The Mixx: Live Cumbia & Dance Fiesta
2023-03-09 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Cumbiangeles presents Live Cumbia and Dance Fiesta with Poco Pocho live on stage and resident DJ Sloepoke.

ArtNight Pasadena
2023-03-10 18:00 - 22:00 | USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Enjoy a free evening of art, music and entertainment as Pasadena’s most prominent arts and cultural institutions swing open their doors for ArtNight Pasadena! Start your night in Playhouse Village at these featured venues:

Visit USC Pacific Asia Museum for a rejuvenating evening of art and sound brought to you by DJ ALYXR. Enjoy music and dancing in the courtyard and be the first to see the new special exhibition Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art.

artWORKS Teen Center pops up at First United Methodist Church courtyard with student performances and art activities.

See the full schedule of ArtNight Pasadena activities and shuttle map on the event website.

Ice House Comedy: Long Time No See
2023-03-10 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Long Time No See features Shapel Lacey, Rory Scovel, Jiaoying Summers and more live in the California Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 7:30pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Eddie Ifft and Friends
2023-03-10 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Eddie Ifft and Friends live in the Legendary Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 8:00pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Bobby's World
2023-03-10 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Bobby’s World features Bobby Ulrich, Fahim Anwar & More live in the Legendary Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 10:00pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Lyd & Mo: Creative Asian Women Panel
2023-03-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Lyd & Mo Photography, 27 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91106, United States
Women In NAAAPLA + TAPLA invites you to celebrate Women’s Month at Lyd & Mo!
Hear from creative women business owners and learn how they paved their own path. Celebrate your community by participating in a Touchstone Art activity, after which participants can take home their one-of-a-kind touchstones as a souvenir of inspiration.
Select non-alcoholic drinks and snacks will be provided. Space is limited, please grab your tickets ASAP.
Cost: Member of NAAAP or TAPLA: $20; Non-Member: $30

Vroman's: Storytime with Mr. Steve
2023-03-11 11:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join Mr. Steve and the gang at 11 am for story time!

Vroman's: John Sayles discusses Jamie Macgillivray
2023-03-11 15:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
It begins in the highlands of Scotland in 1746, at the Battle of Culloden, the last desperate stand of the Stuart ‘pretender’ to the throne of the Three Kingdoms, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and his rabidly loyal supporters. Vanquished with his comrades by the forces of the Hanoverian (and Protestant) British crown, the novel’s eponymous hero, Jamie MacGillivray, narrowly escapes a roadside execution only to be recaptured by the victors and shipped to Marshalsea Prison (central to Charles Dickens’s Hard Times) where he cheats the hangman a second time before being sentenced to transportation and indentured servitude in colonial America “for the term of his natural life.” His travels are paralleled by those of Jenny Ferguson, a poor, village girl swept up on false charges by the English and also sent in chains to the New World.
The novel follows Jamie and Jenny through servitude, revolt, escape, and romantic entanglements — pawns in a deadly game. The two continue to cross paths with each other and with some of the leading figures of the era- the devious Lord Lovat, future novelist Henry Fielding, the artist William Hogarth, a young and ambitious George Washington, the doomed General James Wolfe, and the Lenape chief feared throughout the Ohio Valley as Shingas the Terrible. (Melville House Publishing)
To purchase your copy of this book, visit vromansbookstore.com.

Ice House Comedy: Sean Porter & Friends
2023-03-11 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Sean Porter, Ron Taylor, Justin Hires, Auguste DeRose-Jones, Becca Ward, B Smight, Ray Lau. Hosted by Heidi Langenfeld and live in the California Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 9:30pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Amanda Seales, Monarch, Washington & More!
2023-03-11 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Amanda Seales, Monarch, Washington and special guests live in the Legendary Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 10:00pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Craig Shoemaker
2023-03-11 23:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Craig Shoemaker The Lovemaster live in the Legendary Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 8:00pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Vroman's: Arielle Estoria discussing The Unfolding
2023-03-13 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Arielle Estoria is known for her moving and empowering words that encourage women and all people to be confident in who they are, compassionate about where they’ve been, and loving about who they are becoming. In this stunning collection of essays, poems, and meditations, beautifully illustrated in earth tones, Estoria tenderly reveals the places in her life where she has been broken open, mended back together in new ways, and shows us how this process of “unfolding” helps us discover and return home to the person we were always meant to be. (Harper One)
To purchase a copy of this book, visit vromansbookstore.com.

Vroman's: Kristin Hannah discussing The Four Winds
2023-03-14 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows.
By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive.
In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa–like so many of her neighbors–must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family.
The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it–the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation. (St. Martins Griffin)
This is a ticketed event. Tickets include one entry and one paperback copy of The Four Winds.

