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REMEMBER MITRICE 

In case you have forgotten, 

September marked nine years 

since the death of Mitrice 

Richardson and still there are 

not answers to who murdered 

her. I remain ever vigilant 

in my quest for justice and 

continue to hold out hope that 

her murderer will be found and 

that she may rest in peace. 

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PANDORA’S BOX 

By the year 2040 the only intelligences on Earth may well 

be artificial intelligences. During the most recent few decades, 

companies have been created all over the world whose 

main mission is to develop computers that think, and to build 

robots to carry out whatever orders their computer brains 

give them. During that same time frame, the children of today 

have been hypnotized and brainwashed into letting their computers 

and electronic gadgets do their thinking for them. So 

many people have fallen into this category that no one has the 

time or interest to take a look at the world around them to see 

what has happened to the one planet and life-giving environment 

we all depend on. 

In May of 1992, an opportunity was presented to the US 

government to use brief applications of controlled heat to 

replace tens of billions of 

pounds of toxic chemicals 

used annually to grow our 

food. This opportunity was 

killed to benefit the USDA’s 

chemical company benefactors. 

Government methods 

used to kill this opportunity 

have not been honest, legal, 

and in the interest of future 

generations or global health. 

US politicians work to please 

special interest money, not 

“We the People.” A recent 

program on public broadcasting 

said that babies born 

today have about 200 cancercausing 

chemicals in their 

bodies at birth because of 

what their mothers ingested 

in their food, air and water. 

On Oct. 22, 2014, The Wall 

Street Journal ran the article 

“Race to Find Organic Pesticide.” 

This story described 

how the USDA and its chemical 

company partners created 

and released worldwide 

$54 billion worth of a new 

bacteria as a replacement for 

chemical agricultural pesticide. 

A scientific report from 

1996 stated that releasing a 

new bacteria or virus is more 

dangerous than releasing 

nuclear contamination. Six 

months after the 2014 article, 

it was reported that coral 

reefs around the world were 

dead or dying, including the 

Great Barrier Reef. Twelve 

months after the report the 

crabs on the West Coast of 

America were producing 

high levels of neurotoxin. By 

August of 2016 it was reported 

that poisonous algae 

blooms threatened people 

and ecosystems across 

the US. Bacteria thrive in 

warm places. Our equatorial 

oceans are dead, plus other 

huge environmental dominos 

are falling worldwide. 

Government experts blame 

everything on global warming 

instead of chemical and 

other pollution. 

I have noticed that many 

life forms have disappeared 

after each of our infrequent 

rains in Southern California 

— snails, ladybugs, caterpillars 

and many more. I’ve 

worked 36 years, over half 

my life, trying to get people 

to look up from their computers 

long enough to see what 

was happening to the Earth 

beneath their feet. Early on 

in my garden I learned that 

God and Mother Nature are 

one and the same. 

On Oct. 22, 2014, I realized 

that Pandora’s Box 

had been opened and that I 

had failed to complete my 

mission. Without nature, 

already our rain and fresh 

water are polluted, our air 

is unclean; and now that the 

bees are disappearing, soon 

there will be very little food 

to eat. I believe that, except 

for the few who are hidden 

away, humans have little to 

no future past the end of the 

2040s, and only the artificial 

intelligences may remember 

our passing. 

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you. 

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•INNERVISIONS• 

BY ALICIA DHANIFU 

SEASON OF CHANGE 

PEOPLE MUST EMBRACE A ‘REGENERATIVE POLITIC’ FOR PEACE, 

BALANCE AND HARMONY TO PREVAIL 

With each passing season we are not only reminded that change is inevitable 

but that we, like nature, can make changes that regenerate ourselves and 

society. In my opinion, nature and humanity are begging for a political 

narrative based on a “regenerative politic,” one that encourages life-sustaining, 

spiritual principles in the political arena. It is these principles that birthed a 

regenerative politic and inspired the creation of our nation’s Constitution, thereby 

establishing a lawful foundation from which all positive social, spiritual and 

economic changes aligned. 

Another example of this is the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who prominently 

espoused these principles in his famed “I Have a Dream” speech. The case against 

poverty and racism was propelled into the world forum by the venerated lawyer 

and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi, and Frances Perkins, the first US Secretary 

of Labor (who also supported her sick husband and their child). She was the 

architect of the New Deal and fought to create a middle-class and Social Security 

for all Americans. These three people comingled spiritual principles and political 

narratives. Each determined not to rely on benign rationalism, racism or party 

politics, but pressed forward in a progressive manner, eschewing acclaim in favor of 

fairness and economic security for all. 

Their voices and political actions generated profound legislation, giving credence 

to civil rights legislation, including the right to vote, and the abolishment of child 

labor. These individuals denounced non-democratic principles amidst a backdrop of 

violent opposition, false accusations and attempts on their lives. Those who opposed 

them argued contrary political narratives and tactics such as: partisan appeals, voter 

suppression, violence and brutality that continues to this day. Regeneration has never 

been their goal. 

In 2018, there is still time to begin the fall season with a regenerative politic 

that moves us forward without divisive belief systems supported by misleading 

narratives. The nation and the world must learn to look beyond sanctions, fear and 

revenge — these are not the only viable alternatives. In my opinion, humanity’s 

greatest threats are not nuclear war and global warming but the unwillingness to 

make it mandatory that they are no longer possible. 

Principled local, national and world leaders can choose to implement policies 

that provide safe food, water and shelter for their people. Perhaps they could garner 

enough support to implement a Spiritual Defense and Welfare Treaty and live by it. 

Of course, none of this is easy, but in America we still have freedom of speech. 

On the other hand, prayer, which is not violent and does not need to be audible, 

is forbidden in public schools. There is a dangerous political narrative I have 

heard lately about making schools safer by arming “certain teachers.” Is this the 

ultimate message and solution America’s children can expect from sane adults 

in our nation? Is this the political narrative we want heard around the world? 

Certainly prayer is “safer” than guns. Americans are the most heavily armed 

populace in the world, yet school shootings and shootings in other public places 

continue. 

On the world front, leaders should be willing to discuss and debate the benefits 

of spiritual principles and conflict resolution. They can study the lives of the three 

individuals I mentioned earlier in this story. Next, they can individually or as a group 

meditate to gain wisdom and insight about prioritized issues of life-threatening 

concern. They can start with Psalms 25:9 from the Bible, which states: “He leads the 

humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.” Humility is a respected 

virtue throughout the world. 

It is important to recognize typical characteristics of those who fight against 

regenerative change and a regenerative politic. Look at their perilous actions and 

listen to their inflammatory speech. They build alliances to degenerate continuing 

efforts and policies to maintain the delicate balance between nature and humanity. 

They are motivated by personal gain. They have to be educated or convinced, but if 

they oppose based on their principles or lack thereof, they become a stumbling block. 

For a regenerative politic to work, the majority of humanity and world leadership 

must choose to live by its principles, which means agreeing to peacefully co-exist, 

something that can only be viable when everyone’s basic needs are met. I believe 

when that day arrives, harmony will restore the delicate balance between nature and 

humanity — then nations will disarm, then all will look forward to the season of a 

lifetime. n 

Alicia Dhanifu, MFA, is a producer, educator and writer. To order her CD “How to Forgive Oneself and Others,” 

visit fitandfundvds.com or write to PO Box 91797, Pasadena, Calif., 91109. 



BEST OF PASADENA READERS’ POLL RULES AND METHODOLOGY 

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and businesses within Pasadena Weekly’s circulation area were eligible. Ballots 

for Best of Pasadena were available for download at PW’s home page from Aug. 2 

through August 22, 2018. Registered users of pasadenaweekly.com were also able 

to vote online. All ballots submitted were validated for authenticity. Each category 

has the potential of one Winner and two Reader Recommended awards. Ties were not 

broken and appear as additional entries where appropriate. There is a limit of three 

awards per year per entity. 



T ime in a Bottle 

THE PASADENA WAY MIRRORS THE PACE OF CHANGE IN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE ‘THE ME DECADE” 

BY KEVIN UHRICH 

(J im Croce— 

1973) 

Having come of age in the 1970s, a decade considered by many to be the 

wild child of the ’60s, I can safely say no one’s missed much since then, mainly 

because we are all still living with many of the transformative aspects of this 

socially, politically, artistically and technologically pivotal decade. 

In many ways, perhaps especially from a pop culture perspective, it’s as 

though the ’70s — what author Tom Wolfe dubbed “The Me Decade” — never 

really ended. They’ve just been digitized, playing out on an inexhaustible app 

of songs and images for3 future generations to enjoy, as though we are actually 

living episodes of “That ’70s Show.” 

Much the same can be said about the world of politics. Following the 

resignation of the only president forced from office in Richard Nixon in 1974, 

the US pulled out of Vietnam the following year, finally ending that bloody 

conflict. This was also a time for protecting the planet and curbing pollution 

with the birth of the EPA. There was also Affirmative Action (extended 

to federal employees under Nixon, just as the EPA started during his 

administration), and the birth of the Department of Education (under Jimmy 

Carter). The first Secretary of Education was Judge Shirley Hufstedler in 

1979, the year she left her seat on the US Ninth District Court of Appeals in 

Pasadena. 

This was also an age of open racial discrimination, with Pasadena 

becoming the first community west of the Mississippi to initiate busing in 

efforts to further desegregate schools, a practice that continued until 2000. 

A few other things have also changed, but, like everything else, not all that 

rapidly. Two are the Rose Parade, now in its 130th year, and the Rose Bowl 

College Football Game, celebrating its 105th anniversary, both once again 

being voted the Best Annual Event(s) in our Best of Pasadena readers’ poll. 

They say the Rose Parade is a reflection of the times, and the ’70s started 

with a blast on New Year’s Day 1970, featuring as grand marshals the Apollo 12 

astronauts, having touched down on the moon the previous November. They 

were followed each successive year by the Rev. Billy Graham, band leader 

Lawrence Welk, John Wayne (raised in Glendale), Peanuts creator Charles M. 

Schulz, baseball great Hank Aaron, singer Kate Smith, TV and movie stars Roy 

Rogers & Dale Evans, former President Gerald Ford and community activist 

Lathrop K. Leishman in 1979. 

At the Rose Bowl, USC appeared five times throughout the decade, beating 

Michigan twice and winning two out of three games against Ohio State. UCLA 

appeared in the bowl once that decade, beating No. 1 Ohio State in the 1976 

game. 

In the pro ranks in those years, it was the time of basketball greats Wilt 

Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul Jabbar (formerly Lew Alcindor) and Julius Erving. 

The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys ruled pro football, and Arthur 

Ashe, Jimmy Connors and Billie Jean King dominated the tennis scene. In the 

Olympics, Mark Spitz (’72) and then Pasadena businessman John Naber (’76) 

brought home gold in swimming, and in the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, 

Dorothy Hamill, who trained in Pasadena, became the 1976 Olympic champion 

and that year’s world champion in ladies’ singles. 

Although we don’t have a category for athletes, we do have an awful lot of 

good sports, certainly among the best in their fields and vocations. Among 

them include Michael Calderon, again winning Best Personality, and City 

Councilman Tyron Hampton, a repeat winner in the Best Public Official slot. 

This year, the award for Best Art Gallery/Collections once again goes to 

another institution that also never seems to age, the Huntington Library, Art 

Collections and Botanical Gardens. And as schools for art go, ArtCenter 

College of Design, which moved from LA to its Hillside Campus in Pasadena, 

also in 1976, has once again been voted the best there is by PW readers. Much 

the same thing applies to this year’s perennial Best Museum, Norton Simon 

Museum. 

Although this latter category has seen many repeat winners over the years, 

there is always room for change with so many terrific arts institutions in town. 

But just as winners in many categories did not change this year, others 

did. In the Best Teacher category, for instance, Eileen Cameron of Alverno 

Heights Academy replaces multiple-Best of winner Yvonne Davis of Don Benito 

Elementary. 

And some past winners are occupying new areas of the list. For example, 

this year’s Best Citizen, Pasadena Police Reserve Officer Darrell McKenzie, 

was last year’s Best Public Employee. 

And there are those that have been Reader Recommended winners for many 

years that have moved into the year’s top slot, with ArtWalk taking the Best 

Cultural Event category. 

So you see, much like the ’70s, the theme of this year’s Best of Pasadena 

edition and party, it seems that things may change, but only not all that much, 

or all that quickly, at least in the Pasadena Way category. 

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Huntington Library, 

Art Collections, and 

Botanical Gardens 

The Rose Parade and 

Rose Bowl Game 

Pasadena ArtWalk 

BEST ANNUAL EVENT 

THE ROSE PARADE AND ROSE 

BOWL GAME 

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The city’s annual festival of flowers 

celebrates its 130th year on Jan. 1, 

but it seems like only yesterday that 

Gerald Ford, John Wayne and Billy 

Graham were joining in the festivities 

as grand marshals of the Rose 

Parade. The floral spectacular is 

once again sponsored by Honda, just 

as the Rose Bowl College Football 

Game, now in its 105th year, will be 

sponsored by Northwestern Mutual 

insurance company. For as old as 

both events are, there’s one thing that 

these events will have for the first 

time this year: An African-American 

Tournament president in Gerald Feeny 

overseeing the festivities. The Melody 

of Life is the theme of this year’s 

event, as chosen by Mr. Feeny. 

READER RECOMMENDED 

ARTNIGHT 

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CHALK FESTIVAL 

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BEST ART GALLERY 

HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, ART 

COLLECTIONS, AND 

BOTANICAL GARDENS 

1151 Oxford Road, San Marino 

(626) 405.2100 | huntington.org 

The Huntington, as it’s been called 

since its inception, is a renowned 

educational and research institution 

established by Henry E. Huntington, 

a pretty big man in the ’70s — the 

1870s. Located in San Marino, the 

estate was formerly the Huntington 

family’s home, and in addition to the 

library includes extensive collections 

of 18th- and 19th-century European 

art and 17th- to mid-20th-century 

American art. In recent years, the 

campus has come to include several 

new facilities and some 120 acres 

of specialized botanical landscaped 

gardens, most notably the Japanese 

Garden, the Desert Garden, and the 

Chinese Garden. 


ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS 

145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 792-5101 | armoryarts.org 

NORTON SIMON MUSEUM 

411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 449.6840 | nortonsimon.org 

BEST ART SCHOOL 

ART CENTER COLLEGE OF 

DESIGN 

1700 Lida St., Pasadena 

870 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena 


1111 S. Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena 

(626) 396-2200 | artcenter.edu 

Before opening its South Campus on 

South Raymond Avenue in Pasadena, 

ArtCenter College of Design had been 

operating solely from its Hillside 

Campus in Pasadena since 1976, 

offering students a new model for 

art and design education in the 21st 

century. Major figures in the fields of 

transportation design, product design, 

graphic design, illustration, and 

photography and imaging are members 

of an impressive alumni list that 

includes concept artist and industrial 

designer Syd Mead, Roger Avary, 

Academy Award-winning co-writer of 

“Pulp Fiction,” director Michael Bay 

and cinematographer Don Burgess, to 

name but a few. 


ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS 


(626) 792-5101 | armoryarts.org 

ELIOT ARTS MAGNET 

2184 Lake Ave., Altadena 

(626) 396-5680 | pusd.us/eliot 

BEST BUSINESS PERSON 

AMARA BARROETA 

Amara Chocolate & Coffee 


(626) 744-1765 | amarachocolate.com 

Amara, retired PW dining reviewer 

Erica Wayne once wrote, means “beloved” 

in Spanish. Amara Chocolate & 

Coffee, the coffee, sandwich, snack, 

pastry and chocolate shop on South 

Raymond Avenue, Erica wrote, takes 

its name from owner Amara Barroeta, 

a Venezuelan beauty pageant 

contestant with a degree in chemical 

engineering, a background as a TV 

host and a penchant for cooking, But 

in the time it’s been in business, “the 

enterprise has earned its title independently 

owing to the quality of the 

food and beverages it dishes up.” 

BEST CHARTER SCHOOL 

AVESON CHARTER SCHOOLS 

1919 E. Pinecrest Drive, Altadena 

(626) 797-1440 | aveson.org 

The key to learning at Aveson Charter 

Schools is the PML, Personalized 

Mastery Learning. Here “advisors” 

teach kids the necessary skills and 

content while building confidence in 

their ability to learn, thrive intellectually 

and think independently. The 

school celebrates student individuality 

and gives kids the space and time 

to master their learning. In other 

words, at Aveson faculty members 

teach the school’s 800 students 

children about learning itself. 


LEARNING WORKS 

90 N. Daisy Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 564-8762 | publicworksinc.org 

ODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOL 

725 W. Altadena Drive, Altadena 

(626) 229-0993 | odysseycharterschool.org 

BEST CITIZEN 

PASADENA POLICE RESERVE 

OFFICER DARRELL MCKENZIE 

After 32 years on any job, it’s easy to 

get burned out. Not Pasadena Police 

Reserve Officer Darrell McKenzie, 

who joined the Reserve Unit after 

completing the academy in 1986. 

While cops around the country are 

taking heat from several directions, 

Officer McKenzie is described as a 

man who would give you the shirt off 

his back. And he’s apparently done 

it all in terms of on-the-job duties: 

patrol, traffic, drunk driving details, 

even undercover. 

BEST CULTURAL FESTIVAL 

PASADENA ARTWALK 

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Organized by the Pasadena Playhouse 

District, Pasadena ArtWalk is 

the city’s largest urban art fair with 

over 5,000 people attending yearly. 

This event is known to highlight 

some of the best Southern California 

visual artists showcasing their work 

in painting, sculpture, watercolor, 

photography, mixed media, ceramics, 

jewelry, drawings, and print making. 

This year’s walk features a juried art 

show and sale, a public art walking 

tour, free and reduced museum 

admission, hands-on activities, exclusive 

dinning deals, and live music. 

And it’s a free event. 


ARTNIGHT PASADENA 

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PHOTO: Catherine Buknight (Union Station Homeless Services) 

LATINO HERITAGE PARADE 

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BEST ENRICHMENT 

AMORY CENTER FOR 

THE ARTS 

Armory Center for the Arts is the Los 

Angeles region’s leading independent 

institution for contemporary 

art exhibitions and community arts 

education. It’s their belief that an 

understanding and appreciation for 

art is essential for a well-rounded 

human experience and a healthy civic 

community. Exhibitions at the nonprofi 

t Armory inspire dialogue around 

visual culture and contemporary 

life, contribute to global discourses 

in contemporary art, and introduce 

contemporary visual art to Pasadena 

and beyond. 


KIDSART 

20 S. Oakland Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 577-7802 | kidsartclasses.com 

ROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER 

360 N. Arroyo Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 564-0330 | rosebowlaquatics.com 

BEST HISTORIC 

LANDMARK 

PASADENA CITY HALL 

100 N. Garfield Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 744-4000 | cityofpasadena.net 

Even the fi ttest movie star doesn’t 

look as good at 91 as Pasadena City 

Hall. With a seismic retrofi t, and 

gussied up with some fresh plaster 

and paint, the magnificent six-story, 

235-room Spanish Colonial Revival 

style structure on Garfield Avenue 

has never looked more regal and been 

more deserving of its landmark status 

from the National Register of Historic 

Places in 1980. 


COLORADO STREET BRIDGE 

ROSE BOWL 

1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena 

(626) 577-3100 

rosebowlstadium.com 

BEST INSTITUTE OF 

HIGHER LEARNING 

CALTECH 

1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 395-6811 | caltech.edu 

It’s been said many times, but news 

of success is something that bears 

repeating, and the California Institute 

of Technology, Caltech, is about nothing 

but success, producing 33 Nobel 

Prize winners and 70 National Medal 

of Science or Technology winners 

since opening in 1891. Along with 

being one of the finest universities in 

the country, Caltech also manages Jet 

Propulsion Laboratory for NASA. 


FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 

135 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 584-5200 | fuller.edu 

PASADENA CITY COLLEGE 

1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 585-7123 | pasadena.edu 

BEST KIDS/FAMILY 

FUN SPOT 

KIDSPACE CHILDREN’S 

MUSEUM 


(626) 449-9144 | kidspacemuseum.org 

Kidspace Children’s Museum was 

established in 1979 as a hands-on, 

participatory children’s museum. 

Today, according to visitpasadena. 

com, Kidspace has grown to be an 

industry leader in the fi eld of informal, 

free-choice education, offering 40 

hands-on exhibits, in addition to 

outdoor spaces, programs and activities 

designed to encourage a child’s 

growth and development through 

exploration of the environment, 

investigation in science and artistic 

expression. 


BROOKSIDE PARK 


(626) 744-7311 | ci.pasadena.ca.us/ 

PublicWorks/brookside_park 

HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, ART 

COLLECTIONS, AND BOTANICAL 

GARDENS 


(626) 405.2100 | huntington.org 

BEST LOCAL CHARITY 

UNION STATION HOMELESS 

SERVICES 

825 E. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 240-4550 | unionstationhs.org 

There are a lot of people out there 

who took their best shots in life and 

came up short. That’s where Union 

Station comes in. Did you know that 

most homeless people we see on the 

streets are from here? Although the 

city and county have taken steps over 

the years to bring down the number 

of homeless, the problem persists. 

It’s good to know Union Station has 

been out there since 1973, getting 

people off the street, providing shelter, 

hot meals, good advice and other 

services. 


FRIENDS IN DEED 

444 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 797-2402 | friendsindeedpas.org 

FOOTHILL UNITY CENTER 

191 N. Oak Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 584-7420 | foothillunitycenter.org 

790 W. Chestnut Ave., Monrovia 

(626) 358-3486 

BEST LOCAL CHARITY 

EVENT 

AUTISM SPEAKS WALK 

Autism Response Team: 

(888) 288-4762 

En Español: (888) 772-9050 

familyservices@autismspeaks.org. 

autismspeaks.org 

The world’s largest autism fundraising 

event of its kind dedicated to 

improving the lives of people with 

autism, the Autism Speaks Walk is 

once again this year’s Best Local 

Charity. With the slogan, “Working 

together, there is no limit to what 

we can achieve,” parents, grandparents, 

siblings, friends, relatives and 

supporters of people with autism 

gather to raise funds for programs 

to help loved ones lead the best lives 

possible. 


PASADENA SHOWCASE HOUSE 

(626) 578-8500 | pasadenashowcase.org 

WIGGLE WAGGLE WALK 

pasadenahumane.org 

BEST LOCAL NONPROFIT 

PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY 

& SPCA 


(626) 792-7151 | pasadenahumane.org 

This donor-supported, nonprofi t 

organization provides animal care 

and services for homeless and owned 

animals in the Greater Los Angeles 

Area. Folks at the Humane Society 

are dedicated to promoting humane 

treatment and compassion and care 


Kidspace Children’s 

Museum 

Union Station 

Homeless Services 



Lock & Crown Salon 

Integrity Lash 

Michael Calderon, 

aka Mr. Pasadena 

for all animals. As their website points 

out, animals in their care come from 

11 animal control contract cities, as 

well as partner shelters across the 

Los Angeles area and beyond. The 

Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA 

also offers lifesaving programs and 

services to the community that support 

the human-animal bond and keep 

pets in homes. 


ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PASADENA 


(626) 449-2068 

pasadena.assistanceleague.org 

IDEAL YOUTH 


(626) 796-7164 | idealyouth.org 

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PASADENA 

149 S. Madison Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 796-0244 | jlpasadena.org 

BEST LOCAL PERSONALITY 

MICHAEL CALDERON, AKA 

MR. PASADENA 

This is the third year that Michael has won 

this coveted award. Known to his friends 

as “Mr. Pasadena,” Michael, according an 

introduction on his website, is “That guy 

who always seems to know what is going 

on in Pasadena, recommending restaurants, 

places of interest and things to do 

in Pasadena. He loves Pasadena!” When 

he eventually does meet up with a new 

friend, he knows there are always going 

to be a great group rate and a chance to 

meet new friends, or even better a chance 

to catch up with some old friends. 

BEST MUSEUM 

NORTON SIMON MUSEUM 


(626) 449-6840 | nortonsimon.org 

The Norton Simon Museum was once 

the only modern art museum in Southern 

California. Today, the museum, located 

near the corner of Colorado and Orange 

Grove boulevards, contains one of the 

most extensive and rarest art collections 

in the country. 


PASADENA MUSEUM OF HISTORY 

470 W. Walnut St., Pasadena 

(626) 577-1660 | pasadenahistory.org 

USC PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM 

46 N Los Robles Ave, Pasadena 

(626) 449-2742 

pacifi casianmuseum.com 

BEST MUSIC SCHOOL 

PASADENA CONSERVATORY 

OF MUSIC 

100 N. Hill Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 683-3355 

pasadenaconservatory.org 

The nationally accredited conservatory, 

with the goal of teaching students 

of all skill levels to play music, offers a 

comprehensive curriculum for children 

and adults. Opening in 1984, the conservatory 

now has more than 1,200 

students attending the school annually 

and over 3,000 students in schools 

throughout Pasadena benefi tting from 

its extensive outreach programs. 


ALTADENA ACADEMY OF MUSIC 

2235 N. Lake Ave., No. 207, Altadena 

(626) 296-0799 

altadenamusicacademy.com 

ELIOT ARTS MAGNET 


(626) 396-5680 | pusd.us/eliot 

BEST NEW BUSINESS 


1088 Allen Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 639-3697 | lockandcrown.com 

It may seem odd that a salon would 

be quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson, 

but something he said struck a nerve: 

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing 

anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s 

handwriting,” the poet once said. Conceived 

by two stylists, Lock & Crown 

Salon offers an inviting and chill space 

for every hair service needed to make 

you a thing of beauty. Each station 

provides ample space to give clients 

individualized attention so their time 

with a stylist is all about them. Not 

only will clients leave with a fresh look, 

but they’ll feel beautiful and relaxed 

and ready to seize the day. 


BASECAMP FITNESS 

38 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 714-7600 | basecampfi tness.co 

INNER IMAGE LIFESTYLE SOLUTIONS 

960 E. Green St., No. 105, Pasadena 

(626) 243-3908 | innerimage.life 

BEST PARK OUTDOOR 

RECREATION SPOT 

EATON CANYON 

ecnca.org 

Eaton Canyon Natural Area is a 

190-acre zoological, botanical, and 

geological nature preserve situated at 

the base of the beautiful San Gabriel 

Mountains. In short, “It’s a great 

little hike,” writes one enthusiast on 

tripadvisor.com. There are several 

hikes in different canyons, but the 

most popular is the Eaton Canyon 

trail to the waterfall. “At the end is the 

falls,” writes another fan, “that end 

in a small pool nice for wading if it is 

hot. I enjoyed it and recommend it to 

anyone with a spare hour and a half 

that don’t want to stay inside.” 


BROOKSIDE PARK 


(626) 744-7311 | ci.pasadena.ca.us 

VICTORY PARK 

2575 Paloma St, Pasadena 

(626) 744-7500 | ci.pasadena.ca.us 

BEST PLACE OF WORSHIP 

LAKE AVENUE CHURCH 

393 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 844-4700 | lakeave.org 

A small band of women formed the 

Lake Avenue Union Sunday School 

on Oct. 27, 1895. By the 1920s, meetings 

were held in a car barn at Lake 

Avenue and Orange Grove Boulevard. 

Today, Lake Avenue Church has 

grown to become one of the largest 

churches in America and a major 

force for Christianity throughout the 

world. 


ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 

132 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 796-1172 | allsaints-pas.org 

FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH 

80 W. Dayton St., Pasadena 

(626) 793-1062 | pfbchurch.net 

ST. ANDREW CHURCH 


(626)-792-4183 | saintandrewpasadena.org 

BEST PLACE TO WORK 

INTEGRITY LASH 

350 S. Lake Ave., Pasadena No. 290 

626) 437-4000 | integritylash.com 

Even though they welcome 200 customers 

each week, trained workers at 

Integrity Lash still are able to provide 

each person with the personal touch. 

Unlike a nail salon, clients have 

manicures, facials, lash work and 

other procedures performed privately 







in their own room with a closed door. 

Members of the Integrity Lash’s 

talented team of lash designers are all 

state licensed, and the business itself 

is licensed by the Board of Barbering 

of Cosmetology, ensuring compliance 

with state sanitation and safety 

procedures and regulations. 


CALTECH 


(626) 395-6811 | caltech.edu 


HIGH POINT ACADEMY 

1720 Kinneloa Canyon Road, 

Pasadena 

(626) 798-8989 | highpointacademy.org 

JUDSON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL 

1610 E. Elizabeth St., Pasadena 

(626) 398-2476 | judsonschool.org 

WESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 

324 Madeline Drive, Pasadena 

(626) 799-1153 | westridge.org 

engineering, and math (STEM). At 

Jackson, another option is available 

to learn to read, write, and speak in 

both English and Spanish, and that is 

through participation in the school’s 

Dual Language Immersion Program 

(DLIP). 


DON BENITO FUNDAMENTAL SCHOOL 

3700 Denair St., Pasadena 

(626) 396-5870 

donbenito.pusd.us.org 

Polytechnic 

School 

St. Edmund’s 

Nursery School 

JET PROPULSION LABORATORY 

4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena 

(818) 354-4321 | jpl.nasa.gov 

KAISER PERMANENTE 

3280 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena 

(800) 954-8000 | healthy.kaiserpermanente.org 

BEST PRESCHOOL 

ST. EDMUND’S NURSERY 

SCHOOL 

1175 San Gabriel Blvd., San Marino 

(626) 792-7742 

stedmundsnurseryschool.org 

St. Edmund’s Nursery School offers 

young children an outstanding learning 

environment and an excellent 

foundation for future academic, 

social, and spiritual development. 

They emphasize basic skills, values, 

manners and an inclusive religious 

curriculum while nurturing knowledgeable, 

responsible and caring kids. 


GOODMAN FAMILY DAYCARE & 

PRESCHOOL 

1090 El Campo Drive, Pasadena 

(626) 578-1815 | goodmandaycare.com 

MENTOR AVENUE PRESCHOOL 

308 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 396-7008 | mentoravenuepreschool.com 

BEST PRIVATE SCHOOL 

POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL 


(626) 396-6300 | polytechnic.org 

Founded in 1907, the mission of 

Polytechnic School is to develop the 

intellect, talents and character of each 

student in a community of learning 

dedicated to principles of academic 

excellence that values the uniqueness 

and dignity of each member 

and fosters personal responsibility 

and service to others. This collegepreparatory 

school is dedicated to the 

education of students from kindergarten 

through 12th grade. 

BEST PUBLIC EMPLOYEE 

CUSHON BELL 

Bell, who currently serves as Councilman 

Tyron Hampton’s field representative, 

worked as a teacher in the Los 

Angeles Unified School District for 18 

years. In 2011, she decided to enter 

the race for a school board seat in 

the Pasadena Unified School District. 

She lost that election, but that didn’t 

stop her from staying involved. She 

also served as one of the 51 delegates 

to Parenting Magazine’s Moms 

Congress in Washington, selected 

from essays expressing their ideas for 

improving schools. 

BEST PUBLIC OFFICIAL 

PASADENA CITY 

COUNCILMAN 

TYRON HAMPTON 

Born and raised in Pasadena, Councilman 

Hampton has been involved in 

his family’s construction business 

since childhood, playing a pivotal role 

in the company’s growth over the 

past decade. Five years ago, Hampton 

won a seat on the Pasadena Board 

of Education. Two years later, he 

ran for the District 1 seat on the City 

Council. Since his election, Hampton 

has worked at ensuring equal access 

to opportunities for every family in 

his district. He feels passionately 

about ensuring the city is playing a 

role in public education and supporting 

economic growth in Northwest 


BEST PUBLIC SCHOOL 

JACKSON STEM DUAL LAN- 

GUAGE MAGNET ACADEMY 

593 W. Woodbury Road, Altadena 

(626) 396-5700 | pusd.us/Domain/1 

Jackson STEM Dual Language 

Magnet Academy offers an innovative 

academic program that nurtures 

the communication, collaboration, 

critical thinking, and creative skills 

necessary to be successful in the 21st 

century. Teachers also place a strong 

emphasis on science, technology, 

JOHN MUIR HIGH SCHOOL 

1905 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 396-5600 | pusd.us/muir 

BEST TEACHER 

EILEEN CAMERON 

ALVERNO HEIGHTS ACADEMY 

One of the best ways to tell whether 

a teacher is reaching their students 

is to listen to what the kids have to 

say. “Ms. Cameron,” said one student 

on an online review, “has been one 

of the best English teachers I’ve had 

throughout my years at Alverno. She 

can be intimidating at first, but once 

you both get to know each other 

more, she will really teach you the art 

of the English language. I love her!” 

Apparently this student is not alone. 

“When comparing Eileen Cameron’s 

ratings to other teachers in the state 

of California,” states the school’s 

website, “(her) ratings are above the 

average of 4.34 stars. Additionally, 

the average teacher rating at Alverno 

High School is 3.99 stars.” 

BEST TUTORING 

JASON JAMERSON 

(626) 720-1155 

Jasonjamerson59@gmail.com 

For almost 20 years Jason Jamerson 

has been tutoring high school and 

college students in math and science. 

Jamerson says he uses an engaging 

and nurturing approach for those who 

are stuck on tough problems. He’s 

learned that pressure and anxiety 

only make any problem much worse. 

According to Jamerson, tutoring is all 

about utilizing people skills to bring 

out the best in students. 


MERIEDUCATION 

Test Prep Tutoring 

845 Cordova St., Pasadena 

(626) 639-8810 | merieducation.com. 

TUTOR DOCTOR 

261 E. Colorado Blvd., No. 218, 


(626) 551-4341 | tutordoctor.com ■ 

PHOTO: Catherine Buknight (Jackson STEM Dual Language Magnet Academy) 






You’ve Got a F riend 

(James Taylor — 1971) 

BEST OF PASADENA SERVICE WINNERS OFFER PLENTY OF HOPE AND HELP TO PW READERS 

BY CARL KOZLOWSKI AND JANA J. MONJI 

Famous writer Tom Wolfe notoriously called the 1970s “The Me Decade,” as 

people poofed their hair out or put on gold chains before heading out for a night 

on the town. But our Best of Pasadena Service winners stand out because they 

help others become the best they can be. 

People go to movies to find characters and situations to aspire to, looking for 

the world to have a little more magic on the big screen. So we’re using some of 

the greatest movies of the ‘70s to point out several of our most notable winners. 

If you have a case of “Saturday Night Fever,” or any other medical malady, 

Best Hospital winner Huntington Hospital is the place to be for all manner of 

premium care. If you are worried about your own jaws more than the shark in 

the 1976 cinema classic “Jaws,” Best Dentistry winner Dr. Michael Yung and 

Associates are there to help you make your smile shine. 

Want to unleash your inner “Rocky”? Then head over to Best Gym winner 

Title Boxing Club for a full array of solo and group training in boxing, kickboxing 

and MMA, or Best Workout winner MC2 Fitness. Or master your inner 

Bruce Lee with Best Martial Arts winner American Kenpo Karate. 

