Playhouse Village Association

Monopole by Wine RX: Wine & Tarot Reading with Briony James
2024-01-20 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Monopole Wine By RX, 21 S. El Molino Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Monopole by Wine RX invites you to join them for an evening of wine and tarot readings!

Ice House Comedy: The Headliners
2024-01-20 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents The Headliners featuring Kevin The Carpenter, Richard Asperger, J Marie, Ari Maize, Oldskool, Shang Forbes, and Hurricane! Live in the California Room! Ice House doors open at 6:30pm Seating in the Showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. Show Starts at 7:30pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Jeff Leach & Friends
2024-01-20 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Jeff Leach & friends featuring Aida Rodriguez, Mike Lawrence, Jenny Zigrino, Leah Bonnema. Live in the Legendary Room! Ice House doors open at 6PM. Seating in the showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. The show Starts at 8PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: The Takeover Comedy Show
2024-01-20 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents The Takeover Hosted by: Nikole Denise featuring Auguste DeRose-Jones, Bobbie Oliver, John Grimes, Sarah Rose Hyland, Walter Ford and Bree Webber! Live in the California Room! Show Starts at 9:30PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Unplugged Comics
2024-01-20 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Unplugged Comics featuring Richard Villa, Ace Murdoc, J Valentino, and Ernesto Ledezma! Live in the Legendary Room! The show Starts at 10PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Pasadena Cheeseburger Week
2024-01-21 - 2024-01-27 | CA
uring January 2024 in Pasadena, there’s a citywide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the cheeseburger. Join us in wishing our darling cheeseburger a very happy 100.🍔💯

Vroman's: Nikki Vargas, in conversation with Jeremy Tarr, discusses Call You When I Land
2024-01-22 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
At twenty-six years old, life looked a certain way for Nikki Vargas. She’d settled in New York City ready to join the ranks of the Carrie Bradshaw’s of the world, had landed in a promising advertising career, and was newly engaged to her college sweetheart. But between corporate happy hours and wedding dress fittings, she couldn’t shake a deep underlying sense of imposter syndrome, a voice telling her that she was rocketing towards a future that didn’t look like her. And so, she bought a plane ticket: first to Cartagena. Then to Panama. Then to Iguazú.
What begins with one freelance travel writing assignment escalates into a whirlwind, globe-spanning journey that would transform Nikki’s life. Taking her from the street food stalls of Vietnam to the cascading waterfalls of Argentina, Nikki uncovers shocking truths about her family, comes face to face with a new love interest – or two – and ultimately turns a no-name blog into the internationally celebrated venture of Unearth Women, the first major female-focused travel publication.
Told in transporting detail and candid reflections, Call You When I Land takes the familiar story of a woman going abroad to find herself and turns it on its head, as the act of traveling becomes, for Nikki, an exhilarating career path – and ultimately a tool to champion women’s voices across the world.

Vroman's: Mark Eaton discusses Historical Fiction Now
2024-01-23 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Historical Fiction Now brings together prominent authors, scholars, and critics of historical fiction to explore the genre’s character, fortunes, and potential in the twenty-first century.
Gathering together the voices of novelists, critics, academics, and several authors writing across these categories, the volume explores the nature of reading, writing, and writing about historical fiction in the present moment while meditating on some of the myriad contexts of the genre.
What inspires writers to choose particular moments, events, and personalities as the subjects of their fictional imaginings, and with what implications for their readers’ understanding of the present? How do contemporary scholars approach the making and reception of historical fiction, and how do these approaches resonate with writers’ own preoccupations in the process of invention? What might scholars of a genre with a long and complex history learn from its contemporary practitioners? Conversely, how do novelists understand their own historical fictions (if at all) in relation to the theoretical and critical traditions shaping the work of their academic colleagues? (Oxford University Press, USA)

Ice House Comedy: Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Nealon, Doug Benson
2024-01-23 19:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Nealon, and Doug Benson! Live in the Legendary Room. The show starts at 7PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Nealon, Doug Benson
2024-01-23 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Nealon, and Doug Benson! Live in the California Room! The show starts at 7:30PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

T. Boyle's Tavern: Geeks who drink Trivia
2024-01-23 20:00 | T. Boyle’s Tavern, 37 N Catalina Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106, Select a Country:
Tboyle Tavern is now hosting Geeks Who Drink trivia night every Tuesday Night starting at 8PM.

