Vroman's: Rebecca Woolf discusses All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire
2022-08-16 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Rebecca Woolf, in conversation with Diablo Cody, discusses All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire.
After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died.
In All of This, Woolf chronicles the months before her husband’s death–and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband’s illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own.
Stunning, compelling, and brilliantly nuanced, All of This is one woman’s story of embracing the complexities of grief without shame–as a mother, a widow, and a sexual being–and emerging on the other side of a relationship with gratitude and relief. (HarperOne)

Boston Court: NT LIVE - The Book of Dust
2022-08-19 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
Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing.
Two young people and their demons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others.
Eighteen years after his ground breaking production of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, director Nicholas Hytner returns to Pullman’s parallel universe. Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre.

Ice House: Charla Lauriston (Live Taping)
2022-10-08 22:03 | CA
When: Wednesday, Apr 3, 2019 8:30 PM (Doors open at 7:30 PM)
Ticket Price: $17.50
Door Time: 7:30 PM
Show Type: Stand Up
Showroom: Stage 2
Restrictions: 21 & over
Two drink minimum
Special Event

Charla Lauriston is a stand-up comedian and television writer hailing from New
York by way of Boston by way of Haiti. Charla has written for Unbreakable
Kimmy Schmidt, Comedy Central’s ‘Why? W/ Hannibal Buress’, TBS’ People of
Earth, and FOX’s Ghosted. She appeared on ‘The Meltdown with Jonah and
Kumail’ on Comedy Central and has been featured at the New York, Brooklyn,
Cape Fear, She-Devil, and Chicago Women’s Funny Festivals. Charla was Joke
of the Week in TimeOut New York and has written pieces for Elle Magazine and
The Root. Her web series, Clench & Release, garnered critical acclaim that
described her as “self-assured and gleefully sarcastic” (WNYC) and “one of the
most exciting and original voices in comedy” (Splitsider). The series was
also featured in Glamour, Indie Wire, Paste Magazine, Bustle, and Comedy
Hype. Charla was listed as one of 8 Black Women Ready for SNL by Essence
Magazine and is a 2018 Sundance New Voices Fellow.

FUMC: Soul Force Sacred Music Festival
2022-10-08 22:03 | CA
Soul Force hits Pasadena with an explosion of performers from around the world celebrating
the relevance and power of nonviolent action today. The Soul Force Sacred Music Festival,
an interfaith celebration of ritual world music, spiritual jazz and dynamic speakers will fill two
stages and an outdoor patio at the historic Methodist church on Colorado Blvd, Pasadena.
This citywide collaboration spans from Friday eve through a special Sunday morning service.
Visit the Soul Force website for lineup and ticket information.

The Battery and Books: Soap Ear: Issue 6 Release Party
2022-10-08 22:03 | CA
Soap Ear: Issue 6 Release Party
Soap Ear will be celebrating the release of their latest collection of essays about experimental music in Los Angeles.
Performers:
Sepand Shahab
Sarah Pitan

T. Boyle's: Bingo Night
2022-10-08 22:03 | CA
Head on over to T. Boyle’s for Sunday Night Bing Nights!
Call (626) 578-0957 for more information.

Dia de los Muertos Festival
2022-10-16 12:00 - 18:00 | The Monarca Collective, 696 E. Colorado Blvd STE 19, Pasadena, 91101, United States
The Playhouse Village Association and Mercadito Monarca Cultural Arts Shop present Día de los Muertos Festival in Playhouse Village, a FREE full day event celebrating the ancient tradition of Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead).
Día de Los Muertos Festival brings locals and visitors together to celebrate life and the lives of loved ones who have passed at this create a vibrant, entertaining, cultural ex-perience in Playhouse Village. Día de los Muertos Festival brings back its unique mix of community altars, music, artisan vendors and art workshops in a free, family-friendly event. Mercadito Monarca transforms Arcade Lane into a beautiful Mexican Zócalo that comes alive with performances of dance and music featuring Danza Azteca Yankuititl showcasing Aztec dances and traditional costumes. The showcase contin-ues with Ballet Folklorico group Danza Artes de Mexico performing an array of folk dances from across various regions of Mexico. Guests of all ages can join in the cele-bration with face painting, arts & crafts activities, story time, and shopping amongst ar-tisan craft vendors.

Lyd & Mo: Throwback Thursday
2022-10-20 20:00 | Lyd & Mo Photography, 27 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91106, United States
An Evening of Singer Songwriters! Throwback Thursday Artists Over 50 featuring original songwriters Chad Watson & Pam Loe, Mark Islam, and Raspin Stuwart.