Looking for a safe place to keep your money? Best Bank winner Chase 

Bank and Best Credit Union winner Wescom will keep you from ever suffering 

through a “Dog Day Afternoon.” 

Looking for a good cut and “Shampoo”? Best Hair Salon winner Tangles 

Salon and Best Barber Shop winner Floyd’s 99 will give you plenty of options 

with their stylish staffs. “....And Justice for All” can surely be found by hiring 

Best Attorney/Law Firm winner Molly B. Girardi, attorney at law. 

Or if you’re looking to make your car look its best, down to “The Last Detail,” 

drive on over to the Best Car Wash winner Pasadena Auto Wash or Best Auto 

Repair/Body Shop winner Pasadena Automotive Repair. 

“The Eyes of Laura Mars” would be even more beautiful if they were treated 

by the fine folks at Best Eye Care winner Linden Optometry. If watching 

“Grease” makes you want to get up and dance, Best Dance Studio winner Lineage 

Performing Arts Center can teach you how to shake your groove thing in 

several different styles. 

Hoping to create a wedding that would make “The Godfather” approve? Then 

go to Best Event Planner winner Peggy Kelley Timeless Celebrations or Best 

Party Rentals winner Dolphin Event Services for all your needs on the big day 

or any other major celebration, while Best Golf Course winner Brookside Golf 

Course provides a great setting for special events as well. 

Speaking of the great outdoors, parents can send their kids to Best Summer 

Camp winner Tom Sawyer Camp without fear of them winding up like the wild 

and woolly kids in “Meatballs.” 

Put it all together, and you’ll find that our Best Of winners will never let you 

down and will always come through for you, just like the best friends you’ve had 

throughout your life. 







BEST ACCOUNTANT 

MARK HARRIS, ACCOUNTING 

MANAGEMENT INC. 

1605 E. Elizabeth St., Pasadena 

accountingman.com 

For the past 15 years, Mark Harris and his 

ace staff have handled all bookkeeping, 

financial reporting, management reporting 

and controller services including accounts 

receivable and payable, inventory, payroll 

and adjusting entries. They’ll also partner 

with CPA firms to expedite tax and audit 

preparation, provide part-time oversight 

of your accounting company, and design 

spreadsheet and database applications for 

information needs that are not effectively 

met using accounting software, giving you 

one-stop accountability. 

READER RECOMMENDED (TIE) 

JOHN HORNICK, CPA 

709 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 150, 


(626) 449-6861 | hornickcpa.com 

MARTIN TRUITT 

Truitt & Company 

80 N. Euclid Ave., No. 503, Pasadena 

(626) 449-6264 

BEST ACUPUNCTURE 

BRENDA B. SMITH 

Pasadena Women’s Wellness Center 

99 S. Chester Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 356-3220 

pasadenabreastwellness.com 

Smith is a licensed acupuncturist and 

esthetician, as well as a massage therapist 

specializing in stress management and 

women’s health. Her clients praise her 

ability to help with everything from neck 

pain to regulating menstrual cycles. Her use 

of cutting-edge SureTouch breast exams 

promises “no pain, no squoosh, no radiation” 

and enables all areas of the breast 

to be examined while offering immediate 

results for clients and their primary doctors. 


DR. YA WEN CHENG ACUPUNCTURE & 

CHIROPRACTIC 

51 N. Fifth Ave., No. 305, Arcadia 

(626) 292-6899 | drcheng.net 

TAO OF WELLNESS 

171 S. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 397-1000 | taoofwellness.com 

BEST ARCHITECT 

DAHL ARCHITECTS 

1134 El Centro St., South Pasadena 

(626) 564-0011 | dahlarchitects.com 

Whether you’re seeking commercial projects 

covering interior office spaces through 

designs for entire mall complexes, or 

residential work ranging from simple oneroom 

remodels to ground-up builds, Dahl 

Architects has the skilled staff for all your 

needs. By featuring diversified services 

in residential, commercial and restaurant 

projects, they have built a strong base of 

satisfied clients extending from large chain 

restaurants and dinner theaters to small 

mom and pop joints. 


ALAN ZORTHIAN ARCHITECTS 

3990 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Altadena 

(626) 797-3359 

ALEXANDER VARGA, ARCHITECT/ 

REALTOR 

(626) 696-1434 | alexandervarga.com 

BEST ATTORNEY/ 

LAW FIRM 

MOLLY B. GIRARDI, 

ATTORNEY AT LAW 

2425 Mission St., Suite 1, San Marino 

(626) 799-9748 

Sooner or later we all need a good attorney 

so it’s no wonder our readers voted Molly 

Girardi best attorney this year. Molly specializes 

in civil litigation, personal injury and 

product liability. If you need to exercise your 

rights, give Molly a call. 


LAW OFFICES OF JAMES F. MILLER 

1275 E. Green St., Pasadena 

(626) 792-2910 | jfmillerlaw.com 

LAW OFFICE OF KEITH ROUSE 

600 S. Lake Ave., Suite 507, Pasadena 

(626) 449-4211 | keithrouselawoffice.com 

LAW OFFICES OF WILLIAM PAPARIAN 


(626) 795-1750 

criminalattorneyinpasadena.com 

BEST AUTO REPAIR/ 

BODY SHOP 

PASADENA AUTOMOTIVE 

REPAIR 


(626) 793-1800 

pasadenaautomotive.com 

The third time’s the charm indeed, as 

Pasadena Automotive has won this honor 

for three years in a row. Their staff is ASE 

Master Technician Certified and the shop 

is a member of the Bureau of Automotive 

Repair. Covering everything from 

the big jobs of fixing transmissions and 

programming updates for vehicle control 

module software to basic tasks including 

oil changes and tune-ups, they have been 

handling the needs of thousands of drivers 

since opening in 1990. 


HRANT AUTO SERVICE 


(626) 798-4064 | cartalk.com/ca/ 

pasadena/128749 /hrant-auto-service 

INDEPENDENT VOLVO SERVICE 

2244 E. Walnut St., Pasadena 

(626) 796-5460 | independentvolvo.com 

MCCURDY BODYWORKS 


(626) 796-7763 

mccurdybodyworks.com 

BEST BANK 

CHASE 


(626) 795-5177 | chase.com 

Best Of Pasadena voters chased their 

financial goals the most at Chase Bank, 

which offers the full array of services from 

basic accounts to car buying and loans, 

mortgages, home equity and investing 

services. All told, it’s the favorite local place 

to help manage their financial life both on 

the homestead and in their commercial, 

investment and retirement, insurance and 

loan and credit needs. 


BANK OF AMERICA 


(626) 304-3120 

WELLS FARGO BANK 


(626) 449-3661 

BEST BARBER SHOP 

FLOYD’S 99 

888 Cordova St, Pasadena 

(626) 784-9648 

floydsbarbershop.com/pasadena 

Floyd’s brings a fun rock’ n’ roll vibe to its 

wide array of clipping and waxing services, 

ranging from their patented Floyd’s Cut 

that includes a hot lather neck shave to full 

service cuts with massage shampooing 

and blow drying and waxes on everything 

from noses to eyebrows. They’re also 

one-stop shopping for those seeking head 

shaves with hot lather and steamed towels, 

high-quality hair coloring and even custom 

design work on beards and mustaches. 


LUKE WALKER’S BARBER & BEAUTY 

CARE 

627 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 793-6534 

RON’S BARBER SHOP 

1920 N. Lake Ave., Altadena 

(626) 319-3329 

BEST CAR WASH 

PASADENA AUTO WASH 

164 W. Del Mar Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 449-9944 

pasadenaautowash.powersites.net 

This perennial winner offers far more than 

a simple wash, as readers also enjoy their 

quality work both inside and out with oil 

change service, auto detailing, car detailing 

and lube jobs. The terrific staff also pampers 

car owners by enabling them to kick 

back and relax by enjoying coffee, pretzels 

and cookies while reading the daily paper 

and watching TV in the air-conditioned 

lounge area. 


LUCKY CAR WASH 


(626) 796-4888 | luckycarwash.com 

WALNUT-HILL HAND CAR WASH 


(626) 449-6217 

BEST CHIROPRACTOR 

PREMIER WELLNESS CHIRO- 

PRACTIC 

2750 E. Washington Blvd., No. 140, 


(626) 797-5800 

pwcpasadena.com 

A lifelong Pasadena resident, Dr. Raffi 

Iknadossian is not only a member of the 

American Academy of Spine Physicians 

and the International Chiropractic Pediatric 

Association, but also the team doctor for 

Marshall High School sports. He serves 

the needs of the Pasadena community 

by providing chiropractic care, corrective 

exercises, lifestyle advice, nutritional 

counseling, massage therapy and spinal 

and postural screenings— all guaranteed 

to keep you moving and grooving for years 

to come. 


DR. GUSTAVO A. NINO, NICALI 

SPORTS MEDICINE 

709 E. Colorado Blvd. 

nicalisportsmed.com 

INNATE FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC 

33 S. Catalina Ave., No. 104, 


(626) 792-9600 

innatefamily.com 

BEST COSMETIC 

SURGEON 

DR. GORDON SASAKI 

800 Fairmount Ave., No. 319, Pasadena 

(626) 796-3373 | drsasaki.com 

Whether you’re seeking scar revisions or 

special care for men or the more common 

array of breast, face and body procedures 

for women, Dr. Sasaki provides it all in 

an elegant setting that will soothe your 

nerves. He has been the go-to physician for 

cosmetic surgery since opening the Sasaki 

Advanced Aesthetic Medical Center in the 

Huntington Medical Plaza Building in 1985, 

growing his practice to encompass its current 

6,500-square-foot facility. 


DR. MICHAEL SCHWARTZ 

Skin Deep Laser Med Spa 

425 S. Fair Oaks Ave., No.110, 


(626) 449-8873 

drmichaelschwartz.com 

DR. SHANKAR LAKSHMAN, PASA- 

DENA SURGEONS 

10 Congress St., No. 360, Pasadena 

(626) 688-9080 

pasadenasurgeons.com 

DR. WARREN STOUT 

800 E. Colorado Blvd. No. 260, 


(626) 449-6494 | stoutlaser.com 

BEST CO-WORKING 

SPACE 

WE WORK PASADENA 


(310) 570-2041 

wework.com 

Want to start a company without the 

pressure of managing all the office 

space yourself? Or are you an individual 

freelancer just looking to get away 

from the distractions of home? We 

Work Pasadena offers plenty of options 

from shared workspaces for individuals 

to entire private floors of offices that 

provide full amenities for teams of up to 

50 people, helping you work it with less 

hassles than traditional office settings. 





CROSS CAMPUS 


(626) 298-8420 

crosscamp.us/locations/pasadena 

CTRL COLLECTIVE 


(626) 395-7693 | ctrlcollective.com 

BEST CREDIT UNION 

WESCOM CREDIT UNION 

123 S. Marengo Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 535-1000 | wescom.org 

Wescom Credit Union is a perennial winner 

here and clearly the most trusted choice in 

Pasadena, having been launched in 1934 by 

13 Pacific Telephone workers who pooled 

their money to create a financial institution 

that would offer themselves loans. 

The union has grown to manage more 

than $2 billion in assets at 22 branches for 

nearly 200,000 members across Southern 

California. Their employee-run charitable 

foundation WeCare also helps improve the 

lives of people across the Southland. 


CALTECH EMPLOYEES FEDERAL 

CREDIT UNION 

515 S. Wilson Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 395-6300 | (800) 592-3328 

caltechefcu.org 

PASADENA SERVICE FEDERAL 

CREDIT UNION 

670 N. Rosemead Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 351-9651 | mypsfcu.org 

BEST DANCE STUDIO 

LINEAGE PERFORMING ARTS 

CENTER 


(626) 844-7008 | lineagepac.org 

Lineage has developed a strong rapport 

with the community by extending its 

artistry beyond dance performances and 

into hosting all types of artistic endeavors 

including plays and stand-up comedy 

shows. But as they transition into a bigger 

and bolder new space, they are also beloved 

for their extensive outreach to helping those 

with neurological disorders use dance as 

therapy to keep themselves healthy for a 

long time to come. 


DANCE STREET 


(626) 791-7746 | dancestreetca.com 

LUMINA ACADEMY OF DANCE 


(626) 296-2812 

BEST DAY CARE 

KIDS KLUB PASADENA 

Child Development Center & Preschool 


(626) 795-2501 | kidsklubcdc.com 

Kids Klub uses a unique and innovative 

approach to childcare, with a “Back to 

Basics” philosophy that teaches children 

self-esteem, respect and responsibility in 

a safe, clean and stimulating environment 

that focuses on hands-on, interactive “Discovery 

Areas.” They provide infant care, 

pre-school, after-school care, evening and 

weekend drop-off care and extra-curricular 

classes in addition to summer camps. They 

also have additional locations in South 

Pasadena and San Gabriel/Rosemead, 

providing plenty of options for parents who 

need a little help. 


ARAKELYAN FAMILY CHILD CARE 

1245 N. Sierra Bonita Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 487-7226 

arekelyanchildcare.com 


PRESCHOOL 


(626) 578-1815 | goodmandaycare.com 

BEST DAY SPA/ 

MASSAGE 

BURKE WILLIAMS DAY SPA 

39 Mills Place, Pasadena 

(626) 440-1222 

burkewilliamsspa.com 

The ace staff at Burke Williams can help 

you feel groovy by providing massage 

therapy, Ayurvedic treatments, chiropractic 

care and even spa baths. That’s just for 

starters, though those seeking an even 

more amazing experience can sign up for 

“Transformative Journey” packages with 

themes like “Revitalize,” “Balance,” “Defy” 

and “Escape.” It’s no wonder that the 10-location 

California chain has been rewarded 

with an ever-growing roster of delighted 

clients since 1984. 


MASSAGE ENVY 

345 S. Lake Ave. No. 205, Pasadena 

(626) 240-1060 | massageenvy.com 

3707 E. Foothill Blvd. Pasadena 

(626) 351-9100 

1136 Fair Oaks Ave., South Pasadena 

(626) 403-6000 

659 Foothill Blvd. La Cañada 

Flintridge 

(818) 952-3689 

333 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale 

(818) 246-3689 

SALT STUDIO 


(626) 765-6180 l saltstudiopasadena.com 

BEST DENTISTRY 

DR. MICHAEL YUNG AND 

ASSOCIATES 



(626) 449-5420 | michaelyungdds.com 

Dr. Yung established his Pasadena practice 

in 2003 after a lifetime in the area, as the 

San Marino native has built a shining reputation 

by specializing in fillings, porcelain 

veneers, implants and teeth whitening, 

while using digital X-rays to minimize radiation. 

In fact, he’s pleased his customers so 

completely they’ve named him the winner 

here for a dozen years in a row. And since 

it’s never too early to start caring for your 

pearly whites, Dr. Yung provides dental 

services for patients as young as 1. 


LESLIE CARPENTER, DDS 

200 S. Oak Knoll Ave. No.102, 


(626) 795-4369 l esliecarpenterdds.com 

DR. GREGORY OHANIAN 

225 N. Allen Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 509-0626 l goorthopasadena.com 

BEST DERMATOLOGIST 

COMPREHENSIVE 

DERMATOLOGY CENTER OF 

PASADENA 

625 S. Fair Oaks Ave., No. 200, 


(626) 793-7790 

compdermcenter.com 

The CDC’s ace three-physician staff — Dr. 

Sara Gaspard, along with Dr. Heather Butler 

and Dr. Han Lee — and an in-house aesthetician 

provide great guidance in solving 

any dermatological crisis. Thanks to having 

an in-house acne treatment center for all 

ages and stages of acne, cutting-edge 

dermatological lasers and a full line of skin 

care products, they are sure to make their 

patients’ skin glow. 


DR. DAVID DENENHOLZ 


(626) 449-4207 

pasadenapremierdermatology.com 

DR. MARILYN MEHLMAUER 

10 Congress St., No. 320, Pasadena 

(626) 585-9474 

mehlmauer.com 

BEST DOCTOR 

DR. IRINA JASPER 


(626) 356-0340 | doctorjasper.com 

Dr. Jasper is popular for many reasons, 

including allowing same-day appointments, 

having a pharmacy and lab on premises 

at her office, and speaking English, Spanish 

and Russian. She also specializes in 

Well-Woman Care, covering all aspects of 

OB-Gyn health issues from birth control 

and pregnancy tests to breast and cervical 

cancer screenings, and was even awarded 

the title of “Resident of the Year” while 

training in Internal Medicine at Chicago’s 

University of Illinois Christ Hospital. 


DR. GARRY KIM, HEALTHY FOR LIFE 

950 S. Arroyo Pkwy., 3rd Fl., 


(626) 795-0415 | drgarrykim.com 

STEPHEN HENRY, MD 

2319 E. Washington Blvd. #2, 


(626) 797-8800 

BEST DRY CLEANER/ 

LAUNDRY 

MAGIC CLEANERS & 

LAUNDRY 


(626) 796-1975 | magiccleanersinc.com 

It’s a lucky seven for Magic, as it takes this 

award for the seventh year in a row— and 

they’ve been serving the San Gabriel Valley 

for the past three decades. Their six-point 

inspection process guarantees no mistakes, 

since they offer to correct any issue found 

in-house and within the same day. They 

even offer fresh popcorn and coffee to 

waiting customers, while their sophisticated 

barcode system ensures nothing gets lost 

by scanning every item. 


JACK’S CLEANERS 


(626) 797-7323 | jackscleaners.com 

TIP TOP CLEANERS 

565 S. Lake Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 796-6777 

tiptopcleanerspasadena.com 

BEST EVENT PLANNER 

PEGGY KELLEY TIMELESS 

CELEBRATIONS 

(626) 222-1808 

timelesscelebrations.com 

Kelley treats every event like it’s your 

wedding, giving it the kind of total love and 

attention that will make any celebration 

magical and memorable. From designing 

and printing the invitations to providing 

entertainment ranging from deejay’s to 

dancers, catering with 28 years of food 

experience to handling the portraits and 

videography, Peggy Kelley and her staff 

have helped Pasadenans since 2006. By 

handling all those needs, Timeless Celebrations 

allows clients to feel like guests at 

their biggest events. 


JOIE DE VIVRE & CO. 

(818) 502-0333 | joieweddings.com 

MILLER HAWKINS PRODUCTIONS 

61 S. Baldwin Ave., No. 1658, Sierra 

Madre 

(626) 791-1225 | mhpevents.com 

BEST EYE CARE 

LINDEN OPTOMETRY 


(626) 796-1191 

lindenvision.info 

With more than 10,000 types of sunglasses, 

glasses and contact lenses to choose 

from, as well as over 30 optometrists ready 

to provide customers individualized care, 

Linden has been a favorite for decades. 

Yet they’re not stuck in the past, as they 

offer cutting-edge products such as the 

ECO (Earth-Conscious Optics) line of green 

eyewear, composed of 95 percent recycled 

metal and plastics, and FreshLook contact 

lenses that can make all kinds of colors look 

natural. 


DIAMOND VISION OPTOMETRY 


(626) 683-6868 

diamondvisionoptometry.com 

DR. CHARLES KORTH 

1 W. California Blvd., No. 513, 


(626) 793-9987 | korthvision.com 

PASADENA OPTOMETRY CENTER 

960 E. Green St. #1000, Pasadena 

(626) 793-1483 

pasadenaoptometrycenter.com 

BEST EYEBROWS/ 

WAXING 

INTEGRITY LASH 


(626) 437-4000 | integritylash.com 

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weekly, with a total history of more than 

40,000 successful procedures, Integrity’s 

reputation is hard-won. They also offer 

services on brows and brow tweezing, 

upper lips and on noses. With an inventory 

of more than 3.5 million lashes applied with 

medical-grade equipment using a unique 

approach that ensures the lashes won’t 

become painful in a week, this is a longtime 

favorite that’s sure to stay that way. 


PRETTY IS CONTAGIOUS 

810 Meridian Ave., South Pasadena 

(626) 818-1734 

prettyiscontagious.com 

ZOEY VAN JONES BROW STUDIO 

455 S. Lake Ave., Studio 7, Pasadena 

(626) 683-3308 | zoeyvanjones.com 

BEST FACIAL 

BURKE WILLIAMS DAY SPA 


(626) 440-1222 | burkewilliamsspa.com 

Burke-Williams’ client base may be primarily 

women, but they also have special 

facials designed for men and teens, with an 

anti-aging facial that will help repair damage 

while brightening your skin. They also offer 

four-layer resurfacing, radiant, resurfacing, 

spa style and rescue facials in addition to 

professional peel exfoliation, advanced 

eye lift and stem cell sprays, making this a 

one-stop spot for all you need to put your 

best face forward. 


SASAKI INNOVESSENCE MEDICAL 

SKINCARE CENTER 

800 Fairmount Ave. S. No. 319, 


(626) 796-3373 | drsasaki.com 

THE SALT STUDIO 


(626) 765-6180 | saltstudiopasadena. 

com 

BEST FUNERAL HOME 

CABOT & SONS FUNERAL 

HOME 

27 Chestnut St., Pasadena 

(626) 793-7159 | cabotcare.com 

Cabot & Sons has been helping Pasadenans 

through their toughest times since 

1921, providing everything from cremation 

to burial options with a free planning book 

to assist you through the process. There 

are lots of options available, from graveside 

services and complete funerals to complete 

cremation services. Being family-owned 

means they have provided a personal touch 

through four generations, even including 

the lovingly crafted obituaries that help 

keep your loved ones’ memories alive on 

the web forever. 


FOREST LAWN 

1712 S. Glendale Ave., Glendale 

(888) 204-3131 | forestlawn.com 

WOODS-VALENTINE MORTUARY 


(626) 798-8941 | woodsvalentinemortuary.com 

BEST GOLF COURSE 

BROOKSIDE GOLF COURSE 

1133 Rosemont Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 585-3594 | brooksidegc.com 

Nestled amid the beauty of the Arroyo Seco, 

Brookside is not just a great place to play 

golf, but also to learn the game, raise funds 

with a classy tournament or even stage 

weddings. Their delicious restaurant offers 

hearty breakfasts and power lunches as 

well as post-match snacks, but also simply 

offers great views of beautiful outdoor 

settings aside from that. It’s a great place to 

host celebrations for up to 300 people. 


ALTADENA TOWN AND COUNTRY 

CLUB 

1456 E. Mendocino St., Altadena 

(626) 797-3821 | parks.lacounty.gov/ 

wps/portal/dpr/ThingsToDo/Golf/Altadena_Golf_Course 

ANNANDALE GOLF CLUB 

1 N. San Rafael Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 796-6125 

annandalegolf.com/html/ 

BEST GYM 

TITLE BOXING CLUB 

87 Fraser Alley, Pasadena 

(626) 340-2500 

oldpasadena.titleboxingclub.com 

If you want to learn how to fight without 

losing any teeth, Title Boxing Club is the 

place for you, with an array of no-hit boxing 

and kickboxing classes. As part of a nearly 

200-location chain that believes lifting yourself, 

not just weights, Title offers individual 

or group training in MMA fighting as well. 

But even if you’re not out to fight, it’s great 

training for your arms, legs, back and core. 




(626) 714-7600 | basecampfi tness.co 

MC2 FIT 


(626) 665-3900 | mc2.fi t 

PURE BARRE PASADENA 

107 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 765-9400 | purebarre.com 

BEST HAIR SALON 

TANGLES SALON 

145 W. Green St., Pasadena 

(626) 792-2948 | tanglespasadena.com 

Tangles continues its amazing run of 

Best of Pasadena success, having won 

the category four years in a row and 

placed as a Reader Recommended the 

four years before that. They specialize in 

all manner of techniques, with the Japanese 

Yuko Straightening system, Brazilian 

Blowouts and Keratin treatments all 

available to handle unruly hair and dry 

cutting and Deva curly cuts in addition 

to traditional cutting all available for less 

troublesome locks. From Deva Curly 

hair and Japanese straightening to hair 

extensions, weaves and even some 

discrete nonsurgical hair replacement, 

this Green Street salon has your mane 

matters covered. 




(626) 639-3697 | lockandcrown.com 

SCIZZOR GROUP 91 


(626) 836-6733 | scizzorgroupltd.com 

BEST HEARING 

SPECIALIST 

HEAR CENTER 

301 E. Del Mar Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 796- 2016 | hearcenter.org 

Specializing in audiology, hearing aids 

and speech and language pathology, 

HEAR Center has proven to be the place 

to go for all hearing issues. Founded by 

Ciwa Griffi th in 1954, they have helped 

countless people improve their life 

experience by offering free pediatric and 

senior screenings that can improve their 

hearing, while offering other means to 

protect hearing for those who already 

have it. Their site’s patient testimonials 

are a powerful read as well. 


FURUYA HEARING 


(626) 795-0579 

LOVE HEARING 

2623 E. Foothill Blvd., No. 101, 


(626) 796-4535 

lovehearingservices.com 

BEST HOME 

REMODELING 

NAVARRO CONSTRUCTION, INC. 


(626) 398-1777 

navarroconstruction.com 

Navarro Construction is so in demand 

that they work only on referral, with 

26 years worth of satisfied customers 

providing plenty of clients since Alfred 

Navarro launched the firm. From new build 

construction, remodeling services and 

custom fabrication to project management 

and permit/planning expedition they live up 

to their motto of “Cover all of the details, 

right from the start,” with a reputation 

based upon integrity, accountability and 

communication. 


CYNTHIA BENNETT & ASSOCIATES 


(626) 799-9701 | cynthiabennett.com 

HARTMANBALDWIN DESIGN BUILD 

300 S. Raymond Ave., 

South Pasadena 

(626) 486-0510 | hartmanbaldwin.com 

BEST HOSPITAL 

HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL 

100 W. California Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 421-7733 | huntingtonhospital.org 

Get real about your health and take advantage 

of the more than 70 top-notch services 

at Huntington Hospital. It was Henry Edwards 

Huntington’s estate that donated $2 

million to Pasadena Hospital in the 1930s, 

which became the 625-bed Huntington 

Hospital. From babies in the neonatal 

intensive care unit to adults with various 

health concerns at different stages of life, 

Huntington Hospital is where Pasadenans 

turn for the best in medical service. 


CITY OF HOPE 

1500 E. Duarte Road, Duarte 


(626) 256-4673 | cityofhope.org 

METHODIST HOSPITAL OF SOUTHERN 

CALIFORNIA 

300 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia 

(626) 898-8000 

methodisthospital.org 

BEST HOTEL 

THE LANGHAM HUNTINGTON 

HOTEL AND SPA 

1401 S. Oak Knoll Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 568-3900 | langhamhotels.com/ 

en/the-langham/pasadena 

The Langham Huntington Hotel is the 

kind of place where incognito Hollywood 

types and wintering East Coasters come 

to get away. But one really doesn’t need to 

be making major bread to hang out. The 

Langham is the perfect place for a wedding 

stay or a splurge stay-cation or a mellow 

out mental health weekend. If that’s still too 

pricey, then visit the hotel for its fine dining 

— from the Royce Wood-Fired Steakhouse, 

to tea with Wedgewood or California casual 

at The Terrace. The Huntington has something 

for everyone. 


HOTEL CONSTANCE 


(626) 898-7900 | dusit.com/dusitd2/ 

THE WESTIN PASADENA 

191 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 792-2727 

thewestinpasadena.reservations.com 

BEST HOUSE CLEANING 

SERVICE 

TRUE BLUE MAID SERVICE 


(626) 466-8488 | truebluemaids.com 

If your work keeps you trucking or your 

play time means late boogie nights, then a 

good maid service can keep your pad chill. 

Family-owned True Blue Maids brings a 

personalized touch of sparkling cleanliness 

to one–time clean ups and regular weekly 

gigs, True Blue Maids won’t cost you major 

cash either. 


GRANNY’S SPIC ’N SPAN 

(626) 765-7250 

grannysspicnspan.com 

MAID BRIGADE 

(323) 254-6240 | maidbrigade.com 

BEST INTERIOR DESIGN 

ROBYN NAVARRO, UPSTAGE 

DESIGN 

964A Foothill Blvd., La Cañada 

Flintridge 

(818) 790-0300 | upstagedesign.com 

When the world is your stage, sometimes 

you want your house to be more than a 

home. Or maybe you want to chill out in 








your own oasis. Robyn Navarro can create 

an environment for estate agents, investors 

and homeowners. Her love of auctions and 

estate sales leads her to unique finds that 

can add character to anyone’s castle. 

Humanities Wing, the Community Bank 

Business Room, the Ida Lloyd Crotty Genealogy 

Room, and the Ernestine C. Avery 

Children’s Wing, with a fully functional and 

expanded story room. 

FIGHT ACADEMY 

36 W. Colorado Blvd., B1, Pasadena 

(626) 737-0442 

fi ghtacademypasadena.com 

PHOTOS: Catherine Buknight (OH! U Beauty Medical Spa, Wescome Credit Union, Webster’s Community Pharmacy) 


PELTIER INTERIORS 

1011-A Mission St., South Pasadena 

(626) 799-2265 | peltierinteriors.com 

SAMANTHA WILLIAMS INTERIOR 

DESIGN 

1142 Allen Ave., Unit 100, Pasadena 

(626) 773-8560 

williamsinteriordesign.com 

BEST LAUNDRY 

FRENCH HAND LAUNDRY 


(626) 792-3881 

frenchhandlaundry.com 

Your clothes don’t have to be grody for you 

to take them to French Hand Laundry and 

Dry Cleaner. If you need to preserve your 

image, your clothes need to be just right. 

It’d be a total bummer if your best threads 

were thrashed on your best boogie night. 

So get real about styling and give your 

threads the royal treatment. 


BRYAN’S CLEANERS 


(626) 796-4335 | bryanscleaners.com 

MAGIC CLEANERS AND LAUNDRY 

111 N Lake Ave, Pasadena 

(626) 796-1975 

magiccleanersinc.com 

PASADENA LAUNDRY 


(626) 744-2948 

pasadenalaundry.com 

BEST LIBRARY 

PASADENA CENTRAL 

LIBRARY 

285 E. Walnut St. Pasadena 

(626) 744-4066 

cityofpasadena.net/library/ 

The firm of Myron Hunt and H.C. 

Chambers, the same architects who built 

Huntington Library and Occidental College, 

designed Pasadena’s Mediterranean-style 

Central Library which opened in 1927. 

During the 1960s, a Children’s Story Room 

and two reference wings were added. In the 

mid-1980s, private donations funded the 

renovation and restoration of the Donald 

R. Wright Auditorium, a climate-controlled 

Pasadena Centennial Room, the Ria C. Lee 


ALTADENA LIBRARY 

600 E. Mariposa St., Altadena 

(626) 798-0833 | altadenalibrary.org 

SOUTH PASADENA LIBRARY 

1100 Oxley Street, South Pasadena 

(626) 403-7340 | southpasadenaca. 

gov/government/departments/library 

BEST LOCAL 

PHARMACY 

WEBSTER’S COMMUNITY 

PHARMACY 


(626) 797-1163 | altadenarx.com 

Webster’s Community Pharmacy in 

Altadena has been serving Pasadena and 

Altadena residents since 1926. Currently 

owned by Meredith and Michael Miller, this 

full-service pharmacy fills prescriptions 

with a smile, as well as provides medical 

equipment, like wheelchairs and walkers. 

You don’t have to be sick to check out 

Webster’s, which also offers some great 

boutique gifts and greeting cards. 


CAL OAKS PHARMACY 

55 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, 

(626) 795-5956 

stores.healthmart.com/caloakspharmacy2/stores.aspx 

FAIR OAKS PHARMACY 

526 Mission St, South Pasadena 

(626) 799-1414 

BEST MARTIAL ARTS 

AMERICAN KENPO KARATE 


(626) 793-8575 

americankenpokarate.net 

With a focus on discipline, respect and 

confidence, students learn lessons that will 

stay with them for life. They also pick up 

self-defense strategies. Each class has at 

least two certified martial arts instructors 

trained by Kenpo Master Rick Jeffcoat. 


TWO DRAGONS MARTIAL ARTS 

2490 Lake Ave, Altadena 

(626) 398-8853 

twodragonsma.com 

BEST MASSAGE 

BURKE WILLIAMS 


(626) 440-1222 | burkewilliamsspa.com 

When it’s time to chill, you don’t have to 

travel far for an awesome mini-staycation. 

Burke Williams Spa evokes the peace and 

tranquility of a British Colonial garden 

without the post-colonial guilt. This hidden 

oasis in Old Pas has 16 massage rooms, 

six rooms for facials, four nail care chairs, 

whirlpools, a sauna and a cool mist room. 


PASADENA MASSAGE 

COMPANY 

232 N. Lake Ave., Suite 213, Pasadena 

(626) 585-1964 

pasadenamassagecompany.com 

MASSAGE ENVY 

345 S. Lake Ave., No. 205, Pasadena 

(626) 240-1060 | massageenvy.com 


(626) 351-9100 

1136 S. Fair Oaks Ave., 

South Pasadena 

(626) 403-6000 

BEST MED SPA 

OH! U BEAUTY MEDICAL SPA 


(818) 551-1682 | oubeauty.com 

If you need some needling, plucking or laser 

treatments to renew your good looks, head 

over to OH! U Beauty Medical Spa in Glendale. 

Their anti-aging Botox injections, laser 

hair removal for extra smooth skin and/or 

chemical peels and micro-dermabrasions 

can delay your silver fox days or make you 

foxier in your golden years. 


SASAKI INNOVESSENCE MEDICAL 

SKINCARE CENTER 

800 S. Fairmount Ave., No. 319, 


(626) 796-3373 | drsasaki.com/ 

innovessence-medical-skincarecenter.html 

SKIN DEEP LASER MED SPA 


(626) 449-8873 


Webster’s Community 

Pharmacy 

OH! U Beauty 

Medical Spa 

American Kenpo 

Karate 

Wescome Credit Union 






PHOTOS: Catherine Buknight (I Dig My Dog) 

BEST MORTGAGE 

BROKER 

FRANKLIN LOAN CENTER 

101 E. Green St., Suite 11, Pasadena 

(626) 219-7196 

franklinlc.com/pasadena 

Franklin Loan Center has a strong reputation 

for being an outstanding mortgage 

banking firm, serving real estate professionals, 

builders and individual homebuyers 

in Pasadena. So when you’re looking for a 

place and need cash to make it happen, turn 

to this full-service mortgage broker. 


HOMESTREET BANK 

Pasadena Home Loan Center 


(626) 765-8200 | homestreet.com 

SIERRA CAPITAL MORTGAGE CO. 


(626) 449-8545 | sierracapital.us 

BEST NAIL SALON 

OLIVE & JUNE 


(626) 440-9700 | olivejune.com 

If your fingers and toes need to go from 

gross to groovy, Olive & June have packages 

that take cuticle care to another level. 

It doesn’t have to be summer for you to 

take the June, a package that includes 

nail-shaping, cuticle care and a massage 

along with a choice of 350 polish options. 

