After you take your photo with Santa, join us upstairs in the event space for a special holiday craft activity! We provide the supplies! To ensure that we have enough to go around, please email us at rsvp@vromansbookstore.com to RSVP for this event, with the number of participants.
Once again all of Pasadena Presbyterian Church’s resident choirs collaborate on this annual “Pasadena Holiday Tradition for the Whole Family,” offering fresh performances of familiar Christmas music, as well as newly-composed pieces. Serving as a thrilling kickoff to the Christmas season for many, this year’s program features sacred and secular music composed or arranged by […]
Lao Tizer surrounds himself with “musicians of stupendous talent, using improvisational passages that sweep the listener into luscious soundscapes. The Lao Tizer Quartet is a soulful outfit that delivers “smooth jazz rich in melodicism, with a deep groove that sparkles with intersecting ideas, beautifully played.” – Telluride Jazz Festival
Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Children’s Chorus rings in the holidays with its annual winter concert “Celebrating Joy,” with back-to-back performances in Playhouse Village. On Saturday, December 7, the Apprentice Choir, Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, and Chorale will perform at First United Methodist Church, delivering an inspiring evening of festive music. The celebration continues on Sunday, December 8, at Pasadena […]
An empowering and moving story of a young woman from South Central Los Angeles (Watts and Compton) who took a chance, defied the odds and became the first-ever Black American to achieve a half-century-long career with The Walt Disney Company. Disneyland was groundbreaking when it opened in 1955 and continues to possess a legacy of […]
Retro Replay, our weekly series of modern and vintage film favorites, features films so satisfying we’re reviving them on the big screen to enjoy again—or to see for the first time! Each month’s thematic program offers a new film on Tuesdays!
Deadpan follows the misadventures of a vaguely antisemitic West Virginia Buick dealer who wakes up one day transformed into the world's most popular Jewish comedian. Steeped in magical realism, the narrative confronts the pivotal issues of our day: identity, intolerance, tribalism, and the redemptive force of humor. The story is set during the worldwide oil […]
Stickler, a quirky, multi-eyed character with a flair for the edgy, could give Jack Skellington a run for his money as the ultimate “alternative” Santa. While Charlie Brown may have bemoaned receiving rocks for Trick-or-Treating, Stickler joyfully hands out twigs, hailing them as the perfect all-purpose holiday gift. (After all, “sticks and stones” have their […]
40 years of stunning basketball photography—both on the court and off—from one of the sport's greatest chroniclers As one of the NBA’s premier photographers, Nathaniel S. Butler has shot it all. From iconic moments like Ray Allen’s corner three to intimate portraits of Bill Russell and the NBA50 and NBA75 teams to Michael Jordan and […]
Singer/songwriter Amanda McBroom (Golden Globe-winning writer of Bette Midler’s worldwide hit, “The Rose”) celebrates the season with a joyous holiday concert at Boston Court Pasadena, debuting her newest album, Wintersong. With her multi-talented friends, music director Michele Brourman, and bassist Larry Tuttle, McBroom will offer a collection of well-loved standards, undiscovered gems, and beloved almost-holiday songs. […]
California School of the Arts, San Gabriel Valley Creative Writing Conservatory presents: End of Semester Creative Writing Showcase.
The first illustrated monograph on writer, journalist, and director Nora Ephron, the visionary behind When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail Nora Ephron at the Movies offers an unfiltered look at Ephron as a champion of the rom-com and as a feminist Hollywood trailblazer. It explores her life and work by […]
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