Vroman's: Special Storytime featuring Michael Slack presenting Dinosaurs on Kitty Island
2021-11-20 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
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A playdate between intrepid kitties and cautious dinosaurs doesn’t go quite as planned in this hilarious story of friendship and compromise!
Life on Dinosaur Island is so boring. Who wants to watch stuff sink in tar pits all day? So the dinosaurs are escaping to Kitty Island to play with their new kitty friends, even though the level-headed narrator warns them that it will end in cat-astrophe. After all, the kitties are fearless and feisty! And these dinos? Well, cuddles are more their speed. Now these tiny kitties and hulking dinos need to find some common ground before their playdate and friendship go extinct. (Dial Books)

Third @ First: Joy of Chamber Music
2021-11-20 16:00 - 18:00 | First United Methodist Church, 500 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
The Third at First concert series continues at First United Methodist Church with a program of chamber music performed by members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the series’ coordinator, pianist Junko Ueno Garrett. “The Joy of Chamber Music” features Johnny Lee and Jordan Koransky, violinists; Jarrett Threadgill, viola; David Garrett, cellist and Junko Ueno Garrett, pianist. The group will perform Josef Haydn’s Trio in G and the Piano Quintet of César Franck. Admission is free.

Vroman's: Andrew Lawler discusses Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City
2021-11-22 18:00 | CA
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In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he claimed, belonged to an Old Testament queen. News of his find ricocheted around the world, evoking awe and envy alike, and inspiring others to explore Jerusalem’s storied past.
In the century and a half since the Frenchman broke ground, Jerusalem has drawn a global cast of fortune seekers and missionaries, archaeologists and zealots, all of them eager to extract the biblical past from beneath the city’s streets and shrines. Their efforts have had profound effects, not only on our understanding of Jerusalem’s history, but on its hotly disputed present. The quest to retrieve ancient Jewish heritage has sparked bloody riots and thwarted international peace agreements. It has served as a cudgel, a way to stake a claim to the most contested city on the planet. Today, the earth below Jerusalem remains a battleground in the struggle to control the city above.
Under Jerusalem takes readers into the tombs, tunnels, and trenches of the Holy City. It brings to life the indelible characters who have investigated this subterranean landscape. With clarity and verve, acclaimed journalist Andrew Lawler reveals how their pursuit has not only defined the conflict over modern Jerusalem, but could provide a map for two peoples and three faiths to peacefully coexist. (Doubleday Books)

Pasadena Presbyterian: Music at Noon
2021-11-24 12:00, 2021-12-01 12:00, 2021-12-08 12:00, 2021-12-15 12:00, 2021-12-22 12:00, 2021-12-29 12:00 | Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena , CA, 91101, United States
Friends of Music is delighted to announce that Music at Noon, their weekly half-hour concert is going online! To see who is playing, visit ppcmusic.org.

Boston Court: New Play Reading Festival - How I Learned to Swim
2021-12-11 11:00 - 12:30 | Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91206, United States
Join Boston Court for free [virtual] readings of exciting NEW works-in-progress that are in keeping with their mission to bring you risky, adventurous plays that you won’t find anywhere else in Southern California.
HOW I LEARNED TO SWIM BY SOMEBODY JONES
Directed by Amy K. Harmon
Jamie wants to learn to swim, which wouldn’t be so scary, except for the fact that she just turned 30. In an attempt to find closure after her brother’s disappearance, she decides to finally face her fear. This coming-of-adulthood story explores Black people’s relationship to water while finally answering the question: Are there really sharks in the deep end of the pool?