Ice House Comedy: Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Nealon, Joe Wong
2024-01-23 21:45 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Nealon, and Joe Wong! Live in the California Room. The show starts at 9:45PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

USC PAM: Sacred Sand Mandala
2024-01-24 14:00 - 17:00 | USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
USC Pacific Asia Museum is proud to host Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in South India. They will spend four days creating a Sand Mandala, a Tibetan Buddhist tradition that involves the creation and destruction of paintings made using colored sand. Once completed, it is dismantled as a symbol of the Buddhist belief in the transitory nature of material life.
The opening blessing ceremony will take place on Wednesday, January 24th at 2:00PM and the closing dissolution ceremony will take place on Saturday, January 27 at 3PM. Museum visitors will be able to observe the creation of the mandala during regular public open hours.
Schedule of events:
Opening blessing ceremony:
Wednesday, January 24th: 2:00 PM
View the monks as they work to create the mandala
Wednesday, January 24th, 2:00-5:00
Thursday, January 25th, 2:00-5:00
Friday, January 26th, 2:00-5:00
Saturday, January 27th, 2:00-5:00
Closing ceremony:
Saturday, January 27th, 3:00 pm

Monopole Wine by RX: Wine is Bottled Poetry
2024-01-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Monopole Wine By RX, 21 S. El Molino Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join Monopole by Wine RX for an evening of poetry and Wine featuring guest poets Phil Allen, Tamisha Tyler, and Victoria Lynne Mc Coy!

Vroman's: Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein discuss American Wings
2024-01-24 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
From the acclaimed author of Flygirl and the bestselling author of Code Name Verity comes the thrilling and inspiring true story of the desegregation of the skies.
In the years between World War I and World War II, aviation fever was everywhere, including among Black Americans. But what hope did a Black person have of learning to fly in a country constricted by prejudice and Jim Crow laws, where some previous Black aviators like Bessie
Coleman had to move to France to earn their wings?
American Wings follows a group of determined Black Americans: Cornelius Coffey and Johnny Robinson, skilled auto mechanics; Janet Harmon Bragg, a nurse; and Willa Brown, a teacher and social worker. Together, they created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago’s South Side. As the U.S. hurtled toward World War II, they established a school to train new pilots, teaching both Black and white students together and proving, in a time when the U.S. military was still segregated, that successful integration was possible.
Complete with black-and-white photographs throughout, American Wings brings to light a hidden history of pioneering Black men and women who, with grit and resilience, battled powerful odds for an equal share of the sky. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons for Young Readers)
Sherri L. Smith is the author of several novels for young adults, including the critically acclaimed The Blossom and the Firefly, Flygirl, Orleans, and Pasadena, as well as the middle-grade novel The Toymaker’s Apprentice. Visit her online at sherrilsmith.com
Elizabeth Wein is a recreational pilot and the owner of about a thousand maps. She is the author of several young adult novels, including Code Name Verity, an Edgar Award winner and a #1 New York Times bestseller; Black Dove, White Raven, winner of the Children’s Africana Book Award; and most recently, Stateless. Her book A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II was a finalist for YALSA’s Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award. A dual American-British citizen, Elizabeth lives in Scotland. Learn more at ElizabethWein.com and follow her on Twitter @EWein2412

Ice House Comedy: Al Madrigal, Joey Bragg, Charlotte McKinney
2024-01-24 19:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Al Madrigal, Joey Bragg, and Charlotte McKinney! Live in the Legendary Room! The show starts at 7PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Archetype Yoga: Full Moon Intention Setting (Wolf Moon)
2024-01-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Archetypa Yoga, 638 e colorado ave, pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Archetype Yoga presents Full Moon Intentions Setting + Sound Bath + Tarot Reading to connect with January’s Wolf Moon – this moon is inspired by the cries of the wolves during the wintertime. It’s our reminder of the depth of winter and the necessary shifts that are made to make it through.
Full Moon Sound Bath
w/ Sara + Jen
Wednesday, Jan. 24th
7:30-9:00pm
Soundbat + tarot + tea

Ice House Comedy: Rudy Moreno & Friends!
2024-01-25 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Rudy Moreno & Friends featuring Allan Havey, Jerry Garcia, Carlos Oscar, and Phil Medina! Live in the California Room! The show starts at 7:30PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Pasadena Walking Tours: Haunted Pasadena
2024-01-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Pasadena Walking Tours: Haunted Pasadena, 36 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Through darkened alleyways, castles, courtyards, mortuaries, and theatres, join Pasadena Walking Tours for Haunted Pasadena and discover the sordid side of the City of Roses. Meet the phantoms that haunt its alleys, underground tunnels, corridors, and back rooms. Unexplained mysteries and dirty dealings pepper Pasadena’s past, but we’ll expose them on a nighttime wander through the Playhouse Village and Old Pasadena! This tour does not visit building interiors.
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Starting Time: 6:30 PM
Starting Point: Performer Statue outside of The Stand, 36 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena CA 91101
Distance: 1.5 miles (please note that this tour ends approximately 1 mile from the starting point)
Duration: approximately 2 hours
Ending Location: Mills Place, Old Pasadena