Pregnant mothers indulge in the all-natural 

Emma that includes a massage for the 

soon-to-be mommy’s swollen and tired 

feet. Men can groove to The Vern — a hot 

soak, exfoliation and heavy-duty hydration. 

Want something super rad? Nail art starts 

at $5 per nail. 

HARMONY NAILS 

54 S. Pasadena Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 578-1807 

NAIL LOUNGE 


(626) 799-3667 

nailloungepasadena.com 

TINZEE NAIL SALON 


(626) 403-3311 | tinzeenailsalon.com 

BEST PARTY RENTALS 

DOLPHIN EVENT SERVICES 


(626) 795-5131 | dolphinevents.biz 

Dolphin Rentals has been helping party 

hearty in Pasadena and Greater Los Angeles 

for decades. Carl and Mary Ellen Dolphin 

started a private ambulance service and 

medical equipment rental service in for Pasadena 

in 1941, but since the 1970s they’ve 

been handling special event rentals. Got a 

wedding or a graduation in June? It’s not 

too early to start picking out stylish seating, 

lighting, linen, dinnerware and tents. 


ARCADIA PARTY RENTALS 

124 Wheeler Ave., Arcadia 

(626) 445-7166 

arcadiapartyrentals.net 

JD AUDIO VISUAL 

77 N. Altadena Drive, Pasadena 

(626)792-6682 | jdav.com 

TOWN & COUNTRY EVENT RENTALS 


(626) 795-7700 | tacer.biz 

BEST PET SERVICE 

I DIG MY DOG 


(626) 844-7877 | idigmydog.com 

I Dig My Dog is designed to provide 

top care for picky doggy parents. That 

means cage-free boarding and daycare. 

They also provide grooming and have a 

training facility. Cool canines can stay here 

for a few hours to a few months in the 

32,000-square-foot facility. Training options 

include private and group classes in obedience, 

pool party time and agility training. 


K9 LOFT 

495 S. Arroyo Parkway 

(626) 795-6060 | k9loft.com 

MY DOG SPOT 

47 Eloise Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 399-1951 | walkmydogspot.com 

MY PET GARDEN 



(626) 449-1600 | mypetgarden.com 

BEST PHOTOGRAPHER 

JERRY CAMARILLO 

PHOTOGRAPHY 

(626) 375-6684 | fotoaztecstudio.com 

If you want to immortalize your rcurrent 

look or show off your groovy boogie 

moves, Jerry Camarillo is your man. From 

Hollywood head shots and more personalized 

high school senior snaps to dancers 

kicking up their heels, Camarillo can 

uncover your personal magic. 


JKB PHOTOGRAPHY 

(626) 841-0860 | jkbphotography.com 

LYD & MO PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO & 

GALLERY 


(626) 652-8302 | lydandmo.com 

BEST PHYSICAL THERAPY 

PASADENA PHYSICAL 

THERAPY ASSOCIATES 


(626) 304-0565 | pasadenapt.com 

When you spend your spare time taking 

it to the max, you might need to chill after 

some wicked cool moves leave you feeling 

the pain. Boogie down to the Pasadena 

Physical Therapy Associates for help with 

healing from founder Dr. Locatelli Rao and 

his associates Dr. Charles Benandi and Dr. 

Joshua Schwartz. 


CATZ PHYSICAL THERAPY & SPORTS 

PERFORMANCE 


(626) 356-0599 | catzpride.com 

LANDSWICK PHYSICAL THERAPY, 

INC. 

959 E. Walnut St., Ste. 240, Pasadena 

(626) 795.2390 | landswickpt.com 

NICALI SPORTS MEDICINE 



(626) 578-0618 | nicalisportsmed.com 

330 N. Garfi eld Ave., No. 1 

(626) 458-2339 

BEST PILATES 

PILATES OF PASADENA 

990 S. Arroyo Parkway, Unit 2, 


(626) 765-6500 | pilatesofpasadena.com 

Feel the Force in this friendly facility where 

you can improve your core at any stage 

of life. The trainers will help you find your 

inner Jedi peace and core strength. Their 

wide variety of special equipment doesn’t 

include light sabers or a funny green guy 

named Yoda, but Pilates of Pasadena is still 

the obvious choice to bring together your 

body and mind. 


Olive & June 

Franklin Loan 

Center 

I Dig My Dog 






PHOTOS: Catherine Buknight (Regency Park Fair Oaks) 


STUDIO METAMORPHOSIS 


(626) 219-7000 

studiometamorphosis.com 

WUNDABAR 


(626) 304-2600 | wundabar.com 

BEST REAL ESTATE 

BROKERAGE 

PODLEY PROPERTIES 

897 Granite Drive, Pasadena 

(626) 795-6262 | podley.com 

When you hit on a real estate brokerage, go 

with the solid people at Podley Properties. 

Independently owned, Podley Properties 

will take you from start to sold with a highly 

personal approach and a top-notch collaborative 

team. 


JOHN ALLE COMPANY 


(626) 795-1511 

johnallecompany.com 

PARTNERS TRUST 


(626) 696-4800 | thepartnerstrust.com 

SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY 


(626) 229-0909 

sothebysrealty.com/eng 

BEST REALTOR 

BARBARA RICHARDSON KING 

Coldwell Banker 


(626) 319-0315 | barbara-king.com 

Barbara Richardson King is the out-of-sight 

Realtor who can make your dreams come 

true while staying true to your bottom line. 

With over 20 years of experience, she’s 

Caldwell Banker’s top listing and production 

agent and can help whether you’re buying 

or selling in Greater Los Angeles or the San 

Gabriel Valley. 


ANN MARIE VILLICANA, DILBECK 

ESTATES 

Christie’s International Real Estate 

225 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, 

(626) 319-0585 | dilbeck.com 

DHARI THEIN 

Podley Properties 

897 Granite Drive, Pasadena 

(626) 437.7414 | dhari.com 

ROLAND WILHELM 

Pacifi c Union 


(626) 533-8001 | rolandandcandace. 

thepartnerstrust.com 

BEST SELF STORAGE 

ARROYO PARKWAY SELF 

STORAGE 


(626) 768-7780 | arroyoparkwayselfstorage.com 

You want to keep your pad uncluttered just 

in case some stone fox drops by. Arroyo 

Parkway Self Storage is the place to store 

precious records, valuables and other geek 

collectibles. Arroyo Parkway Self Storage 

has a dedicated staff and low prices that 

guarantee customer satisfaction. 


PUBLIC STORAGE 


(626) 765-4675 | publicstorage.com 

(six other locations) 

STORBOX 


(626) 407-3439 | storbox.com 

BEST SENIOR LIVING 

FACILITY 

REGENCY PARK FAIR OAKS 


(626) 799-9906 

regencyparkfairoaks.com 

Maybe your late boogie nights have turned 

into restful late afternoons. No matter. You 

still want to chill with groovy company 

while making the scene at Regency Park 

Fair Oaks, Pasadena’s most modern and 

luxurious independent and assisted-living 

community. 

MONTECEDRO 

2212 El Molino Ave., Altadena 

(877) 357-8521 | montecedro.org 

VILLA GARDENS 

842 E. Villa St., Pasadena 

(800) 958-4552 | villagardens.org 

BEST SPEECH THERAPY 

JUSTINE SHERMAN & 

ASSOCIATES 

Monrovia Clinic 

147 E. Olive Ave., Monrovia 

(626) 355-1729 

justineshermanslp.com 

Pasadena Clinic 

960 E. Green St., Suite L3, Pasadena 

(626) 817-9460 

Claremont Clinic 

1490 N. Claremont Blvd., Suite 101, 

Claremont 

(909) 626-0900 

Family is everything, and Justine Sherman 

& Associates believe in a totally holistic 

family-centered approach to speech therapy. 

Families confab to learn how to support 

and manage behavior based on individual 

beliefs and values, according to culture, 

background and personal preferences. 


EXPRESSIVE CONNECTIONS 

980 S. Arroyo Parkway, Suite 100, 


(626) 799-7955 

expressiveconnections.org 

BEST SUMMER CAMP 

TOM SAWYER CAMPS 

707 W. Woodbury Road, Altadena 

(626) 794-1156 | tomsawyercamps.com 

Summer is over, but it isn’t too early to 

begin thinking about next year. In the 

meantime, Tom Sawyer Camps has weekend 

ranch camps for your horse-loving 

youngster, as well as after-school and 

holiday camps. 


ANDERSON ADVENTURE CAMP H2O 


(626) 564-0330 

andersonadventurecamp.com/ 


PRESCHOOL 


(626) 578-1815 

goodmandaycare.com 

SUMMERKIDS 

3697 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Altadena 

(626) 577-9979 | summerkids.net 

BEST TATTOO/PIERCING 

SHOGUN TATTOO 


(626) 578-1330 | shoguntattoo.com 

Today you don’t have to be a member of the 

local yakuza or biker gang to sport a chill 

tattoo. Let Shogun Tattoo color your friends 

with envy as they apply their artistry to your 

skin. The shop has an $80 minimum charge 

and a rate of $150 an hour for large scale, 

multiple session work. 

PRIX BODY PIERCING AND TATTOO 


(626) 405-9253 | prixbodypiercing.com 

BEST TRAVEL AGENCY 

AAA OF PASADENA 

801 E. Union St., Pasadena 

(626) 795-0601 | aaa.com 

Most of us use Triple-A to keep us safe on 

the road, but what about the roads less 

traveled? You can chill out at home, but 

wouldn’t it be so much better at a Disney resort 

or on a groovy European travel cruise? 

From high style honeymoon destinations to 


Regency Park 

Fair Oaks 

Shogun Tattoo 

Barbara 

Richardson King 


VCA Foothill 

Veterinary Hospital 

Hot Yoga 


commune-with-nature campgrounds, AAA 

can help you get where you want to go for 

an awesome time. 


DISTANT LANDS 


(626) 449-3220 | distantlands.com 

MONTROSE TRAVEL 

2349 Honolulu Ave., La Crescenta- 

Montrose 

(818) 553-3200 | montrosetravel.com 

BEST URGENT CARE 

HEALTHCARE PARTNERS 

URGENT CARE 


(626) 795-2244 | healthcarepartners.com 

When things go wrong and you need some 

quick attention, truck over to Healthcare 

Partners Urgent Care. Since 1992, Health- 

Care Partners has been dedicated to developing 

innovative models for health care 

and the improvement of patient quality of 

life at the lowest possible cost. HealthCare 

Partners strives to provide coordinated 

care for a community of diverse cultures, 

socioeconomic groups and ages. 


EXER MORE THAN URGENT CARE 

3160 E. Del Mar Blvd., Suite 110, 


(626) 270-2400 

exerurgentcare.com/pasadena/ 

KAISER PERMANENTE URGENT CARE 


(800) 954-8000 | kaiserpermanente.org 

PASADENA URGENT CARE 

600 S. Lake Ave., Suite 105, 


(626) 817-6479 

urgentmednetwork.com/pasadenaurgentcare/ 

BEST VETERINARIAN 

VCA FOOTHILL VETERINARY 

HOSPITAL 


(626) 792-1187 | vcahospitals.com 

The VCA Foothill Veterinary Hospital is a 

place your dog will dig and your cat will 

find copacetic. You can count on them 

for an integrated approach to critter care. 

Compassion and respect are the key words 

for quality care at this hospital. 


ANIMAL MEDICAL HOSPITAL OF 

PASADENA 


(626) 796-3019 

amhpasadena.com 

PASADENA PETS VETERINARY 

HOSPITAL 


(626) 568-1115 

pasadenapetshospital.com 

VANDERHOOF VETERINARY 

HOSPITAL 


(626) 798-5901 

vanderhoofvet.com 

BEST WAXING 

EUROPEAN WAX CENTER 


(626) 449-5000 | waxcenter.com 


(626) 466-9070 

You work hard for you money and 

sometimes need a little help to be your 

best. European Wax Center can smooth 

the way to a more beautiful you with a 

long list of waxing services — eyebrow 

for everyday meaningful looks, bikini 

wax for beach and poolside readiness, 

and legs for that day with some groovy 

new acquaintance. Your fi rst wax is free, 

and you can earn credit by referring a 

friend. 


WAX CANDY 

271 Shoppers Lane, No. 202, 


(626) 372-0989 | waxcandy.com 

ZOEY VAN JONES BROW STUDIO 

455 S. Lake Ave., Studio 7, Pasadena 

(626) 683-3308 

zoeyvanjones.com 

BEST WEIGHT LOSS 

PROGRAM 

WEIGHT WATCHERS 


(800) 651-6000 

weightwatchers.com 

When you want to get rid of a little jiggle 

for your boogie nights, turn to Weight 

Watchers for an array of meetings, online 

help and personal coaching to guide 

you toward fi nding your food and fi tness 

groove. Weight Watchers has gone 

modern with its SmartPoints system 

with apps for your smartphone. 


MC2 FIT 


(626) 665-3900 | mc2.fi t 

PASADENA WEIGHT LOSS CENTER 

774 N Lake Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 844-4686 

pasadenaweightlosscenter.com 

PURE BARRE 



(626) 765-9400 | purebarre.com 

BEST WORKOUT 

MC2 FIT 


(626) 665-3900 | mc2.fi t 

Founder Maggie Chen knows what 

it’s like to be overweight. She once 

topped out at 165 pounds, then 

lost 60 pounds before becoming a 

master trainer and group fi tness instructor. 

She put her passion into a 

BA degree in physical education and 

exercise science from Cal State, LA. 

Now she’s bringing her knowledge 

to clients for some cool results. 




(626) 714-7600 | basecampfi tness.co/ 

CROSSFIT PENDULUM 


(626) 817-3130 | crossfi tpendulum.com 

PURE BARRE 



(626) 765-9400 | purebarre.com 

TITLE BOXING CLUB 

87 Fraser Alley, Pasadena 

(626) 340-2500 

oldpasadena.titleboxingclub.com 

BEST YOGA 

HOT YOGA 


(626) 304-9642 

hotyogapasadena.com 

Hot Yoga could be just the thing you 

need to reduce arthritic pain or tone 

your body while relieving stress. 

Devoted to the original Bikram 

Method, the studio opened in 1998 

with a major update in 2013 so it 

can provide a fi ve-star experience. 

Make some time and head on over 

to Hot Yoga for some cool results. 


CORE POWER YOGA 


(626) 200-4594 | corepoweryoga.com 

YOGA MADRE 

16 E. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra 

Madre 

(626) 355-2010 | yogamadre.com 

YOGA HOUSE 

11 W. State St., Pasadena 

(626) 403-3961 | yogahouse.com ■ 




Rock Steady 

(Aretha F ranklin — 1972) 

PASADENA HAS THE CLOTHES, CARS AND GOODS TO 

HELP SHOPPERS LOOK AND FEEL THEIR BEST 

BY ANDRÉ COLEMAN AND SHEILA MENDES COLEMAN 

Pasadena offers a wide array of places to shop for people who are looking 

to dress for success or just keep on trucking. 

If you’re heading out to boogie down on a Saturday night, you might do well 

to visit some of Pasadena’s best shops and boutiques before hitting the local 

disco scene or roller rink. 

The first thing a hipster is going to need is some threads, and Pasadena has all 

the places to shop that would have impressed even the coolest cats in the 1970s. 

John Travolta seemed to have it all together when it came to wearing the 

right threads in “Saturday Night Fever.” Steve McQueen also loved looking 

pretty cool sitting in his bitchin’ cars while cruising in search of adventure. 

For all the people looking to make their mark like these two mega-stars did, 

this year’s Best of Pasadena winners can dig where you’re coming from. 

For starters, once again Old Pasadena has been voted the Best Shopping 

Destination, according to our readers. The trendy area has come a long way 

since “The Me Generation” and today is one of the coolest spots in the region, 

attracting shoppers and diners from miles around. 

Strolling Colorado Boulevard you just have to look good, and there are a 

number of local spots that can help you make that scene. 

One is PM Jacoby — voted this year as the Best Local Men’s Clothing Store. 

They can help anyone look like a star from Studio 54 with their selection of 

groovy male threads, including sports coats, pants and shirts. 

If you need to get decked out in something a little more formal, check out 

La Soie Bridal, which tied with The Lovely Bride for the Best Bridal/Best 

Tux Shop award. 

Run With Us has once again been voted Pasadena’s Best Shoe Store, and if 

anyone can help you get into something comfortable and stylish, it’s them. 

If you aren’t into running and want to put the pedal to the metal in a cool 

ride that will turn heads, check out Rusnak Auto Group. The dealership 

specializes in the high-end brands including Porsche, Audi, Mercedes and 

Jaguar. You can’t go wrong at Rusnak. 

Looking for some stuff for the pad? Pasadena Antique Mall has once again 

been voted Best Antiques by our readers. 

Casual or cool, having the right glasses are a must. Linden Optometry 

— once again voted Best Eyewear by Pasadena Weekly readers — sells 

thousands of prescription glasses and shades. 

For intellectuals, find something deep to read at Vroman’s Bookstore, once 

again voted Best Local Bookstore/Newsstand. 

Samy’s Camera returns as the Best Local Camera Shop as they continue 

to expand with more video and lighting equipment and now offer classes for 

beginners and novice photographers. 

If vinyl records are your thing, then pay a visit to Canterbury Records 

which has been voted as Best Local Record Store. 

Everyone can find something they love in Pasadena. 

a. 

Can you dig it? 




BEST ANTIQUES 

PASADENA ANTIQUE MALL 

300 E. Colorado Blvd., #125, Pasadena 

(626) 304-9886 | thepasadenaantiquemall.com 

Vintage collectible lovers rejoice! There is a 

one-stop shop for all your nostalgic yearnings. 

The Pasadena Antique Mall has everything your 

heart desires, including furniture, home décor, 

textiles and more. Conveniently located and 

brimming with unique items, this remarkable 

place is a great way to spend the day. 


MCGINTY’S GALLERY 


(626) 794-4477 

THE HUNTINGTON COLLECTION 


(626) 535-2468 | huntingtonhospital.org 

BEST APPLIANCES 

SNYDER DIAMOND 

432 S Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena 

(626) 795-8080 | snyderdiamond.com 

Founded way back in 1949, Snyder Diamond has 

locations in Santa Monica, Pasadena and North 

Hollywood. The self-described progressive, 

design-forward kitchen and bath showroom 

steeped in knowledge and customer service 

and is an authorized dealer of such brands as 

Hansgrohe, Sub Zero Wolf, Miele, Rohl, Fantini, 

Dornbracht, Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet, 

Victoria + Albert, TopBrewer and Viking. 


FERGUSON BATH, KITCHEN & 

LIGHTING GALLERY 

340 S. Lake Ave., Pasadena, 

(626) 463-4180|Fergusonshowrooms.com 

ULTRA BATH & KITCHEN 

318 Huntington Drive, Arcadia 

(626) 521-9938|ultrabathroomandkitchen.com 

BEST ART/FRAMING STORE 

MISSION FRAMING 

1501 Mission St., South Pasadena 

(626) 799-3445 

“Best framers in the area by far!” That’s how 

one customer described Mission Framing in 

South Pasadena on Yelp. “They take time with 

customers and make wonderful suggestions 

resulting in an end result way better than you 

had ever imagined!” Other praise was no less effusive. 

“A lost art, but one that can still be found 

here. Lovely couple takes genuine interest in the 

memory, the content, and the product,” wrote 

another satisfi ed customer. “Best framers ever,” 

another exclaimed. 


AARNUN GALLERY 


(626) 793-4805 | aarnungallery.com 

BLICK ART MATERIALS 


(626) 795-4985 | dickblick.com 

NOVA PICTURE FRAMING & GALLERY 

1003 1/2 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 577-5875 | novaframela.com 

BEST AUTO DEALER 

RUSNAK AUTO GROUP 


(626) 449-0770 | rusnakonline.com 

The Rusnak Auto Group approach to customer 

satisfaction is simple: provide exceptional 

service, quality automobiles and a no-pressure 

experience. Their winning formula has garnered 

repeat and new customers for many years, so 

let their outstanding team of sales associates 

steer you towards the vehicle that works best for 

you and your family. 


HONDA OF PASADENA 


(626) 773-8774 | hondaofpasadena.com 

TOYOTA PASADENA 


(626) 795-9787 | toyotapasadena.com 

BEST BATH & BODY 

LUSH COSMETICS 


(626) 792-0901|lushusa.com 

As the name implies, Lush is in the business of 

beauty, in all its forms, but takes it a compassionate 

step further. Lush Cosmetics and skincare 

products are cruelty-free and made with 

vegetarian ingredients that enhance, beautify, 

cleanse and restore – all with minimal packaging 

and preservatives. 


LATHER 


(626) 396-9636 | lather.com 

THE SOAP KITCHEN 


(626) 396-9996 | thesoapkitchen.com 

BEST BICYCLE SHOP 

PASADENA CYCLERY 


(626) 795-2866 | pasadenacyclery.com 

Let Pasadena Cyclery get you moving – and 

keep you going with their dedicated team of 

cycling experts that will help you find the right 

bicycle for your needs. This award-winning 

shop also has first-rate service and accessories 

centers for cycling enthusiasts. 





Samy’s Camera 

Linden Optometry 


INCYCLE 


(626) 577-0440 | incycle.com 

STEVE’S BIKE SHOP 


(626) 798-8703 

VELO PASADENA 


(626) 304-0064|velopasadena.com 

BEST BRIDAL/TUX 

SHOP (TIE) 

LA SOIE BRIDAL 

650 E. Colorado Blvd,, Pasadena 

(626) 356-9889 | lasoiebridal.com 

The modern bride is a savvy bride, 

and La Soie Bridal understands their 

special needs, concerns and desires. 

La Soie’s attentive team of stylists 

will guide the betrothed through the 

joyous but often arduous process of 

choosing and altering bridal gowns 

and accessories, as well as provide 

options on designs for the entire 

bridal party. 

THE LOVELY BRIDE 


(626) 345-5828 | lovelybride.com 

Billing themselves as an “OG Indie 

Bridal Shop,” Lovely’s approach to 

bridal fashions is cutting-edge, distinctive 

and daring. Here, you’ll find 

bridal designs with an edge, and enjoy 

a warm, relaxed atmosphere, as well 

as stylists eager to make your unique 

bridal dreams come true. 


CONNIE TAO DESIGNS 


(626) 765-5939 

connietaodesigns.com 

BEST ELECTRONICS/ 

CAMERAS 

SAMY’S CAMERA 


(626) 796-3300 | samys.com 

This Pasadena institution is a onestop 

shop for camera enthusiasts. In 

addition to supplying an incredible 

array of cameras, lenses, video equipment 

and accessories, Samy’s also 

has classes, discounts and tons of 

other services that make it a perennial 

favorite among photogs, amateurs 

and everyone in between. 


AUDIO ELEMENT 

117 Union St., Pasadena 

(626) 793-7229 

audio-element.com 

BEST BUY 


(626) 351-9516 

bestbuy.com/ca/pasadena 

BEST EYEWEAR 

LINDEN OPTOMETRY 


(626) 796-1191 | lindenoptometry.com 

See your world more clearly, beautifully, 

with Linden Optometry. They 

offer superb customer-service and an 

extensive selection of frames, contacts 

and optical options for adults 

and children. 


DIAMOND VISION OPTOMETRY 


(626) 683-6868 

diamondvisionoptometry.com 

MODA OPTIQUE 


(626) 796-0111 

modaoptique.com 

BEST FARMERS’ 

MARKET 

PASADENA CERTIFIED 

FAMERS’ MARKET 


(626) 449-0179 

pasadenafarmersmarket.org 

Find much more than just locallygrown 

fresh fruits and vegetables 

at this wonderful open-air market. 

Pasadena Certifi ed Farmers’ Market 

also features vendors who specialize 

in artisan jellies, jams and seafood. 

Come early to find the best deals, 

leave later satiated and happy. 


ALTADENA FARMERS’ MARKET 

600 W. Palm St., Altadena 

altadenafarmersmarket.com 

SOUTH PASADENA FARMERS’ 

MARKET 

906 Meridian Ave., South Pasadena 

(626) 403-2820 

southpasadenafarmersmarket.org 

BEST FLEA MARKET 

ROSE BOWL FLEA MARKET 

1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena 

(323) 560-7469 

rosebowlstadium.com/events/flea-market 

Visitors and vendors come from miles 

around to meet at this amazing flea 

market. Shop for one-of-a-kind items, 

vintage collectibles, oddities and even 

antiques, or just people watch and 

browse. 


PCC FLEA MARKET 


(626) 585-7906 

pasadena.edu/community/fl ea-market 

BEST FLOWER SHOP 

JACOB MAARSE 


(626) 449-0246 | jacobmaarse.com 

Jacob Maarse furnishes floral art for 

every affair. Let them provide you 

with the perfect arrangement for 

your event or special occasion, and 

witness the transformative powers of 

their stunning, fragrant floral designs. 


BRAD LARSEN FLORALS 


(626) 792-6167 

bradlarsenfl orals.com 

THE FLOWERMAN 


(626) 795-1508 | thefl owerman.net 

MARY FALKINGHAM FLORAL 


(626) 797-8711 | maryfalkingham.com 

BEST FURNITURE/ 

ACCESSORIES STORE 

FEDDE’S FURNITURE 


(626) 796-7103 | fedde.com 

Fedde can really fill a room – any 

room. Fedde’s Furniture is a beloved 

Pasadena institution for many reasons, 

chief among them are their extensive 

selection of superb furniture, 

from contemporary to traditional, as 

well as casual and fine-dining pieces, 

children’s furniture, design services 

and an impressive assortment of accessories 

and lighting choices. 


PHOTOS: Catherine Buknight (Samy’s Camera, Linden Optometry) 






ETHAN ALLEN 


(626) 351-9661 |ethanallen.com 

PELTIER HOME 

1011-A Mission St., South Pasadena 

(626) 799-2265 

peltierinteriors.com 

THE SOFA COMPANY 


(888) 778-7632 

thesofaco.com 

BEST GIFT BOUTIQUE 

VROMAN’S BOOKSTORE 


(626) 449-5320 

vromansbookstore.com 

So much more than a bookstore, Vroman’s 

has a fantastic variety of gift 

ideas for everyone. Trendy note-cards 

and postcards, sublime artisan wrapping 

paper, greeting cards and stylish 

pens are just a sample of what’s in 

store for you. 


CRAFT FAIR GIFT SHOP 

820 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, 

(626) 795 4991 

assistanceleague.org/pasadena/ 


BOOK ALLEY 


(626) 683-8083|bookalley.com 

BEST LOCAL 

HARDWARE STORE 

ALTADENA HARDWARE 

849 E. Mariposa St, Altadena 

(626) 794-4393 | altadenahardware.com 

Do-it-yourself, done right. Altadena 

Hardware is the home-repairer’s 

friend, offering everything for DIY 

enthusiasts, as well as the infrequent 

home-tinkerer. Tools, power equipment 

and additional services that include 

key-cutting, glass-cutting, pipe 

threading and cutting, as well as lamp 

repair and assembly are but a sample 

of their extensive services offered. 


ARNOLD’S FRONTIER HARDWARE 

297 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., 

Sierra Madre 

(626) 355-3365 | frontierhardware.com 

PASADENA TRUE VALUE HARDWARE 

AND PAINT 


(626) 792-2196 

pasadenatruevalue.com 

gifts and expert consultations on the 

best way to light your wrist, fingers 

and life. 


GOLD MINE JEWELRY 


(626) 792-2377 

PLACE VENDOME 

48 Hugus Alley, Pasadena 

(626) 577-7001 | plvendome.com 

WAYNE JASON DESIGNS 


(626) 795-9215 | waynejasonjewelry.com 

BEST LOCAL MEN’S 

CLOTHING 

PM JACOY 

2650 Mission St. No. 104, San Marino 

(626) 799-4600 | pmjacoy.com 

Upscale men’s fashion never looked 

so good. PM Jacoy has styles from 

casual to dressy, modern to classic, in 

many sizes and colors for every man 

and every occasion. 


LE MONSIEUR 


(626) 569-8437 

Vroman’s 

Bookstore 

PHOTOS: Catherine Buknight (Vroman’s Bookstore) 

HOOPLA! 

2591 Fair Oaks Ave., Altadena 

(626) 797-1135 

shopathoopla.com 

WEBSTER’S PHARMACY 


(626) 797-1163 

altadenarx.com 

BEST LOCAL BOOKSTORE/ 

NEWSSTAND 



(626) 449-5320 


While other bookstores have gone 

the way of the typewriter, Vroman’s 

endures. Its longevity is due in 

no small part to their impeccable 

reputation and devotion to the printed 

word. Find quality fiction, non-fiction, 

biographyies, rare editions, or attend 

one of their popular book-signings 

of well-known and newly-discovered 

authors. Vroman’s is home to books – 

and the people who love them. 

BEST LOCAL HOBBIES & 

CRAFTS 

BLICK ART MATERIALS 


(626) 795-4985 | dickblick.com 

This family-owned shop has everything 

for craft enthusiasts. Printmaking, 

colored pencils, paints, oils, 

brushes, canvas and even framing 

make this a crafter’s dream. 


PAPER SOURCE 


(626) 795-4991 | papersource.com 

THE RETRO STORE 


(626) 356-9726 | retrostoreonline.com 

BEST LOCAL JEWELRY 

ARNOLD’S FINE JEWELRY 


(626) 795-8647 | arnoldsfinejewelry.com 

Find lovely, unique jewelry at Arnold’s 

Fine Jewelry. They offer modern and 

traditional pieces, as well as silver 

MARK PISCITELLI 


(626) 578-7382 

markpiscitellimensfashions.com 

BEST LOCAL PET STORE 

STEVE’S PETS 


(626) 797-4247 | stevespetstore.com 

Steve’s Pets knows you love them like 

family, so that’s how you’re treated 

when shopping for your pet at this 

marvelous store with everything 

needed for pet care and maintenance. 

Nutritious treats, toys, preventative 

care, popular brands and an attentive 

staff are all waiting for you and your 

pet at Steve’s Pets. 


I DIG MY DOG 


(626) 844-7877 | idigmydog.com 

MY PET GARDEN 



(626) 449-1600 | mypetgarden.com 





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BEST LOCAL RECORD 

STORE 

CANTERBURY RECORDS 


(626) 792-7184 | canterburyrecords.com 

Let the music play – and play and 

play. Canterbury Records is a music 

lover’s dream. Founded in 1956 by 

Leonard Gordon, Canterbury Records 

has an incredible selection of indie, 

rock, classical, country, folk, contemporary 

and even big-band music, plus 

much more. This is the place to be for 

rare, hard-to-find tunes, special editions 

and an impressive vinyl section. 


POOBAH RECORD SHOP 


(626) 449-3359 | poobah.com 

BEST LOCAL SHOE STORE 

RUN WITH US 


(626) 568-3331 | clubrunwithus.com 

The first shop devoted to runners, Run 

With Us provides all the necessary 

accessories to support the runner’s 

lifestyle and keep its customers in tiptop 

shape. That commitment has led 

voters to once again choose Run With 

Us as one of Pasadena’s best. 


LUCHA’S COMFORT FOOTWEAR 


(626) 799-6891 | comfortfootwear.com 

NEO 39 


(626) 793-7403 | neopasadena.com 

BEST LOCAL TOY 

STORE 

DINOSAUR FARM 

1510 Mission St., South Pasadena 

(626) 441-2767 | dinosaurfarm.com 

This specialty toy and bookstore 

in South Pasadena has everything 

dinosaur related. If your child is a big 

fan of the Jurassic era then Dinosaur 

Farm is the place for you. They have 

everything from dino-themed room 

decor to pop-up encyclopedias, as 

well as a selection of non-dinosaur 

toys and a few unusual pieces. 


SAN MARINO TOY & BOOK SHOPPE 

2476 Huntington Drive, San Marino 

(626) 309-0222 | toysandbooks.com 

TOM’S TOYS 

2281 Honolulu Ave., Montrose 

(818) 249-2178 | tomstoystore.com 

BEST LOCAL VIDEO 

STORE 

VIDÉOTHÈQUE 

1020 Mission St., No. 1, South Pasadena 

(626) 403-6621 | info@vidtheque.com | 

vidtheque.com 

This is hands down Los Angeles 

County’s premier indie cinema stop, 

specializing in independent, foreign, 

cult, classic, documentary, new 

release, and rare cinema rentals and 

sales. Vidéothèque also includes new 

releases and old favorites among in 

its vast library of movie treasures. 


MEOWMEOWZ! RETRO 80’S 

THRIFT SHOP 


(626) 798-6969 

PLAZA VIDEO 


(626) 793-2451 

BEST LOCAL WOMEN’S 

CLOTHING 

MEREDITH M 


(626) 204-2677 | meredith-m.com 

Meredith M has a highly curated 

selection of apparel and trendsetting 

gifts and lifestyle collections. That’s 

probably why she keeps winning. 

Meredith developed her chic touch 

back in childhood by watching her 

mom put together outfi ts and decorate 

rooms, and today her customers 

receive the benefi t of her upbringing. 


ELISA B 

16 E. Holly St., Pasadena 

(626) 397-4770 | elisab.com 

WALKER VIDEN LUXURY 

CONSIGNMENT 


(626) 844-9244 | walkerviden.com 

BEST NURSERY 

ARMSTRONG GARDEN 

CENTER 

352 E. Glenarm St., Pasadena 

(626) 799-7139 |armstronggarden.com 

The company began in 1889 when 

John Armstrong purchased a few 

acres of property in California and 

he began growing eucalyptus and 

olive trees. His success as a nurseryman 

grew and he soon expanded his 

operation. Today, the company offers 

a wide variety of plants and products 

and offers landscape design and 

installation and home consultations. 


BELLEFONTAINE NURSERY 


(626) 796-0747 

bellefontainenursery.com 

LINCOLN AVENUE NURSERY 


(626) 792-2138 

lincolnavenuenursery.com 

BEST OUTDOOR FURNITURE 

FISHBECKS PATIO CENTER 


(626) 796-9255 | fishbecks.com 

For more than 100 years, Fishbecks 

has been one of Southern California’s 

largest outlets for outdoor and casual 

furniture. Their beautiful selection includes 

Tuscany and Florence-inspired 

designs to a line of Pasadena style 

pieces. Even after all these years, 

Fishbecks is still the best. 


PATIO WORLD 


(626) 795-5803 | patioworld.net 

PIER 1 IMPORTS 


(626) 584-9147 | pier1.com 

BEST SHOPPING 

DESTINATION 

OLD PASADENA 

(626) 356-9725 | oldpasadena.org 

A shopper’s paradise nestled in a 

charming, historic section of a world 

class city, Old Pasadena is the go-to 

place for the chic, casual and bargain 

hunting shopper. Trendy boutiques, 

eclectic stores and fashion spots 

draw thousands of visitors every year. 