Boston Court Pasadena: New Play Reading Festival - Monument: Or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play)
2021-12-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91206, United States
Join Boston Court for free [virtual] readings of exciting NEW works-in-progress that are in keeping with their mission to bring you risky, adventurous plays that you won’t find anywhere else in Southern California.
MONUMENT: OR FOUR SISTERS (A SLOTH PLAY) BY SAM CHANSE
Directed by Jessica Kubzansky
SAT, DEC 11, 2PM PT
Four sisters, four sloths. Amy studies coral reefs, Constance writes for children’s television, Mac mysteriously left a job she loves, and Lina is M.I.A. Three sisters embark on intertwined journeys — through a remote coral reef, through a writers room, through community exile, through the absence of a fourth sister they hope to somehow save — and four cartoon sloths valiantly struggle to save the world from disaster. How do we keep going when something impossibly precious seems lost forever?

Boston Court: Garage Sale and Holiday Food & Toy Drive
2021-12-18 09:00 - 14:00 | Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91206, United States
Boston Court is cleaning out the closets AND collecting donations for a holiday food drive. Join us!
GARAGE SALE
Boston Court will be selling:

office supplies
kitchenware
clothing
books and more!

FOOD DRIVE
Bring a non-perishable food item with you to donate to their holiday food drive for the
Friends in Deed Food Pantry. They are particularly looking for the following items:

Canned Tuna & Chicken
V8
Hearty Soups & Stews
Rice
Flour
Sugar
Pasta & Sauce
Cereal
Peanut Butter
Fruit Juice

Boston Court: Women of Will
2022-02-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91206, United States
WOMEN OF WILL: SHAKESPEARE’S HEROINES WITH AMANDA & MIRANDA
Shakespeare scholar Miranda Johnson-Haddad joins cabaret legend Amanda McBroom for a spirited discussion on the Shakespearean heroines given voice in Amanda’s upcoming concert, Lady Macbeth Sings the Blues, as well as the portrayal of women in Shakespeare’s plays.

Boston Court & Pasadena Playhouse: Hold These Truths
2022-02-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91206, United States
You are invited to a special event to honor, support, and uplift our amazing community of AAPI Theatre Artists.
Created in response to the sharp rise in hate directed toward the AAPI community over the past few years, Boston Court Pasadena, East West Players, and the Pasadena Playhouse have joined forces to share a virtual presentation of Jeanne Sakata’s wonderful play Hold These Truths.
This play tells the extraordinary true story of Gordon Hirabayashi, who, through the humble courage of his convictions, stood against racist actions he knew to be wrong. This livestreamed* event features six of the wonderful actors who have given tour-de-force solo performances as Gordon in Hold These Truths productions across the country. The event will be hosted by Tamlyn Tomita and live-streamed on Monday, February 28th at 6PM PT.
All proceeds raised through the event will go to the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists and the incredible work they do to promote AAPI artists and to contribute to our national theatre ecology.

University Club: Quarterly Business Mixer
2022-03-08 17:00 - 19:30 | University Club of Pasadena, 175 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join the University Club of Pasadena for their Quarterly Business Mixer featuring complimentary drinks, appetizers, & live music.
This event is complimentary & open to non-members.

Pasadena Playhouse: Ann
2022-03-23 - 2022-04-24 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Ann |
March 23 — April 24
Written and performed by Emmy Award winner Holland Taylor, Ann is pure entertainment — an uplifting tribute to this courageous leader, dedicated mother, loving grandmother, and legendary personality. Texas Governor Ann Richards had a heart as big as the state from which she hailed, a wit to rival the greats, and an enduring passion for fair play. Neither partisan nor political, this richly imagined play reveals a complex, colorful, and captivating character whose capacity to inspire us all burns even brighter today. After successful runs on Broadway and across Texas, Washington D.C., and many cities across the country, Taylor finally brings this critically acclaimed, Tony-nominated performance to Los Angeles.
“Mama! Holland Taylor captures the governor’s sly humor, talent for intimacy, and knack for getting her way.”
-NEWSWEEK