Vroman's: Elizabeth McKenzie and Yxta Maya Murray discuss their new releases
2023-03-15 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Elizabeth McKenzie and Yxta Maya Murray discuss their respective new releases, The Dog of the North and God Went Like That.
Elizabeth McKenzie
Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails.
Elizabeth McKenzie, beloved novelist of California and its idiosyncrasies, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North, an old van with gingham curtains, a piñata, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. There will be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share a toupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating her grandmother, and what is “the scintillator”? And can Penny recognize a good thing when it finally comes her way?
This slyly humorous, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life’s curveballs, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most, we can be brought closer to our truest selves. (Penguin Press)
Yxta Maya Murray
In award-winning legal scholar and novelist Yxta Maya Murray’s new novel, federal agent Reyna Rodriguez reports on a real-life nuclear reactor meltdown and accidents that occurred in 1959, 1964, and 1968 at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. An infamous research and development complex in California’s Simi Valley, the lab was eventually dismantled by the US government–but not before it created a toxic legacy of contamination and numerous cancer clusters. Toxins and nuclear residue may have been further released by the 2018 Woolsey Fire and 2019 floods in the area.
God Went Like That takes the form of an EPA report in which Reyna presents riveting interviews with individuals affected by the disasters. With imagination and artistry, Murray brings to life an actual 2011 Department of Energy dossier that detailed the catastrophes and the ensuing public health fallout and highlights the high costs of governmental malfeasance and environmental racism. (Curbstone Press)
To purchase your copy of these books, visit vromansbookstore.com.

Vroman's: Auriane DeSombre discusses The Sister Split
2023-03-16 18:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Auriane DeSombre, in conversation with Marisa Kanter, discusses The Sister Split
A pair of soon-to-be stepsisters creates a plan that will stop their parents from getting married–but they soon learn that matters of the heart can surprise you! This is a fresh sister story evocative of The Parent Trap with LGBTQ themes for the modern reader.
Autumn is looking forward to summer vacation. She and her best friend plan on going to all the best ice cream places their stomachs can handle–and in NYC, the possibilities can’t get any sweeter.
Linnea is still not over the fact that her dad has found love after her parents’ divorce. Luckily, she can take out all her feelings on the tennis courts for a winning summer.
But then Autumn and Linnea discover the news: their parents are getting married. Autumn will be moving to the suburbs to live with her soon-to-be stepdad and stepsister, which means kissing the fun summer with her best friend goodbye. For Linnea, she knows her dream of getting her parents back together is officially over.
Devastated, the two of them come up with an idea: if they can split up their parents, their lives can go back to normal. As Autumn and Linnea secretly try to sabotage everything from date nights to wedding planning, the two of them discover that having a sister is not the worst thing after all . . . but will they learn about love in a whole new way? (Delacorte Press)
To purchase a copy of this book, visit vromansbookstore.com.

Boston Court: Unrivaled (Preview)
2023-03-16 20:00 | Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91206, United States
Boston Court’s theatre season begins with the world premiere of a co-production with Playwrights’ Arena, Unrivaled by Rosie Narasaki and directed by Margaret Shigeko Starbuck. Unrivaled tells the story of 11th-century Ladies-in-Waiting Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon, two of Japan’s most beloved writers, and their rivalry, friendship, and heartbreak.

Ice House Comedy: Jamie Kennedy
2023-03-16 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Jamie Kennedy live in the Legendary Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 8:00pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Crushed Ice
2023-03-16 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Crushed Ice hosted with Joe Bartnick and Frazer Smith live in the California Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Steve Furey, Omid Singh & More
2023-03-16 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Presents Steve Furey, Omid Singh and more live in the Legendary Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 10:00pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Dave Landau, Matt McClowry & Grant Cotter
2023-03-17 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Presents Dave Landau w/ Matt McClowry & Grant Cotter live in the Legendary Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 8:00pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: It's Mullet Time
2023-03-17 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
It’s Mullet Time features Nate Welch, Gabriel Vargas, Chris Kidder, Maxi Witrak, and more live in the California Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 9:30pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Bill Bellamy
2023-03-17 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Presents Bill Bellamy live in the Legendary Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 10:00pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Vroman’s: Special Storytime featuring Molly Ruttan presenting Something Wild
2023-03-18 11:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Performance jitters lead to some imaginative what ifs before a little girl finds her confidence.
Hannah loves to play her violin–as long as no one is watching. On the day of the recital, she’s wishing something wild would happen so she won’t have to go. Perhaps a dolphin will jump out of the fountain and carry her away, or a giant rabbit will abscond with her violin. Hannah’s big imagination dreams up all kinds of entertaining scenarios that could change the course of her day, but what actually happens is the most amazing of all!
Children and grown-ups alike will relate to Hannah’s stage fright and get a laugh out of all her wishful thinking. Most importantly, they will be right there beside her on recital day when something wild–and beautiful–happens. (Nancy Paulsen Books)
* A special craft will follow the event for those who purchase a copy of Something Wild.