Intimate cafés, bistros and eateries 

can be found along with family 

restaurants and bakeries. You can 

find everything you need among Old 

Pasadena’s limitless options. 


PASEO COLORADO 


(626) 795-9100 | paseocolorado.com 


PHOTOS: Catherine Buknight (Meredith M)


SOUTH LAKE AVENUE 

(626) 792-1259 | southlakeave.org 

BEST SMOKE/TOBACCO 

SHOP 

CIGARS BY CHIVAS 

58 S. DeLacey Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 395-7475 | cigarsbychivas.com 

At Cigars by Chivas, they don’t believe 

that a cigar is just a cigar. They believe 

it’s a tool of relaxation, atmosphere 

and pleasure. Located on the corner 

of Green Street and De Lacey Avenue 

in the heart of Old Pasadena, Cigars 

by Chivas provides cigar smokers 

with a walk-in humidor stocked with 

specially selected cigars and a unique 

setting in which to enjoy them. 


ACE SMOKE SHOP 


(626) 296-0273 

UNIVERSAL STOP 


(626) 797-3333 

BEST SPECIALTY FOOD 

STORE 

WE OLIVE & WINE BAR 


(626) 787-1000 

weolive.com/pasadena 

Specialty food stores can’t get more 

specialized than a shop dedicated to 

olive products like some sort of olive 

oil high roller, where the owners bet 

big on olives. But it has paid off and 

now cooking (and olive) enthusiasts 

can fi nd whatever they can think of 

at We Olive Pasadena, from gourmet 

spreads to lip balms. Plus, people 

can try before they buy. 


BRISTOL FARMS 


(626) 441-5450 | bristolfarms.com 

CULTURE CLUB 101 


(626) 893-5164 | cultureclub101.com 

BEST LOCAL SPORTING 

GOODS 

RUN WITH US 


(626) 568-3331 | clubrunwithus.com 

Run With Us has a trained staff that 

will fi t even the widest and narrowest 

of feet with stylish, comfortable 

footwear for a variety of sports and in 

a plethora of styles and colors. Since 

many of the Run With Us professional 

team are runners themselves, 

you’ll feel comfortable allowing them 

to guide you through the process of 

picking the perfect shoe at an affordable 

price. At this remarkable shop, 

you’ll fi nd their customer commitment 

and substantial inventory ample 

reason to return, year after year. 


PLAY IT AGAIN SPORTS 

3640 E Colorado Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 405-9988 

playitagainsportspasadena.com 

TURNER OUTDOORSMAN 

835 S Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena 

(626) 578-0155 | turners.com 

BEST STATIONERY 



(626) 449-5320 | vromansbookstore.com 

As other independent bookstores 

struggle to keep their doors open due 

to competition from Amazon, Vroman’s 

continues to dominate locally. 

It was once the largest bookstore 

west of the Mississippi and is now the 

oldest and largest independent bookstore 

in Southern California. They 

also have a stationery department 

that includes writing instruments and 

other accessories. 


THE PAPER SOURCE 


(626) 577-3825 | papersource.com 

SHABOO PRINTS 

(626) 405-8827| shabooprints.com 

BEST THRIFT SHOP 

GOODWILL 


(626) 204-3576|goodwill.org 

Most Goodwill stores introduce more 

than 2,000 new items onto the sales 

floor each day. If you’re looking for a 

deal, this is the place to look. Don’t 

be surprised if you find more treasure 

while you’re searching the shelves. 

Also 38.6 million people benefi ted 

from Goodwill employment training, 

job placement services, financial 

education, youth mentoring and more 

last year. 


FULL CIRCLE THRIFT STORE 


(626) 639-3051 | fullcirclethriftshop.org 

OUT OF THE CLOSET THRIFT SHOP 


(626) 440-1719 | outofthecloset.org 

TREASURE FAIR THRIFT SHOP 


(626) 449-3326 | assistanceleague. 

org/pasadena/our-shops/thrift-shop 

BEST VINTAGE/RESALE 

STORE 

CROSSROADS TRADING CO. 


(626) 793-2000 | crossroadstrading.com 

Shopping at Crossroads is like a treasure 

hunt. The store is filled with a 

changing inventory of current, trendy 

and affordable name-brand clothing 

and accessories for men and women. 

You can also sell or trade clothes and 

accessories. 


MEOWMEOWZ RETRO 80S 

THRIFT SHOP 


(626) 798-6969 

facebook.com/MeowMeowzPasadena 

WALKER VIDEN LUXURY 

CONSIGNMENT 


(626) 844-9244 | walkerviden.com 

BEST WINE/BEER SHOP 

MISSION WINE & SPIRITS 


(626) 794-7026 | missionliquor.com 

Mission Wine still has some of the 

lowest prices in the area for good 

beverages. That’s not really a shocker. 

They have maintained great prices for 

nearly 40 years and continue to be 

one of the finest wine and spirit shops 

in Southern California. 


EVERSON ROYCE WINE & SPIRITS 


(626) 765-9334 | eversonroyce.com 

TOTAL WINE & MORE 


(626) 463-1444 | totalwine.com 

WE OLIVE & WINE BAR 


(626) 787-1000 | weolive.com/pasadena■ 




Cheeseburger in Paradise 

HOME OF THE CHEESEBURGER PRESENTLY OFFERS SOME OF THE BEST CUISINE FROM AROUND THE WORLD 

BY EVELYN GARCIA AND KEVIN UHRICH 

(Jimmy Buf fet t— 1978) 

It seems only fitting that in the home of the cheeseburger, introduced here by 

Lionel Sternberger in 1926, Pasadena would have restaurants that feature some of 

the tastiest burgers this side of the Mississippi. 

This year, the top honor goes to Pie N’ Burger, which has been making burgers 

the old fashioned way since the early 1960s. Coming in at Reader Recommended 

for Best Burger was last year’s winner in that category, Dog Haus, which 

started out in Pasadena in 2011 and now has three separate locations. 

Dog Haus is also this year’s Best Restaurant for the second year straight, as 

decided by voters in our annual Best of Pasadena readers’ poll. Dog Haus has also 

won Best Hot Dog. 

Of course, Pasadena is known not only for its burgers, but also its surprisingly 

high number of eateries (during one recent count more than 600, the per capita 

equivalent of New York City), and the smorgasbord of flavors — ranging from 

burgers, dogs and steaks to international cuisines — that is currently available. 

Today, diners are able to enjoy dishes from around the world, with Armenian, 

Chinese, Japanese, French, Vietnamese, Thai, Mexican, Mediterranean, Korean, 

Middle Eastern, Spanish, South American, Italian and Indian restaurants — a 

veritable United Nations of culinary delights — all doing business here. 

In addition to that, however, are the many coffeehouses, bakeries, ice cream 

and yogurt shops, and juice bars that in recent years have come on the local 

scene. 

And, it appears, there’s still room for even more restaurants and places to eat, 

with The Arbour on South Lake winning Best New Restaurant, and Nick’s Pasadena 

and Mercado (both also on South Lake) winning Reader Recommended 

honors. 

It goes without saying that where there is good food a great chef is not far behind, 

and again Claud Beltran has been voted the Best of the Best by our readers. 

What’s perhaps most impressive about this year’s list of winners are all those 

who took home multiple awards. Not surprisingly, The Arbour’s Ian Gresik was 

also a Reader Recommended Chef. But along with that, Tom’s Famous Family 

Restaurant won for Best Restaurant Staff and Best Breakfast, as well as a 

Reader Recommended award in the Cheap Eats category. 

For Best California Cuisine, Green Street Restaurant again won the top 

prize, as well as for Best Salad. 

In the Best Family Restaurant and Best Japanese/Sushi category perennial 

winner Kabuki Japanese Restaurant took top honors again, and Euro Pane 

Bakery won both Best Bakery and was Reader Recommended for Best Dessert. 

In this category, the winner was Amara Chocolate &Coffee, which also won 

Reader Recommended honors for Best Independent Coffee Shop and Best South 

American Food. Dots Cupcakes was another multiple winner, taking Best Cupcake 

and winning Reader Recommended honors for Best Dessert. 

These are but a few of the winners and Reader Recommended restaurants 

featured in this year’s Best of Edition, a list of first-rate eateries that has grown 

beyond anyone’s expectations over the past 40 years. 






PHOTOS: Catherine Buknight (The Arbour, Tom’s) 

BEST RESTAURANT 

DOG HAUS 


(626) 577-4287 doghaus.com 


(626) 683-0808 

410 E. Main St., Alhambra 

(626) 282-4287 

Once again, Dog Haus has won the 

honor of Best Restaurant, reminding 

us that less is more when the 

food looks as enticing and heavenly 

as their famous haus dogs and sausages, 

in which case more is more. 

More of their Cowboy dog wrapped 

in bacon and cheddar cheese sauce, 

and more of their spicy Thai Fighter, 

all washed down with a pint of their 

craft beer selection. I’m not salivating; 

you are. 


MIJARES MEXICAN RESTAURANT 

145 Palmetto Drive, Pasadena 

(626) 792-2763 

mijaresrestaurant.com 


(626) 794-6674 

UNION 


(626) 795-5841 | unionpasadena.com 

BEST NEW 

RESTAURANT 

THE ARBOUR 

527 S. Lake Ave. Suite 120, Pasadena 

(626) 396-4925 

thearbourpasadena.com 

Beautifully plated meals, killer 

cocktails and a sleek, yet rustic 

California aesthetic and you’ve got 

yourself something amazing. This can 

all be found at The Arbour, the first 

restaurant opened by chef and owner 

Ian Gresik, alongside his wife Nancy 

Gresik. The duo offers a farm to table 

fine dining experience like no other in 

Pasadena, with locally sourced ingredients 

and an extensive wine list. The 

“Baked California” dessert is a must, 

consisting of frozen candied almond 

crème covered in meringue fl ambéed 

at your table with dark rum. 


NICK’S PASADENA 


(626) 787-1444 | nicksrestaurants.com 

MERCADO 


626-345-5778 | cocinasycalaveras.com 

BEST CHEF 

CLAUD BELTRAN 

PERRY’S BY CLAUD BELTRAN 


(626) 898-7900 | dusit.com/dusitd2/ 

Pasadena/dining 

Bacchus’ Kitchen 


(626) 594-6377 | bacchuskitchen.com 

The Eatery on Allen 


(626) 688-7256 | eateryonallen.com 

Claud Beltran has done it again, Best 

Chef for the fourth consecutive year. 

That should come as no surprise 

given the profound impact he’s had 

in his own hometown of Pasadena. 

Beltran made a unique career change 

from aerospace engineer to professional 

chef and lucky for all of us 

who can now indulge in his culinary 

creations found his calling. Beltran’s 

passion for cooking exudes in all of 

his projects. He owns and runs his 

catering company, Claud & Co., The 

Eatery on Allen, Bacchus’ Kitchen, 

and most recently, Perry’s by Claud 

Beltran in the DusitD2 Hotel Constance. 

If there is a chef that can do it 

all, it’s Beltran. 


ANTHONY BAR 

Faubourg 

74 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., 

Sierra Madre 

(626) 836-5700 | dinefaubourg.com 

BRUCE KALMAN 

Union 


(626) 795-5841 | unionpasadena.com 

IAN GRESIK 

The Arbour 


(626) 396-4925 | thearbourpasadena.com 

BEST RESTAURANT 

STAFF 

TOM’S FAMOUS FAMILY 

RESTAURANT 


(626) 577-7717 | tomsfamous.com 

Tom’s Restaurant is a diner known 

for its breakfast specials and massive 

burritos. Now added to that list? Their 

amazing customer service, proving a 

full service staff is not a prerequisite 

to a great dining experience. Upon 

entering Tom’s, patrons order at the 

counter and are then brought out their 

meals by friendly and attentive staff 

members who are known to check on 

guests periodically. For those who are 

not in the mood to have a sit-down 

meal, Tom’s even has a quick and 

convenient drive-thru that is just as 

enjoyable. 

READER RECOMMEND 

LA GRANDE ORANGE CAFÉ 


(626) 356-4444 | lgostationcafe.com 

PASADENA SANDWICH COMPANY 

259 Sierra Madre Villa Ave., No.102, 


(626) 578-1616 | pasadenasandwichcompany.com 

TRUE FOOD KITCHEN 


(626) 639-6818 | truefoodkitchen.com 

BEST BUSINESS LUNCH 

SMITTY’S GRILL 


(626) 792-9999 | smittysgrill.com 

Smitty’s Grill considers the bulk of 

their menu “American comfort food,” 

and what better way to ensure a 

business lunch goes well than that? 

Of course, there is the delicious buttermilk 

fried chicken, macaroni and 

cheese with ham, and BBQ baby back 

ribs, but there is so much more. For 

those who prefer to eat something 

lighter during lunch hours (otherwise 

known as those with will power), 

there is fresh fish, a turkey burger, 

Smitty’s Salad with shrimp, and 

shareable sides. They even accommodate 

parties with private rooms 

if the business lunch calls for a large 

party. 


ALL INDIA CAFÉ 


(626) 440-0309 | allindiacafeca.com 



Dog Haus 




(818) 937-9966 

NICK’S PASADENA 


(626) 787-1444 

nicksrestaurants.com 

BEST CHEAP EATS 

LUCKY BOY 


(626) 793-0120 | luckyboyburgers.com 


(626) 793-7079 

With just about every menu item 

coming in under $10, it’s no wonder 

Lucky Boy takes Best Cheap Eats. 

They cover breakfast, lunch and 

dinner and have everything from 

their famous burritos, burgers and 

hot dogs to tacos, gyros, and salads. 

All. Under. Ten. Dollars. Service is 

quick, the staff is friendly, and seating 

outdoors is great. It can’t get better 

than that. 


BLAZE PIZZA 


(626) 802-5352 | blazepizza.com 


(626) 238-6026 

101 W. Broadway, Glendale 

(818) 495-0573 


RESTAURANT 


(626) 577-7717 | tomsfamous.com 

TOPS ON WALNUT 


(626) 584-0244 | topsburger.com 

BEST OUTDOOR DINING 




Located alongside the Del Mar Gold 

Line Station, La Grande Orange 

Cafe is the perfect spot for drinks or 

weekend brunch. The patio is large 

and features comfortable chairs, 

umbrellas overhead and greenery that 

adds to the ambiance. Brunch options 

include lemon ricotta pancakes, 

huevos rancheros, and a smoked 

salmon benedict, to name a few 

favorite dishes. Order a mimosa and 

you’ve got yourself a perfect Sunday 

with friends. 


THE RAYMOND 1886 


(626) 441-3136 | theraymond.com 



639-6818 | truefoodkitchen.com 

URBAN PLATES 


(626) 800-4448 | urbanplates.com 

BEST ROMANTIC 

RESTAURANT 




The Raymond 1886 is still the best 

romantic restaurant in town with its 

candlelit seating, comprehensive wine 

list and cozy atmosphere. Because 

the indoor dining area can get more 

crowded, patio reservations are a 

must — not to mention even more romantic. 

The fireplace, chandelier and 

twinkling lights look like a scene out 

of “Twilight,” only missing a sparkly 

vampire sulking in the corner. It truly 

is the perfect place to celebrate a first 

date or an anniversary. 


CAFE SANTORINI 

64 W. Union St., Pasadena 

(626) 564-4200 | cafesantorini.com 

PARKWAY GRILL 


(626) 795-1001 | theparkwaygrill.com 

BEST SPECIAL 

OCCASION DINING 

PARKWAY GRILL 



Parkway Grill is a Pasadena favorite 

and the best place to go for any 

special occasion. With an immaculate 

kitchen, stunning floral arrangements, 

and a staff that works to ensure your 

special day goes smoothly, it’s an 

easy choice. Specializing in seasonal 

cooking with organic ingredients, 

Parkway Grill even has a variety of 

private dining menus for both lunch 

and dinner. Book a room or make 

reservations and they take care of 

the rest. 


ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE 


(626) 486-1111 | alexanderssteakhouse.com 




BEST FAMILY 

RESTAURANT 


RESTAURANT 

88 W. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena 

(626) 568-9310 

kabukirestaurants.com 


(626) 351-8963 

Family dinners are hard. Everyone 

in the party has to enjoy the food, 

particularly the kids, and the evening 

can quickly become expensive and 

exhausting before reaching dessert. 

Kabuki makes it easy. They 

offer a variety of sushi and sashimi, 

noodle dishes, even tuna and salmon 

poke bowls for the adults. Kids 

can choose from sesame chicken, 

teriyaki chicken, sushi combinations, 

or yakisoba, and are all served with 

rice and a drink. Not to mention, they 

have reasonable prices and spacious 

booths so everyone is happy! 


TOPS WALNUT 



BEST LATE NIGHT 

SNACK 

KING TACO 

45 N. Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena 

(626) 792-0405 | kingtaco.com 

117 E. Broadway, Glendale 

(818) 409-0172 

Carne asada burritos, pastor tacos, 

and cheesy quesadillas sound tempting 

at all hours of the day but there is 

something particularly special about 


Lucky Boy 

La Grande 

Orange Cafe 

Kabuki 



Zankou Chicken 

Europane 

Bakery 

Gus’s BBQ 

Daisy Mint 

enjoying them past midnight, post 

night-out. That is why this year King 

Taco is the Best Late Night Snack and 

easily some of the best Mexican food 

around. Remember, a burrito at the 

end of the day keeps hangovers away. 


PLATE 38 

2361 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena 

(626) 793-7100 | plate38.com 

TOPS ON WALNUT 



BEST SUNDAY BRUNCH 

THE TERRACE RESTAURANT AT 

THE LANGHAM HUNTINGTON 

1401 S. Oak Knoll Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 568-3900 | langhamhotels.com/ 

pasadena 

Brunch is perhaps the most divisive 

of all meals. Some scoff at the idea of 

midday eggs benedict, while others’ 

eyes glisten at the sound of mimosa 

glasses clinking for an Instagram 

photo. The truth of the matter is, it is 

undeniably enjoyable and in Pasadena 

the Best Brunch is at The Terrace at 

the Langham Huntington Hotel. Few 

restaurants offer such diversity and 

bang for your buck. They boast a 

breakfast buffet, a la carte brunch, 

as well as a dim sum brunch which includes 

bottomless mimosas, making 

it impossible to decide which to eat 

your way through. Also on the menu: 

organic cold pressed juices to recover 

from those mimosas. 


EDWIN MILLS BY EQUATOR 


(626) 564-8656 | edwinmills.com 

MARSTON’S RESTAURANT 


(626) 796-2549 

marstonrestaurant.com 

BEST ARMENIAN FOOD 

ZANKOU CHICKEN 


(626) 405-1502 | zankouchicken.com 

1415 E. Colorado St., Glendale 

(818) 244-2237 

For the third year in a row familyowned 

Zankou Chicken has been 

ranked as the Best Armenian Food. 

Their crispy on the outside and juicy 

on the inside rotisserie chicken is 

simultaneously the best you’ve ever 

had and the most budget friendly. 

The secret garlic sauce at Zankou 

is imitated by many, although the 

restaurant does not disclose what’s 

in it, and the pita bread is made fresh 

daily. What’s not to love? 


RAFFI’S CATERING AND BANQUET 

3887 E. Sierra Madre Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 351-0900 

SAHARA MIDDLE EASTERN 

RESTAURANT 


(626) 795-6900 

saharapasadena.com 

BEST ASIAN FUSION 

DAISY MINT 


(626) 792-2999 | daisymint.com 

Daisy Mint is known for their variety 

of Asian fare, offering mostly Thai 

fl avors. The noodle dishes are the 

standout on the menu — from pad 

see ew and pad thai to spaghetti 

with black mussels. Their curries are 

delicious as well, served with rice and 

a choice of meat or tofu. For the full 

Daisy Mint experience, try a pot of tea 

served in a French press. 


BONE KETTLE 


(626) 795-5702 | bonekettle.com 

SIERRA FUSION 

120 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra 

Madre 

(626) 355-3030 | sierrafusion.com 

BEST BAKERY 

EUROPANE BAKERY 


(626) 844-8804 

europanebakery.com 


(626) 577-1828 

Europane Bakery is a Pasadena staple 

and winner of Best Bakery once 

again. Its loyal customers swear by it, 

and even first-timers know to order 

their signature egg salad sandwich. 

Scones, quiches, cookies and muffins 

are on display in the vast glass case 

full of delights. The second location, 

which is larger than the original, has 

a large communal table perfect for 

meeting friends for coffee and a buttery, 

fl akey croissant. 


85 C BAKERY CAFE 

61 S. Fair Oaks Ave. No. 120, 


(626) 792-8585 | 85cbakerycafe.com 

201 N. Brand Blvd. No. 100, Glendale 

(818) 550-0885 

DOTS CUPCAKES 


(626) 568-3687 | dotscupcakes.com 


(626) 744-7719 

SEED BAKERY 


(626) 486-2115 

seedbakerypasadena.com 

BEST BBQ 

GUS’S BBQ 


(626) 799-3251 | gussbbq.com 

Gus’s BBQ prides itself on providing 

guests with true Southern hospitality 

in addition to the best barbeque. 

Their story began in 1946 when 

three relatives made their way from 

Cleveland to South Pasadena and 

opened their restaurant to provide 

the best of Southern BBQ to the West 

Coast. Gus’s baby back ribs, tri-tip, 

beef brisket and fried chicken are all 

highlights on the menu and are best 

accompanied with creamed corn and 

mac n’ cheese. 


BONNIE B’S SMOKIN’ BBQ HEAVEN 


(626) 794-0132 

bonniebssmokin.com 

ROBIN’S WOODFIRE BBQ 

395 N. Rosemead Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 351-8885 | robinsbbq.com 






Pie N’ Burger 

Panda Inn 

Green Street 

Restaurant 

BEST BREAKFAST 


RESTAURANT 


(626) 577-7717 | tomsfamous 

In addition to amazing customer service, 

Tom’s now has the Best Breakfast 

in town, which is conveniently 

served all day. Tom’s breakfast covers 

traditional dishes like omelets, waffl es 

and pancakes, as well as Mexican 

breakfasts of huevos rancheros and 

huevos a la Mexicana. Their breakfast 

sandwiches look more like delicious 

burgers and include ribeye steak and 

eggs, and polish sausage and eggs. 

They are well-known for daily specials 

that can be ordered all day, making 

you wonder if it’s acceptable to have 

breakfast twice in one day. 


RUSSELL’S RESTAURANT 


(626) 578-1404 

SANDWICHES BY CONNAL 


(626) 794-5018 

TWOHEY’S RESTAURANT 

1224 N. Atlantic Blvd., Alhambra 

(626) 284-7387 | twoheys.com 

BEST BURGER 

PIE N’ BURGER 


(626) 795-1123 | pienburger.com 

Stepping into Pie N’ Burger is like 

stepping into a time machine and 

visiting a diner in the 1960s. Current 

owner Michael Osborn began working 

at the small diner in 1972 and has 

been there since, never changing the 

way the famous burger is prepared. 

It has won numerous awards, even 

landing a spot as one of America’s 

Top 5 Cheeseburgers on the Food 

Network in 2015. One bite into the 

juicy goodness and it’s easy to tell 

why: the beef patty made to perfection 

by hand, the American cheese 

oozing over, crispy pickles, homemade 

thousand island dressing, and 

wedges of iceberg lettuce all resting 

in between toasted buns. 


DOG HAUS 


(626) 577-4287 | doghaus.com 


(626) 683-0808 


(626) 282-4287 

ROUNDS PREMIUM BURGERS 


(626) 304-9810 | roundsburgers.com 

THE COUNTER PASADENA 

140 Shoppers Lane, Pasadena 

(626) 440-1008 | thecounter.com 

BEST BURRITO 

LUCKY BOY 


(626) 793-0120 | luckyboyburgers.com 


(626) 793-7079 

Lucky Boy didn’t name their best 

breakfast burrito the “Famous Burrito” 

for nothing. It’s so massive it 

can be shared by two people and is 

celebrated online in part because of 

customers who share photos of it 

next to random objects for scale. The 

burrito is loaded with hash browns, 

eggs, cheese, and a choice of bacon, 

sausage, ham or chorizo. However, a 

combination of bacon and sausage is 

the way to go. 


BURRITO EXPRESS 


(626) 798-0844 

burritoexpresspasadena.com 

KING TACO 


(626) 792-0405 | kingtaco.com 

115-117 E. Broadway Ave., Glendale 

(818) 409-0172 

BEST CALIFORNIA 

CUISINE 

GREEN STREET RESTAURANT 


(626) 577-7170 

greenstreetrestaurant.com 

California is a melting pot of people, 

cultures and lifestyles, yet there are 

things that undeniably belong to 

us like traffic and surfing. Similarly, 

Green Street Restaurant does 

California Cuisine best with a diverse 

menu featuring high quality, fresh 

ingredients since 1979. Their breakfast 

includes tacos and guacamole 

toast, lunch serves up shareable 

quesadillas, and dinner consists of 

fresh salmon, parmesan crusted 

chicken with sage, and a Pasadena 

steak sandwich. A consistent crowd 

favorite is their zucchini bread, which 

is served with all of their salads. 


BISTRO 45 

45 S. Mentor Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 795-2478 | bistro45.com 




BEST CENTRAL 

AMERICAN FOOD 

LA CARAVANA RESTAURANT 


(626) 791-7378 

This year’s category resulted in a 

pupusa standoff and La Caravana 

Restaurant triumphed. While they 

serve delicious entrees of traditional 

Salvadoran dishes like carne guisada 

con papas (beef chops with potatoes) 

and appetizers like yuca frita (casava 

fried with fried pork), the pupusas 

alone make a dinner there filling and 

worthwhile. The warm, thick disks of 

masa made with fillings like mixed 

pork, cheese and beans and chicharron 

are best in the platter of 10 “‘mini” 

pupusas. Add in an ensalada drink 

which is a refreshing fruit juice and 

it’s Salvadoran gold. 


MELY’S PUPUSERIA 


(626)794-1776 | melyspupuseria.com 

BEST CHINESE FOOD 

PANDA INN 


(626) 793-7300 | pandainn.com 

Panda Inn is the most recognizable 

Chinese food restaurant in the area, 

and the most frequented. Perhaps 

it’s the enduring adoration of their 

famous orange chicken, the deliciously 

greasy lo mein, or the fact 

that the Pasadena location is where 




Dots Cupcakes 

Pasadena Sandwich 

Company 

Lunasia Dim 

Sum House 

Panda Inn was founded. Whatever the 

case, it’s clear the familiar Panda logo 

dominates in the world of Chinese 

cuisine. 


YANG CHOW 


(626) 432-6868 | yangchow.com 



(626) 793-8822 

lunasiadimsumhouse.com 

BEST CUPCAKES 

DOTS CUPCAKES 




(626) 744-7719 

There are few joys in life as sweet as 

gazing beyond the glass case at Dots 

Cupcakes and knowing one (or three) 

of their heavenly creations are soon to 

be devoured. It comes as no surprise 

they are winners of Best Cupcakes 

for the ninth consecutive year, and 

considering they’ve been open for 

10 that’s no small feat. Flavors range 

from cookies and cream, chocolate 

mint and red velvet to carrot and 

dulce de leche. Even more unique 

“specialty” fl avors are offered on set 

days, like their famous Mostess which 

plays off Hostess cupcakes, only 

gourmet and much, much, better. But 

I didn’t have to tell you that. 


POLKATOTS CUPCAKES 

720 N. Lake Ave., No. 3, Pasadena 

(626) 798-3932 

polkatotscupcakes.com 

VANILLA BAKE SHOP 


(323) 204-4075 

vanillabakeshop.com 

BEST DELI/SANDWICHES 

PASADENA SANDWICH 

COMPANY 

259 Sierra Madre Villa Ave., No 102, 


(626) 578-1616 

pasadenasandwichcompany.com 

Family owned and operated Pasadena 

Sandwich Company makes customers 

feel like they’re at home while dining at 

their deli of over 20 years. They make 

sandwiches stacked so high with various 

meats that they seem impossible 

to bite into at first glance. The colorful 

menu board features all of their specialty 

sandwiches like the New Yorker, 

Del Mar, and “Big Steve.” A must-try is 

their Trust the Cook which doesn’t list 

ingredients because, well, you have to 

trust the cook. Whatever they choose 

is a sure thing. 


ROMA MARKET 


(626) 797-7748 | romamarkets.com 

SANDWICHES BY CONNAL 


(626) 794-5018 

UNION STREET SANDWICH CO. 


(626) 639-3575 | unionsandwich.com 

BEST DESSERT 

AMARA CHOCOLATE 

& COFFEE 



Crispy churros with dulce de leche 

and chocolate sauce to dip. Need I 

say more? With all of the delicacies 

Amara Chocolate & Coffee serves, the 

Spanish churros alone are enough to 

solidify why they have the best dessert 

around. They also have drinking 

chocolate (63 percent melted chocolate 

blended with milk) on the menu 

which is as delectable as it sounds. 


DOTS CUPCAKES 




(626) 744-7719 

EUROPANE BAKERY 


(626) 844-8804 

europanebakery.com 


(626) 577-1828 

JULIENNE FINE FOODS 

& CELEBRATIONS 

2649 Mission St., San Marino 

(626) 441-2290 | juliennetogo.com 

BEST DIM SUM 



(626) 793-8822 

lunasiadimsumhouse.com 

Since opening in 2015 Lunasia Dim 

Sum House has won Best Dim Sum 

each year, proving there was a need in 

Pasadena they quickly fulfilled. Their 

modern take on the classic Cantonese 

tradition of dim sum boasts a wide 

variety of dishes and tea to accompany 

them. Pork, shrimp and scallop 

with squid ink dumplings, pan fried 

pot stickers and buns both look and 

taste exquisite. A meal at Lunasia is 

more than a meal — it’s a dumpling 

filled journey you don’t want to end. 


DIN TAI FUNG 

The Americana at Brand 

177 Caruso Ave., Glendale 

(818) 551-5561 | dintaifungusa.com 

1108 S. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia 

(626) 446-8555 


(626) 446-8555 

BEST DUMPLINGS 

DIN TAI FUNG 

The Americana at Brand 


(818) 551-5561 | dintaifungusa.com 


(626) 446-8555 


(626) 446-8555 

No one does dumplings better than 

Din Tai Fung. They first opened in 

Tawain in 1972 and brought xiao 

long bao, otherwise known as soup 

dumplings, to the mainstream. Their 

dumplings are made to order by hand 

and offer a variety of pork and crab as 

well as fi sh, shrimp, chicken, kimchi 

pork and vegetarian dumplings. 

Weekend mornings offer their highly 

coveted and rather limited small soup 

dumplings. It is safe to say, there is a 

dumpling to try for everyone. 




(626) 793-8822 | lunasiadimsumhouse.com 





Melt It! 

SHADONG DUMPLINGS 


(626) 578-9777 

BEST FRENCH FOOD 

BISTRO 45 

45 S. Mentor Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 795-2478 | bistro45.com 

For over 25 years Bistro 45 has 

served Pasadena with its excellent 

French American cuisine and this year 

has won the title of Best French Food. 

The art deco interior is beautiful, the 

staff is superb, and the quality of their 

organic ingredients is unmatched. 

Bistro 45 is a testament to the 

importance of enjoying a meal with 

the perfect wine (of which they have 

more than plenty to choose from) and 

having a good time. 


FAUBOURG 

74 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra 

Madre 

(626) 836-5700 | dinefaubourg.com 

BEST FROZEN YOGURT 

YOGURTLAND 


(626) 304-0808 | yogurt-land.com 


(626) 356-4868 

5045 Eagle Rock Blvd., Eagle Rock 

(323) 550-1490 

1 E. Valley Blvd., Alhambra 

(626) 289-3420 

633 W. Duarte Rd., Arcadia 

(626) 821-8723 

While the days of the frozen yogurt 

craze are long gone, the enduring 

demand for Yogurtland, one of the 

biggest chains left standing, hasn’t 

gone away. With its extensive selection 

of fl avors that change seasonally, 

and a bar of toppings from chocolate 

brownies to lychee, Yogurtland 

continues to treat customers with 

unexpected surprises every visit. 


BLOOMFIELD CREAMERY 


(626)714-7750 | bloomfi eldcreamery.com 

homemade-gelato-coffee-bar.busi- 

ness.site 

BEST GRILLED CHEESE 

MELT IT! 


(626) 793-7002 | agrilledcheeseco.com 

Grilled cheeses have become much 

more than the ones I had as a kid 

when my mother didn’t have time to 

cook an elaborate dinner. They, too, 

have now become complex and fi xed 

with various cheeses, meats and 

toppings, and Melt It! is home to the 

best. Mac n’ cheese on sourdough, 

tomato caprese, and fried chicken 

and coleslaw sandwiched between a 

French roll are just a few of the grilled 

cheeses that have earned it the top 

spot. 


GINGER CORNER MARKET 

217 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 795-2447 | gingercornermarket. 

com 

MAISON AKIRA 


(626) 796-9501 | maisonakira.net 

CHERRY ON TOP 


(626) 440-1299 | cherryontop.net 

TWOHEY’S RESTAURANT 

1224 N. Atlantic Blvd., Alhambra 

(626) 284-7387 | towheys.com 

Roscoe’s House of 

Chicken and Waffl es 


Bulgarini Gelato 

BEST FRIED CHICKEN 

ROSCOE’S HOUSE OF 

CHICKEN AND WAFFLES 


(626) 791-4890 

roscoeschickenandwaffles.com 

Chicken and waffles is the only dish 

that is neither breakfast nor dinner, 

yet can be enjoyed during both times 

of day without a second thought. 

Founded by a Harlem native who 

wanted to bring soul food to Los 

Angeles, Roscoe’s continues to serve 

some the best fried chicken and soul 

food. It has been enjoyed by the likes 

of former President Barack Obama, 

who had a special named after him. 


BRAISE & CRUMBLE 


(626) 460-8600 

braiseandcrumble.com 

HONEYBIRD 

714 Foothill Blvd., La Canada 

Flintridge 

(818) 415-0489 | honeybirdla.com 

BEST GELATO 

BULGARINI GELATO 

749 E. Altadena Drive, Altadena 

(626) 791-6174 | bulgarinigelato.com 

If there is anything certain about 

Bulgarini it’s that founders Leo and 

Elizabeth Bulgarini are certified gelato 

experts. After studying how to make 

the delicacy with a third generation 

gelato maker, they brought skill and 

passion to their shop in Altadena. The 

dedication they have to their craft and 

to providing the very best experience 

is evident upon entering, and even 

more so after the first spoonful of 

the creamy, smooth treat. Pistachio, 

lemon, pear and Kona coffee are just 

a few of the unique fl avors Bulgarini is 

known for. 


HELLO GELATO 



(626) 744-1788 

SWEDISH SCOOPS 


(626) 365-1565 | swedish-scoops- 

BEST HEALTH/ORGANIC 

FOOD 



(626) 639-6818 

truefoodkitchen.com/pasadena 

True Food Kitchen has been one of 

the greatest additions to Colorado 

Boulevard in the last couple of years. 