Adults: $28
Children (5-12): $18
Children under 5: Free
(Parental guidance advised due to the nature of the stories told during the tour)
Note: Pasadena Walking Tours loves and welcomes solo adventurers, but please note that our tours run with a minimum of 2 participants, so grab a friend to guarantee your tour! Tours that have not met this minimum by 8PM the night before will be canceled and a refund will be issued.

Vroman's: Becky Nicolaides, in conversation with Naomi Hirahara, The New Suburbia
2024-01-26 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore
America’s suburbs have been transforming. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes the suburbs of America’s cities. Today they house a more typical cross-section of the nation–rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. Stories of everyday suburban life, in the process, have taken on new inflections.
Nowhere are these changes more vivid than in Los Angeles. In this suburban metropolis and global powerhouse, lily white suburbs have virtually disappeared, and over two-thirds of the County’s suburbs have become majority minority. Examining this vanguard of change from the postwar to the present, The New Suburbia follows the Asian Americans, Black Americans, and Latinos who moved into white neighborhoods that once barred them. They bought homes, enrolled their children in schools, and began navigating suburban life. They faced a choice: would they remake the suburbs, or would the suburbs remake them? In places like Pasadena, San Marino, South Gate, and Lakewood, suburbanites faced the challenges of living together in difference. Historian Becky Nicolaides explores a range of community experiences, from internal resegregation to suburban poverty, an embrace of law-and-order culture to police brutality, friendly neighbors to social withdrawal. In some communities, diverse residents continued longstanding habits of exclusion and perpetuated metropolitan inequality. In others, they embraced more inclusive, multicultural suburban ideals. Through it all, the common denominators of suburbia remained–low-slung landscapes of single-family homes and families seeking the good life.
An authoritative work based on a half-century of quantitative data and unpublished oral histories and interviews, The New Suburbia explores vital landscapes where the American dream has endured, even as the dreamers have changed.

Ice House Comedy: Hive Comedy
2024-01-26 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Hive Comedy. Live in the California Room! Venue doors open at 6:30pm Seating in the Showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. The show Starts at 8pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice house Comedy: Hive Comedy
2024-01-26 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Hive Comedy! Live in the California Room. The show Starts at 8PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Max Amini
2024-01-26 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Max Amini! Ice House doors open at 6:30PM. Seating in the showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. Legendary Room Show Starts at 10PM.

Ice House Comedy Presents TJ
2024-01-26 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents TJ! Live in the California Room! The show starts at 10pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman’s: Special Storytime featuring Barney Saltzberg presenting Arlo Needs Glasses
2024-01-27 11:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
From the bestselling author of Beautiful Oops! comes an inspiring story for every child who needs or wears glasses.
One out of four kids either wears or needs glasses, and their parents will want their child to feel that glasses are awesome because they’re cool, fun, and enable us to do all the things we want to do. That’s where Arlo steps in. He’s a shaggy, free-spirited dog who loves to play catch, until one day he can’t see the ball anymore. He needs glasses!
Created by Barney Saltzberg, the bespectacled author of the bestselling title Beautiful Oops!, Arlo Needs Glasses is an inventive and reassuring story that gets it. Readers will follow along with Arlo as he does all the big firsts involved in getting glasses–visit a doctor, get tested on an eye chart, look through the phoropter. And then the fun part–choosing frames! What should Arlo get? Movie star glasses? Superhero glasses? Classic frames that never go out of style?

