Monopole Wine by RX: Red, White, & Dodger Blue Lasorda Family Wines
2023-07-12 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Monopole Wine By RX, 21 S. El Molino Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join Monopole by Wine Rx for a Baseball inspired pairing and stadium bites as they explore Lasorda Wines. Wear your Dodger Blue!
Many people do not know that Tommy was introduced to the Art of winemaking before he ever put on a baseball glove. His father, Sabatino Lasorda, was an Italian immigrant hailing from the small town of Tollo in the Abruzzo wine region. Over the decades that followed, Tommy would develop a deep appreciation for wine that stemmed from the memories with his father. And when it came time to hang up the uniform, he carried his passion and desire for excellence from the baseball field to the winery. Tommy’s motivation behind introducing Lasorda Family Wines was the desire to create something special that not only tied together his greatest passions in life, but also that could be shared with family, friends, and fans.

Tickets are $50. Reserve your glass with a $10 deposit and pay the balance at the event.

Vroman's: Elizabeth L. Silver discusses The Majority
2023-07-12 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Elizabeth L. Silver, in conversation with Natashia Deon, discusses The Majority
Inspired by history, a riveting novel of love and friendship, motherhood and ambition, and one woman’s fight to be a Supreme Court justice.
Half of the United States is waiting for Justice Sylvia Olin Bernstein to die. The other half is praying for her to hold on. At 83, “the contemptuous S.O.B.” doesn’t have much time left. What she has is a story, one she has wrested from the grip of history to tell herself–of how she rose to her historic position on the Supreme Court, and the barriers she broke along the way.
Told over fifty years, from losing her mother at a young age, to falling in love, to navigating an unplanned pregnancy and motherhood, to learning how to spar with a sexist mentor, Sylvia’s personal story reveals the intimate truth about who she was as she ascended to her modern throne: not just a brilliant mind, but a daughter, a best friend, a wife, mother, and advocate. While caught in a dramatic tug of war between career and family, truth and convenience, progress and patience, she will be given a chance to change the course of American history – and give voice, at last, to the majority.
Set against the vibrant sweep of the 20th century, The Majority brings us into the sacrifices, heartaches, and complex emotional life of a powerful woman ahead of her time, whose life and work turn out to have supreme stakes. (Riverhead Books)

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Pasadena Playhouse: Stew
2023-07-12 20:00 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Stew by Zora Howard and directed by Tyler Thomas
Mama’s in the kitchen early preparing her famous stew for a big event, but even as her daughters and granddaughter help, she still feels like time is running out. Soon these three generations of Black women begin to feel their past and present closing in. A finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Zora Howard’s hilarious, haunting, and taut 90-minute drama has a lot more cooking underneath the surface.
Stew “feels familiar without being cliché, delivering a captivating story that’s intimate, funny, and heartbreaking in equal measure.” – The New Yorker
This July 12th performance is Wine Wednesday. On preview week Wednesday, ticket holders are invited to come early and enjoy complimentary wine prior to the show at Pasadena Playhouse.
Purchase your tickets at pasadenaplayhouse.org.

Free Outdoor Fitness: Archetype Yoga
2023-07-13 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.
Enjoy a Yoga Flow brought to you by Archetype Yoga. Bring a water battle and sunscreen. Mats will be provided onsite.