Vroman's: Ned Beauman discusses Venomous Lumpsucker
2022-06-13 13:00 | CA
Ned Beauman, in conversation with Joshua Cohen, discusses Venomous Lumpsucker
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Venomous Lumpsucker
The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected . . . But then, one day, it’s all gone. A mysterious cyber-attack hits every biobank simultaneously, wiping out the last traces of the perished species. Now we’re never getting them back.
Karin Resaint and Mark Halyard are concerned with one species in particular: the venomous lumpsucker, a small, ugly bottom-feeder that happens to be the most intelligent fish on the planet. Resaint is an animal cognition scientist consumed with existential grief over what humans have done to nature. Halyard is an exec from the extinction industry, complicit in the mining operation that destroyed the lumpsucker’s last-known habitat.
Across the dystopian landscapes of the 2030s–a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the ocean; the hinterlands of a totalitarian state–Resaint and Halyard hunt for a surviving lumpsucker. And the further they go, the deeper they’re drawn into the mystery of the attack on the biobanks. Who was really behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing?
Virtuosic and profound, witty and despairing, Venomous Lumpsucker is Ned Beauman at his very best.

Vroman's: YA Discussion with Liz Lawson, Kathleen Glasglow, E. Lockhart, & Jessica Goodman
2022-06-30 18:00 - 19:00 | CA
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YA Panel discussion featuring Liz Lawson, Kathleen Glasgow, E. Lockhart, and Jessica Goodman, in support of their latest releases, The Agathas, Family of Liars, and The Counselors.
Family of Liars: A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Welcome back to the Sinclair family. They were always liars.
The Agathas: Last summer, Alice Ogilvie’s basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her. Then she disappeared for five days. She’s not talking, so where she went and what happened to her is the biggest mystery in Castle Cove. Or it was, at least. But now, another one of Steve’s girlfriends has vanished: Brooke Donovan, Alice’s ex-best friend. And it doesn’t look like Brooke will be coming back. . .
Enter Iris Adams, Alice’s tutor. Iris has her own reasons for wanting to disappear, though unlike Alice, she doesn’t have the money or the means. That could be changed by the hefty reward Brooke’s grandmother is offering to anyone who can share information about her granddaughter’s whereabouts. The police are convinced Steve is the culprit, but Alice isn’t so sure, and with Iris on her side, she just might be able to prove her theory.
In order to get the reward and prove Steve’s innocence, they need to figure out who killed Brooke Donovan. And luckily Alice has exactly what they need–the complete works of Agatha Christie. If there’s anyone that can teach the girls how to solve a mystery it’s the master herself. But the town of Castle Cove holds many secrets, and Alice and Iris have no idea how much danger they’re about to walk into.
The Counselors: Camp Alpine Lake is the only place where Goldie Easton feels safe.
She’s always had a special connection to the place, even before she was old enough to attend. The camp is the lifeline of Roxwood, the small town she lives in. Alpine Lake provides jobs, money and prestige to the region. Few Roxwood locals, though, get to reap the rewards of living so close to the glam summer that camp, with its five-figure tuition and rich kids who have been dumped there for eight weeks by their powerful parents. Goldie’s one of them.
Even with her townie background, Goldie has never felt more at home at camp and now she’s back as a counselor, desperate for summer to start and her best friends, Ava and Imogen, to arrive. Because Goldie has a terrible dark secret she’s been keeping and she is more in need of the comfort than ever.
But Goldie’s not the only person at camp who has been lying. When a teen turns up dead in the lake late one night, she knows that the death couldn’t have been an accident. She also knows that Ava was at the lake that same night.
What did Ava see and what does she know? Why hasn’t she said anything to Goldie about the death? Worse–what did Ava do?
But asking questions offers no answers, only broken bonds of lifelong friendship, with hidden danger and betrayals deeper than Goldie ever imagined.

Vroman's: Storytime with Mr. Steve
2022-07-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join Mr. Steve and the gang at Vroman’s Bookstore at 11 am for story time!