Bark at the Park: Howl-o-Ween
2022-10-22 10:00 - 13:00 | Playhouse Village Park, 701 Union St, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Have a howling good time and bring your four-legged canine in their Howl-o-ween costume to a Pet Pawrade walk in the Playhouse Village! Then join us for a Bark at the Park Pawty at the new Playhouse Village Park with costume contests with prizes, puptails and pup cups for dogs, pet caricatures, treat stations, photo-ops, dog run areas, and more fun activities for dogs and humans!
Pre-register for the costume contest at playhousevillage.org/bark or sign up at the information table at the event!

Halloween in Playhouse Village
2022-10-31 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
Celebrate Halloween with activities, games and lots of candy in the Playhouse District. Get creative at a craft stop and trick-or-treat at participating Playhouse District businesses. Look for the orange balloons!
Make sure to follow @playhousevillage on Instagram for a future announcement of the full list of activities and participating businesses!

Lyd & Mo: Forevermore
2022-10-31 19:30 | Lyd & Mo Photography, 27 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91106, United States
Join Lyd & Mo Photography Studio for a sneak peek at the new play Forevermore: Tea with Edgar Allen Poe, featuring new music by Miss Kelley.
$15 donation.

Pasadena Playhouse: Talking Sondheim
2023-02-11 12:00 | CA
A virtual class series for anyone interested in learning more about Stephen Sondheim, his works, and how he flipped the script on the American musical theater. Taught by Sondheim expert and scholar Gail Leondar-Wright, students of all ages will be immersed in the masterful theater creator’s brilliant rhymes, diving deep into legendary songs like “Finishing the Hat” (Sunday in the Park with George), “Send in the Clowns” and “The Miller’s Son” (A Little Night Music). Whether you’re a musical theater lover who “just doesn’t get Sondheim” or a certified fanatic who knows every word to every song, this class is for you.
Session #1: Introduction
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
12:00 PM
An introduction to the works of Stephen Sondheim, reflections on his impact on contemporary musical theater, and a look at one aspect of his work that most people recognize and appreciate: his brilliant rhymes.

Pasadena Playhouse: Sunday in the Park with George
2023-02-14 20:00, 2023-02-26 19:00 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Experience Sunday at the Park with George at Pasadena Playhouse! On a Sunday afternoon on La Grande Jatte, French artist George Seurat is hoping to find the inspiration to create a masterpiece. As the piece comes together, the people come alive; his mother, his friends, his critics, the woman he loves. Stroke by stroke, dot by Dot, will George create something lasting, something new? Recipient of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Sunday in the Park with George is a shimmering musical celebration of “the art of making art.”

USC PAM: Lunar New Year
2023-02-18 11:00 - 17:00 | USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join USC PAM in moving forward together as we celebrate the Year of the Rabbit (Year of the Cat in Vietnam) at our rescheduled annual Lunar New Year Festival! USC PAM welcomes you back to unite and uplift our community through lively performances, artmaking activities, food, and more!
General admission includes entrance to museum galleries, and art making activities. Event is free but registration is required.

Pasadena Playhouse: Larry Owens’ Sondheimia
2023-02-27 20:00 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Sondheimia: it’s a state of mind. In this curated concert, multi-award-winning musical theatre actor Larry Owens explores time, love, and ambition through the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Presented by Jeremy O. Harris.

Vroman's Live: Moses Ose Utomi discussing Daughters of Oduma
2023-03-02 18:00 | CA
This is an online event via Crowdcast.
Eat. Dance. Fight.
This is the life of the girls who compete in the Isle’s elite, all-female fighting sport of Bowing. But it isn’t really Dirt’s life anymore. At sixteen, she is old and has retired from competition. Instead, she spends her days coaching the younger sisters of the Mud Fam and dreading her fast-approaching birthday, when she’ll have to leave her sisters to fulfill whatever destiny the Gods choose for her.
Dirt’s young sisters are coming along nicely, and the Mud Fam is sure to win the upcoming South God Bow tournament, which is crucial: the tiny Fam needs the new recruits that come with victory. Then an attack from a powerful rival leaves the Mud without their top Bower, and Dirt is the only one who can compete in the tournament. But Dirt is old, out of shape, and afraid. She has never wanted to be a leader. Victory seems impossible–yet defeat would mean the end of her beloved Fam. And no way is Dirt going to let that happen. (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Ice House Comedy: Jesus Trejo
2023-03-02 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Jesus Trejo is live in the Legendary Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 8pm.
21+ only with a 2 drink minimum per seat.
Lineups are subject to change.