Vroman's: ACLU SoCal Panel Discussion on “Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable”
2023-07-13 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Vroman’s welcomes the ACLU SoCal, who has assembled a panel to discuss Joanna Schwartz’s book, Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable – an urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country’s leading scholars on policing.
This conversation will be moderated by LA Review of Books Editor, Michelle Chihara, and panelists include author Joanna Schwartz, ACLU of Southern California’s Executive Director, Hector Villagra and one more speaker TBA.
Joanna Schwartz is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. She teaches Civil Procedure and a variety of courses on police accountability and public interest lawyering. She received UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2015, and served as Vice Dean for Faculty Development from 2017-2019.
Professor Schwartz is one of the country’s leading experts on police misconduct litigation and the author of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (2023). Her recent scholarship—published in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and elsewhere—includes articles empirically examining the justifications for qualified immunity doctrine; the financial impact of settlements and judgments on federal, state, and local law enforcement officers and agency budgets; and regional variation in civil rights protections across the country. She has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Atlantic, The Boston Review, and Politico, and has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS NewsHour, ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, and elsewhere. Professor Schwartz additionally studies the dynamics of modern civil litigation and is the co-author, with Stephen Yeazell and Maureen Carroll, of a leading casebook, Civil Procedure (11th Edition).
Professor Schwartz is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School. After law school, Professor Schwartz clerked for Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York and Judge Harry Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She was then associated with Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, in New York City, where she specialized in police misconduct, prisoners’ rights, and First Amendment litigation.
Hector Villagra has been the Executive Director of the ACLU of Southern California since 2011 and has overseen the opening of additional offices in Kern and San Bernardino counties.
He has led numerous civil rights cases involving such issues as educational equity, religious discrimination, immigrants’ rights and voting rights.
Hector has received the Daniel Levy Award for outstanding achievement in immigration law from the National Lawyer’s Guild and in 2012, he received the Attorney of the Year Award from the Hispanic Bar Association of Orange County.
Hector graduated from Columbia University and Columbia University School of Law.
Michelle Chihara is Editor-in-Chief of LARB. Previously, she was Associate Dean and Director of the Whittier Scholars Program, and Associate Professor of English at Whittier College, where she taught contemporary American literature, media studies, and creative writing for nine years. Recent peer-reviewed publications include Distinktion: A Journal of Social Theory, American Literary History, Postmodern Culture, and a chapter in New Directions in Print Culture Studies from Bloomsbury Press. She co-edited The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics (2018). Other essays have appeared in Post45: Contemporaries, Politics/Letters and Avidly.org. Since 2017, she has been the section editor for Econ & Finance at The Los Angeles Review of Books, where she is also a frequent contributor.
Before getting her doctorate at in English Literature, she received her MFA in Fiction, both at UC Irvine, and before that, she was a reporter, editor and freelancer. She worked as a staff writer at two weekly newspapers, The New Haven Advocate and The Boston Phoenix and as an online editor at the investigative news magazine Mother Jones. Her reporting and prose have appeared in news outlets like The Boston Globe, The Houston Chronicle and Mother Jones, as well as magazines like n+1, Nerve.com, Bloomberg.com. Her essays have been anthologized and her essay from Rare Bird Press’s volume, Slouching Towards Los Angeles was featured on LitHub and on European television; she has published fiction, nonfiction, reportage and essays in a variety of publications, online and off. She once quit her job, sold everything she owned, and moved to Rio de Janeiro to live by the beach and practice capoeira for a year.
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Vroman's: Sujata Massey discusses The Mistress of Bhatia House
2023-07-14 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Sujata Massey, in conversation with Naomi Hirahara, discusses The Mistress of Bhatia House.
Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey’s award-winning series.
India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor.
Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women’s hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire–but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly putting herself in harm’s way. Later, Perveen learns that Sunanda, who’s still ailing from her burns, has been arrested on trumped-up charges made by a man who doesn’t seem to exist.
Perveen cannot stand by while Sunanda languishes in jail with no hope of justice. She takes Sunanda as a client, even inviting her to live at the Mistry home in Bombay’s Dadar Parsi colony. But the joint family household is already full of tension. Perveen’s father worries about their law firm taking so much personal responsibility for a client, and her brother and sister-in-law are struggling to cope with their new baby. Perveen herself is going through personal turmoil as she navigates a taboo relationship with a handsome former civil service officer.
When the hospital’s chief donor dies suddenly, Miriam Penkar, a Jewish-Indian obstetrician, and Sunanda become suspects. Perveen’s original case spirals into a complex investigation taking her into the Gujarati strongholds of Kalbadevi and Ghatkopar, and up the coast to Juhu Beach, where a decadent nawab lives with his Australian trophy wife. Then a second fire erupts, and Perveen realizes how much is at stake. Has someone powerful framed Sunanda to cover up another crime? Will Perveen be able to prove Sunanda’s innocence without endangering her own family? (Soho Crime)
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Ice House Comedy: Superstar Comedy
2023-07-14 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Superstar Comedy! Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Mullet Time with Bear Badeaux
2023-07-14 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Mullet Time with Bear Badeaux. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman’s Special Storytime:Leigh Luna presenting Clementine Fox
2023-07-15 11:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Vroman’s Special Storytime featuring Leigh Luna presenting Clementine Fox and the Great Island Adventure.
Clementine is supposed to be on her way to school… but why not go out for a day of adventure and exploration instead? She recruits her friends Nubbins Squirrel and Penelope Rabbit and heads to the beach, where Jesse Otter is preparing to take his giant Turtle, Annabella, to a mysterious local island. Clementine’s great-aunt Marnie lives there — far away from math tests and tutors — so Clementine and her friends hitch a ride to the island as stowaways. What could go wrong?
This is Leigh Luna’s funny and charming debut graphic novel about a group of young animals who set out on an adventure and learn the true value of friendship, family, and what it means to stick together and work things out! (Graphix)
* A special craft will follow the event for those who purchase a copy of Clementine Fox and the Great Island.
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Pasadena Playhouse: Stew
2023-07-15 14:00 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Stew by Zora Howard and directed by Tyler Thomas
Mama’s in the kitchen early preparing her famous stew for a big event, but even as her daughters and granddaughter help, she still feels like time is running out. Soon these three generations of Black women begin to feel their past and present closing in. A finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Zora Howard’s hilarious, haunting, and taut 90-minute drama has a lot more cooking underneath the surface.
Stew “feels familiar without being cliché, delivering a captivating story that’s intimate, funny, and heartbreaking in equal measure.” – The New Yorker
Purchase your tickets at pasadenaplayhouse.org.

