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Feinstein revs up Pasadena Pops summer season
The Pasadena Pops' star-studded "Sierra Acura Summer Concert Series" opens June 1 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia. At the podium: singer, pianist and renowned interpreter of the American Songbook, Michael Feinstein,...
Tags: Tony Awards, Singin' in the Rain (movie), Celebrities, MGM Inc., TBS (tv network)
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Pasadena Playhouse falls for 'Fallen Angels'
"Fallen Angels," a comedy once considered too scandalous for polite society, opens Sunday at the Pasadena Playhouse. This sly and sexy Noël Coward play may be tame by today's standards, but its 1925 London premiere — starring Tallulah Bankhead...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Broadway Theater, Theater, Feminism, Loren Lester
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Two local residents honored at White House for work in science, technology
Among the 23 scientists and innovators President Obama honored Friday afternoon during a White House ceremony were La Cañada Flintridge residents Frances Arnold and Solomon Golomb. Arnold — a professor at Caltech — won a National Medal for...
Tags: White House, Awards and Prizes, Science, Nobel Prize Awards, Invention and Innovation
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Obama recognizes Caltech professor Frances Arnold
Caltech professor Frances Arnold was recognized Friday as a winner of a top technology award given by President Obama. Arnold, whose work focuses on "directed evolution" and green fuel, was one of 11 recipients of the National Medal of Technology and...
Tags: White House, Awards and Prizes, Google+, Science, Nobel Prize Awards
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Ambition meets pageantry for locals Amanda Alissa Perez and Anavictoria Pumphrey
Two college students are representing Pasadena and South Pasadena in this weekend’s Miss California USA pageant at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Amanda Alissa Perez, Miss Pasadena, is a senior majoring in cognitive neuroscience and international...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Miss USA, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Healthy Diet
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In Pasadena, Kylan Arianna Wenzel becomes first transgender woman to compete for Miss USA title
Ever since she was 11, Kylan Arianna Wenzel had dreamed of competing in the Miss Universe pageant. There was just one complication: She was a boy. With an age limit making this year her last shot, Wenzel moved up a previously planned gender...
Tags: Miss USA, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Social Issues
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On the Town: 'Christmas' is an interactive hit with children; Walter Hoving Home awarded grant
Sunday marks the last two performances of the Pasadena Playhouse hit “A Snow White Christmas.” The English “panto” (holiday play), a comic take on the classic fairy tale, provided a change from the traditional “Nutcracker&...
Tags: Nigel Lythgoe, Religious Festivals, Manhattan (New York City), Music Theater, Theater
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Royal activities keep Rose Court busy
The Tournament of Roses' Royal Court travels as a unit. The seven young women crowd into a van together and head for Christmas tree lightings, community events and hospital visits. Always in matching outfits, sometimes linking arms. The queen and six...
Tags: Students, NASA, Entertainment, Teaching and Learning, Google Inc.
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Art takes over for pair of weekends
The art of generating buzz about local cultural institutions reaches a high point this month as both Pasadena and South Pasadena host free events that bring art to the masses, feet to the streets and business to local merchants. Pasadena hosts its twice-...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Festive Events, Halloween, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Work unveils some surprises about Einstein
If one had to choose a golden age of physics at Caltech, the 1930s would be a strong contender. It was a time when Caltech leader Robert Millikan invited top scholars and physicists to the Pasadena campus. One of the most notable visitors, Albert...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Education, Colleges and Universities, Google+, Science
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Film review: Richard Gere plays one of the 1% in 'Arbitrage'
“Arbitrage” is not about Jack Abramoff, or Bernie Madoff or even Mitt Romney. But resemblances between any one of them and the film's protagonist, Robert Miller (Richard Gere), are hardly coincidental. Miller is a stand-in for a whole class of...
Tags: Bernard Madoff, Susan Sarandon, Mitt Romney, Jack Abramoff, Peter Falk
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In 'Cymbeline,' the plot's the thing
One of Los Angeles' most respected directors meets one of Shakespeare’s least produced plays as Evidence Room founder Bart DeLorenzo takes on the Bard's plot-dizzy, globe-hopping "Cymbeline," at A Noise Within in Pasadena. The production, running...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Gil Cates, Terry Gilliam, Holidays, Fiction
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