Name: Vroman’s Bookstore: Ron Currie discusses The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
Start: 2025-03-31T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-03-31T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Vroman’s Bookstore

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Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration Dec 4

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Pasadena Playhouse: Jingle & Mingle Dec 13

Chanukah Menorah Parade & Celebration Dec 18

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March 2025
March 21 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Scaachi Koul, in conversation with Franchesca Ramsey, discusses & signs Sucker Punch: Essays

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

The long-awaited follow-up from one of the most original and hilarious voices writing today. Scaachi Koul's first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, and growing up the daughter of immigrants. When the time came to start writing her next book, Scaachi […]

Free
March 22 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati present Words with Wings and Magic Things and Marla Frazee presents How Elegant the Elephant: Poems about Animals and Insects

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati present Words with Wings and Magic Things From award-winning author Matthew Burgess and Caldecott Medalist Doug Salati comes a spellbinding collection of poems for young readers that celebrates the power of words to awaken the imagination and alchemize the everyday. A gorgeous gift book for fans of Shel Silverstein with seven […]

Free
March 22 @ 8:00 pm In-Person Event Top Dog / Underdog

Top Dog / Underdog

Pasadena Playhouse 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, United States

Two brothers in freefall struggle to find their footing as they hustle their way through life. Haunted by the past and their obsession with street cons and cards, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their fate. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Suzan-Lori Parks’ darkly comic fable is poetic, gripping, and unforgettable.

$40
March 23 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm In-Person Event Boston Court: Giggle, Giggle, Quack with the Helix Collective

Boston Court: Giggle, Giggle, Quack with the Helix Collective

Boston Court Pasadena 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, United States

Helix Collective’s delightful live musical story time event for ages 3-7 features Giggle, Giggle, Quack (the second book in the Click Clack Moo series by Doreen Cronin with illustrations by Betsy Lewin). The book is set to original music by Helix Collective resident composer, Phil Popham, and narrated by Broadway and T.V. actress Rena Strober. Come meet musicians, explore […]

$10
March 23 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event Pasadena Playhouse: Top Dog / Underdog

Pasadena Playhouse: Top Dog / Underdog

Pasadena Playhouse 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, United States

Two brothers in freefall struggle to find their footing as they hustle their way through life. Haunted by the past and their obsession with street cons and cards, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their fate. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Suzan-Lori Parks’ darkly comic fable is poetic, gripping, and unforgettable.

$40
March 25 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Fiction Reading Group

Description INCLUDES A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK ROTHFUSS Experience one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century and the book that The Atlantic has called “one of the best fantasy novels ever.” The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone... ...so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest […]
March 25 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour discuss Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

In Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival, New York Times bestselling authors Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour tell the no-holds-barred history of the iconic music festival. Through hundreds of new interviews with artists, tour founders, festival organizers, promoters, publicists, sideshow freaks, stage crews, record label execs, reporters, roadies and more, Lollapalooza chronicles […]

Free
March 26 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Silvia Park, in conversation with Jonny Sun, discusses Luminous

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Prescient yet timeless, perfect for fans of Klara and the Sun and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, this highly anticipated, sweeping debut set in a unified Korea tells the story of three estranged siblings—two human, one robot—as they collide against the backdrop of a murder investigation to settle old scores and make sense of […]

Free
March 28 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Brian Castleberry and Laura Warrell discuss The Californians

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

It’s 2024, and Tobey Harlan—college dropout, temporary waiter, recently dumped—steals from the wall of his father’s house three paintings by the venerated and controversial artist Di Stiegl. Tobey’s just lost everything he owns to a Northern California wildfire, and if he can sell the paintings (albeit in a shady way to a notorious tech bro) […]

Free
March 29 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Gabriela Orozco Belt, in conversation with Mirelle Ortega, discusses I Am, Yo Soy

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

From the author of Only for a Little While comes a lyrical bilingual picture book about the beauty of being part of two cultures. I’m from here y soy de allá. With lyrical text in English and Spanish, this vibrant picture book is a celebration of Hispanic American identity—showcasing the beauty of being part of […]

Free
March 30 @ 2:00 pm In-Person Event Boston Court: Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts

Boston Court: Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts

Boston Court Pasadena 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, United States

L is a stoner with social anxiety, Harold is an aspiring ballerina, and their mother is a woman from another time. Driven by archaic dreams for her children, all Mamma wants is for a man to marry L to rescue the family from financial ruin. So when a big, burly traveler turns up at their […]

$10 – $40
March 31 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Ron Currie discusses The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

A mythic, propulsive novel about the tangled fates of a matriarchal crime family in Maine. Your ancestors breathe through you. Sometimes, they call for vengeance. Babs Dionne, proud Franco-American, doting grandmother, and vicious crime matriarch, rules her small town of Waterville, Maine, with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into Little Canada […]

Free

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