Vroman's Bookstore: Artists Talks@PAM: Ken Lum and Jennifer Ling-Datchuk
2024-01-27 13:00 - 14:00 | USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
USC PAM presents exhibited artists Ken Lum and Jennifer Ling Datchuk from Another Beautiful Country as they discuss their work in an intimate gallery conversation. Drawing from the Chinese translation of America, (美國/měiguó) and the American-born Chinese abbreviation, ABC, Another Beautiful Country, features artworks that portray nuanced interplays between Chinese American identities and representations, challenging conventional notions of nationhood. Resisting stereotypes and globalization’s dehumanizing aspects, Another Beautiful Country brings together artworks as scenes of cross-cultural sharing.
Free with cost of admission
RSVP recommended
More about the Artists:
Jennifer Ling Datchuk /玲
Jennifer Ling Datchuk was born in Warren, Ohio and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is an exploration of her layered identity – as a woman, a Chinese woman, as an “American,”and as a third culture kid. Trained in ceramics, Datchuk works with porcelain and other materials often associated with traditional women’s work, such as textiles and hair, to discuss fragility, beauty, femininity, intersectionality, identity, and personal history. Through these materials, she explores how Western beauty standards influenced the East, how the non-white body is commodified and sold, and how women’s – globally, girls’ – work is still a major economic driver whose workers still struggle for equality. Datchuk holds an MFA in Artisanry from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a BFA in Crafts from Kent State University. In 2017, she received the Emerging Voices award from the American Craft Council, and in 2020 was named a United States Artist Fellow in Craft. Her work is in the collections at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, San Antonio Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Arizona State University and lives and maintains a studio practice in Phoenix, Arizona.
Ken Lum / 林蔭庭
Ken Lum is an artist with an international exhibition record that includes Documenta, the Venice Biennale, Sao Paolo Bienal, Shanghai Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Carnegie Triennial and the Whitney Biennial. He is co-founder and founding editor of the Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. He is a prolific writer and has given 6 keynote addresses including the 2022 congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics in Philadelphia. A book of his writings titled Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life 1991 – 2018 was published in 2020 by Concordia University Press. In 2020, he wrote a screenplay titled The Cook about Chinese contract laborers in the 19th century. In 2021, he penned a second screenplay about the forced expulsion of Chinese from Tacoma, Washington Territory in 1885. Lum has realized numerous permanent public art commissions, including co-curating Shanghai Modern: 1919 – 1945. A long-time professor, Lum is currently the Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

Ice House Comedy: LYT Comedy Show
2024-01-27 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents LYT Comedy Show hosted by Megan Sousa, Esau McGraw, Ron G, Nicole Tran, and Eunice Elliott! Live in the California Room! The Show Starts at 8pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's: Local Author Day featuring Chantal Donnelly, Roger Parham-Brown, and Marcia Arrieta
2024-01-28 16:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Chantal Donnelly presents Settled: How to Find Calm in a Stress-Inducing World
Are you constantly on a stress rollercoaster, jumping from frantic to collapsed without ever finding a place of comfort?
In SETTLED, physical therapist Chantal Donnelly searches for ways to help her patients and ends up delving into the fascinating science behind stress. She discovers it’s not just a mental or emotional issue, but a physical one too.
Through personal anecdotes, case studies, research, and her professional expertise, Donnelly’s innovative guidebook offers you quick and easy tools for finding calm.
Learn to communicate with your body so you can reap the positive benefits of stress while minimizing its negative effects.
Regain the sense of vitality, ease, and connection you are longing for.
Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, trying to improve your health and relationships, or wanting to relax enough to enjoy your successes, this book is for you.
Say goodbye to the stress rollercoaster and hello to a settled and balanced life.

Ice House Comedy: Trevor Wallace, Charlotte McKinney, Joey Bragg
2024-01-28 19:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Trevor Wallace, Charlotte Mc Kinney, and Joey Bragg! Live in the California Room! The show Starts at 7pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's: Graham Zimmerman, in conversation with Abbey Smith, discusses A Fine Line
2024-01-30 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
How do we reconcile our love of outdoor adventure with the inevitability of loss in high-risk sports? Still in his thirties, Graham Zimmerman has made first ascents from Alaska to Pakistan, and in 2020 he received the Piolet d’Or for his climb on Pakistan’s Link Sar with Steve Swenson. A sponsored athlete who is sought out as a climbing partner, Zimmerman knows that he must find a balance between his ambitions as an alpinist and his social responsibilities–as a husband, climate advocate, and community leader.
His generation has faced devastating grief in the mountains, including the deaths of Kyle Dempster, Hayden Kennedy, and Inge Perkins, and his cohort has witnessed firsthand the effects of climate change in the form of disappearing glaciers and increasingly erratic weather. Zimmerman writes of the exhilaration he feels while climbing but also the painful realization that summiting at all costs is an outdated model. As A Fine Line traces Graham’s journey, mountain lovers everywhere will see themselves in this coming-of-age story of adventure and personal reckoning.