The Mixx: Wham Bam Thank You Glam
2023-07-15 17:00 - 20:00 | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
What do glam rockers and burlesque dancers have in common? Feather boas, rhinestones, and GLITTER. Join us 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 70s best for 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 afterwards for a glam dance party by DJ Ané Uno!

Ice House Comedy: Cat Ce & Friends
2023-07-15 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Cat Ce, Brittany Furlan, Jamrio McClain, CT Adams, Younis Dhaher, John Liu, Parker Dean, Dan Levin, and Sarah Carretino. Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

The Mixx: INXS Tribute
2023-07-15 20:00 | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join The Mixx for the ultimate live tribute to INXS by Mystefied.

Ice House Comedy: Michael Yo
2023-07-15 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Michael Yo. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Boston Court Pasadena: NT Live: Fleabag
2023-07-15 20:00 | CA
Boston Court Theater’s presentation of the National Theater Live Cinema Screening of “Flea Bag.” This uproarious and award-winning play, written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, serves as the inspiration behind the BBC’s immensely popular TV series, Fleabag. Filmed live on stage in London’s West End in 2019, this event promises to bring the best of British theater directly to the big screen. Utilizing state-of-the-art filming techniques tailored to enhance each play, viewers can anticipate an exhilarating visual spectacle. Don’t miss the additional screening on July 15, which has been added due to overwhelming demand. Tickets are currently available for $20, and becoming a member grants you an exclusive 50% discount. Secure your seats now!