A health-driven restaurant with so 

many options that it’s impossible to 

choose, they are the epitome of good 

food without the guilt. Their spaghetti 

squash casserole can convert any 

pasta purist. The bowls allow a choice 

of tofu or steak, welcoming vegans 

and meat-eaters alike, and vegan chia 

seed pudding is under 400 calories. 

Yes, please. The restaurant and dining 

patio is so stylish you feel healthier 

just being there. 


REAL FOOD DAILY 


(626) 844-8900 | realfooddailyla.com 


PHOTOS: Catherine Buknight (True Food Kitchen)



Jones Coffee Roasters 

Kabuki Japanese 

Restaurant 

Mint Leaf Indian 

Cuisine 

OH HAPPY DAYS 


(626) 797-0383 

BEST HOT DOG 

DOG HAUS 


(626) 577-4287 | doghaus.com 


(626) 683-0808 


(626) 282-4287 

Since opening in 2011, Pasadenabased 

Dog Haus has literally taken the 

country by storm. CNN said they were 

among the top fi ve places to eat a 

hot dog in the US. Time Out said Dog 

Haus’ signature product is “one of the 

best hot dogs in America.” But Yelp 

may have said it best, calling Dog 

Haus “the real deal” when it comes to 

burgers and hot dogs. 


PERRY’S JOINT 


(626) 798-4700 | perrysjoint.com 

THE SLAW DOGS 

720 N. Lake Ave. No. 8, Pasadena 

(626) 808-9777 

slawdogspasadena.com 

BEST ICE CREAM 

CARMELA ICE CREAM 


(626) 797-1405 | carmelaicecream.com 

Not only did the owners of Carmela’s 

Ice Cream not know how to make ice 

cream, but at the time (2007), artisan 

ice cream was not even yet “a thing.” 

Today, Carmela’s is one of the most 

popular homemade ice cream shops 

in the region, featuring such fl avors 

as Salted Caramel, Brown Sugar 

Vanilla Bean, Earl Grey Tea, Guinness 

(a St. Patty’s Day favorite), Lavender 

Honey and good old Classic Rocky 

Road. 


AFTER’S ICE CREAM 


aftersicecream.com 

36 W. Main St., Alhambra 

aftersicecream.com 

BLOOMFIELD CREAMERY 


(626)714-7750 

bloomfi eldcreamery.com 

FOSSELMAN’S ICE CREAM CO. 

1824 W. Main St., Alhambra 

(626) 282-6533 

fosselmans.com 

MOTHER MOO CREAMERY 

17 Kersting Court, Sierra Madre 

(626) 355-9650 | mothermoo.com 

BEST INDEPENDENT 

COFFEE HOUSE 

JONES COFFEE ROASTERS 


(626) 564-9291 | thebestcoffee.com 

As their corporate saying goes, Jones 

Coffee Roasters is where coffee is 

far more than a cup of coffee. Their 

mission is to continue a family growerto-consumer 

tradition by representing 

artisan quality, but to partner with local 

retailers, restaurants and organizations 

and committing their business to service, 

education and social awareness. 

Their goal is to be the specialty coffee 

of choice and a leader in the promotion 

of a healthy and sustainable lifestyle in 

the community. 


AMARA CHOCOLATE & COFFEE 



JAMESON & BROWN COFFEE 

ROASTERS 


626) 395-7585 

jamesonbrown.com 

LAVENDER & HONEY ESPRESSO BAR 


(626) 529-5571 

lavenderandhoneyespresso.com 

BEST INDIAN FOOD 

MINT LEAF INDIAN CUISINE 


(626) 460-8776 

mintleafpasadena.com 

Like other restaurants, Mint Leaf 

Indian Cuisine offers traditional Indian 

fare, including vegetarian entrees, 

served in a cozy space with exotic 

décor. Unlike any Indian restaurant 

experience, however, Mint Leaf 

offers an elevated and fresh take on 

traditional Indian fare, with an inviting 

and decorative ambiance. Lunch and 

dinner menus feature an array of rich 

traditional favorites and vegetarian 

options alongside fresh and lighter 

takes on classic Indian recipes. 




(626) 440-0309 | allindiacafe.ca.com 


(818) 937-9966 

NEW DELHI PALACE 



(626) 405-0666 

newdelhipalacepasadena.com 

BEST ITALIAN FOOD 

CELESTINO RISTORANTE & 

BAR 


(626) 795-4006 

celestinopasadena.com 

While completely partial to Italian 

over any other type of cuisine (Celestino 

Ristorante & Bar doesn’t need me 

to say it’s the best, although it is); the 

people of Pasadena have spoken. 

They arrived on the scene when 

Calogero Drago and his brother found 

that Italian food in Los Angeles was 

inauthentic and lacking quality taste. 

His Sicilian influence and traditional 

dishes resonated with customers, just 

as much as his energetic personality. 

Drago and his staff treat every customer 

like family, the cherry on top of 

an already outstanding meal. 


DOMENICO’S 


(626) 797-6459 

originaldomenicos.com 

GALE’S RESTAURANT 


(626) 432-6705 | galesrestaurant.com 

TARANTINO’S PIZZERIA 


(626) 796-7836 

tarantinospasadena.com 

BEST JAPANESE FOOD/ 

SUSHI 


RESTAURANT 

88 W. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena 

(626) 568-9310 



(626) 351-8963 

Not only is Kabuki the Best Family 

Restaurant, but itas been voted Best 






Japanese Food all around. Kabuki 

boasts they can convert non-believers 

into believing Japanese is the new 

comfort food. Unique cocktails, a 

modern interior, and above all else an 

extensive menu proves quality sushi 

over quantity is what matters in an 

“all you can eat” oversaturated world. 


OBA SUSHI IZAKAYA 

181 E. Glenarm St., Pasadena 

(626) 799-8543 | obasushi.com 

OSAWA SUSHI 


(626) 683-1150t | heosawas.com 

SUGARFISH BY SUSHI NOZAWA 


(626) 298-8386 | sugarfi shsushi.com 

BEST JUICE BAR 

PRESSED JUICERY 


(626) 696-3593 | pressedjuicery.com 

Americana at Brand 


(818) 247-2034 

The founders of Pressed Juicery 

created their company with the 

intention of bringing delicious and 

nutritious juice to everyone. They did 

this by setting four basic goals: Make 

it taste great. Make it simple. Make 

it affordable. Make it for everyone. 

And it worked, with the fruits of their 

labor developing into an ever-growing 

number of loyal customers. 


NEKTER JUICE BAR 


(818) 928-3300 | nekterjuicebar.com 

KREATON ORGANIC JUICERY (TIE) 


(626) 314-3407 | kreationjuice.com 

MOVITA JUICE BAR (TIE) 



(626) 460-8926 | movitajuicebar.com 

BEST KOREAN FOOD 

CHRIS’ KOREAN BBQ 


(626) 796-9604 

koreanbbqpasadena.com 

Chris’s Korean BBQ has only been 

open since 2016 and has quickly 

garnered praise for its wide variety 

of offerings. Their menu consists of 

course options A-D, which allow customers 

to choose from a list of meats 

and sides. However, why go to Chris’ 

if not for the AYCE? Choice A is only 

$24.99, and choice B which includes 

shrimp, octopus, and squid is only 

$5 more. Add in a beer, a group of 

friends, and it’s a perfect Friday night. 


SEOUL KOREAN BARBECUE 

122 N. San Fernando Blvd., Burbank 

(818) 559-5578 | seoulkoreanbbq.net 

SOH GRILL HOUSE 


(626) 714-7760 | sohgrillhouse.com 

BEST LOCAL BREWERY 

CONGREGATION ALE HOUSE 


(626) 403-2337 

congregationalehouse.com 

Congregation Ale House is like a 

place of worship for beer purists. 

With its stained glass windows and 

long wooden tables reminiscent 

of a monastery, the brewery’s play 

on words is entertaining. They also 

happen to have a great selection of 

craft beers on tap, more bottled beer 

options than I could count, and a 

handful of their own ales like Dark of 

the Covenant and the Consummatum. 

Their menu also features good eats 

like a carnitas pizza and onion rings. 


CRAFTSMAN BREWING CO. 


(626) 296-2537 

craftsmanbrewing.com 

EAGLE ROCK BREWERY 

3056 Roswell St., Eagle Rock 

(323) 257-7866 

eaglerockbrewery.com 

BEST LOCAL PIZZA 

THE LUGGAGE ROOM 

PIZZERIA 


(626) 356-4440 | theluggageroom.com 

The Luggage Room Pizzeria has 

won best pizza once more. Located 

at the Del Mar Gold Line Station, the 

colorful parlor has an open kitchen so 

guests can watch wood-fired pizzas 

pop in and out. The menu features 

A-list pizzas like Avocado Festival, 

Mushroom Party, and the Gladiator 

(made with Italian sausage). It’s a safe 

bet to trust the professionals and order 

one of these cheesy pies, but The 

Luggage Room also has a “Make your 

Own” section which is completely 

customizable. No matter the order, a 

night here feels like making pizzas at 

home, only with better service. 


BLAZE PIZZA 


(626) 440-7358 | blazepizza.com 

990 Town Center Drive, La Cañada 

Flintridge 

(818) 790-8900 

Glendale Galleria 

100 W. Broadway, Glendale 

(818) 662-8777 

MAMMA’S BRICK OVEN 

PIZZA & PASTA 

710 Fair Oaks Ave., So. Pasadena 

(626) 799-1344 

mammasbrickoven.com 

SETTEBELLO PIZZERIA NAPOLETANA 


(626) 765-9550 | settebello.net 

BEST MEDITERRANEAN 

FOOD 

CAFÉ SANTORINI 

64 W. Union St., Pasadena 

(626) 564-4200 | cafesantorini.com 

Located in the heart of Old Pasadena, 

Cafe Santorini just celebrated its 25th 

anniversary in June. It boasts a beautiful 

rooftop balcony perfect for date 

night or special occasions, and excels 

in their traditional Mediterranean 

cuisine. Their complimentary bread, 

shareable starters and colorful kabob 

plates washed down with refreshing 

sangria are a sure thing. 


MEDITERRANEAN CAFÉ 


(626) 793-8844 

kokosmediterraneancafé.com 


RESTAURANT 


(626) 795-6900 | saharapasadena.com 


Congregation Ale 

House 

The Luggage Room 

Pizzeria 

Pressed Juicery 



Poke Salad Bar 

Ramen Tatsunoya 

Cameron’s Seafood 

BEST MEXICAN FOOD 

MIJARES MEXICAN 

RESTAURANT 


(626) 792-2763 



(626) 794-6674 

The history of Mijares — a restaurant 

owned and operated by the same 

family for over nine decades — is 

just as enticing as the award-winning 

food it serves. Everything about 

them is truly authentic. It’s trifecta 

of homemade soups — albondigas, 

menudo, and cocido, accompanied 

by a tamale or two — makes Mijares 

feel like home. And what is a Mexican 

restaurant without drinks? Lucky 

for those like myself whose drink of 

choice is tequila, they offer over 10 

different types of margaritas and a 

section devoted to their impressive 

list of tequilas. 


EL PORTAL RESTAURANT 


(626) 795-8553 

elportalrestaurant.com 

MARGARITA’S MEXICAN 

RESTAURANT 

155 S. Rosemead Blvd., Pasadena, 

(626) 449-4193 

margaritaspasadena.com 

URBANO MEXICAN KITCHEN 


626-578-1160 

urbanomexicankitchen.com 

BEST MIDDLE 

EASTERN FOOD 

RAFFI’S CATERING AND 

BANQUET 

3887 E. Sierra Madre Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 351-0900 | raffiscatering.com 

Raffi’s is primarily known for their 

catering and banquet hall in Pasadena 

and are clearly doing something 

right as winners of the Best Middle 

Eastern Food. After all, their website 

asserts their entree dishes will make 

your mouth water, which I can’t argue 

with. Raffi’s Greek salads, falafel 

sandwiches and appetizers provide 

options for everyone. The combo 

kebab plate made with chicken, beef 

and lule is my personal favorite. 



RESTAURANT 


(626) 795-6900 

saharapasadena.com 

BEST POKE 

POKE SALAD BAR 


(626) 304-3100 

pokesaladpasadena.com 

Ideal for dining with a large group 

and a unique fish selection, Poke 

Salad Bar is not like your typical poke 

spot. While the process is similar — 

choose a base, fish, toppings, then 

extras — Poke Salad Bar has tuna, 

salmon, scallop, albacore, shrimp, 

a roll, and even octopus. One of the 

only upcharges is avocado for an 

extra dollar which allows for piling on 

the toppings carefree. 


BAY POKE 

2345 E. Colorado Blvd., No 195, 


(626) 219-6380 | baypoke.com 

STRAYCAT POKE & DESSERT 

62 W. Union St., No.1, Pasadena 

(626) 639-3500 

BEST RAMEN 

RAMEN TATSUNOYA 


(626) 432-1768 | tatsunoyausa.net 

Ramen Tatsonoya’s fi rst restaurant 

opened in 1999 in Kurume City, 

Fukuoka where its founder, Ryuta 

Kajiwara was born. After years of 

success in Japan, Ramen Tatsonoya 

opened its very fi rst US location in 

Old Pasadena in 2015. They offer 

three different kinds of ramen: koku 

which is their signature bowl, jun 

which is a mild broth, and spicy 

served with thick noodles. Even the 

noodles have a rich backstory. Made 

by a local artisan noodle company 

only for them, the recipe had never 

left Japan before the Pasadena 

location. 


MODAN ARTISANAL RAMEN 

700 Fair Oaks Ave., Suite G, South 


(626) 799-2878 | modanramen.com 

NOODLE WORLD 


(626) 585-5885 | noodleworld.com 


(626) 300-1010 

700 W. Valley Blvd., Alhambra 

(626) 293-8800 

BEST SALAD 

GREEN STREET RESTAURANT 


(626) 577-7170 

greenstreetrestaurant.com 

Salads often feel like an afterthought 

on menus, an alternative necessary 

for vegans and vegetarians. At Green 

Street, which specializes in California 

cuisine, the salads are just as good as 

anything else they offer. The Dianne is 

made with chicken, crisp Asian noodles, 

toasted almonds, sesame seeds, 

and shredded lettuce, or all kale in 

the Kale Dianne. Others atop the list 

are the quinoa and black bean fiesta 

salad, the grilled chicken tostada, and 

the Arroyo. All salads are served with 

Green Street’s famous zucchini bread 

and can even be ordered in smaller 

portions for $2 or $4 less. 


TENDER GREENS 


(626) 405-1511 | tendergreens.com 


(818) 459-4850 

URBAN PLATES 


(626) 800-4448 | urbanplates.com 

BEST SEAFOOD 

CAMERON’S SEAFOOD 


(626) 793-3474 | camerons4fish.com 

Cameron’s Seafood is a consistent 

favorite and this year’s winner of Best 

Seafood. Considered a landmark 

of Pasadena, Cameron’s has a San 

Francisco fi sh house influence with 

a Southern California fl are which is 

evident across the menu. A few sushi 

rolls are a pleasant surprise alongside 

standard seafood dishes like lobster 

rolls, oysters, and all the fish you 

could possibly want to order. Let their 

delightful entrees inspire you to walk 

over to the fish market for some fresh 

fish and cook up something in your 

own. 



ROY’S RESTAURANT 


(626) 356-4066 | roysrestaurant.com 

FISHWIVES 


(626) 219-6199 | www.fi shwives.com 

BEST SOUL FOOD 

BIG MAMA’S RIB SHACK 


(626) 797-1792 

bigmamaspasadena.com 

Big Mama’s is a family owned and operated 

restaurant that for many years has been serving 

the best barbecue and Southern cuisine this side 

of the Mississippi. It’s because of this, along 

with stellar service and the fact that they offer 

live blues, Big Mama’s and their downhome 

Southern food attract diners from around the 

world, oftentimes including celebrities. 


BONNIE B’S SMOKIN’ BBQ HEAVEN 


(626) 794-0132 | bonniebssmokin.com 

ROSCOE’S HOUSE OF CHICKEN AND WAFFLES 


(626) 791-4890 | roscoeschickenandwaffl es.com 

BEST SOUTH AMERICAN FOOD 

MALBEC ARGENTINIAN CUISINE 


(626) 683-0550 | malbeccuisine.com 

If you are in the mood to celebrate, Malbec offers 

a perfect gathering place for both business 

and personal occasions, including cocktail 

parties, wedding receptions, birthday parties 

and other celebrations. Not only do they offer 

a superb selection of meat, fish and poultry, 

but Malbece both caters and provides a private 

room for those who enjoy going out to party. 


1810 ARGENTINEAN RESTAURANT 


(626) 795-5658 | 1810restaurant.com 

AMARA CHOCOLATE & COFFEE 



BEST SPANISH FOOD 

MALBEC ARGENTINIAN CUISINE 


(626) 683-0550 | malbeccuisine.com 

Argentina is world famous for its cuisine. From 

homemade salads, pastas and fish to an abundant 

selection of signature grilled meats, Malbec 

Argentinean Cuisine offers the very best authentic 

cuisine prepared on a genuine Argentinean 

grill. If you want to host a special event, Malbec 

is perfect for birthday parties, graduations, 

rehearsal dinners and any other occasion. 


BAR CELONA 


(626) 405-1000 | barcelonapasadena.com 

MERCADO 

140 S. Lake Ave., Suite 101, Pasdena 

(626) 345-5778 | cocinasycalaveras.com 

BEST STEAKHOUSE 

ARROYO CHOP HOUSE 


(626) 577-7463 | arroyochophouse.com 

When you think of meat, steak is the first thing 

to come to mind. And when you think of what 

excellent steak should be, it’s Arroyo Chop 

House. They pride themselves on being the only 

restaurant in the San Gabriel and San Fernando 

valleys to serve USDA Prime Beef exclusively, 

which is so rare; only 2 percent of beef production 

in the US has this rating. The highest grade 

wagyu beef can also be found at Arroyo Chop 

House where all of their steak is hand cut. Needless 

to say, for a carnivorous experience like no 

other, there is no better alternative. 


ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE - PASADENA 


(626) 486-1111 | alexanderssteakhouse.com 

FLEMING’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE & WINE BAR 


(626) 639-0490 | fl emingssteakhouse.com 

RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE 


(626) 583-8122 | ruthschris.com 

BEST TACO 

KING TACO 


(626) 792-0405 | kingtaco.com 

117 E. Broadway, Glendale 

(818) 409-0172 

King Taco began its business selling tacos out of 

a converted taco truck and in the 44 years since 

has defined what modern Mexican restaurant 

menus look like. Thanks to King Taco, pastor 

and carnitas have been brought to the masses 

and made a staple at most taquerias we see 

today. With a choice of carne asada, pastor, carnitas, 

cabeza, lengua, chicken, buche, suadero, 







or chicharrón their tacos are served 

without the gimmick. Just meat, two 

soft corn tortillas, topped with onion 

and cilantro — as tacos should be. 


LA ESTRELLA 


(626) 792-8559 


LOS TACOS 

1 W. California Blvd., Suite 211, 


(626) 795-9291 

lostacospasadena.com 

BEST TEA ROOM 

THE HUNTINGTON ROSE 

GARDEN TEA ROOM 


(626) 405-2236 | huntington.org/dining 

“There are few hours in life more 

agreeable than the hour dedicated to 

the ceremony known as afternoon 

tea,” proclaimed Henry James in the 

opening of “The Portrait of a Lady.” 

At The Huntington Rose Garden Tea 

Room there is the added bonus of a 

historic landmark — the Huntington 

Library and Rose Garden to make a 

whole day of. They did away with the 

buffet style and now serve delicious 

scones, finger sandwiches and desserts 

on a three-tiered English style 

presentation with a California twist. 


BIRD PICK TEA & HERB 

10 S. DeLacey Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 773-4372 | birdpick.com 

CHADO TEA ROOM 


(626) 431-2832 | chadotea.com 

BEST THAI FOOD 

SALADANG 


(626) 793-8123 | saladang-thai.com 

What’s in a name? At Saladang, it’s 

the reason it even exists. The owner, 

Dang, wanted to create a space for 

people of the neighborhood to gather 

and enjoy traditional Thai food. “Sala” 

is an open area, meant as a meeting 

place, and in conjunction with her 

own name, the beloved restaurant became 

just that. Saladang is the place 

to enjoy authentic curries, an array of 

noodles and meats, and stir-fry. 


DAISY MINT 


(626) 792-2999 | daisymint.com 

PRESIDENT THAI 

498 S. Rosemead Blvd. Pasadena 

(626) 578-9814 | president-thai.com 

BEST VEGETARIAN 

FOOD 

VEGGIE GRILL 


(626) 535-9561 | veggiegrill.com 

A long-standing critique of a vegetarian 

diet is expense and difficulty in 

finding or making meals that are the 

least bit fl avorful. At Veggie Grill these 

two excuses are non-existent as it is 

both affordable and convenient with 

its fast-casual dining. They offer a 

diverse range of options like burritos, 

tacos, sandwiches, mac n’cheese, 

and perhaps their most popular — a 

collection of bowls so good and 

fl avorful it’s easy to forget they are 

plant-based. 




(626) 440-0309 | allindiacafe.ca.com 


(818) 937-9966 

MY VEGAN 


(626) 578-9017 

myveganrestaurant.com 

REAL FOOD DAILY 


(626) 844-8900 | realfooddailyla.com 

SAGE BISTRO 


(626) 564-8111 

sageveganbistro.com 

BEST VIETNAMESE 

SAIGON NOODLE 

RESTAURANT 


(626) 796-9378 

This is one of the few places to enjoy 

pho, vermicelli and crispy noodles, 

and at reasonable prices, even though 

it’s located in the heart of pricey Old 

Pasadena. This mom-and-pop restaurant 

is clean and the service stellar, so 

much so that it led one Yelper to recall 

how a co-worker forgot her wallet 

“and they were nice enough to hold on 

to it for her to pick up.” 


PASADENA NOODLE & GRILL 


(626) 792-1893 | pasadenanoodle.com 

BEST WINGS 

BUFFALO WILD WINGS 


(626) 993-6400 | buffalowildwings.com 

The first Buffalo Wild Wings opened 

in Ohio in 1982 and has since 

become one of the most recognizable 

restaurants specializing in buffalo 

wings. They offer over 21 sauces and 

seasonings to choose from, including 

teriyaki, lemon pepper, parmesan 

garlic, Asian zing, mango habanero, 

and mild to blazin’. What’s second to 

the amazing wings? The experience 

Buffalo Wild Wings provides. Giant 

TVs playing every sports channel you 

can think of, a hefty list of beers on 

tap, and an energetic crowd cheering 

on their favorite team. 


HOT WINGS CAFÉ 


(626) 449-9055 | hotwingscafe.net 


(818) 247-4455 

ROCCO’S TAVERN 


(626) 765-6810 | roccostavern.com 

WINGSTOP 


(626) 798-2800 | wingstop.com 


(626) 578-9464 ■ 

The Huntington Rose 

Garden Tea Room 

Veggie Grill 

Buffalo Wild Wings 

Saigon Noodle 

Restaurant 


Night Fever 

(T he Bee Gees — 1978) 

SHARED VALUES ARE THE TIES THAT BIND BEST OF PASADENA NIGHT LIFE WINNERS 

BY BLISS BOWEN 

The more things change, the more they stay the same… So goes an age-old maxim 

that proves true when assessing this year’s Best of Pasadena Nightlife winners. 

Pummeled by constant political drama and wondering what fresh chaos 

the next day’s headlines will deliver, PW readers continue to declare fealty to 

establishments that reward their loyalty with quality goods and experiences. 

A celebration of community values further threads together their seemingly 

disparate choices. 

Topping the list is Lucky Baldwin’s, whose invitingly traditional British pub 

ambiance, wide ale selection and comfort-food offerings again earned it Best 

Beer Selection and Best Pub Grub honors. The local institution also reclaimed 

its Best Bar status from last year’s winner and this year’s runner-up (alongside 

Kings Row Gastropub), Blind Donkey. 1886 Bar at the Raymond again 

earned a resounding thumbs up for serving the Best Cocktails, while Mijares 

continued its virtually unbroken streak for Best Margaritas; Freddie’s 35er 

Bar traded places with the runner-up Colorado Bar as Best Dive Bar; happy 

hours at Rocco’s Tavern again earned props as Best Sports Bar; and Stephanie 

Delgado’s attentive care of Noor patrons again earned her distinction as Best 

Bartender. (Go-to wedding host Noor was itself a repeat Best Wedding/Banquet 

Hall winner.) Kabuki Japanese Restaurant’s savory menu helped it retain its 

hold on Best Happy Hour, while Everson Royce’s extensive variety of wines 

from around the world again inspired PW readers to name it the Best Wine 

Selection in town. 

The venerable Ice House, meanwhile, remained in a class of its own as Best 

Comedy Club. Unsurprisingly, the Pasadena Playhouse, the State Theatre 

of California, retained its lock on Best Live Theatre Venue, thanks to socially 

conscious productions like Culture Clash’s “Bordertown Now” that made 

audiences laugh, cry, and above all think (and then laugh again). KPCC’s Best 

Radio Station win was not surprising either, but it was nonetheless gratifying to 

see its substantive programming acknowledged as a vital, must-listen presence 

in the local community. The Rose at Paseo Colorado’s cushy, supper-club vibe 

and slate of heritage acts again earned it top nod as Best Live Music Venue, while 

award-winning children’s theatre group Theatre 360 was again recognized with 

the Best Theatre Production title for its staging of the classic musical “42nd 

Street.” PW readers decreed there’s no need to prioritize either the blockbusterleaning 

ArcLight or the artsier, more independent Laemmle’s Playhouse 7, 

instead announcing a Best Movie Theater tie between the two cinematic winners. 

New this year: Best Bowling Alley winner Bowlmor Pasadena, whose up-todate 

décor and old-school sport has a charming multigenerational appeal, and 

Club 54, whose three-floor, three-bar, three-sound-system setup earned it the 

Best Place to Dance title. And then there’s the Best Private Event Venue winner: 

Castle Green, a local architectural landmark. Both its age (it was built in 1898) 

and Frederick Roehrig’s opulent design have made it a nationally registered 

historic treasure, and oh, if those walls could only talk... they’d put today’s sordid 

scandals to shame. 





Stephanie 

Delgado, Noor 

1886 Bar at the 

Raymond 

BEST BAR 

LUCKY BALDWINS 

17 S. Raymond Ave. 

(626) 795-0652 | luckybaldwins.com 

Lucky Baldwin’s Trappiste 


(626) 844-0447 

Lucky Baldwin’s Delirium Café 


(626) 355-1440 

This beloved British pub remains a 

perennial winner, because comfort 

and community are perennially 

needed in this wackadoodle world 

of ours. It’s a welcoming, familyfriendly 

haven whether you’re craving 

a homey meal of bangers and mash, 

cottage pie or fish ‘n’ chips with a pull 

of your favorite malty ale, or hoisting 

a foamy brew at the pub’s Belgian 

beer or IPA festivals or the imminent 

Oktoberfest, or if you just want to 

jawbone with the hospitable staff and 

watch early-morning soccer finals on 

the telly. And with satellite locations 

in East Pasadena and Sierra Madre, 

Pasadenans needn’t travel far to find 

this home-away-from-home. 


BLIND DONKEY 


(626) 486-2379 

theblinddonkey.com/pasadena 

KINGS ROW GASTROPUB 


(626) 793-3010 | kingsrowpub.com 

BEST BARTENDER 

STEPHANIE DELGADO, NOOR 

300 E. Colorado Blvd. A209, Pasadena 

(626) 793-4518 | noorevents.com 


JOHN DARDON, 38 DEGREES ALE 

HOUSE & GRILL 


(626) 408-5544 

38degreesalehouse.com 

BEST BEER SELECTION 




Once again, PW loyal readers 

rewarded this Crown City institution, 

grateful for its robust Euro, UK and 

US offerings. With about fi ve dozen 

ales, bitters, ciders, Hefeweizens, 

IPAs, lagers, patersbiers, pilsners, 

stouts amd witbiers on tap, the menu 

ranges from Dublin’s classic Guiness 

draughts and fl avorful Val-Dieu 

Triples (Belgian ale) to Bourbon 

Peach American Wild Ale (from the 

wilds of Ypsilanti, Michigan) and 

Poppyfi elds Pale Ale (brewed right 

here in Pasadena). Not bad for a local 

watering hole. 



(626) 844-0447 



(626) 355-1440 




(626) 403-2337 


YARD HOUSE 


(626) 577-9273 

yardhouse.com/locations/ca/pasadena/pasadena-paseo-colorado/8307 

BEST BOWLING ALLEY 

BOWLMOR PASADENA 


(626) 351-8858 

bowlmor.com/location/bowlmorpasadena 

Nestled across from Ralph’s in Hastings 

Ranch, Bowlmor has remained 

a popular destination for families, 

singles and party crews thanks to 

ample space (31 coolly lit lanes in 

a 33,000-square-foot facility), a 

welcoming atmosphere, eye-catching 

décor, and all-ages appeal (interactive 

arcade, full-length sports bar, food 

and drink service). This ain’t your 

grampa’s bowling alley, but he’d feel 

at home here too. 


JEWEL CITY BOWL 

135 S. Glendale Ave., Glendale 

(818) 243-1188 

backalleybowling.com 

MONTROSE BOWL 

2334 Honolulu Ave., Montrose 

(818) 249-3895 

montrosebowl.com 

BEST COCKTAILS 

1886 BAR AT THE RAYMOND 



It’s tough to beat the speakeasy atmosphere 

of this repeat winner, and the 

elegance of the Sidecars, Smoking 

Jackets, Sours, and other classic 

cocktails handcrafted to lipsmacking 

approval here. Drinks are fashioned 

from top-shelf liquors, seasonal and 

regional ingredients, fresh juices, and 

syrups that are made in-house by the 

Raymond’s discerning bartenders. 

Adult beverages, indeed. 


MAGNOLIA HOUSE 


(626) 584-1126 | themaghouse.com 

PARKWAY GRILL 

510 S. Arroyo Pkwy., Pasadena 


BEST COMEDY CLUB 

ICE HOUSE 


(626) 577-1894 | icehousecomedy.com 

There are a lot of stages for standup 

comedy; but in a casino room, 

let’s say, the vibe can be decidedly 

corporate and cutthroat. Not so at 

this homey Pasadena institution, 

which still books shows fi ve nights 

a week. For almost six decades it’s 

been a venerable proving ground for 

local and national comics, including 

George Carlin, Fritz Coleman, Ellen 

DeGeneres, Bill Maher, Steve Martin, 

Paul Rodriguez, Joe Rogan, Lily 

Tomlin and Robin Williams. 

BEST DIVE BAR 

FREDDIE’S 35ER BAR 


(626) 356-9315 | 35erbar.com 

Location is everything, as they say, 

and the 35er’s had that locked in 

for almost 55 years. Shooting pool, 

punching up classic rock faves on the 

jukebox, watching sports on TV (not 

for nothing are the walls adorned with 

framed ballplayer shirts), chowing 

down tater tots and 50-cent wings, 

chugging $4 pints or $5 well drinks: 

there’s nothing fancy here. And that’s 

the point. Just one question: Does 

anyone remember Freddie? 


PHOTO: Catherine Buknight (Stephanie Delgado, Noor) 






Kings Row 

Gastropub 

Kabuki Japanese 

Restaurant 


Playhouse 


THE COLORADO BAR 


(626) 449-3485 

facebook.com/TheColoradoBar 

THE RANCHO BAR 


(626) 798-7634 

ranchobaraltadena.com 

BEST HAPPY HOUR 


RESTAURANT 


(626) 568-9310 


(626) 351-8963 


Yes, it’s part of a corporate chain, 

but PW readers once again celebrated 

what locals have long known: 

the food here is seriously tasty. 

Seaweed salad, broiled mussels, 

sesame chicken, Krab sushi, spicy 

tuna roll, Firecrackers and fried 

gyoza dumplings are just some of 

the tried-and-true menu highlights. 

Combine those with budget-easing 

prices, convenient locations (in 

Old Town and East Pasadena), a 

respectable Japanese beer menu 

and cocktails like Sake Sangri and 

Tokyo Mojito, and you have a happy 

hour worth blocking out time for on 

a busy calendar. 


PAUL MARTIN’S AMERICAN GRILL 

455 S. Lake Ave., Ste. 102, Pasadena 

(626) 773-7600 

ROY’S RESTAURANT 


(626) 356-4066 

roysrestaurant.com/locations/ca/ 

pasadena 

WE OLIVE AND WINE BAR 


(626) 787-1000 

weolive.com/pasadena/ 

YARD HOUSE 


(626) 577-9273 

yardhouse.com/locations/ca/pasadena/pasadena-paseo-colorado/8307 

BEST LIVE MUSIC 

BAR/CLUB 



(626) 793-3010 

kingsrowpub.com 

Readers gave thumbs-up to a 

changeup in musical offerings at this 

cozy Central Pasadena hang. Whether 

it’s Shakeup Sundays with Leila Avila 

or Trio Frio, Midweek Mayhem with 

David Macias, or Friday night party 

time with the ’80s- and ’90s-loving 

Past Action Heroes, the emphasis is 

on passing a good time with a friendly 

background soundtrack of R&B, reggae, 

roc en espanol and modern rock 

covers. 


EDWIN MILLS BY EQUATOR 


(626) 564-8656 | edwinmills.com 

OLD TOWNE PUB 


(626) 577-6581 

theoldtownepub.com 

BEST LIVE MUSIC VENUE 

THE ROSE AT PASEO 

COLORADO 


(888) 645-5006 

Tribute bands galore and marquee 

acts such as Marc Cohn, LeAnn 

Rimes, Motley Crue’s Vince Neil, 

blues legends Buddy Guy and John 

Mayall, Young Dubliners, and Dave 

Mason and Steve Cropper’s Rock & 

Soul Revue continue to find their way 

to this upscale venue, which can hold 

up to 1,500 and comfortably melds 

concert hall and dinner theatre elements. 

A solid link in a chain that also 

includes the Canyon Club (in Agoura 

and Santa Clarita), Libbey Bowl (Ojai) 

and the Saban Theatre (Beverly 

Hills), it offers a more up-close and 

pampered concert experience for 

audiences that want to tune in “where 

music meets the soul” and reminisce. 


AMBASSADOR AUDITORIUM 

131 S. St. John Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 794-1199 

theambassadorauditorium.org 

BOSTON COURT PERFORMING ARTS 

CENTER 


(626) 683-6801 | bostoncourt.com 

COFFEE GALLERY BACKSTAGE 


(626) 798-6236 | coffeegallery.com 

BEST LIVE 

THEATRE VENUE 

PASADENA PLAYHOUSE 


(626) 356-7529 

pasadenaplayhouse.org 

It may be the State Theatre of 

California (since 1917), but our iconic 

Playhouse is not stuffy. Under the 

auspices of Artistic Director Danny 

Feldman, it has continued to honor its 

historic — and diverse — roots while 

engaging timely themes of community, 

immigration and social justice with 

lively productions of Culture Clash’s 

“Bordertown Now” and the Jason 

Alexander-directed “Native Gardens.” 

