends
2023-08-19 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Rudy Moreno and Friends! Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Orny Adams
2023-08-19 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Orny Adams. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

The Mixx: Live Tribute to the Strokes
2023-08-19 20:00 | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
The Indie Summer shenanigans continue at The Mixx Pasadena. Be sure to catch a live tribute to The Strokes featuring guest Albert Hammond Jr. Also, featuring sspecial guest DJ Slow Cheeta from the Room On Fire LA events. + DJ AnéUno.

Ice House Comedy: The Take Over Comedy Show
2023-08-19 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents The Take Over Comedy Show. Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: George Perez
2023-08-19 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents George Perez and Friends! Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's: George Perez
2023-08-19 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents George Perez. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's: Group Event Celebrating the release of the Caltech Anthology: Inner Space and Outer Thought
2023-08-22 18:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Participants include: Ann Bernath, S.B. Divya, Richard Doyle, Ashish Mahabal, Christine Corbett Moran, and Rachael Kuintzle
Fact ignites fiction in this first-of-its-kind anthology of speculative tales by Caltech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientists, engineers, technologists, and students. Experts at the frontiers of their fields, along with renowned Caltech alumni such as David Brin, S. B. Divya, and Larry Niven, present stories about alien astrobiologists, AI parenthood, a quest to preserve our histories beyond the heat death of the universe, a heist to steal engineering secrets from an ancient monk-scientist, the recovery of a long-lost phase of the human life cycle, the demise of Earth’s first intelligent species—billions of years before the rise of humanity, and much more!

Pasadena Presbyterian: Music at Noon: The Riner Scivally and Friends Jazz Ensemble
2023-08-23 12:10 - 12:30 | Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena , CA, 91101, United States

Vroman's: Yunte Huang in conversation with Paula Yoo, discusses Daughter of the Dragon
2023-08-23 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood’s most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos–with a touch of defiance–“Orientally yours.” Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wong’s tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar Shanghai, and capturing American television in its infancy. As Huang shows, Wong’s rendezvous with history features a remarkable parade of characters, including a smitten Walter Benjamin and (an equally smitten) Marlene Dietrich. Challenging the parodically racist perceptions of Wong as a “Dragon Lady,” “Madame Butterfly,” or “China Doll,” Huang’s biography becomes a truly resonant work of history that reflects the raging anti-Chinese xenophobia, unabashed sexism, and ageism toward women that defined both Hollywood and America in Wong’s all-too-brief fifty-six years on earth.

Ice House Comedy: Unwoke AF Comedy Tour
2023-08-23 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents the Unwoke Comedy Tour with Mateen Stewart, Laurie Douglas, and Justin Hires. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Pro's Night Out Comedy
2023-08-23 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Pro’s Night Out Comedy with music by DJ Count and friends! Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Free Outdoor Fitness: Basecamp Fitness
2023-08-24 17:30 | Playhouse Village Park, 701 Union St, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Get outside, get moving and have fun with our awesome Playhouse Village instructors! We’re bringing a FREE group exercise program every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month at the new Playhouse Village Park, led by local fitness studios. We invite you to find the class that best suits your fitness goals and to come discover your new neighborhood park.
BASECAMP FITNESS
High intensity Interval Training- Full Body workout.
This all-in, high-energy group workout packs a supercharged calorie burn into just 35 minutes, alternating between heart-thumping cardio to strength moves, modified to your level. Following this workout get focused on 10 minutes of core exercises.

Vroman's: Janeane Bernstein discusses Better Humans
2023-08-24 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
When a global pandemic exacerbated a pre-existing mental health crisis, the US was left with a mental health pandemic. This opened a Pandora’s box revealing what was long denied–we must prioritize mental health in all aspects of society, eliminate disparities and stigma, and become better humans.
The world was turned upside down in March 2020 by a virus no one expected to turn into a global pandemic. While millions experienced loss and disruption of life, the pandemic put lives on pause, making the nation turn inward to question the life Americans were living pre-pandemic and examine who and what really mattered in this time of financial, emotional, and interpersonal upheaval. Depression, anxiety, violence, substance abuse, and mental health illnesses soared in what became a mental health pandemic. Children lost parents, millions lost jobs, and thousands of teachers and health and wellness professionals abandoned their fields.
This has been a tremendous time of reflection on how to be better to ourselves, and to humanity as a whole. What can we learn from this global disruption and how can we become better humans? To start, we can’t look away anymore. The suffering is vast, and the stakes are high. The voices of the pandemic have insightful lessons to teach each and every one of us. It’s time to silence our distractions, listen, and create transformative, sustainable strategies that prioritize the health and well-being of humanity.

The Mixx: Morrissey Karaoke
2023-08-25 18:00 - 20:00 | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Enjoy Morrissey Karaoke at the Mixx Pasadena. Sing your life and take center stage or sit back and enjoy live Morrissey Karaoke with concert surround sound and the largest LED High definition wall in town. $5 Happy Hours food and drink menu. This event is hosted by Handsome Devil and friends. FREE PARKING on Colorado Blvd and Los Robles.