FUMC: Third@First Concert
2023-03-18 16:00 - 17:00 | First United Methodist Church, 500 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
The ninth season of the Third@First concert series offers something for everyone: from Schubert to Schumann, from distinguished women composers to outstanding young musicians. Join us for excellent music performed in First United Methodist Church’s historic sanctuary in the Pasadena Playhouse district.
The Bob Cole Chamber Choir of California State University, Long Beach
The Award-Winning Bob Cole Chamber Choir from CSULB, conducted by Jonathan Talberg, will present a program of repertoire from around the world—highlighting both new music and celebrating the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach. The choir has won numerous awards, including CHOIR OF THE WORLD in the Welsh Isteddfod and First Place Choir in the Spital International Choir Festival in Austria.

Ice House Comedy: Jiaoying Summers, Hammond, & More!
2023-03-18 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Presents Jiaoying Summers, Ellen Harrold, Darrell Hammond, Greg Baldwin and hosted by Sharon Mahoney live in the California Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 7:30pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Boston Court: BrightWork New Music
2023-03-18 20:00 | Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91206, United States
Boston Court’s continues their 20th Anniversary season with a musical performance by Brightwork. Brightwork Ensemble members Shalini Vijayan (violin), Brian Walsh (clarinet), and Aron Kallay (piano) tackle one of the 20th Century’s most iconic works, Bela Bartok’s “Contrasts,” in addition to some favorite trios from the present and recent past. The program will also include Aram Khachaturian’s folk tune infused “Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano,” Pamela Madsen’s evocative “Sea Change,” and “Dash” by Jennifer Higdon, which has the players move with as much intensity and forward motion as the title implies.

The Mixx: Tributo a LA LEY
2023-03-18 20:00 | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Tributo a LA LEY con Mauricio Claveria, baterista de LA LEY en vivo!

Vroman's: Erik Conway discusses The Big Myth
2023-03-20 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
In their bestselling book Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway revealed the origins of climate change denial. Now, they unfold the truth about another disastrous dogma: the “magic of the marketplace.”
In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with “big government” and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman into household names; recount the libertarian roots of the Little House on the Prairie books; and tune into the General Electric-sponsored TV show that beamed free-market doctrine to millions and launched Ronald Reagan’s political career.
By the 1970s, this propaganda was succeeding. Free market ideology would define the next half-century across Republican and Democratic administrations, giving us a housing crisis, the opioid scourge, climate destruction, and a baleful response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Only by understanding this history can we imagine a future where markets will serve, not stifle, democracy. (Bloomsbury Publishing)
To purchase a copy of this book, visit vromansbookstore.com.

Vroman's: Cathleen Schine discusses Kunstlers in Paradise
2023-03-21 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and glamorous as ever, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with her inscrutable housekeeper and her gigantic St. Bernard dog. Their tranquility is upended when Mamie’s grandson, Julian, arrives from New York City. Like many a twenty-something, he has come to seek his fortune in Hollywood. But it is 2020, the global pandemic sweeps in, and Julian’s short visit suddenly has no end in sight.
Mamie was only eleven when the Künstlers escaped Vienna in 1939. They made their way, stunned and overwhelmed, to sunny, surreal Los Angeles where they joined a colony of distinguished Jewish musicians, writers and intellectuals also escaping Hitler. Now, faced with months of lockdown and a willing listener, Mamie begins to tell Julian the buried stories of her early years in Los Angeles: her escapades with eminent émigrés like Arnold Schoenberg, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann. Oh, and Greta Garbo. While the pandemic cuts Julian off from the life he knows, Mamie’s tales open up a world of lives that came before him. They reveal to him just how much the past holds of the future.
Cathleen Schine’s captivating and comedic twelfth novel explores exile, émigrés, movie stars, musicians, family bonds and the power of stories–both those we hand down and the ones held secretly in the heart. (Henry Holt & Company)
To purchase a copy of this book, visit vromansbookstore.com.

Free Outdoor Fitness
2023-03-23 17:30 - 18:30 | 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 at the new Playhouse Village Park, led by local fitness studios on every second and fourth Thursday. We invite you to find the class that best suits your fitness goals and to come discover your new neighborhood park. Please bring your own water bottle.
Archetype Yoga
Archetype Slow Flow
A 60-minute yoga extravaganza taught by studio owner Sara Blumenkranz who offers a restorative yet playful yoga practice. Great for all levels of practice.
Register for the free class at www.playhousevillage.org/fitness