Upcoming productions such as the 

musical “Ragtime” and Dominique 

Morisseau’s Motown-soundtracked 

“Detroit 67” (the latter to be presented 

upstairs in the Carrie Hamilton 

Theatre) promise to continue that 

tradition. 


A NOISE WITHIN 


(626) 356-3100 | anoisewithin.org 

BOSTON COURT PERFORMING ARTS 

CENTER 


(626) 683-6883 | bostoncourt.com 

PARSON’S NOSE 

95 N. Marengo Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 403-7667 | parsonsnose.com 

BEST LOCAL MUSICIAN 

EMIKO 

Standing or sitting at her electronic 

keyboard, Emiko somehow manages 

to create the impression that there 

are more people onstage even when 

she’s playing solo. Smart, driven, and 

a creative self-promoter, she’s also 

a born entertainer whose between- 





song banter can be funny as hell and 

whose dynamic vocals add empathetic 

heart to her tough grooves and 

savvy arrangements. 

LAEMMLE’S PLAYHOUSE 7 


(310) 478-3836 

laemmle.com/theaters/6 

tails such as hand-carved moldings, 

iron grilles and fireplace mantles; this 

year’s Holiday Home Tour takes place 

Dec. 2. 

Mijares 

Lucky Baldwins 

Castle Green 


PAST ACTION HEROES 

BEST MARGARITAS 

MIJARES 


(626) 792-2763 


Even when you’ve been in business 

since 1920, as this beloved familyrun 

restaurant has, you can’t coast 

on past accolades. Some credit 

for the enduring popularity of their 

margaritas should be given to the 

near-bucket-sized glasses into which 

they’re poured — who doesn’t appreciate 

generosity? — but most of 

all to the quality of the ingredients 

that go into such delicious specialties 

as the Blood Orange and Partida 

Organic Margaritas and hand-shaken 

fruit-and-liqueur favorites like their 

Pomegranate, Chambord Raspberry, 

and Midori Melon Liqueur Margaritas. 


EL CHOLO 

Paseo Colorado, 300 E. Colorado 

Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 795-5800 | elcholo.com 

EL PORTAL 


(626) 795-8553 


BEST MOVIE THEATER 

(TIE) 

ARCLIGHT 


(626) 568-9651 | arclightcinemas.com 

Pasadenans, we have a tie. Both 

conveniently located — the ArcLight 

in the Paseo Colorado and Laemmle’s 

Playhouse 7 next to Vroman’s in the 

Playhouse District — they broaden 

the gamut of cinematic offerings for 

local audiences. The ArcLight strives 

to create an experience of comfort 

and ease for patrons with blockbuster 

films, large screens, café/bar and 

assigned seating options, while the 

Playhouse 7 maintains a smart mix 

of arthouse fare, documentaries and 

first-run studio films, plus occasional 

Q&A sessions with filmmakers. 


IPIC 

42 Miller Alley, Pasadena 

(626) 639-2260 | ipictheaters.com 

REGENCY THEATERS 


(626) 229-9400 | regencymovies.com/ 

main.php?theaterId=8 

BEST PLACE TO DANCE 

CLUB 54 


(626) 793-0608 | club54lounge.com 

A lounge in the basement augments 

the two-level nightclub here, adding 

up to three floors for those wanting 

to get their groove on or for private 

parties. That plus three full bars, three 

sound systems, three DJs, go-go 

dancers, bottle service, a party-time 

dress code and VIP booths pushed 

this sleek dance hotspot into the top 

slot for PW readers. 


IXTAPA 


(626) 304-1000 | cantinaixtapa.com/ 

the-lounge.htm 

LINDYGROOVE 

Pasadena Masonic Hall 

200 S. Euclid Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 795-5610 

pasadenamasonic.org 

BEST PRIVATE 

EVENT VENUE 

CASTLE GREEN 


(626) 793-0359 | castlegreen.com 

A nationally registered historic 

treasure built in 1898, this Old Town 

landmark occupies a prized spot 

in Pasadena history. Its Frederick 

Roehrig’s distinctive Mediterraneanmeets-Moorish 

Revival architecture 

and the luxuriously appointed décor 

have made it a prime location for 

weddings, photo and film shoots, corporate 

and private parties. Twice each 

year, the Castle Green opens to the 

public to allow visitors to savor the 

Victorian ambiance and intricate de- 


NOOR 

260 E. Colorado Blvd. A209, Pasadena 


University Club of Pasadena 


(626) 793-5157 | universityclubpasadena.com 

BEST PUB GRUB 




Pubs are vital community hubs in 

English and Irish culture, as convivial 

gathering places and also because of 

the kind of satisfying fare you’ll find 

on the menu at this Pasadena institution: 

pigs in a blanket, loaded crisps, 

lentil-and-mushroom and traditional 

meat pies, smoked salmon lox, homemade 

chicken curry, fish ‘n’ chips (of 

course), plus signature American, 

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KPCC 


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Larry Mantle’s “AirTalk” has been 

must-listen radio for decades, and 

as Southern California Public Radio’s 

fl agship station has expanded its 

offerings over the years, 89.3 FM 

has been a dependable space for 

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missed programs like John Horn’s 

“The Frame,” A Martínez’s “Take 

Two,” Jonathan Capehart’s “America 

On the Line,” “Live From Here With 

Chris Thile,” “BBC Newshour,” NPR’s 

“Marketplace” with Kai Ryssdal, 

Joshua Johnson’s First Amendmentchampioning 

“1A.” Log onto scpr. 

org and you can also subscribe to a 

handful of KPCC podcasts, including 

“FilmWeek” and Sandra Tsing Loh’s 

“The Loh Down On Science.” 


KCRW 

1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica 

(310) 450-5183 | kcrw.com 

KUSC 

1149 S. Hill St., Suite H100, downtown 

Los Angeles 

(213) 225-7400 | kusc.org 

Part of a small chain (other locations 

are in Culver City, Studio City and 

Westwood), Rocco’s in Old Town 

Pasadena has secured a niche as a 

popular place to hang with family and 

friends thanks to its spacious layout, 

an abundance of large TV screens 

for sports fans, and finger foods like 

hot buffalo wings, pizza, seasoned 

fries with garlic aioli, and hot pretzels 

with cheese. Best of all are its beer 

pitchers and two-for-one happy hour 

specials. 


BUFFALO WILD WINGS 


(626) 993-6400 | buffalowildwings. 

com 

T. BOYLE’S TAVERN 

37 N. Catalina Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 578-0957 | tboylestavern.com 

BEST WEDDING/ 

BANQUET HALL 

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The possibilities for creating an 

enchanting setting seem endless at 

this versatile event space. The Art 

Nouveau-inspired Sofi a Ballroom; 

the smaller, Art Deco-inspired Ella 

Ballroom and private patio; the highceilinged, 

chandelier-appointed Sofi a 

Foyer and private balcony; and the 

outdoor Terrace, graced with a fountain 

and a circular trellis overhead, all 

offer staff event planners ample room 

to conjure wedding-day magic. 


ALTADENA TOWN & COUNTRY CLUB 

2290 Country Club Drive, Altadena 

(626) 794-7163 | altaclub.com 

BEST SPORTS BAR 

ROCCO’S TAVERN 


(626) 765-6810 | roccostavern.com 

BEST THEATER 

PRODUCTION 

“42ND STREET” AT THE- 

ATRE 360 IN FIRST BAPTIST 

CHURCH OF PASADENA 


(626) 577-5922 | theatre360.org 

Kids from 3 to 19 learn real-world, 

practical skills and the value of approaching 

a craft like a professional 

via this award-winning children’s theatre 

company’s classes, workshops, 

performing arts camp and other 

programs. They earned additional 

plaudits for this year’s staging of 

“42nd Street,” the classic musical 

about the honest small-town 

chorus girl who inadvertently 

becomes a star by working 

hard to show she’s a pro. 


“TWELFTH NIGHT,” 

PARSON’S NOSE 


(626) 403-7667 

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PASADENA CONVENTION CENTER 


(626) 793-2122 | pasadenacenter. 

visitpasadena.com 

BEST WINE SELECTION 

EVERSON ROYCE 


(626) 765-9334 | eversonroyce.com 

In addition to three weekly wine tastings, 

this amply stocked shop also 

usually has about four red and four 

white wines available for tasting by the 

glass. Consider the sheer volume of judiciously 

selected varieties from around 

the globe that line its brick walls and 

wooden shelves: rich, jammy California 

zinfandels and buttery chardonnays and 

Oregon pinot noirs; French Bordeaux, 

burgundies and champagnes; earthy 

Spanish Garnachas and Riojas; juicy 

New Zealand Sauvignon Blancs; and 

other palate-teasing offerings from 

Argentina, Australia, Chile and Italy. It’s 

an offer too tasty to refuse. 


MONOPOLE 


(626) 577-9463 | monopolewine.com 

VERTICAL WINE BAR 


(626) 795-3999 

verticalwinebistro.com ■ 

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• LIFE • 

A HOUSE DIVIDED 

ARE DIFFERING POLITICAL 

OPINIONS A WAY OF 

CONVEYING REPRESSED OR 

UNRESOLVED EMOTIONS? 

“YOU DON'T NEED A SILVER FORK TO EAT GOOD FOOD."- PAUL PRUDHOMME 

BULLETIN BOARD 

NEWS AND NOTES FROM 

OUR COMMUNITY 

HOME SALES 

RECENT HOME SALES 

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Chateau 

Lemongrass 

952 Colorado Blvd., 

Eagle Rock 

((323) 258-8050 

chateaulemongrass.com 

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and is provided as a service to our readers. 

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Cool Breeze 

UNIQUE FARE MAKES CHATEAU LEMONGRASS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR 

BY EVELYN GARCIA | PHOTOS BY DANNY LIAO 

Fall in Southern California doesn’t feel much different 

than winter or spring. The weather drops a few degrees 

and we desperately cling to anything that will make 

it feel like the season has actually changed. Starbucks is 

inundated with Pumpkin Spice Latte orders, Hunter rain boots 

stomp around at the first sign of a mere drizzle, and families 

raid pumpkin patches in their best flannels — seemingly 

oblivious to the fact that it’s a moderate 68 degrees. Alas, I 

am one of those people, and naturally my first instinct as an 

official welcoming of fall is a hot bowl of pho (confession: I’ve 

enjoyed pho on air conditioned summer days as well.) 

Chateau Lemongrass in Eagle Rock recently satisfied my 

pho craving, and more, with a lengthy list of choices under the 

pho category: From simply noodles, vegetarian and tofu to 

shrimp, chicken, pork, beef, filet mignon, rare beef and welldone 

beef brisket. 

Located on Colorado Boulevard, Chateau Lemongrass is 

considered fast casual, but it still manages to feel intimate. I 

began with the Vietnamese lemonade ($3.75) made with lime 

juice, hand-squeezed and delicious. The drink is topped with 

a mint garnish and sparkling water, adding a nice touch of 

Vegetarian Pho 

carbonation, and would be even better as a cocktail. 

I noticed the pho tacos ($5) labeled “new” on the menu. A 

choice of beef brisket or fried tofu served on a corn tortilla 

with green and white onions, cilantro, basil, bean sprouts, and 

drizzled with lime juice, hoisin and Sriracha. The combination 

of flavors is tangy and genuinely tastes like a helping of pho 

wrapped in a tortilla — something I didn't know I was missing, 

until now. 

The brisket is light and tender, a good contrast to 

the crunchy bean sprouts, and the fried tofu is a savory 

alternative. Although I went in for the pho, four of these tacos 

alone would be sufficiently satisfying and worthwhile. 

The spring rolls ($8) were delicious but not out of the 

ordinary. Here vermicelli, lettuce, shallots, bean sprouts 

and mint are wrapped into rice paper rolls and served with 

homemade peanut sauce. 

But what makes Chateau Lemongrass really stand out is 

their extremely wide array of options for both meat-lovers and 

vegetarians, something not common among pho restaurants. 

Whenever I’ve asked for the slightest of modifications 

at some of my favorite places, I’ve felt like I was causing 


ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE 

111 North Los Robles Ave. Pasadena, 

(626) 486-1111 alexanderssteakhouse.com $$$$ 

Alexander’s Steakhouse welcomes you to experience 

American steakhouse cuisine with an innovative and 

elegant global inspiration. Our menu features Certified 

Angus Beef from the Mid-West, corn-fed and dry-aged 

for 28 days for unparalleled flavor. We serve the finest 

and most luxurious ingredients available including 

authentic Japanese wagyu beef. 

BONNIE B’S SMOKIN BBQ 

1280 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena, 

(626) 794-0132 bonniebssmokin.com $$ 

From Tulsa Oklahoma to Southern Cal. with a touch 

of New Orleans soul comes Bonnie B’s Bar B Que 

Heaven. Our 45-year-old traditional recipes are made 

with love. Try our new sweet pea’s double Fried 

burger made with our own sauces, soul bowl and 

homemade peach cobbler. Voted best BBQ & Soul 

food in Pasadena for our ribs, collard greens and 

Slim's Mac & Cheese. We are thankful and appreciate 


CAMERON’S SEAFOOD 


(626) 793-3474 Camerons4fish.com $$ 

Since 1984, Cameron’s Seafood has been serving its freshest 

seafood, and has become a landmark in Pasadena. Cameron’s 

brings the ocean home with their fresh catch being cooked 

over mesquite wood grills that burn all day long.Enjoy the very 

best Seafood, Steaks, Salad & Pasta! Voted Best Seafood in 

Pasadena Weekly for 27 years! Now you can order on-line: 

camerons4fish.com. 




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Average price per entree 

$ up to $10 

$$ $11–15 

$$$ $16-25 

$$$$ $25+ 

TOM'S FAMOUS FAMILY 

RESTAURANT 

1130 E. Walnut St. Pasadena 

626-577-7717 tomsfamous.com $ 

Please come and enjoy homemade 

breakfast lunch and dinner all made from 

scratch and FRESH. Nothing is ever served 

or made from a can. We pride ourselves as 

being the cleanest store with the best quality 

food and BEST service in town. Thank 

you PASADENA!!!!! 


HIKARI SUSHI 

2064 Verdugo Blvd. Montrose 

818-957-1800 Hikarisushiglendale.com $$ 

Hikari Sushi in Montrose is open for business 

to serve you fresh sushi, with a variety of 

rolls. We are the first All You Can Eat Sushi 

Restaurant in the City of Glendale. Please join 

us! We are looking forward to serving you! 

KABUKI JAPANESE RESTAURANTS 

88 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, 

(626) 568-9310 

3539 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, 

(626) 351-8963 

kabukirestaurants.com $$ 

When you walk into a Kabuki you won’t be 

overwhelmed with Asian decor and music. 

What you will encounter is a casual atmosphere 

with today’s hottest music playing, 

people smiling and our friendly staff welcoming 

you through the doors. Look for the Red 

Mask. Come eat, drink and have fun! 

MARGARITA’S 

155 S. Rosemead Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 449-4193 margaritaspasadena.com $$ 

At Margaritas Mexican Restaurant, our family 

has been sharing our authentic Mexican 

dishes with the wonderful people of Pasadena 

since 1977. Guests enter our warm, inviting 

space and leave as family -- with plenty of 

burritos, tortas, tostadas, fajitas, and more 

to be had in between! Our dishes incorporate 

and pay homage to the rich flavors of bustling 

mercados, corner taquerias, and seaside palapas. 

So visit us, eat to your heart's content 

at our mouthwatering lunch buffet, sip on a 

refreshing margarita, and feel at home. 

TOPS WALNUT 


(626) 584-0244 

topsburger.com $ 

At TOPS on Walnut & Allen, we maintain the 

original taste from 60 years ago. My father 

wanted to create food as close to homemade 

as possible. Our primary goal and focus is 

on taste, quality, freshness, cleanliness in 

our service and experienced staff. Most of 

our staff have been with us for more than 

twenty years. We invite you to come to TOPS 

on the corner of Walnut & Allen and taste the 

difference! Meet our staff and experience 

what quality service should be. The same 

quality service that has made us #1. 

WE OLIVE 

32 E Colorado Blvd 


626-787-1000 

weolive.com/Pasadena $$ 

We Olive Pasadena features an array of olive 

oils, vinaigrettes, dips, and other one of a 

kind flavors and offers complimentary Olive 

Oil tastings. 

We now serve lunch & dinner! Enjoy the 

summer evenings on our We Olive Patio! 

Happy Hour M – F 3:30 – 7pm! Enjoy cheese 

and charcuterie and California small patch 

wine. Shopping for a gift? Check out our 

wide selection of customized gourmet gifts. 

Located in Old Pasadena right next to free 90 

minute parking. 

ZELO GOURMET PIZZAS 

328 E. Foothill Blvd.Arcadia 

626-358-8298 

myzelopizza.info $$ 

It’s the cornmeal crust that makes this pizzeria 

stand out from the rest. This locally owned 

establishment’s signature dish is the fresh, 

corn, balsamic-marinated, oven-roasted red 

onion pie. Zelo Pizzeria has expanded the 

dining room to better serve you, so come in 

and give Zelo Pizzeria a try. 

VERTICAL WINE BISTRO 

70 N. Raymond Avenue 


(626) 795-3999 

verticalwinebistro.com $$ 

Set above the streets of Old Town Pasadena, 

Vertical Wine Bistro offers a warm, inviting 

dining experience with an elegant and 

comfortable atmosphere. Our Chefs use only 

the freshest ingredients when designing our 

menu. We offer a wide selection of beer, wine 

and hand crafted cocktails. Tuesday - Sunday: 

5:00pm til Close - Happy Hour (Tues- 

Fri): 5:00pm - 7:00pm – Closed Monday 

COOL BREEZE 


an inconvenience. Here, no modification was 

necessary as they did the work preemptively and 

the friendly staff was more than happy to make 

recommendations. The spring roll can be ordered 

with shrimp and steamed pork, grilled pork, 

shredded chicken, shredded tofu, fried tofu, pure 

veggies, or as an assorted trio. 

Along with spring rolls, other appetizer 

offerings, according to their menu, include: egg 

rolls, deep fried and packed with vermicelli, 

lettuce, cilantro and pickled carrots, served with 

a homemade house sauce; deep-fried calamari 

strips sautéed with garlic, onion and jalapeños, 

then served with a sweet chili sauce; deep-fried 

chicken wings sautéed with garlic, onion and 

jalapenos and served with a sweet chili sauce; 

crispy shrimp served much the same way as the 

wings; and a house salad featuring cabbage, 

onion, pickled carrots, shallots, mints and crushed 

peanuts, served with a house vinaigrette dressing. 

Now, onto the reason we were here. There 

are 10 different types of pho offered, of which 

I recommend the “new” filet mignon ($10.50), 

well done beef brisket ($8.50), and (gasp), the 

vegetarian pho ($8.75). While the vegetarian 

option is heartier than most I’ve tried (filled with 

mushrooms, carrots, bok choy and tofu), the true 

testament to good pho is beef, and Lemongrass 

does not disappoint. To put it simply, I wanted to 

dive into the broth and consume it for days on end. 

Luckily, the serving is large enough that I took the 

rest home for the following day. Needless to say, 

it’s a must try. 

A big part of their menu is their unique 

“Customize Your Own Dish” option. First you choose 

your protein (we tried filet mignon $11), second is 

to choose a base (rice, vermicelli, or a baguette), 

and third choose any desired add-ons for a slight 

upcharge. Different base options in addition to 

beef include charbroiled pork ($8.50), BBQ chicken 

($8.50), charbroiled shrimp ($8.75), and sauteed or 

shredded tofu ($8.50). You can add on egg rolls or 

spring rolls, veggies, extra noodles, rice, or more 

protein ($1.50-$4). This allows for a completely 

personalized dish that is guaranteed to please. 

In an area like Eagle Rock where there are 

plenty of hidden gems, Chateau Lemongrass’ 

unique fare and willingness to let their customers 

decide for themselves is a breath of fresh air. Or a 

cool breeze, if we’re lucky this October. 



•ADVICE• 

BY PATTI CARMALT-VENER 

A HOUSE 

DIVIDED 

ARE DIFFERING POLITICAL 

OPINIONS A WAY OF 

CONVEYING REPRESSED OR 

UNRESOLVED EMOTIONS? 

Dear Patti, 

The topic of President Trump comes up frequently when I’m with my son, Jason. It 

may seem like a little thing, but it isn’t. Jason and I have been on opposite ends of the 

political spectrum for a long time, but mostly we’ve both just accepted it. 

Whenever the subject of Trump comes up, however, we invariably argue because 

we’re both so hot-tempered. I just can’t accept how Jason could admire someone who 

is so crude, controlling, disrespectful, angry and defensive when someone disagrees 

with him or his policy, and has very little concern for others who are struggling. To 

me, he brags and boasts just like a wrestler rather than behaving like an American 

president. 

President Trump reminds me of my stepfather who believed he was always right 

and didn’t seem to ever care about anyone except himself, his buddies and having 

power. 

It hurts to know Jason resonates with someone like that; I thought he had better 

values. Jason knows I had to struggle in order to gain my rights as a woman growing 

up because of power-hungry men and yet he continues to talk about Trump with 

pride. It disappoints me and I just don’t get it. 

— Nicole 

Dear Patti, 

I heard my mother was writing you and decided to write you as well. My mother is 

so opinionated that I can’t get a word in edgewise. I love her and understand she had 

a difficult childhood but that doesn’t give her the right to project her past traumas on 

others and dictate who I can or cannot respect and admire. 

President Trump may be loud, but I feel he cares about hard-working Americans 

and is protective of the average man when most politicians aren’t. I just want to 

“agree to disagree” and respect the fact that we each have a right to our own point of 

view. 

— Jason 

Dear Nicole and Jason, 

When you’re passionate about something that’s based on core beliefs, it can be painful 

when those beliefs don’t resonate with someone you love. Even if you’re politically miles 

apart, it sometimes helps to understand the other person’s feelings. Rather than discussing 

current beliefs about a political figure and what he represents, it may be beneficial to 

discuss the deep values on which your choices are based in an emotional versus intellectual 

context. The problem between the two of you may have psychological underpinnings. 

Jason, it sounds like your mom has a deep desire for leaders in power to embrace the 

values of empathy, humility and compassion. If she doesn’t believe a leader recognizes 

those values, she has a strong, negative, emotional reaction. It’s also important to her that 

you understand and believe in those same values. Having experienced men in her life who 

were weak of character, it’s important to her that you’ve become a good, kind man. 

Nicole, it appears Jason values caring and protectiveness toward his fellow Americans 

at a time where he sees very little of it. He wants you to understand that he needs you to 

respect him as a separate adult with separate ideas. It sounds like he values his freedom 

to be able to think for himself and doesn’t want you to judge him if you can’t change or 

control his beliefs. 

Jason and Nicole: Could politics have become the avenue to convey other repressed or 

unresolved emotions? Are your debates the only safe outlet where you can both express 

feelings of hostility or competitiveness? Do either of you feel your intelligence isn’t respected? 

Do you feel especially discounted, dismissed or bullied whenever expressing a 

different point of view? Is there a need to be independent, confrontational or even a little 

argumentative? 

It can be difficult (but not uncommon) in a key relationship to have polarization in 

areas such as religion, finances or politics. It’s easy to show kindness when you’re getting 

along, but the real gift is when you can be loving during periods of discord. The more you 

trust one another to be understanding and nice when there’s friction, the easier it will be 

to accept your political differences. Hone your listening skills and be sensitive to what 

the other one is trying to say. Try to keep an open mind without compromising your own 

beliefs or interpreting contrary views as a personal attack. If the antagonism between 

you is becoming more intense, however, I definitely recommend counseling to explore the 

reasons for its existence. n 


Patti Carmalt-Vener, a faculty member with the Southern California Society for Intensive Short Term 

Psychotherapy, is a psychotherapist in private practice with offices in Pasadena, Santa Monica and Canoga 

Park. Contact her at (626) 584-8582 or email pcarmalt@aol.com. Visit her website, patticarmalt-vener.com.




HOME SALES 

Bulletin Board 

RECENT HOME CLOSINGS IN THE PASADENA WEEKLY FOOTPRINT 

source: CalREsource 

By Carl Kozlowski 

ADDRESS BDRMS. SQ. FT. YR. BUILT PREV. PRICE PREV. SOLD 

ALHAMBRA 

121 North Bushnell Avenue #C $1,500,000 8 3947 1965 

1720 South Ethel Avenue $705,000 2 1216 1938 

1617 Geranio Drive $680,000 3 1173 1947 

1842 South Marengo Avenue #44 $645,000 3 1674 1981 

1200 South Sierra Vista Avenue $555,000 2 904 1929 

15 East Pine Street #A $460,000 2 1100 1972 

893 South 4th Street #C $455,000 2 986 1991 

200 North 5th Street #207 $360,000 2 730 2003 

ALTADENA 

1376 Sonoma Drive $1,050,000 3 2622 1939 

2412 Glenrose Avenue $655,500 2 1113 1947 

ARCADIA 

419 California Street $1,600,000 6 4004 1977 

2128 Canyon Road $1,600,000 4 2571 1960 

1044 Woodacre Lane $1,330,000 4 2382 1976 

5649 Garypark Avenue $691,000 3 1670 1950 

30 Eldorado Street #D $625,000 3 1431 1989 

EAGLE ROCK 

4830 Yosemite Way $1,300,000 4 2208 1963 

1324 Oak Grove Drive $710,000 3 1088 1922 

GLENDALE 

3855 El Lado Drive $1,315,000 2 1956 1953 

1271 Raymond Avenue $1,175,000 4 2270 2008 

1545 Ard Eevin Avenue $1,075,000 3 2038 1936 

993 Calle La Primavera $1,055,000 3 2524 1990 

3435 Sierra Vista Avenue $915,000 2 1190 1940 

1727 Hiawatha Drive $800,000 3 1491 1947 

1405 Hillcrest Avenue $750,000 2 1377 1935 

1221 Cottage Grove Avenue $670,000 2 1083 1924 

2930 Montrose Avenue #102 $657,000 3 1493 1989 

411 Piedmont Avenue #204 $616,000 3 1502 1991 

918 East Harvard Street #D $613,000 3 1532 1994 

215 North Kenwood Street #202 $520,000 2 1137 1963 

575 South Street #11 $495,000 3 1297 1962 

414 West Acacia Avenue $470,000 2 780 1924 

2940 North Verdugo Road #406 $445,000 2 1011 1972 

125 West Mountain Street #210 $440,000 1 759 1975 

330 North Jackson Street #320 $430,000 1 931 1973 

3010 Montrose Avenue #30 $365,000 1 712 1979 

510 North Jackson Street #304 $314,500 1 785 1972 

3621 Santa Carlotta Street $230,000 3 1830 1964 

LA CAÑADA 

5012 Princess Anne Road $4,500,000 2 1443 1949 

4380 Beulah Drive $2,200,000 4 3250 1930 

1624 Foothill Boulevard $780,000 2 906 1952 

PA S A D E N A 

1234 Hillcrest Avenue $5,800,000 6 5196 1915 

1570 San Pasqual Street $3,200,000 5 4878 1926 

528 Avon Avenue $1,424,000 2 1388 1951 

3200 San Pasqual Street $1,330,000 2 2218 1948 

1980 Santa Rosa Avenue $1,290,000 5 2907 1917 

1921 Wagner Street $1,200,000 3 1268 1924 

1842 Sinaloa Avenue $1,095,000 5 3073 1924 

700 South Lake Avenue #106 $830,000 2 1583 1974 

3360 Thorndale Road $800,000 3 1598 1940 

1580 North Roosevelt Avenue $775,000 3 1697 1938 

330 Cordova Street #301 $615,000 2 1592 1981 

245 South Bonnie Avenue #D $600,000 2 1276 1921 

270 Pepper Street $575,000 2 952 1901 

360 South Euclid Avenue #316 $511,000 2 923 1972 

497 South El Molino Avenue #209 $468,000 2 1019 1972 

297 South Madison Avenue #5 $468,000 2 1198 1949 

497 South El Molino Avenue #310 $455,000 2 1019 1972 

SAN MARINO 

1585 Kensington Road $2,900,000 4 2806 1948 

1490 Bellwood Road $1,915,000 3 2366 1940 

SIERRA MADRE 

217 West Montecito Avenue $1,288,000 3 2374 1946 

238 Manzanita Avenue $1,176,000 3 2169 1968 

SOUTH PASADENA 

2018 Milan Avenue $1,630,000 5 2472 1961 

584 Garfi eld Avenue #26 $750,000 2 1544 1975 

ALL HAIL 

Tournament of Roses names royal court 

The Tournament of Roses has announced the 

seven members of the 2019 Royal Court. 

South Pasadena resident and Westridge School 

senior Lauren Michele Baydaline, John Muir High 

School senior Ashley Symone Hackett of Pasadena, 

La Cañada High School senior Rucha S. Kadam of La 

Cañada Flintridge, San Marino High School senior and 

Temple City resident Sherry Xiaorui Ma, Westridge 

School senior Micaela Sue McElrath of Pasadena, 

Flintridge Prep senior Helen Susan Rossi of La Cañada Flintridge and Sequoyah 

High School senior Louise Deser Siskel of San Marino made the court. 

Over the next few months, the Royal Court will attend nearly 100 community 

and media functions. On Jan. 1, the court will ride on a float in the 130th Rose 

Parade presented by Honda and attend the 105th Rose Bowl Game presented by 

Northwestern Mutual. 

One of the seven will be named queen on Oct. 23 at 

the Pasadena Playhouse. 

Applicants from 24 Pasadena area schools 

participated in the interview process. Volunteer 

members of the Tournament of Roses’ Queen and 

Court Committee made its selections based on a 

number of criteria, including public speaking ability, 

academic achievement, youth leadership, and 

community and school involvement. 

VIVA LA RAZA 

Pasadena Latino Heritage Parade and Jamaica set for Oct. 13 

The annual Pasadena Latino Heritage Parade and Jamaica Festival will be held 

on Saturday, Oct. 13. 

The parade will begin at 10 a.m. at Los Robles 

Avenue and Prescott Street in Northwest Pasadena. It 

will then head south on Los Robles to Villa Street, turn 

right and end at the field at Villa Parke Community 

Center. 

The festival will be held from noon to 4 p.m., this 

year featuring art exhibits, artisan and community 

booths, educational and historical displays, 

entertainment and food. 

Organizers said the event will celebrate Latinos in 

entertainment. 

Carlos Moreno Jr., Blanca Soto, Denise Blasor, Daniel E Mora, Dyana Ortelli, 

Jossara Jinaro and Blanca Araceli, voice actors from the Oscar-winning animated 

film “Coco,” will serve as grand marshals. Donaly Marquez, a member of the 2016 

Royal Court, will serve as the community grand marshal. 

If you would like to sponsor the event, participate in the parade, or have a booth 

at the festival, contact Pamela Cantero at (626) 744-6530. 

GOOD HABITS 

Nuns on the Bus to appear at All Saints 

The group Nuns on the Bus stops at 6 p.m. on Monday at All Saints Church, 32 

N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena for a town hall event before traveling to President Donald 

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as part of their “Tax Justice Truth Tour.” The 

trip is a protest against the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which offers massive tax 

cuts to the rich, as well as protesting repeal attempts of the Affordable Care Act. 

Guests can write their names on the bus as a show of support. 

The bus tour was created six years ago in response to a critique of American 

nuns initiated by the Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican accused the 

nuns of being more outspoken on issues of social justice than on issues that the 

church viewed as more important, like abortion and same-sex marriage. 

A group of nuns responded by organizing a bus trip across nine states, visiting 

homeless shelters, education centers and health care facilities run by nuns in order 

to bring visibility to their efforts on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised. 

The tour also protested federal budget cuts aimed at programs for the poor and 

working families. The cuts were proposed by US Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), 

who would become Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney’s running mate 

in August of that year. 


• ARTS • 

SONGWRITER’S 

SONGWRITER 

‘GOOD TIME CHARLIE’S GOT THE 

BLUES’ AND ‘COVERED WAGON’ COM- 

POSER DANNY O’KEEFE RETURNS TO 

COFFEE GALLERY BACKSTAGE 

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y locals, for locals” remains the byword for the 19th Annual 

Eagle Rock Music Festival, which will take over a stretch 

“Bof Colorado Boulevard in Eagle Rock with music, visual 

artists, food and crafts vendors Saturday afternoon and evening. 

Once again produced by the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock in tandem 

with Councilmember Jose Huizar and Council District 14, the 

family-friendly festival at its heart celebrates community — not just 

Northeast LA’s diverse and deep network of artists and musicians, 

but also its residential neighborhoods and businesses. 

A pair of legitimate marquee acts, Vintage Trouble and Cut 

Chemist, top the dynamic lineup — a sonic cornucopia of R&B, 

funk, Afrobeat, Latin rock, indie and old-school rock, reggae, ska, 

cumbia, hip-hop, Americana, soul, jazz, pop, punk, folk, electronic 

music, and myriad permutations fusing elements of all of the above. 

Curated from hundreds of submissions, it’s a solid representation of 

NELA’s creative community. These artists in particular are not to be 

FILM | THEATER | BOOKS | MUSIC | COMMUNITY | LISTINGS 

HIGH-TONED HILARITY 

A NOISE WITHIN TURNS ‘HAMLET’ 

UPSIDE DOWN WITH ‘ROSENCRANTZ 

AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD’ 

‘BY LOCALS, FOR LOCALS’ 

COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATION REMAIN THE FOCUS AT 

SATURDAY’S EAGLE ROCK MUSIC FESTIVAL 

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Amalafa 

missed: 

Vintage Trouble (vintagetrouble.com): This LA foursome made 

their bones as a live act, and with their hard Stonesy crunch and 

sartorial flash, they deliver the kind of electric performances that 

make concert going memorable. Frontman Ty Taylor, in particular, 

is a born performer with his James Brown-style moves and vocal 

theatricality. Whether he’s sending up a joyous shout with fan favorites 

like “Still and Always Will” and “Gracefully” or crooning recent 

single “These Arms of Mine,” the effect can be seductive. Expect a 

few teasers from the band’s “Chapter II — EP I,” due Nov. 18. 

Cut Chemist (cutchemist.com): The lifelong turntablist found a 

way to crosswire his passion for global beats with hip-hop in both of 

the bands he helped launch, Ozomatli and Jurassic 5, and continues 

to excavate fresh sounds from what we think we’ve already heard 

with his thoughtful solo projects. For his recently released album 

“Die Cut” he recruited an eclectic assortment of friends, including 

‘STAR’ POWER 

BRADLEY COOPER’S DIRECTORIAL 

DEBUT ‘A STAR IS BORN’ EARNS ITS 

TITLE WITH AN OSCAR-WORTHY 

PERFORMANCE BY LADY GAGA 

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GET YOUR OWN... 