USC PAM: Free Second Sunday
2022-07-03 11:00 - 17:00 | USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Offering free admission, this monthly intergenerational event is a celebration of cultures and themes presented in collection and special exhibitions at the USC Pacific Asia Museum. Each program is unique, featuring activities such as artmaking workshops, storytime, tours, performances, screenings, and more. Collaboration with local artists and cultural partners enhance this community program.

Vroman's: John Vercher discusses After the Lights Go Out
2022-07-07 19:00 - 20:00 | CA
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John Vercher, in conversation with Chris L. Terry, discusses After the Lights Go Out
After The Lights Go Out
Xavier “Scarecrow” Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. Xavier can no longer deny he is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementia. Through the fog of memory loss, migraines, and paranoia, Xavier does his best to stay in shape by training at the Philadelphia gym owned by his cousin-cum-manager, Shot, a retired champion boxer to whom Xavier owes an unpayable debt.
Xavier makes ends meet while he waits for the call that will reinstate him after a year-long suspension by teaching youth classes at Shot’s gym and by living rent-free in the house of his white father, whom Xavier was forced to commit to a nursing home. The progress of Sam Wallace’s end-stage Alzheimer’s has revealed his latent racism, and Xavier finally gains insight into why his Black mother left the family years ago.
Then Xavier is offered a chance at redemption: a last-minute high-profile comeback fight. If he can get himself back in the game, he’ll be able to clear his name and begin to pay off Shot. With his memory in shreds and his life crumbling around him, can Xavier hold on to the focus he needs to survive? John Vercher, author of the Edgar and Anthony Award-nominated Three-Fifths, offers a gripping, psychologically astute, and explosive tour de force about race, entertainment, and healthcare in America, and about one man’s battle against himself.

Vroman's: Dave Lopez discusses Its a Great Life
2022-07-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
For nearly fifty years, Dave Lopez covered every major story in the Southland. The veteran news reporter was a nightly presence in LA living rooms on KCBS Channel 2 for a remarkable 48-year career on camera. General managers and news directors came and went in the unforgiving world of major market TV news, but Dave outlasted more than twenty regime changes. LA’s man in the street kept his head down, nose to the grindstone, and relentlessly chased breaking news. He garnered Emmys, accolades, and tens of thousands of fans along the way.
One of the first Hispanic reporters on a major station, Dave’s inaugural on-air report on Channel 2 in 1977 concerned an apartment fire that nearly ended in tragedy because none of the firefighters on the scene spoke Spanish. His report ended with the note that the Los Angeles Fire Department was beginning a program to actively recruit bilingual first responders; officials were also thinking of offering Spanish classes at LAFD. Dave was personally breaking barriers decades before Mexican lives officially “mattered”-success he credits entirely to his upbringing.
Professional success came early, but the true measure of a man is his family. In this nostalgic look back, Dave recalls the values instilled by his hardworking father-a man he worshiped and feared in equal measures. It is also a love story that began in high school . . . and how the fearless reporter who thought he could conquer or investigate his way out of anything was forced to accept that some foes cannot be beaten. When he lost both his beloved wife and mother and his invincible father fell apart, Dave finally lost his unflagging optimism . . . and was forced to begin again just as the entire world of news was undergoing a sea change.
It’s a Great Life If You Don’t Weaken is an inspirational tale of faith, family, and the news from a true LA native. Set against the backdrop of every major story of the last half- century-from Vietnam War protests to the O.J. Simpson trial to countless politicians behaving badly-this story is a vivid remembrance of a life well lived, both on and off camera

Boston Court: NT LIVE - A View From the Bridge
2022-07-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91206, United States
This is an in-person screening! National Theatre Live brings the best of British theatre to Boston Court. With state-of-the-art filming techniques, tailored to every play, National Theatre Live bring you each performance as it happens, in all its glory. From close-ups that capture every flicker of emotion, to sweeping wide shots of the stage.
About the Play
Filmed live onstage from London’s West End, Arthur Miller’s dark and passionate play A View from the Bridge returns exclusively to cinema screens.
Ivo Van Hove (All About Eve, Network) directs Mark Strong (The Imitation Game; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Nicola Walker (The Split, Last Tango in Halifax) in this ‘magnetic, electrifying, astonishingly bold’ production (Evening Standard).
In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price. Eddie’s jealous mistrust exposes a deep, unspeakable secret – one that drives him to commit the ultimate betrayal.