Vroman’s Local Author Day (Young Readers)
2023-07-16 11:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Vroman’s Local Author Day – Young Readers Edition featuring Bestselling author Dr. Joy Pillay
Bestselling author Dr. Joy Pillay presents My Wonderful Body: Living and Thriving with an Autoimmune Disease
My Wonderful Body: Living and Thriving with an Autoimmune Disease is about a spunky little girl named Tip, who is suddenly introduced to a new reality: living with an autoimmune disease. Enjoying carefree days of playing with family and friends, learning new and interesting subjects at school, Tip is now personally faced with the challenging reality of living with and learning about an autoimmune disease and its impact on not only her physical body, but her emotional state as well. Tip is encouraged by her family, teachers and friends to deeply explore and process what it truly means to have a wonderful body, while being challenged to actively use healthy tools to process difficult feelings about living with an autoimmune disease. Can and will Tip be able to rise to this challenge?
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Vroman’s Local Author Day featuring Richard Podkowski, m.a. Arana, and Sheri Kelsey
2023-07-16 16:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Vroman’s Local Author Day featuring Richard Podkowski, m.a. Arana, and Sheri Kelsey
Richard Podkowski presents The Walk-On
In the twilight of his NFL career as a middle linebacker for the Chicago Storm, Mike “the Steelman” Stalowski masks his physical pain and mental anguish with alcohol and painkillers. The fan favorite has a rebel image and a notorious reputation, and he plays a violent gridiron game fueled by inner rage.
While estranged from his wife and living in the fishbowl environment of professional sports, he unexpectedly meets the fresh-out-of-college Kim Richardson. She sees through Mike’s star persona to who he really is-a kind guy from the Southeast Side of Chicago who has never forgotten his humble blue-collar roots. The lives of the star-crossed, seemingly mismatched couple collide during a whirlwind romance that culminates in a tragic series of events.
The Walk-On is a timeless tale of love and loss that explores the consequences of personal decisions and the rewards of faith, redemption, and hope.

m.a. Arana presents Wing Clipped: Book One of the Wings Series
Mabon Sevilla, Prince of Ava, is falsely accused of murdering his Avan mate and is exiled to Earth as punishment. While living among humans, he falls in love with one of them.
But, when a cruel tyrant from Mabon’s past threatens Ava, he must choose between staying on Earth with his new family or returning to Ava to stop the tyrant from starting a war and taking the throne.
In Wing Clipped, m. a. Arana tells the story of a prince who must overcome the mistrust of his kingdom and outmaneuver a formidable enemy in order to reclaim his place as leader. This is a gripping tale of redemption and the fight for power.

Sheri Kelsey presents Layers and Waves: Healing Transmissions
True to the expression, healing comes in waves, Layers and Waves, is a collection of prose, poems and artistic writing along a healing journey. This compact, but powerful collection takes you on a journey through ten waves (chapters) focused on layers of emotions and experiences surrounding disappointment, heartbreak, resilience, awareness, self-love, self-abandonment, shame, co-dependency, encouragement, surrender, and freedom. Layers and Waves evokes raw emotions, awakens inner-truths, and inspires you to spend time with your own heart.

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Jazz in the Park: Little Brazil
2023-07-16 17:00 - 19:00 | Playhouse Village Park, 701 Union St, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Playhouse Village sizzles this summer with the return of Jazz in the Park concert series presented by Ice House Comedy Club. The free concerts will take place every Sunday in June and July from 5:00PM to 7:00PM on the Van Halen Stage at the new Playhouse Village Park. Pick up a picnic from your favorite local restaurant and bring a blanket to enjoy music under the stars.
July 16: Little Brazil
Little Brazil was born with the idea of revisiting the defining moments of Brazilian music from a contemporary perspective. Samba, Choro, Baião and Bossa Nova are addressed in an acoustic set with vocal, nylon guitar, drums and percussion. The arrangements are well crafted and modern, all played by Brazilian musicians who live in Los Angeles, what makes the music stay true to its Brazilian identity.
See the full Jazz. the Park schedule of performances at playhousevillage.org/jazz

Pasadena Playhouse: Musical Theater Boot Camp Begins
2023-07-17 09:00 - 15:30 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Pasadena-area high school students: apply to be part of Pasadena Playhouse’s first ever Musical Theater Boot Camp! Students focus on the audition process rather than a production, allowing them to enter the college application season with a repertoire of monologues and songs, as well as the skills needed to find material appropriate for their age and type. From 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM, industry professionals and guest artists will instruct students in acting, singing, dancing, movement, theater history and the college theater landscape. Each session culminates in a showcase for family and friends.
A few slots are left! Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until all spaces are filled. If you have any questions or need assistance with your application, please email education@pasadenaplayhouse.org or call Pasadena Playhouse Patron Services at 626 356 7529.
Learn more about the program at pasadenaplayhouse.org.