BY JOHN SOLLENBERGER 

NOONER 

A free jazz and 

blues concert 

features 

trumpeter 

Austin Drake 

and a combo 

performing from 

noon to 12:45 

p.m. today, 

Thursday, Oct. 4 

at Lake Avenue 

Church, 393 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena. Call (626) 

844-4721 or visit lakeave.org. 

JAZZ DIVA 

Jazz vocalist 

Devyn Rush 

(devynrush.com) 

performs at 7 

p.m. Friday at 

Edwin Mills by 

Equator, 22 Mills 

Place, Pasadena. 

No cover. Call 

(626) 564-8656 

or visit edwinmills.com. 

ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE 

Field biologist 

and marine mammal 

and seabird 

expert Bernardo 

Alps discusses 

“Antarctic Peninsula: 

Whales 

and Landscapes,” 

about his trip 

there, along with 

a shipload of 

adventurers and whale researchers in March, 

2016. It starts at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Distant 

Lands (distantlands.com), 20 S. Raymond Ave., 

Pasadena. Free, but call (626) 449-3220 to 

RSVP. 

RAT PACK MEMORIES 

The music 

discussion 

series “Jazz and 

Swing from A 

to Z: The Story 

of America’s 

Music,” with Dr. 

Thom Mason, 

USC professor 

emeritus of jazz 

studies, continues 

with a discussion of Frank Sinatra and 

the Rat Pack from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Tuesday at 

Crowell Public Library, 1890 Huntington Drive, 

San Marino, continuing Tuesdays through Oct. 

16. Free. Call (626) 300-0777 or visit crowellpubliclibrary.org. 

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Lily Waters 

Ozo/J5 alum Chali 2na, fellow rappers Biz 

Markie and Hymnal, electronic musician 

Dntel, and The Long Lost vocalist Laura 

Darlington; whether he calls friends onstage 

remains to be seen, but you can bet it 

won’t be boring. 

Africali (facebook.com/pg/africalimusic): 

Jazz, rap, funk and soul weave together 

in this unpredictable ensemble’s jams. 

Tunes like “Daughters of the Sun Mothers 

of the Brave,” “The Devil is a Liar” and “We 

Need Water for California” urge unity while 

inspiring the body to move. 

Allensworth (allensworthmusic.com): 

Jamie Allensworth percussive “coastal 

soul music” dips into rock, reggae and 

blues as he sings with a finely sanded rasp 

reminiscent of Sam Cooke. It’s an uplifting 

combination, especially combined with 

a steady-grooving band and messages of 

peace, love and harmony. We could use 

more of that these days. 

Gingee (gingeeworld.com): Incorporating 

traditional Filipino instruments and 

percussion as well as spoken word into her 

bass-heavy compositions, DJ/poet/vocalist 

Marjorie Light raises questions of identity 

and life purpose. As she declares on “Sound 

System” from her 2015 EP “Tambol,” “We’re 

here to spread love, we’re here to spread 

light/ Give you good vibes until you feel 

alright.” 

GLIFOS (glifosmusic.com): This Southland’s 

collective’s self-described “voodoo 

funk” is as indebted to Ethiopian jazz 

legend Mulatu Astatke and Afrobeat father 

Fela Kuti as it is to ’70s funk and psychedelic 

jazz. The most restrained track on 

their eponymously titled EP is, surprisingly, 

“Welcome to the Party” — a theme that 

kicks into higher gear onstage, when their 

drums-and-congas setup is bolstered by 

multiple percussionists, guitarists, vocalists, 

and a magnetic impulse to dance. 

Lily Waters (facebook.com/pg/LilyWatersMusic): 

Mazzy Starr springs to mind 

when listening to singer Gabbi Green’s 

dusky tones. The songs she’s creating with 

guitarist Robert Cifuentes are less narcotic 

but conjure similarly dark, compelling 

dramas. 

The full lineup also includes reggaesoul 

veterans the Lions, “SpongeBob 

SquarePants” voice actor and kinetic rock 

‘n’ roll frontman Tom Kenny and the Hi 

Seas, Baja California ska sextet Almalafa, 

El Conjunto Nueva Ola, the Paranoias, DJ 

Seano, stylish cumbia crew Viento Callejero, 

Subsuelo, Healing Gems, El Santo 

Golpe, Small Forward, Billy Changer, Nancy 

Sanchez, Super Lunch, High Cameras, VV 

Friendly & Easy Joe, garage rockers Thee 

Idylls, Armand Paul, local pop-makers 

Jones, Dahli Mamas, Primaveras, Quimica 

Humana, ERHS Latin Jazz Band, Eye 5, 

Eagle Rock quintet Burning Manilow, 

drummer Dean Mucetti & Rhythm Real, 

Jackass, Americana singer-songwriter Andrew 

Christian Haun’s alter ego Dead Wren, 

soulman Clinton and the Love Me Nauts, 

Chet Happens, Beboluz, singer-songwriter 

Cynthia Brando, and the Kawalea Polynesian 

Dance troupe. 

General admission is free, but VIP tickets 

are also available for those who want 

fast-track entry, and include a 2018 ERMF 

T-shirt as well as entry into the VIP section 

in front of the Main Stage. Proceeds from 

VIP tickets support CFAER’s after-school 

arts enrichment program Imagine Studio, 

which takes artists into classrooms across 

Northeast LA. n 

The 19th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival takes place 

at various stages and venues along Colorado Boulevard 

in Eagle Rock from 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6; 

festival entrance is on Colorado Boulevard between 

Eagle Rock Boulevard and Caspar Avenue. General 

admission is free; VIP tickets $10-$25, available at 

ticketfly.com/event/1770266-19th-annual-eagle-rockmusic-los-angeles. 

Info: (323) 561-3044. For more 

details, go to eaglerockmusicfestival.org. 

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•INTO THE NIGHT• 


Songwriter’s 

Songwriter 

•NITELIFE• 

Thursday Oct. 04 through Wednesday Oct. 10 

PLEASE NOTE: Deadline for Calendar submissions 

is noon. Wednesday of the week before the issue 

publishes. 

PASADENA, SOUTH 

PASADENA & ALTADENA 

1881 Bar 


(626) 314-2077 

facebook.com/1881bar 

Fridays—Live jazz 

Saturdays—Gypsie jazz 

Wednesdays—Reggae 

The Blue Guitar 

Arroyo Seco Golf Course 

1055 Lohman Lane, South Pasadena 

(323) 769-3500 

blueguitar.club 

Thursday—David Arnay Trio 

The Boulevard Bar 


(626) 356-9304 

blvdbar.com 

Fridays—Drag performances hosted by Tia 

Wanna every Friday 

Cabrera’s Mexican Cuisine 


(626) 795-0230 

cabreras.com 

Thursdays—Live jazz 

Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays—Karaoke 

Coffee Gallery Backstage 


(626) 798-6236 

coffeegallery.com 

Thursday—Off My Head storytelling w/Ty 

Fance 

Friday—Danny O’Keefe 

Saturday—Brett Perkins 

Der Wolfskopf 


(626) 219-6054 

derwolfskopf.com 

Fridays—“Night Court” features Deejay Kind 

Cromang spinning vinyl soul, funk, disco and 

boogie 

Edwin Mills by Equator 


(626) 564-8656 

edwinmills.com 

Friday—Devyn Rush 

Saturday—Jack’s Cats Trio 

Tuesday—David Ambrosio/Russ Meissner 

Quartet 

Wednesday—Gretje Angell 

The Mixx 


(626) 500-0021 

themixxpasadena.com 

Thursday—Stephanie Amaro & Blue Agave 

Friday— Tommy T & the Swing Knights Band 

Saturday—The King James Brown Show 

Tuesday—Mark Sells & the Soul Brothers 

Blues Jam 

El Portal Restaurant 


(626) 795-8553 


Fridays—Mariachi México 

Saturdays—Alanniz 

Sundays—Mariachi Bella 

Ice House 

‘GOOD TIME CHARLIE’S GOT THE BLUES’ AND ‘COVERED WAGON’ COMPOSER 

DANNY O’KEEFE RETURNS TO COFFEE GALLERY BACKSTAGE 

PHOTO: Faulkner short 

Many songs that achieve 

enduring popularity are 

considered “standards,” 

but popularity alone is not the 

only quality that elevates them 

to that status. They also tend to 

emulate or build on the melodicism 

of mid-20th-century pop. 

Danny O’Keefe’s “Good Time 

Charlie’s Got the Blues” didn’t 

become a Top 10 hit until 1972, 

and its mellow, low-key groove 

fit companionably alongside 

other soulful tunes of that time 

by artists like J.J. Cale, Leon 

Russell and Don Williams. But 

it’s a modern-day standard whose 

flowing melody is rooted in the 

popular music O’Keefe heard as 

a child growing up in Spokane, 

Washington, in the 1940s. 

“My father was a collector 

of early jazz — that was music 

of his time, music of the 1920s,” 

he recalls. “A lot of it was based 

on the American songbook. So 

I heard a lot of that as well as 

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whatever was on the radio, and 

then rock ‘n’ roll came along and 

then folk music. That kind of is 

the whole American songbag.” 

O’Keefe’s career has more 

closely resembled that of 

composers of that earlier era, although 

he also experienced some 

success as a recording artist. It’s 

the kind of pre-topliner career 

many contemporary songwriters 

dream of having. After “Introducing” 

himself via a little-heard 

album for Panorama in 1966, 

O’Keefe famously auditioned over 

the phone for Atlantic label head 

Ahmet Ertegun. His self-titled 

major-label debut followed in 

1971, which featured a fluteheavy 

arrangement of “Good 

Time Charlie’s Got the Blues.” 

But it was his more groove-based 

re-recording of the song on 1972’s 

“O’Keefe” that became a Top Ten 

hit; it was subsequently recorded 

by Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings, 

Willie Nelson, Charlie 

Rich, Leon Russell and a host of 

others. That same album yielded 

“The Road,” which became so 

closely associated with Jackson 

Browne that most listeners still 

assume Browne wrote it. 

Those two songs alone have 

sustained O’Keefe’s reputation 

as a songwriter’s songwriter, 

one whose music prefigured 

what is now known as Americana. 

Numerous artists have 

reached into his tunebag to 

record other songs of his, notably 

“Magdalena” (Donny Hathaway), 

“Angel Spread Your Wings” (Judy 

Collins) and “Well, Well, Well” 

(Ben Harper with Blind Boys of 

Alabama), a song co-written with 

Bob Dylan … sort of. 

“We share a copyright,” 

O’Keefe says with a chuckle. “It’s 

hard to say that I wrote it with 

him. His publishing company 

gave me a demo that they said he 

was interested in having me try 

to write lyrics to. Whether they 

More than 

Mountain Music 

JENI HANKINS BROADENS HER HORIZONS IN NEW CD 

Jeni Hankins stops in at a Pasadena Folk Music Society show at Caltech Saturday 

night with her special brand of Americana music. 

Hankins has played here before as one half of the folk act Jeni and Billy, with Billy 

Kemp. Now flying solo, she has recently released her first CD, “The Oxygen Girl.” 

Her endearing directness as an Appalachian woman from Jewell Ridge, Virginia 

shines through, while she’s expanded her horizons to range from England, where she 

now resides, to Las Vegas and points in between. Besides an expanded geographical 

perspective, her music also reflects emotions and insights resulting from her father’s 

passing in 2016. 

Fans can expect to hear the guitar and banjo-playing, multi-instrumental singersongwriter 

playing some of her old songs and her new material as well. The show will 

also include a little of her signature style of dancing. 

Visit jenihankins.com.. — John Sollenberger 

Music starts at 8 p.m. Saturday at Caltech’s Beckman Institute Auditorium, 400 S. Wilson 

Ave., Pasadena. Tickets are $20 general admission, $5 for Caltech students and children. 

Call (626) 395-4652 or visit pasadenafolkmusicsociety.org.


SONGWRITER’S SONGWRITER 

were shining me on, I don’t know; I’ve never spoken to Bob about it, 

and as far as I know he’s happy with the song because he was the 

one who gave it to Maria Muldaur. It’s just — he’s Bob Dylan. He’s 

inimicable. And inscrutable. But I’m very proud to be able to say that 

I wrote a song with Bob Dylan.” 

Most recently, Miranda Lambert resurrected the stomping 

“Covered Wagon” from O’Keefe’s first album for masterful 2016 “The 

Weight of These Wings” and made it an audience-rousing highlight 

of her concerts. O’Keefe calls the Lambert cover “an out-of-the-blue 

anomaly.” 

“I had no idea that she had been singing it. And finally somebody 

who is a friend of mine in Nashville got a hold of me and said, 

‘Miranda Lambert cut your song, it’s on her new album,’ and that 

was before it had actually been released. I was like, ‘Where did she 

even find it?’ That’s one of the first songs that I wrote back in 1968 or 

something.” 

Based by the Columbia River in the “sort of scenic” town of 

Wenatchee, between Seattle and Tacoma, O’Keefe has distanced 

himself from music industry centers but has long commanded 

respect among fellow songwriters and discerning music fans. He remains 

a prolific composer, and takes pictures with his cellphone to 

remind him of places he’s been and ideas they inspired. He occasionally 

posts brooding, evocative short stories, poems and essays on 

his website — signposts, in a way, along the path his thoughts travel 

as he formulates a song. 

“I think of them in some ways as explorations,” he explains. “It’s 

hard to say where a song comes from. By the time the seed of it 

bubbles up in your consciousness, you’ve already been working on 

it for a long time. It depends as much on inspiration as how you’ve 

learned to manipulate your craft; how do you get that song down 

and then shape it into the realization that it provides you when you 

finally see and hear it. It’s essentially a connective structure to a 

whole bunch of other structures, what’s in you that you were trying 

to articulate.” 

He doesn’t perform much; his solo acoustic shows at the Coffee 

Gallery Backstage in Altadena (Friday) and McCabe’s in Santa 

Monica (Sunday) are rare exceptions. His most recent album of new 

material is 2015’s “Light Leaves the West,” a typically eclectic set of 

sophisticated melodies, folk, jazz, and soulful 

With last year’s “Home,” he reprised his best-known compositions 

with longtime musician friends — a way of letting fans hear 

how the songs would sound live now. He says he’s keen to play his 

newer material for audiences and get their feedback. 

“My audience for the most part has grown older with me,” he 

observes. “So they bring another maturity as an audience in that — 

it always feels to me, anyway — they have the ability to listen more 

deeply. 

“A lot of the newer material that I’m writing does deal with mortality. 

I’m at that age in my life where a lot of my friends are walking 

on. That’s part of my reality; not my only reality, but certainly part 

of it. And you have to bring your experience to your writing.”0 n 

Danny O’Keeffe returns to the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N. Lake Ave., Altadena, 

at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5; $20. Reservations/info: (626) 798-6236. dannyokeefe.com, 

coffeegallery.com 

•NITELIFE• 


(626) 577-1894 

icehousecomedy.com 

Thursday—Stand-Up All Stars 

Friday—Hollywood Comes to Pasadena; The 

Chill w/Josh Adam Meyers; Comedy Madness 

w/Michael Quu; Deathsquad 

Saturday—Cool Beans Comedy Improv 

Class; Auditions for Dave McNary’s Sunday 

All-Stars Show; Nancy Bellany & Friends; 

Hollywood Comes to Pasadena 

Sunday—Dave McNary’s All-Star Variety 

Show; Fritz Coleman Speaks to a Generation 

Wednesday—Ice House Open Mic; Wednesday 

Night Live w/Rudy Moreno 

Kings Row Gastropub 


(626) 793-3010 

kingsrowpub.com 

Thursday—Thirsty Thursday w/Liela Avila 

Friday—Past Action Heroes 

Saturday—Prussia 

Sunday—Reggae Sunday w/My Reggae 

Band; Shake Up Sundays w/Trio Frio 

MEOWMEOWZ! Retro ‘80s Thrift Shop 


(626) 798-6969 

facebook.com/meowmeowz 

Fridays and Saturdays—Live music every 

Friday and Saturday; all ages welcome 

Old Towne Pub 


(626) 577-6583 

theoldtownepub.com 

Live music most nignts of the week 

Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association 


(626) 799-5689 

pasadenaballroomdance.com 

Saturday—Saturday Swing Dance features 

the Jumpin’ Joz Band 

Plate 38 


(626) 793-7100 

plate38.com 

Fridays & Saturdays—Live music on select 

Fridays & Saturdays 

The Rose 

Paseo Colorado 


(888) 645-5006 

roseconcerts.com 

Friday—Led Zepagain Led Zeppelin Tribute 

Saturday—Hiroshima 

Sunday— Soulful Sunday Brunch; 

T. Boyle’s Tavern 

37 N. Catalina Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 578-0957 

tboylestavern.com 

Sunday—Geeks Who Drink Trivia 

Tuesday—Geeks Who Drink Trivia 

SAN GABRIEL VALLEY 

Arcadia Blues Club 

16 E. Huntington Drive, Arcadia 

(626) 447-9349 

arcadiabluesclub.com 

Fridays and Saturdays—Live music Fridays 

and Saturdays 

The Buccaneer 

70 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre 

(626) 355-9045 

https://www.facebook.com/Buccaneer-847437898642883/ 

Wednesday—Wednesday Night Platter Party: 

Bring your fave vinyl to be spun on turntable 

First Cabin 


(626) 446-2575 

Fridays-Saturdays—Pat O’Brien & the Priests 

of Love exalt the blues and classic rock 

The Granada 

17 S. First St., Alhambra 

(626) 227-2572 

thegranadala.com 

Thursday—Deejay Vince; Deejay Aragon 

Friday—Live music w/Jimmy Bosch & the 

Granada All Stars Band; Deejay Marco; Deejay 

Picoso; Deejay Miro 

Saturday—Live music w/Orchestra Bonko; 

Deejay Tico; Deejay Miro; Deejay Pachanga 

Tuesday—Deejay Goodtimes 

East Meets West 

HIROSHIMA STILL GOING STRONG AFTER 40 YEARS 

J.C. Hyke Songwriter Serenade 

Matt Denny’s Ale House 


(626) 462-0250 

mattdennys.com, jchyke.com 

Tuesday—Pat Quinn; Phil Ward; Kaz Murphy; 

Jaeger & Reid; Kerry Patrick Clark 

Villa Catrina 

251 N. Santa Anita Ave., Arcadia 

(626) 294-1973 

villacatrina.com 

Thursdays—Comedy open mic every first 

and third Thursday of the month 

Wednesdays—Karaoke w/Deejay Zary 

WEST OF PASADENA 

Colombo’s Restaurant 

1833 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock 

(323) 254-9138 

colombosrestaurant.com 

Thursday—Trifecta 

Friday—Kevin King; Steve Thompson; Blue 

Soul 

Saturday—Ernie Draffen; Jeff Dale & the 

South Woodlawners 

Sunday—V Tones 

Monday—Eric Ekstrand Trio 

Tuesday—Tom Armbruster 

Wednesday—Jimmy Spencer, Karen Hernandez 

and Friends 

Days Inn Lounge 

450 Pioneer Drive, Glendale 

(323) 259-5900 

tommydodson.com 

Fridays—Tommy Dodson and friends present 

Cabaret Fridays 

The Oak and Vine 

117 E. Harvard St., Glendale 

(818) 507-7011 

theoakandvine.com 

Live music most nights of the week 

Winchester Room 

6522 San Fernando Road, Glendale 

(818) 241-5475 

thewinchesterroom.com 

Friday—Karaoke 

Saturday—Karaoke n 

After four decades, the band Hiroshima, which will be playing Saturday at The Rose in Pasadena, is still going strong. 

Hiroshima has maintained its longevity through an East-meets-West style, seamlessly incorporating an Asian sound 

with a silky-smooth blend of jazz, R&B, pop, rock, funk, salsa and world music. The group employs traditional Japanese instruments 

into its track, producing an interesting sound. Over the years, the group has released more than 20 albums and 

traveled the world, including a tour with jazz great Miles Davis. 

Hiroshima has received several Grammy nominations and recorded multiple gold records, selling more than 4 million 

units worldwide. Not resting on its laurels, the band continues to produce innovative sounds. 

Saturday’s performance will include a secret special guest performer. 

Visit hiroshimamusic.com. — John Sollenberger 

Doors open at 6 p.m. and music starts at 7 p.m. Saturday at The Rose, 245 E. Green St., Pasadena. Tickets are $28 to $58. Call 

(888) 645-5006 or visit roseconcerts.com. 

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•CALENDAR• 

Over the past 27 years, A Noise Within 

has built a reputation as one of the 

best repertory theaters in America, 

presenting top-notch and often innovative 

stagings of a broad array of classic 

plays. Some of Shakespeare’s greatest 

works have been among their most 

acclaimed productions, with such epic 

works as “King Lear,” “Hamlet” and 

“Henry V” among their finest hours. 

On Sunday, Oct. 7, ANW will mount 

its second production of a play that 

turns the tragedy of “Hamlet” upside 

down and sideways by focusing on the 

comically existential misadventures of 

two of that play’s most minor characters, 

in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 

Are Dead.” The only rule that they are 

bound by is that they are destined to 

die by the end of the play, and the universe 

they are trapped in features coin 

flips that always come up heads and 

pirates that can pop-up anytime. 

“They’re stuck in the middle of 

‘Hamlet,’ two high-born Elizabethan 

characters who went to school with 

Hamlet who are trying to come to grips 

with the fact that they’re in the story 

beyond their control,” says Rafael Goldstein, 

who plays Guildenstern. “They 

never get there in terms of fully realizing 

that they are characters in a play. But 

A NOISE WITHIN TURNS ‘HAMLET’ UPSIDE DOWN WITH 

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High-Toned 

Hilarity 

BY CARL KOZLOWSKI 

they do realize that their actions, their 

fates, their own words at times are not 

their own. It is written and inexorable 

and it’s them trying to fight against that 

and assert their own individuality with 

varying degrees of success.” 

In the play, Stoppard describes 

the two leads as “passing the time in a 

place of no name, character, population 

or significance,” and reveals Guildenstern 

to be the more intellectual of 

the pair. He scientifically analyzes the 

situation they are in, while Goldstein 

notes that Rosencrantz “is the more 

responsive one, reacting to the moment 

they’re in without thinking too much.” 

“The play is a metaphor for our 

lives, from the time we’re born until we 

die, and the experience Rosencrantz 

and Guildenstern go through is really 

what we all go through,” says Geoff 

Elliott, who directs the production and 

co-founded ANW with his wife, Julia 

Rodriguez-Elliott. “The play is dealing 

with life — which is a heavy description, 

but keep in mind, it’s hilarious. 

Although it ends in their deaths, as we 

know from the title, getting there is an 

absolute hoot. At the end, it’s not so 

much sad as it is mysterious: a true and 

incredibly crafted work of genius.” 

“Rosencrantz” began its life in 

1964, as a one-act play called “Rosencrantz 

and Guildenstern Meet King 

Lear” written for a writers’ conference 

in Berlin. The full-length play 

being produced by ANW premiered in 

performance at the world-renowned 

Edinburgh Fringe Festival before being 

produced by the National Theatre at the 

Old Vic Theatre, making Stoppard the 

youngest playwright ever to have a play 

performed there. 

“It’s a whole lot of fun, and I think 

what’s really been exciting for me in 

this process is I’ve done a lot of shows 

here as a resident artist, and many with 

Rafael, but we’ve never shared words 

on stage yet,” says Kasey Mahaffy, who 

plays Rosencrantz in the production. 

“Our characters were always passing 

by each other, and we always enjoyed 

each other’s work tremendously, so it’s 

really fun. This play is one of the most 

challenging things an actor can do , so 

I think it’s been a boon to have us be so 

close and things just jumped off from 

there.” n 

“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” runs 

from Sunday, Oct. 7, through Nov. 18 at A 

Noise Within, 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena. 

Tickets are $25 and up. Call (626) 356-3121 or 

visit anoisewithin.org. 

Thursday Oct. 04 through Wednesday Oct. 10 

PLEASE NOTE: Deadline for Calendar submissions 

is noon Wednesday of the week before the issue 

publishes. Send to johns@pasadenaweekly.com 

THURSDAY 

The Blue Guitar 



blueguitar.club 

The club at Arroyo Seco Golf Course presents 

the David Arnay Trio at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are 

$10 general admission, $15 for table seating, 

available on the website. 

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and 



(626) 405-2100 

huntington.org 

A screening of Tom Ford’s 2009 film, “A 

Single Man,” based on Christopher Isherwood’s 

1964 novel of the same name, starts 

at 7:30 p.m. Free, but visit huntington.org/ 

calendar for reservations. 

Lake Avenue Church 


(626) 844-4721 

lakeave.org 

A free jazz and blues concert features trumpeter 

Austin Drake and a combo performing 

from noon to 12:45 p.m. 

Lake Avenue Toastmasters Club 

Lacera Building, First Floor 


meetup.com/lakeavenue-toastmasters 

Guests are invited to attend an open house 

for the club from 11:50 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. to 

learn how communication and leadership can 

take them where they want to know. Learn 

how to learn to speak at meetings and make 

great presentations. Free. 

Off My Head Storytelling with Ty Fance 

Coffee Gallery Backstage 


(626) 639-8558 

bit.ly/offmyhead8 

Author and storyteller Ty Fance returns with 

his “Off My Head” storytelling show, starting 

at 7:30 p.m. He is joined by storytellers 

Michael Lambert, Robyn Samuels, Beverly 

Mickins, Bryan Kett, Pat Wilson and Steve 

Skrovan. Tickets are $12, available on the 

website, or $15 at the door. 

Pasadena Senior Center 


(626) 795-4331 

pasadenaseniorcenter.org 

Hanna Chang and Jonathan Poon of New 

York Life offer advice on long-term estate 

planning to ensure loved ones’ future goals 

and well-being starting at 10 a.m. 

Pop Secret Gallery 

121 N. Kenwood St., Glendale 

(800) 799-6368 

si-la.org 

Students can learn the art of inking comics, 

taught by Jim Higgins, former editor with DC 

Comics, starting from 1 to 6 p.m. Thursday 

and continuing Thursdays through Nov. 8. 

Cost is $240. 

South Pasadena Library Harvest Concert 

South Pasadena Library Community Room 

1115 El Centro St., South Pasadena 

(626) 403-7350 

southpasadenaca.gov 

A free concert featuring soulful quintet Allensworth 

starts at 5:30 p.m. in front of the 

Community Room. The sound showcases 

a wide variety of diverse cultures and influences, 

ranging from laid-back, coastal sounds 

to gritty harmonies, soul tunes, rockers and 

ballads. Guests may bring lawn chairs and 

blankets. 

“The Tempest” 

Brand Park 

1601 W. Mountain St., Glendale 

deanproductionstheatre.com 

Dean Productions presents “The Tempest,” 

the classic Shakespeare comedy, opening at 

7:30 p.m. Thursday and continuing through 

Oct. 20. Admission is free but visit the website 

for reservations and the complete schedule. 

Vroman’s Bookstore 


(626) 449-5320 


Julia Mossbridge discusses and signs “Premonition 

Code” at 7 p.m. 

Wicked Lit 

Mountain View Mausoleum 

2300 N. Marengo Ave., Altadena 

(323) 323-2065 

wickedlit.org 

Unbound Productions presents its Wicked Lit 

series of plays opening at 7:30 p.m. Thursday 

and continuing through Nov. 10. This year’s 

series is titled “The Chimes and the Corpse,” 

and each night features performances of 

two adapted works. One is “The Chimes: A 

Goblin Story,” adapted from a novella by the 

same name by Charles Dickens. The other 

is “Teig O’Kane and the Corpse” by Kerry 

Kazmierowicztrimm, adapted from the short 

story by Ernest Rhys. Each evening features 

performances at 7:30 and 9 p.m. Tickets are 

$30 and up. 

FRIDAY 

Boston Court Performing Arts Center 


(626) 683-6801 

bostoncourtpasadena.org 

The Art of Claude Debussy mini-festival 

features events from Friday through Sunday, 

including chamber music concerts by cellist 

John Walz, pianist Edith Orloff and violinist 

Roger Wilkie performing works by Debussy 

at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $30 

and $35. 

Friends of the Sierra Madre Library Used 

Book Sale 

Sierra Madre Library 

440 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre 

(626) 355-7186 

sierramadrelibraryfriends.org 

The sale includes fiction, non-fiction, coffee 

table books, art, sports, gardening, history, 

popular culture and children’s book, plus 

DVDs and CDs, some for as little as 25 cents. 

It runs from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 

2 p.m. Saturday. 

Norton Simon Museum 


(626) 449-6840 

nortonsimon.org 

The film “The Ghost Army” (2013) screens 

at 5:30 p.m., the story of American troops 

in World War II on a mission to create a fake 

army in Europe, using inflatable rubber tanks 

and other vehicles to fool the enemy. A guided 

tour visits highlights of the Norton Simon 

collections from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Both are 

included in regular Norton Simon admission 

of $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, free for 

members, students and those age 18 and 

younger. 

Pasadena Museum of California Art 


(626) 568-3665 

pmcaonline.org 

The museum’s closing weekend features a 

weekend-long arts lab, a discussion with art 

historian Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, PhD and free 

admission starting at 2 p.m. Sunday. Other 

events are included with museum admission 

of $7 for adults, $5 for seniors, educators and 

students. 



(626) 795-4331 


Free films screen at 1 p.m. Fridays. Friday’s 

film is “Youth” (2014). 



(626) 449-5320 


Reyna Grande discusses and signs “A Dream 

Called Home” at 7 p.m. 

SATURDAY


•CALENDAR• 

Crowell Public Library 


(626) 300-0777 

crowellpubliclibrary.org 

Ron Serven presents “A Journey into Mindfulness,” 

offering advice on how to be present in 

one’s life and not just be a spectator from afar, 

starting at 2 p.m. Free. 

Eagle Rock Music Festival 

Corner of Colorado and Eagle Rock boulevards, 

Eagle Rock 

(323) 561-3044 

eaglerockmusicfestival.org 

The annual festival presented by Center for the 

Arts, Eagle Rock and LA City Council member 

Jose Huizar features a huge list of local acts 

from 4 to 10 p.m. on the streets of Eagle 

Rock. Free. Visit the website for a full listing of 

performers. 




(626) 405-2100 

huntington.org 

The exhibition “Architects of a Golden Age: 

Highlights from The Huntington’s Southern 

California Architecture Collection” goes on 

view. It features some 20 original drawings 

and plans depicting elegant, powerful, 

whimsical and iconic buildings constructed 

between 1920 through 1940, during a time of 

architectural innovation, rapid growth and the 

arrival of new talent from around the country. 

It remains on view through Jan. 21. 



(626) 449-6840 


A guided tour visits works representing 

nature, from 1 to 2 p.m. Family Day for those 

with children ages 4 to 10 invites guests to 

explore plant lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly in 

the current exhibition, learn about the artists 

and motifs that inspired him, then create 

large, simple drawings in pastels, from 1:30 

to 3:30 p.m. Both are included in regular 

museum admission of $15 for adults, $12 for 

seniors, free for members, students and those 

18 and younger. 

One Colorado 


(626) 564-1066 

onecolorado.com 

The Institute for Art and Olfaction and Saskia 

Wilson-Brown present a workshop on 

perfume history and blending, choosing from 

more than 15 scents related to the aromas 

of Pasadena’s botanical heritage, including 

roses, starting at 10:30 a.m. Cost is $35 per 

person. Call or visit the website for reservations. 

Pasadena Heritage Walking Tour 

Various locations, Old Pasadena 

(626) 441-6333 

pasadenaheritage.org 

Tour the Old Pasadena Historic District, 

Pasadena’s original downtown, from 9 

to 11:15 a.m. Tickets are $18, or $15 for 

members. Meeting location is provided with 

ticket purchase. 

Pasadena Public Library, Lamanda Park 

Branch 

140 S. Altadena Drive, Pasadena 

(626) 744-7266 

pasadenapubliclibrary.net 

The Pasadena African-American Genealogy 

Group meets from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. 

Pasadena Public Library, Linda Vista Branch 

1281 Bryant St., Pasadena 

(626) 744-7278 


Guests of all ages are invited to make a 

hand-crafted wreath for fall at 11 a.m. Call to 

sign up. 

Political Memorabilia Show and Sale 

San Marino Masonic Center 


apic.us 

“Political Memorabilia—A Hot Button Issue” 

is a memorabilia show and sale by the 

American Political Items Collectors organization, 

featuring displays of political Americana, 

including campaign buttons, posters, flags 

and other items from the 1860s to the 2016 

election. It runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Guests 

may also have political items appraised for 

free. Admission is $3 general admission, free 

for children 13 and younger and students. 

Street Food Cinema 

Victory Park 

2575 Paloma St., Pasadena 

streetfoodcinema.com 

The film “Beetlejuice” screens on its 30th anniversary. 

Gates open at 5:30 p.m., Deejay Ivy 

starts spinning at 6:30 p.m. and the film starts 

at 8 p.m. Tickets are $6 to $22, free for those 

five and younger. 



(626) 449-5320 


John Flanagan discusses and signs “The 

Royal Ranger: The Red Fox Clan” at 2 p.m. 

SUNDAY 

A Noise Within 


(626) 356-3121 

anoisewithin.org 

The company presents “Rosencrantz and 

Guildenstern Are Dead,” by Tom Stoppard, a 

comedy based on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” 

opening at 2 p.m. Sunday and continuing 

through Nov. 18. Tickets are $20 and up. 

ASID Pasadena Home Tour 

Various locations, Pasadena 

(626) 795-6898 

capas.asid.org 

The American Society of Interior Designers 

hosts its annual home tour in Pasadena 

and South Pasadena. The semi-guided tour 

features three homes and their gardens, including 

the Paul R. Williams Pasadena estate 

(1925), The Merril W. Baird Pasadena estate 

(1939) and the Petrie Wilson South Pasadena 

estate (1968). Tickets for the 10 a.m. to 4 

p.m. tour are $40. Parking and a shuttle are 

included, and a pop-up market, dubbed First 

Shop features wares of local shops, food 

trucks, designers’ vendors and free design 

consultations. The pop-up market is located 

at the South Pasadena Unified School District, 

1020 El Centro St., South Pasadena. Designers 

are ASID members Rozalynn Woods, 

Jennifer Bevan and Christine Santana. 

Boston Court Performing Arts Center 


(626) 683-6801 

bostoncourtpasadena.org 

Regular performances of “Everything that 

Never Happened” open at 2 p.m. The story, by 

Sarah B. Mantell is based on Shakespeare’s 

“The Merchant of Venice,” exposing the 

realities of Jewish history and drawing threedimensional 

characters from the stereotypes 

depicted in the original piece. It continues 

through Nov. 4. Tickets are $20 to $39. 