Vroman's: Nocturnal Storytime
2022-07-09 19:00 - 20:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Come join us under the stars with a special Storytime with Mr. Steve, where he will be reading your favorite books about awesome nighttime critters!
This event will be held outside on the Vroman’s Paseo.

Vroman's: Delia E. Racines discusses Trust as the Core of Instructional Leadership
2022-07-11 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Be visible and approachable. Unpack necessary conversations with care. Build capacity based on strengths. Author Delia E. Racines offers these powerful protocols and more to support instructional leaders in building a community of trust in which positive change can occur. All current and aspiring instructional leaders ready to work collaboratively to improve teaching and learning will value this book.

Pasadena Playhouse: Freestyle Love Supreme
2022-07-12 20:00 - 21:30 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Before Hamilton, before In the Heights, there was Freestyle Love Supreme, a 2020 Special Tony Award Recipient. Now – direct from Broadway – the hip-hop musical phenomenon from Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale arrives at Pasadena Playhouse! Using cues from the audience, the cast takes you on a hip-hop comedy ride where no two performances are the same. “Just as you were thinking that life has no rhyme nor reason, along comes Freestyle Love Supreme to pump you full of hope.” – The New York Times
Feel the rhythm. Feel the love.

Vroman's: Michael Bourne discusses Blithedale Canyon
2022-07-14 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Michael Bourne, in conversation with Edan Lepucki, discusses Blithedale Canyon.
Blithedale Canyon
Trent Wolfer has blown it, in every possible way, over and over and over. And now he’s blowing it again. Fresh out of rehab, he’s back in his hometown working a dead-end job at a fast food joint and cutting out on his breaks to sneak airplane bottles of vodka and gin, when he looks up from his register one day to see Suze Randall, his closest friend from high school, now a radiant blonde single mother of two. Set in a small, sun-drenched Northern California town shifting from hippie haven to moneyed paradise, Blithedale Canyon asks whether a man who has spent his whole life screwing up can stop long enough to avoid destroying a woman he loves. Michael Bourne’s funny, edgy debut is a literary love story for every man who has ever wondered why he keeps smashing up the things he cares about, and for every woman who’s ever wondered what was going on in the head of that guy she spent her twenties trying to fix.

The Mixx: Noche de Rock en Espanol
2022-07-14 20:00 | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Bailamos?
Noche de Rock En Español en VIVO con Golden State Band tocando todos los hits en tu idioma.

The Mixx: 42 Years of Depeche Mode Dance Party
2022-07-15 08:00 - 17:00 | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join The Mixx in celebrating 42 wonderful years of Depeche Mode with one of the best Depeche Mode tribute bands in the entire world. Endorsed by DM The Devotional Experience conveys one of the best likenesses on stage ever. You won’t believe your ears and you wont believe your eyes!

FUMC: Sound of Music
2022-07-15 19:30 | First United Methodist Church, 500 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
The Summer Musical program is celebrating its 50th year! This summer FUMC welcomes you to come hear The Sound of Music! There will be four FREE performances: July 27, 28, 29, and 30 (Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m).
Dinner Tickets for Sound of Music are Now On Sale! – For your enjoyment and FUMC Fundraiser for Summer Musical, please join in for dinners in the Cloister, served Wednesday, July 27, nightly through Saturday, July 30 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Tickets are just $14 for adults and $8 for kids 9 and under and can be purchased after church the next three Sundays. For all questions about ticket purchases, please contact Anne Larson (larsonbirds@msn.com)