Ice House Comedy: Joe Bartnick, Kennedy & More
2023-03-02 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Presents Joe Bartnick, Kennedy & more live in the Legendary Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 10pm.
21+ only with a 2 drink minimum per seat.

Pasadena Playhouse: Talking Sondheim
2023-03-04 12:00 | CA
A virtual class series for anyone interested in learning more about Stephen Sondheim, his works, and how he flipped the script on the American musical theater. Taught by Sondheim expert and scholar Gail Leondar-Wright, students of all ages will be immersed in the masterful theater creator’s brilliant rhymes, diving deep into legendary songs like “Finishing the Hat” (Sunday in the Park with George), “Send in the Clowns” and “The Miller’s Son” (A Little Night Music). Whether you’re a musical theater lover who “just doesn’t get Sondheim” or a certified fanatic who knows every word to every song, this class is for you.
Session #2: Sunday in the Park with George
MARCH 4, 2023
12:00 PM
Using Sondheim’s masterpiece, “Finishing the Hat,” the class explores Sondheim’s unique ability to say one thing in his lyrics and another in his music. Dive deeper into his motif-writing prowess and how it is used to tie together the first and second acts of this bifurcated musical.

The Mixx: Comedy Improv
2023-03-08 18:00 - 20:30 | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Pasadena Humpday Comedy Improv Happy Hours start at 6PM to 8:30PM with the very funny Patrick Tunny and weekly guest comedians.
Plus enjoy food and drink specials! FREE admission.

Vroman's: Cara Black discusses Night Flight to Paris
2023-03-08 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Co-presented by Alliance Française de Pasadena
October 1942: it’s been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a risky three-pronged mission in Paris.
Each task is more dangerous than the next: Deliver a package of forbidden biological material. Assassinate a high-ranking German operative whose knowledge of invasion plans could turn the tide of the war against the Allies. Rescue a British agent who once saved Kate’s life–and get out.
Kate will encounter sheiks and spies, poets and partisans, as she races to keep up with the constantly shifting nature of her assignment, showing every ounce of her Oregonian grit in the process.
New York Times bestselling author Cara Black has crafted another heart-stopping thrill ride that reveals a portrait of Paris at the height of the Nazi occupation. (Soho Crime)

Free Outdoor Fitness
2023-03-09 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.
Anytime Fitness
Strength & Conditioning Body Weight Bootcamp
Use your own bodyweight for exercises to create resistance and improve strength, flexibility, and endurance, as well as coordination.
Register for the free class at www.playhousevillage.org/fitness

Vroman's: Michelle Dowd discusses Forager
2023-03-09 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields.
As a child, Michelle Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest. She was born into an ultra-religious cult–or the Field as they called it–started in the 1930s by her grandfather, a mercurial, domineering, and charismatic man who convinced generations of young male followers that he would live 500 years and ascend to the heavens when doomsday came. Comfort and care are sins, Michelle is told . As a result, she was forced to learn the skills necessary to battle hunger, thirst, and cold; she learned to trust animals more than humans; and most importantly, she learned how to survive in the natural world.
At the Field, a young Michelle lives a life of abuse, poverty, and isolation, as she obeys her family’s rigorous religious and patriarchal rules–which are so extreme that Michelle is convinced her mother would sacrifice her, like Abraham and Isaac, if instructed by God. She often wears the same clothes for months at a time; she is often ill and always hungry for both love and food. She is taught not to trust Outsiders, and especially not Quitters, nor her own body and its warnings.
But as Michelle gets older, she realizes she has the strength to break free. Focus on what will sustain, not satiate you, she tells herself . Use everything. Waste nothing. Get to know the intricacies of the land, like the intricacies of your body. And so she does.
Using stories of individual edible plants and their uses to anchor each chapter, Forager is both a searing coming-of-age story and a meditation on the ways in which understanding nature can lead to freedom, even joy. (Algonquin Books)
Purchase a copy of this book at vromansbookstore.com

Ice House: Comedy Rocks w/ Skyler Stone, Brett Goldstein & More
2023-03-09 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Comedy Rocks with Skyler Stone, Brett Goldstein & more live in the Legendary Room!
Doors Open One Hour Before Show. Show Starts at 8pm.
21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

The Mixx: Live Cumbia & Dance Fiesta
2023-03-09 20:00 | 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.