Ice House Comedy: Deez Nutz
2023-07-18 08:00 - 17:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Deez Nutz! Young stand-up comedians in SoCal gather to perform at the renowned IceHouse of Pasadena! Don’t miss the chance to see the rising stars of the comedy scene. Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's: Summer Music Series Clarice Cast and Friends
2023-07-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Brazilian multi percussionist Clarice Cast is an active performer, recording artist, and composer in Los Angeles. She will be joined by singer/songwriter Caro Pierotto and guitarist, singer/songwriter and producer Grecco Buratto to perform Brazilian bossa-nova, samba, and more.
The Pasadena Conservatory of Music (PCM) is a nonprofit community music school that provides opportunities to learn, perform, and enjoy music to students of all ages and backgrounds. PCM is pleased to partner with Vroman’s Bookstore in offering this Summer Music Series, featuring faculty from PCM’s Jazz and World Music departments.

Vroman’s: Chang Sheng presents Oldman Part 3
2023-07-18 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Chang Sheng, in conversation with Wan-Chun Alex Ma, presents Oldman Part 3
A beautiful queen rules her country with an iron fist. Unmarried and without an heir, she adopts orphans as a way to prove that even commoners can reign as kings. Yet, as the years progress, she shows no sign of aging. Only one man knows the dark secret to her eternal youth: Oldman, a bearded magician the queen has locked in her darkest dungeon. One night, Oldman steps through the bars of his prison and disappears before the queen’s very eyes. Enraged, she sends her army after him in a desperate campaign to keep her secret hidden.
Staging his escape, Oldman appears to step through the bars of his cell and vanish as if by magic, cleverly misleading the guards. He rescues a neighboring prisoner, an outlaw sword maiden who has had her arms and legs amputated. Upon taking her to a brilliant doctor who fits her with mechanical limbs, Oldman and the sword maiden vow to take revenge on the queen that wronged them, all the while evading the queen’s army as she launches a desperate campaign to keep her secret hidden.
The story continues as Oldman and his companions have escaped the palace after a failed peace negotiation, but they’re being pursued by the full force of the queen’s army. The queen no longer treats Oldman’s resistance lightly; her orders for her soldiers are to capture his companions dead or alive… and send Oldman straight to her to face the queen’s wrath. (Eigomanga)
Having read comics from a young age, Chang Sheng has always preferred science fiction stories best. He admits to having been deeply influenced by the work of Yukinobu Hoshino, and his training in drawing and oil painting while studying at the Fu-Hsin Trade and Arts School is likewise reflected in his exquisitely detailed and extremely realistic video game-like style. Chang Sheng has represented Taiwan at the Angoulême International Comics Festival three times and has won several prizes overseas. Oldman was a finalist in the 2013 International Manga Award in Japan.
Moderator Wan-Chun Alex Ma is Academy Sci-Tech Award Recipient in 2019. His work on facial performance capture contributed to many recent motion pictures, including the Hobbit trilogy, Iron Man 3, the reboot Planet of the Apes series.

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Vroman's: Brando Skyhorse, in conversation with Jaime Paglia, discusses 'My Name Is Iris'
2023-07-18 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Iris Prince is starting over. After years of drifting apart, she and her husband are going through a surprisingly drama-free divorce. She’s moved to a new house in a new neighborhood and has plans for gardening, coffee clubs, and spending more time with her nine-year-old daughter Melanie. It feels like her life is finally exactly what she wants it to be.
Then, one beautiful morning, she looks outside her kitchen window–and sees that a wall has appeared in her front yard overnight. Where did it come from? What does it mean? And why does it seem to keep growing?
Meanwhile, a Silicon Valley startup has launched a high-tech wrist wearable called “the Band.” Pitched as a convenient, eco-friendly tool to help track local utilities and replace driver’s licenses and IDs, the Band is available only to those who can prove parental citizenship. Suddenly, Iris, a proud second-generation Mexican American, is now of “unverifiable origin,” unable to prove who she is, or where she, and her undocumented loved ones, belong. Amid a climate of fear and hate-fueled violence, Iris must confront how far she’ll go to protect what matters to her most.
My Name Is Iris is an all-too-possible story about family, intolerance, and hope, offering a brilliant and timely look at one woman’s journey to discover who she can’t–and can–be. (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster)

