Pending home sales in the U.S declined for the fourth consecutive month in September (and rose in Pasadena), as higher mortgage interest rates and higher home prices curbed buying power, according to the National Association of Realtors®. In addition there was growing insecurity over lawmakers’ inability to agree on a budget and that hurt consumer […]
Thursday, October 31 – 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tricks, Flicks & Family Pix at One Colorado Dress up the little ones and take them to One Colorado for store-to-store Trick-or-Treating. Once the candy bag is full, pose with them for a free family portrait. You can also have a photo taken of your dressed-up […]
Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” considered by critics to be his best play, is now in repertory with “Pericles, Prince of Tyre” and “The Guardsman” at Pasadena’s A Noise Within Theatre. Belonging to the movement known as Theater of the Absurd, “Endgame” does not have a traditional plot. Instead, characteristic to the style, the piece is cyclical […]
One of our first posts, Contessa Collections, and still favorite place for food, gifts and chocolates is sponsoring and inviting us to a special event. A shipment to Contessa is on its way from Italy, and Maria Luisa Fabbri wants us to join her and her staff to sample the ingredients just landing. Contessa will […]
If you’re anything like me, you’re craving the feel of fall. I grew up in Southern California, but the warm weather and hardly-changing-leaves in October continue to disappoint me to no end. So I commit every fall to finding ways to bring fall-like feelings to a fall-less city. Like? Buying Pumpkin Spice Lattes from Starbucks, […]
Pasadena’s list price and sale price trends often differ from the media reports on the national real estate scene. Here’s one of an ongoing series on Pasadena real estate. Prices. What’s for Sale and What’s Been Sold. The median listing price for a home for sale in Pasadena is $640,930 including properties through September 30, […]
A concert entitled BLOW will be presented by the Pennington Dance Group (PDG) at A Room to Create (ARC) in Pasadena on November 1-3, and you are invited. The repertory will consist of brand new and renewed works by John Pennington performed by eight artists. Andrew Munie designed the atmospheric lighting that will accompany the […]
Here is a new Android app, called Emu I installed today that promises to make my SMS texting much better and smarter. Let’s say I am trying to message Hem-young to go to a dinner and movie — it sounds easy, but first I have to fire up Fandango to check where Gravity 3D is […]
Adore wedding dresses? Then head over to the Pasadena History Museum to get your fill of florals, frills, and fabulous wedding dresses and gowns. The exhibit, part II of a two part series, showcases stunning wedding dresses and gowns from the 1950s until the present day. And let me tell you, they’re beautiful. Each dress […]
On Monday, October 21, the Crawford Family Forum hosts Los Angeles mayor, Eric Garcetti in conversation with KPCC’s political correspondent Frank Stoltze. Mayor Garcetti will discuss the progress he has made in his first 100 days as mayor as well as what he is still working to accomplish in his term. Eric Garcetti has bold […]