Vroman’s: Sonali Kolhatkar discusses Rising Up
2023-07-19 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Sonali Kolhatkar discusses Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice
Rising Up offers a timely exploration of how truthful narratives by and about people of color can be used to advance social justice in the United States.
While people of color are fast becoming the majority population in the United States, the perspectives of white America still dominate the vast majority of the media created and consumed every day. Media makers of color, long shut out of the decision-making process, are rising up to advance a set of different narratives, offering stories and perspectives to counter the racism and disinformation that have long dominated America’s political and cultural landscape.
In Rising Up, award-winning journalist Sonali Kolhatkar delivers a guide to racial justice narrative-setting. With a focus on shifting perspectives in news media, entertainment, and individual discourse, she highlights the writers, creators, educators, and influencers who are successfully building a culture of affirmation and inclusion.
“Sonali Kolhatkar reminds us we are the stories we tell. Our stories can cast a spell of hate, division, and fear, or they can break the powerful grip of racial injustices that have held us since our country’s beginning. With personal and collective wisdom, Kolhatkar guides us in the storytelling that liberates.”–Luis J. Rodríguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loco/Gang Days in L.A.
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SCCM: Play For All Abilities Days
2023-07-20 12:30 - 15:30 | Southern California Children’s Museum, 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91011, United States
Play is for All! In honor of Disability Pride Month, SCCM is opening after-hours for Play for All Abilities sessions on July 20 and July 27 & the last Thursday of every month beyond from 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM. Play for All Abilities is meant to welcome and create space for children and families with developmental differences. These play sessions will feature limited stimuli and intentional programming. Build community in a welcoming atmosphere for all abilities!

Wollhaus: Drop-in Class
2023-07-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Wollhaus Artisan Yarn & Tools, 696 E. Colorado Blvd. Suite 2, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Not sure how to start a new project? Made a mistake? Need assistance with a new skill? Join Wollhaus Pasadena for a Drop-in Class where an experienced knitter will be available to help you. Reserve your spot online at wollhaus.com – They keep the classes small.

Vroman’s: Bruce Borgos discusses The Bitter Past
2023-07-20 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Bruce Borgos discusses The Bitter Past: A Mystery
In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos’s The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck.
Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he’s back home, doing the same lawman’s job his father once did, before his father started to develop dementia. All is relatively quiet in this corner of the world, until an old, retired FBI agent is found killed. He was brutally tortured before he was killed and clues at the scene point to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age. If that wasn’t strange enough, a current FBI agent shows up to help Beck’s investigation.
In a case that unfolds in the past (the 1950s) and the present, it seems that a Russian spy infiltrated the nuclear testing site and now someone is looking for that long-ago, all-but forgotten person, who holds the key to what happened then and to the deadly goings on now. (Minotaur Books)
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Ice House Comedy: The Shindig Show w/Jimmy Shin
2023-07-20 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Jimmy Shin and the top comedians in the country! The ShinDig Show is one of the top comedy shows in Los Angeles bringing you the biggest headliners as seen on Comedy Central, Netflix, HBO, The Late Show, Def Jam, and Showtime. Don’t miss this Ultimate Comedy Party… Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: No Laughing
2023-07-20 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents “No Laughing at The Ice House!” At No Laughing, contestants are pulled from the audience, and if YOU can last three 1 minute rounds of comedy without laughing, you win CASH & PRIZES! Featuring Frank Castillo, Alex Hooper, Mike Glazer, Nicole Becannon, Nikki Bon, and Martin Morrow!
Hosted by Eddie Furth, co-creator of Historical Roasts on Netflix. Put your name in the hat for your chance to win! Live in the California Room! Seating in the Showroom begins 45 minutes prior to showtime.

The Mixx: Live Tribute Rock En Español
2023-07-21 08:00 - 17:00 | CA
The Mixx Pasadena presents TORMENTA THURSDAYS. Enjoy live music celebrating the biggest bands in Latin Rock!