Jazz ‘n Paz Concert 

Neighborhood Church 

301 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena 

(626) 296-9843 

jazznpaz.com 

The concert series continues with Lolly Allen 

and Friends, featuring vibraphonist and composer 

Lolly Allen, Rickey Woodard on sax, 

Mike Alvidrez on bass and Gary Fukushima 

on piano, starting at 5 p.m. Tickets are $25 in 

advance, $28 at the door. 

Mt. Wilson Observatory Concert 

Mt. Wilson Road, La Cañada Flintridge 

mtwilson.edu 

A concert under the Mt. Wilson telescope 

dome features a string quartet led by 

cellist Cecilia Tsan performing chamber 

music works by Debussy and Schubert, with 

performances at 3 and 5 p.m. Tickets for 

each performance are $50, available on the 

website. 



(626) 449-6840 


An Afternoon Salon, led by a museum educator 

explores landscape paintings in the Dutch 

Golden Age, from 1 to 2 p.m., included in 

regular museum admission of $15 for adults, 

$12 for seniors, free for members, students 

and those 18 and younger. 

Soulful Sunday Brunch 

The Rose 


(888) 645-5006 


Enjoy a live Motown-style band, gospel choir 

and mouthwatering brunch from $29 to 

$58. The $18.50 general admission does not 

include brunch. Brunch starts at 10 a.m. and 

music starts at 11 a.m. 



(626) 449-5320 


Mario Garcia discusses and signs “Father Luis 

Olivares, A Biography: Faith, Politics and the 

Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los 

Angeles” at 2 p.m. 

MONDAY 

All Saints Church 

132 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena 

(626) 796-1172 

allsaints-pas.org 

Activist organization Nuns on the Bus stops 

at All Saints Church at 6 p.m. for a town 

hall event, as they travel to Donald Trump’s 

Mar-a-Lago resort in their Tax Justice Truth 

Tour, in a protest of the so-called Tax Cuts and 

Jobs Act of 2017 passed by Congress last 

year, which offers massive tax cuts to the rich 

at the expense of nearly everyone else, as well 

as protesting repeal attempts of the Affordable 

Care Act. Guests can sign the bus following 

the event as a show of support. 

Distant Lands Travel Store 


(626) 449-3220 

distantlands.com 

Field biologist and marine mammal and seabird 

expert Bernardo Alps discusses “Antarctic 

Peninsula: Whales and Landscapes,” about 

his trip along with a shipload of adventurers 

and whale researchers in March, 2016. It 

starts at 7:30 p.m. Free, but call to RSVP. 

Pasadena Public Library, Central Branch 


(626) 744-4066 


The Sottotitolo Foreign Film Discussion Club 

meets at 1 p.m. to watch and discuss a film, 

then select the next one to be viewed. 



(626) 449-5320 


Deborah Harkness discusses and signs 

“Time’s Convert” at 7 p.m. 

TUESDAY 

Cancer Support Community 

76 E. Del Mar Blvd., Ste. 76, Pasadena 

(626) 796-1083 

cscpasadena.org 

Kathleen Kelly and Triffini Gosha from City 

of Hope present a workshop on clinical trials 

for cancer patients from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

Free, but call for reservations. 

Crowell Public Library 


(626) 300-0777 

crowellpubliclibrary.org 

The music discussion series “Jazz and 

Swing from A to Z: The Story of America’s 

Music,” with Dr. Thom Mason, USC professor 

emeritus of jazz studies, continues with a 

discussion of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack 

from 12:30 to 2 p.m., continuing Tuesdays 

through Oct. 16. Free. 

ONGOING 

A Noise Within, 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., 

Pasadena, presents “A Picture of Dorian 

Gray,” based on a novella by Oscar Wilde. 

Gray, who sells his soul to preserve his youth, 

pays a price, descending into debauchery as 

those around him are drawn to their own ruin. 

It opened Sept. 23 and continues through 

Nov. 16. Tickets are $25 and up. Call (626) 

356-3121 or visit anoisewithin.org. 

California Art Club Gallery at the Old Mill, 

1120 Old Mill Road, San Marino, presents 

the exhibition “Monumental Miniatures 

2018,” spotlighting the appeal of small-format 

artwork, which includes nearly 70 original 

paintings. Despite their small sizes, the works 

feature exquisite detail. The exhibition went on 

view Sept. 18 and continues through Jan. 13. 

Call (626) 449-5458 or visit californiaartclub. 

org. 

The Gamble House, 4 Westmoreland Place, 

Pasadena, presents the exhibition “Shiguchi: 

The Hidden Art of Japanese Joinery,” 

showcasing the work of architect, historian 

and preservationist Yoshihiro Takishita, and 

exploring the intricate craft of the ancient 

joiner’s art known as shiguchi. It went on view 

Sept. 27 and continues through Nov. 4 from 

11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 

noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays and 

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Call (626) 

793-3334 or visit gamblehouse.org. 


Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San 

Marino, presents a new work written and 

directed by playwright Stan Lai, “Nightwalk in 

the Chinese Garden,” offered in partnership 

with the CalArts Center for New Performance. 

The play is set against the backdrop of the 

garden, lake and pavilions at night, weaving 

together elements of the Chinese romantic 

tragicomedy “The Peony Pavilion” with tales 

of early 20th century California. The play is 

performed in English with some passages 

from “The Peony Pavilions” sung in Chinese. 

The work opened Sept. 21 and is presented 

from 7:30 to 9 p.m. nightly, except Sundays 

through Oct. 26. Tickets are $95 to $150, or 

$85 to $140 for members. Call (626) 405- 

2100 or visit huntington.org. 

Pasadena Public Library, Santa Catalina 

Branch 


(626) 744-7272 


The SC Teen Anime Club meets to watch the 

latest anime at 4 p.m. 



(626) 795-4331 


The fall term of the Masters Series, which embraces 

lifelong learning continues from 2 to 

4 p.m. Tuesdays through Nov. 13. Tuesday’s 

session features Mike Genovese, political 

science professor at Loyola Marymount University 

discussing historical U.S. presidential 

scandals in previous administrations. Cost is 

$15 for each session. 

Pop Secret Gallery 

121 N. Kenwood St., Glendale 

(800) 799-6368 

si-la.org 

An intro to storyboarding with Peter Paul runs 

from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. starting Tuesday, 

continuing Tuesdays through Dec. 11. Course 

cost is $499. 



(626) 449-5320 


Andre Dubus III discusses and signs “Gone 

So Long” at 7 p.m. 

WEDNESDAY 

Pasadena Public Library, Central Branch 


(626) 744-4066 


IAMA Theatre Company, in a guest production 

at the Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El 

Molino Ave., Pasadena, presents “American 

Hero,” playwright Bess Wohl’s darkly comic 

celebration of the power of unity and teamwork 

to overcome adversity. “American Hero” 

is the story of three up-and-coming sandwich 

makers at a sub franchise whose quest to 

attain the American dream is interrupted by 

a series of strange events, and they become 

unlikely allies in a post-recession world. The 

play opened Sept. 21 and continues at 8 p.m. 

Fridays and Saturdays and 7 p.m. Sundays 

through Oct. 21. Tickets are $30. Call (323) 

380-8843 or visit iamatheatre.com. 

Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra 

Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, presents “The Gin 

Game” by D. J. Coburn, the story of Weller 

Martin, who tries to retain control over his 

life after falling into ill health and is confined 

to a nursing home. Fonsia Dorsey serves as 

an example of all that’s gone wrong, and he 

battles with her through a simple game of gin, 

which becomes both a conflict with her and 

divine will. It opened Sept. 8 and continues at 

8 p.m. Friday and 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 

closing Saturday. Tickets are $40 general 

admission, $36 for seniors and $25 for youth 

22 and younger. Call (626) 355-4318 or visit 

sierramadreplayhose.org. 

USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles 

Ave., Pasadena, presents its fall exhibition 

“Ceremonies and Celebrations: Textile 

Treasures from the USC Pacific Asia Museum 

Collection,” on view through Jan. 6. The 

exhibition explores select examples across 

Asia, highlighting ideas that can connect the 

continent’s vast regions. Some examples on 

display are rarely exhibited because of their 

fragile nature and the negative effects of light 

on the natural dyes they contain. “Ceremonies 

and Celebrations” is divided into four 

thematic sections: gender, status, religion and 

ceremony. It explores the ways these themes 

are reflected in textile art. Related programming, 

including discussions, workshops, film 

and performances, are included during the 

exhibition’s run. Call (626) 449-2742 or visit 

pacificasiamuseum.usc.edu. 

Free films screen at 1 p.m. Wednesdays. 

Wednesday’s film is “The Jane Austen Book 

Club” (2007). 

The Rose 


(888) 645-5006 


Make your own music with karaoke in the 

Lobby Lounge at The Rose Wednesday 

through Saturday night. 



(626) 449-5320 


Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse 

discuss and sign “Mycroft & Sherlock” at 7 

p.m. 

Wine & Song Music Series 



wineandsong.com 

Brad Colerick’s weekly singer-songwriter 

series presents a Far-West Folk Alliance show 

featuring Rachel Laven, the Five Letter Word 

trio, Dennis Warner and special guests at 7 

p.m. Tickets are $10 general admission, $15 

for table seating, available on the website. 

Women’s City Club of Pasadena Book 

Discussion 


(415) 781-7532 

bccbooks.org/programs 

The Book Club of California presents Robert 

Landau discussing and signing “Rock ‘n’ Roll 

Billboards of the Sunset Strip” at 5:30 p.m. 

Free. Call or email info@bccbooks.org for 

information. n 

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•FILM• 


‘Star’ Power 

Worldwide fame is a byproduct of the modern media age, 

with its ever-faster and seemingly instant ability to make 

anyone a success by having what’s deemed as the right 

look, regardless of talent. The pop singer Lady Gaga has been at the 

center of it all for the past decade, since the release of her debut CD 

“The Fame” threw her into the spotlight and led to her becoming 

the first woman ever to have her first four albums hit No. 1 on the 

Billboard charts. 

But fame is a fickle beast, a status that can fade at any given moment. 

And within that harsh reality lies a world of potential compromises, 

as nearly any star has to decide what they will or won’t do in 

order to stay on top. In fact, a year after her debut, Gaga released the 

follow-up CD “The Fame Monster,” which goes to show that renown 

is something that easily falls under the saying “Be careful what you 

wish for.” 

Now Gaga — whose real name is Stefani Germanotta — is stepping 

up to take her turn as a movie star in “A Star Is Born” opposite 

Bradley Cooper, who also co-wrote and directed the film. Playing a 

struggling waitress named Ally whose dreams of becoming a singer 

are given flight by a chance meeting with a fading rock superstar 

named Jackson Mane (Cooper), leading to a tumultuous romance 

between the two, she is likely to win this year’s Best Actress Oscar 

thanks to an utterly volcanic performance. 

The film opens on Jackson popping a pill before kicking off a 

concert in front of thousands of screaming fans. The moment he’s offstage 

again, Jackson is guzzling booze, smoking joints and practically 

coughing up a lung while riding in his limo. Instead of a long drive to 

his lonely home, he asks his driver to let him out in the middle of the 

city he’s in and winds up staggering into a drag queen bar. 

Amid all the queens performing, Ally is the one real woman to 

take the stage, using the venue as a place to belt out classics like “La 

Vie en Rose” since she lacks the confidence to compete in the real 

rock and pop world. Her electric performance of the French cabaret 

classic mesmerizes Jackson and, after a night of intimate conversation 

in which he shares his lonely sadness and she sings him a song 

she’s afraid to share with the world, he insists on flying her to his 

Lady Ga Ga (left) and Bradley Cooper (right) in A Star Is Born 

BRADLEY COOPER’S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT ‘A STAR IS BORN’ EARNS ITS TITLE WITH AN 

OSCAR-WORTHY PERFORMANCE BY LADY GAGA 

next tour stop and having her belt out her tune in front of his crowd. 

The rapturous response she receives from the fans makes her 

instantly blossom into the confident star she deserves to be, and 

the two begin a tempestuous romance. Soon a manager helps her 

achieve her own stardom, leading to conflicts in her relationship 

with Jackson as well as with herself and staying true to the soulful 

artist she truly wishes to be. 

“Star” marks the first time Cooper has stepped behind the camera 

as a writer and director, and it’s clearly a passion project for him that 

is rooted in the massive fame he’s acquired through the “Hangover” 

trilogy and the worldwide smash “American Sniper.” He has no doubt 

seen the toll that too much money and not enough life structure 

can take on a celebrity, and he imbues Jackson with a beautifully 

portrayed and deeply painful humanity as the singer is mired in a 

seemingly hopeless battle with alcoholism and drug addiction. 

Cooper’s performance swings between the cocky star on the 

surface and the wounded soul within, hiding a tragic childhood 

and engaging in brotherly battle with his older brother Bobby (Sam 

Elliott, also a likely Oscar nominee). He’s sliding down while Ally 

is shooting up in stardom, a powerful contrast that Cooper never 

fails to root in heartfelt everyday emotion by use of well-deployed 

extreme close-ups that offer a window into their characters’ souls. 

This is the fourth time that “A Star Is Born” has been made by 

Hollywood, following prior versions starring Janet Gaynor, Judy 

Garland and Barbra Streisand that were all considered classics. The 

TMZ-driven world that stars are forced to contend with now makes 

this a stronger story than ever, and the modern-day freedoms of 

being an R rated film enable it to add the power of realism to its 

storytelling. 

Filled with terrific tunes, magnetic performances and rooted 

in a heartfelt script that truly makes viewers care about what its 

leads are going through, “A Star Is Born” should be a major Oscar 

contender across the board. It’s well worth seeing and marks Gaga 

and Cooper as two people who have the talent to overcome fame and 

endure for the long haul. . n 

“A STAR IS BORN” GRADE: A 

CAPSULE REVIEWS 


NIGHT SCHOOL 

Stars: Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish 

Length: 111 minutes 

Directed by: Malcolm D. Lee 

Rating: PG13 

Teaming up two comedy superstars under 

a director on a hot streak should have 

guaranteed this being a timeless comedy 

classic. But this story of a man going back to 

school for his GED amid a classful of weirdos 

and a hardass teacher is hit-or-miss with the 

laughs. But its positive messages on education 

and second chances will leave most viewers 

smiling. Grade: B 

ASSASINATION NATION 

Stars: Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Joel McHale 


Directed by: Sam Levinson 

Rating: R 

If your idea of entertainment is two hours 

of teenage girls making incredibly stupid 

sexting decisions before getting emotionally 

devastated, beaten, raped, hung and shot 

at, before getting equally brutal revenge 

and playing most of it for laughs, this is for 

you. Hopefully, most will pass on this vile, 

degrading, inhumane film. Grade: F 

BLAZE 

Stars: Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Charlie Sexton 


Directed by: Ethan Hawke 

Rating: R 

Boring, shapeless, self-indulgent, pretentious and 

overlong, Ethan Hawke's cinematic homage to the 

life of underrated country singer Blaze Foley takes 

over two hours to go almost nowhere with his life 

story. If you're a fan of boring pastiches of drunk 

people sitting around in fields or on porches while 

entire songs are played at a molasses pace, this 

is your movie. Its only saving grace is that some 

of the songs are sweet, but that doesn't make for 

good cinema. Grade: D 

WHITE BOY RICK 

Stars: Matthew McConnaughey, Richie Merritt, 

Bel Powley 


Directed by: Yann Demange 

Rating: R 

Richie Merritt comes out of literally nowhere to 

give one of the best debut performances ever, 

playing Ricky Wershe Jr., who at 16 became 

the youngest drug informant in U.S. history. He 

matches Matthew McConnaughey toe-to-toe, 

as the Oscar winner plays his father, another 

in a string of unglamorous white-trash loser 

roles that suit him surprisingly well. Riveting 

and gritty with flashes of explosive dark 

humor, this movie is a wakeup call for our very 

damaged judicial system. Grade: A 

A SIMPLE FAVOR 

Stars: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, 

Henry Golding 


Directed by: Paul Feig 

Rating: R 

Director Feig made his name as a master 

director of female comedies (“Bridesmaids”), 

but he tries to shake things up with a 

Hitchcockian thriller about a rich woman who 

disappears and the friend who discovers she’s 

not what she seems as she searches for her. 

Problem is, Feig keeps trying for laughs that 

negate the thrills, while the often too-shocking 

twists make it hard to laugh. Grade: C 


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BUY/SELL/TRADE 

3rd Generation - Buy*Sell *Trade 

Vintage Jewelry & Collectibles Free 

Verbal Appraisals. Two locations. 

1325 Huntington Dr., South Pasadena 

and 56 S. De Lacey, Old Pasadena. 

(626) 844-0471 (323) 254-2505 

www.thirdgenerationco.com 

CUSTOM CLOTHING 

Custom-made Adorable Baby Clothes 

Featuring the Lovbugz Characters 

Buy at: www.zazzle.com/lovbugz 

ESTATE JEWELRY 

JEWELRY (VINTAGE) 

Miscellaneous Items 

#1-Older Pearl Broche - $9.99 

#2-Silver Earrings - $6.99 

#3-Silver Spoon - $3.99 

#4-Silver Bracelet - $12.99 

#5-Vintage Turquoise Ring 

(his) - $9.99 

PUBLIC NOTICES 

County of Los Angeles 

Department of the 

Treasurer and Tax 

Collector 

Notice of Divided 

Publication 

Pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code 

(R&TC) Sections 3702, 3381, and 3382, 

the Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax 

Collector is publishing in divided distribution, 

the Notice of Sale of Tax-Defaulted Property 

Subject to the Tax Collector’s Power to Sell 

in and for the County of Los Angeles, State of 

California, to various newspapers of general 

circulation published in the County. A portion 

of the list appears in each of such newspapers. 

Notice of Public Auction of Tax-Defaulted 

Property Subject to the Tax Collector’s 

Power to Sell 

(Sale No. 2018A) 

Whereas, on Tuesday, July 31, 2018, the 

Board of Supervisors of the County of Los 

Angeles, State of California, directed me, 

JOSEPH KELLY, Treasurer and Tax Collector, 

to sell at public auction certain tax-defaulted 

properties. 

I hereby give public notice, that unless said 

properties are redeemed, prior to the close 

of business on the last business day prior to 

the first day of the public auction, or Friday, 

October 19, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, 

I will offer for sale and sell said properties on 

Monday, October 22, 2018, beginning at 9:00 

a.m. Pacific Time, to the highest bidder, for 

cash or cashier’s check in lawful money of the 

United States, for not less than the minimum 

bid, at the Fairplex, Los Angeles County 

Fairgrounds, 1101 West McKinley Avenue, 

Building 7, Pomona, California. I will re-offer 

any properties that did not sell, for a reduced 

minimum bid, on Tuesday, October 23, 2018. 

The minimum bid for each parcel is the total 

amount necessary to redeem, plus costs, as 

required by R&TC Section 3698.5. 

If a property does not sell at the public auction, 

the right of redemption will revive and remain 

#6-Vintage Seiko Watch 

(hers) - $9.99 

#7-Vintage Hummel 

Figurine - $69.99 

#8-String of Pearls - $24.99 

#9-Vintage Cuckoo Clock Black 

Forest - $199.99 

#10-Vintage German Travel 

Clock - $49.99 

#11-Vintage Broche 

(beautiful) - $4.99 

#12-Vintage Gold/F Swank 

Cuffl inks - $4.99 

#13-Vintage German 

Miniature (ceramic) - $9.99 

#14-14K Diamond Ring 

$99.99 

ASK FOR TOMAS 

#323-254-2505 

12-4PM TUES-SAT 

until Friday, November 30, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. 

Pacific Time. 

Beginning Saturday, December 1, 2018, at 

3:00 p.m. Pacific Time, through Tuesday, 

December 4, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific 

Time, I will re-offer for sale any unimproved 

properties that did not sell or were not 

redeemed prior to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, on 

Friday, November 30, 2018, at online auction 

at www.bid4assests.com/losangeles. 

Prospective bidders should obtain detailed 

information of this sale from the County of Los 

Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector (TTC) at 

http://ttc.lacounty.gov/. Bidders are required 

to pre-register at 225 North Hill Street, Room 

130, Los Angeles, California and submit a 

refundable $5,000 deposit in the form of cash, 

cashier’s check or bank-issued money order 

at the time of registration. The TTC will not 

accept personal checks, two-party checks or 

business checks for the registration deposit. 

The TTC will apply the registration deposit 

towards the minimum bid. Registration will 

begin on Monday, September 17, 2018, at 

8:00 a.m. and end on Friday, October 5, 2018, 

at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. 

Pursuant to R&TC Section 3692.3, the TTC 

sells all property “as is” and the County and 

its employees are not liable for any known or 

unknown conditions of the property, including, 

but not limited to, errors in the records of the 

Office of the Assessor (Assessor) pertaining to 

improvement of the property. 

If the TTC sells a property, parties of interest, 

as defined by R&TC Section 4675, have a 

right to file a claim with the County for any 

proceeds from the sale, which are in excess 

of the liens and costs required to be paid from 

the proceeds. If there are any excess proceeds 

after the application of the minimum bid, the 

TTC will send notice to all parties of interest, 

pursuant to law. 

Please direct requests for information 

concerning redemption of tax-defaulted 

property to the Treasurer and Tax Collector, at 

225 North Hill Street, Room 130, Los Angeles, 

California 90012. You may also call (213) 

974-2045, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. 

to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, visit our website 

at tt.lacounty.gov or email us at auction@ 

tt.lacounty.gov. 

The Assessor’s Identification Number (AIN) in 

this publication refers to the Assessor’s Map 

Book, the Map Page, and the individual Parcel 

Number on the Map Page. If a change in the 

AIN occurred, the publication will show both 

prior and current AINs. An explanation of the 

parcel numbering system and the referenced 

maps are available at the Office of the 

Assessor located at 500 West Temple Street, 

Room 225, Los Angeles, California 90012. 

I certify under penalty of perjury that the 

foregoing is true and correct. Executed at 

Los Angeles, California, on August 24, 2018. 

JOSEPH KELLY 

Treasurer and Tax Collector 

County of Los Angeles 

State of California 

The real property that is subject to this notice 

is situated in the County of Los Angeles, State 

of California, and is described as follows: 

PUBLIC AUCTION NOTICE OF SALE OF TAX- 

DEFAULTED PROPERTY SUBJECT TO THE 

POWER OF SALE (SALE NO. 2018A) 

2214 AIN 5321-014-001 LOH INVESTMENT 

LP C/O CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD OF SAN 

D LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES 

$3,690.00 

2218 AIN 5329-012-013 CHENG, PATTY 

S LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES 

$165,569.00 

2220 AIN 5331-001-001 SERENDIB 

HOLDINGS GROUP LLC LOCATION 

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $168,445.00 

2444 AIN 5730-002-023 AUSTIN, WILLIAM 

A AND CAPURRO, HELEN DECD EST OF 

LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES 

$94,446.00 

2445 AIN 5732-002-060 TRINITY TECH 

INC LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES 

$17,570.00 

2448 AIN 5748-004-027 YUEN, ANDREW 


$197,959.00 




$4,952.00 




$4,953.00 




$2,846.00 




$5,674.00 




$4,952.00 

2482 AIN 5831-009-014 PARSEGHIAN, 

NIGOL AND NATALIE LOCATION COUNTY 

OF LOS ANGELES $3,010.00 

2483 AIN 5835-012-018 HERTZ, MICHAEL 


$8,106.00 

2491 AIN 5838-015-026 RUBALCAVA, 

RENEE LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS 

ANGELES $37,891.00 

2499 AIN 5860-011-021 KINNELOA 

INVESTMENTS LLC LOCATION COUNTY OF 

LOS ANGELES $58,019.00 




$2,930.00 

2501 AIN 5863-013-004 PORTER, HENRY 

C LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES 

$15,528.00 

3519 AIN 5729-013-014 FRANCHINI, 

GLORIA LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS 

ANGELES $12,121.00 

3520 AIN 5846-024-042 ROPP,DIANE J 


$25,688.00 

CN953302 503 Sep 20,27, Oct 4, 2018 

PUBLIC NOTICES 

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR 

CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 

BS175105 

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, 

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition 

of NOEMY KRYSTINA MENDOZA, for 

Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED 

PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Noemy Krystina 

Mendoza filed a petition with this 

court for a decree changing names as 

follows: a.) Noemy Krystina Mendoza 

to Noemy Mendoza 2.) THE COURT 

ORDERS that all persons interested in 

this matter appear before this court at the 

hearing indicated below to show cause, if 

any, why the petition for change of name 

should not be granted. Any person objecting 

to the name changes described 

above must file a written objection that 

includes the reasons for the objection 

at least two court days before the matter 

is scheduled to be heard and must appear 

at the hearing to show cause why 

the petition should not be granted. If 

no written objection is timely filed, the 

court may grant the petition without a 

hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 

11/13/2018. Time: 10:30 AM. Dept.: 44. 

ROOM: 418. The address of the court is 

111 N. Hill St. Los Angeles, CA 90012. A 

copy of this Order to Show Cause shall 

be published at least once each week 

for four successive weeks prior to the 

date set for hearing on the petition in the 

following newspaper of general circulation, 

printed in this county: Pasadena 

Weekly. Original filed: September 10, 

2018. Judge Edward B. Morteton, Jr., 

Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: 

Pasadena Weekly 9/13/18, 9/20/18, 

9/27/18, 10/4/18 

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR 

CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 

ES021551 

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, 

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition 

of REBECCA SUSAN FOSTER STILL, 

for Change of Name. TO ALL INTER- 

ESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Rebecca 

Susan Foster Still filed a petition 

with this court for a decree changing 

names as follows: a.) Foster Still, Rebecca 

Susan (surname is Foster Still) 

to Still, Rebecca Foster (middle name: 

Foster, surname: Still) b.) Foster-Still, 

Rebeca to Still, Rebecca Foster c.) Still, 

Rebecca Susan Foster to Still, Rebecca 

Foster 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all 

persons interested in this matter appear 

before this court at the hearing indicated 

below to show cause, if any, why the 

petition for change of name should not 

be granted. Any person objecting to the 

name changes described above must file 

a written objection that includes the reasons 

for the objection at least two court 

days before the matter is scheduled to 

be heard and must appear at the hearing 

to show cause why the petition should 

not be granted. If no written objection 

is timely filed, the court may grant the 

petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF 

HEARING: Date: 10/30/2018. Time: 8:30 

AM. Dept.: E. The address of the court is 

600 East Broadway Glendale, CA 91206. 

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall 

be published at least once each week for 

four successive weeks prior to the date 

set for hearing on the petition in the following 

newspaper of general circulation, 

printed in this county: Pasadena Weekly. 

Original filed: September 11, 2018. Darrell 

Mavis, Judge of the Superior Court. 

PUBLISH: Pasadena Weekly 9/13/18, 

9/20/18, 9/27/18, 10/4/18 

NOTICE INVITING BIDS 

FORHEAVY CONSTRUCTION 

EQUIPMENT RENTAL 

Bids will be received electronically 

through Planet Bids (www.planetbids. 

com). A bid received after the time set for 

the bid opening shall not be considered. 

Bidders are required to submit (upload) 

all items listed in the BIDDER’S CHECK- 

LIST including acknowledgement of all 

addendums. Bids will be received prior 

to 11:00 A.M., October 23, 2018, 2018, 

and will be opened online at that time. 

The bids shall be clearly titled: 

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT 

RENTAL 

Copies of the Specifi cations may be obtained 

by mail or in person from the Purchasing 

Division, 100 N. Garfi eld Ave., 

Room S-349, Pasadena, CA 91109, 

Telephone No. (626) 744-6755. 

Refer to the Specifi cations for complete 

details and bidding requirements. The 

Specifi cation and this Notice shall be 

considered a part of any contract made 

pursuant thereunder. 

Steve Mermell 

City Manager 

DATED: OCTOBER 4, 2018 

Publish: October 4, 2018 

Pasadena Weekly 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at 7:00 

p.m. on October 22, 2018, or as soon 

thereafter as practicable, at Council 

Chamber, Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. 

Garfi eld Avenue, Room S249, Pasadena, 

California 91109, the Pasadena Public 

Financing Authority (the ìAuthorityî) 

will hold a public hearing pursuant to 

Section 6586.5(a)(2) of the Government 

Code of the State of California regarding 

the proposed issuance of Lease Revenue 

Refunding Bonds (Rose Bowl Renovation 

Project), Series 2018A (Tax-Exempt) 

and Series 2018B (Taxable) (collectively, 

the ìBondsî) by the Authority. 

The Bond proceeds are expected 

to be applied to (i) refund all of the 

$34,900,000 Pasadena Public Financing 

Authority Lease Revenue Bonds 

(Rose Bowl Renovation Project), Series 

2013A (Tax-Exempt), currently outstanding 

in the amount of $34,900,000; 

(ii) refund all of the $19,065,000 Pasadena 

Public Financing Authority Lease 

Revenue Bonds (Rose Bowl Renovation 

Project), Series 2013B (Taxable), 

currently outstanding in the amount of 

$13,525,000; and (iii) pay certain expenses 

incurred in connection with the 

issuance of the Bonds. The Series 2013A 

Bonds and Series 2013B Bonds fi nanced 

a portion of the costs of acquisition, construction, 

design, improvement, installation, 

renovation, remodeling, furnishing 

and equipping of improvements and 

betterments to the Rose Bowl Stadium, 

including concourses, restrooms, tunnels, 

entry gates, scoreboards, seating, 

press box, club, suite and lounge 

facilities and related infrastructure as 

well as locker room and press facilities 

(the ìProjectî). Certain elements of the 

Project are owned, operated or used 

by The Pasadena Tournament of Roses 

Association, a California nonprofi t corporation, 

under a license from the City 

of Pasadena, California (the ìCityî), the 

owner of the Rose Bowl Stadium. The 

Project is located at 1001 Rose Bowl 

Drive, Pasadena, California. 

At the hearing, the testimony of all interested 

persons will be heard. Persons 

who require accommodation for any 

audio, visual or other disability in order 

to participate in a public hearing of the 

City Council may obtain assistance 

by requesting such accommodation 

in writing addressed to the City Clerk, 

City of Pasadena, 100 N. Garfi eld Avenue, 

Room S228, Pasadena, California 

91109. Any such request for accommodation 

should be made at least 48 hours 

prior to the scheduled meeting for which 

assistance is requested. 

Dated: October 4, 2018 

By: Mark Jomsky 

City Clerk, City of Pasadena 

Published on: 10/4/18 


NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 

REGARDING TAX-EXEMPT 

FINANCING 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on 

October 22, 2018, a public hearing as 

required by Section 147(f) of the Internal 

Revenue Code of 1986 will be held 

with respect to the proposed issuance 

by the Pasadena Public Financing Authority 

(the ìAuthorityî) of its proposed 

$50,000,000 Lease Revenue Refunding 

Bonds (Rose Bowl Renovation Project), 

Series 2018A (Tax-Exempt) and Series 

2018B (Taxable) (collectively, the ìBondsî). 

The proceeds of the Bonds will be 

used to: (i) refund all of the $34,900,000 

Pasadena Public Financing Authority 

Lease Revenue Bonds (Rose Bowl 

Renovation Project), Series 2013A 

(Tax-Exempt), currently outstanding in 

the amount of $34,900,000; (ii) refund 

all of the $19,065,000 Pasadena Public 

Financing Authority Lease Revenue 

Bonds (Rose Bowl Renovation Project), 

Series 2013B (Taxable), currently outstanding 

in the amount of $13,525,000; 

and (iii) pay certain expenses incurred 

in connection with the issuance of the 

Bonds. The Series 2013A Bonds and 

Series 2013B Bonds fi nanced a portion 

of the costs of acquisition, construction, 

design, improvement, installation, 

renovation, remodeling, furnishing and 

equipping of improvements and betterments 

to the Rose Bowl Stadium, including 

concourses, restrooms, tunnels, 

entry gates, scoreboards, seating, press 

box, club, suite and lounge facilities and 

related infrastructure as well as locker 

room and press facilities (the ìProjectî). 

Certain elements of the Project are 

owned, operated or used by The Pasadena 

Tournament of Roses Association, 

a California nonprofi t corporation, under 

a license from the City of Pasadena, California 

(the ìCityî), the owner of the Rose 

Bowl Stadium. The Project is located 

at 1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena, 

California. 

The Bonds are limited obligations of the 

Authority payable solely from Revenues, 

consisting primarily of Base Rental Payments 

to be made by the City under a 

Sublease, dated as of February 1, 2006, 

as amended and supplemented, including 

as amended and supplemented by a 

Third Amendment to Amended and Restated 

Sublease, dated as of December 

1, 2018 (the ìSubleaseî), under which the 

City leases the Rose Bowl Stadium and 

land thereunder from the Authority. The 

Sublease is a general fund obligation of 

the City. The Bonds do not constitute a 

debt or liability of the State of California 

or of any political subdivision thereof 

(including any member of the Authority). 

The hearing will commence at 7:00 P.M. 

or as soon thereafter as the matter can be 

heard, and will be held in Council Chamber, 

Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfi eld 

Avenue, Room S249, Pasadena, California 

91109. Interested persons wishing 

to express their views on the issuance of 

the Bonds or the Project may attend the 

public hearing or, prior to the time of the 

hearing, submit written comments. 

Additional information concerning the 

above matter may be obtained from, and 

written comments should be addressed 

to, City Clerk, City of Pasadena, 100 N. 

Garfi eld Avenue, Room S228, Pasadena, 

California 91109. 

CITY OF PASADENA 

By: Mark Jomsky 

City Clerk, City of Pasadena 

Published on: 10/4/18 


PROBATE NOTICES 

NOTICE OF PETITION TO 

ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: 

CLARA J. DOWELL AKA 

CLARA JANE DOWELL 

CASE NO. 18STPB06088 

To all heirs, benefi ciaries, creditors, 

contingent creditors, and persons who 

may otherwise be interested in the WILL 

or estate, or both of CLARA J. DOWELL 

AKA CLARA JANE DOWELL. 

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been 

filed by CLARE E. DOWELL in the Superior 

Court of California, County of LOS 

ANGELES. 

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests 

that CLARE E. DOWELL be appointed 

as personal representative to administer 

the estate of the decedent. 

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s 

WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to 

probate. The WILL and any codicils are 

available for examination in the file kept 

by the court. 

THE PETITION requests authority to 

administer the estate under the Independent 

Administration of Estates Act with 

limited authority. (This authority will 

allow the personal representative to take 

many actions without obtaining court 

approval. Before taking certain very 

important actions, however, the personal 

representative will be required to 

give notice to interested persons unless 

they have waived notice or consented to 

the proposed action.) The independent 

administration authority will be granted 

unless an interested person files an objection 

to the petition and shows good 

cause why the court should not grant 

the authority. 

A HEARING on the petition will be held 

in this court as follows: 10/29/18 at 

8:30AM in Dept. 4 located at 111 N. HILL 

ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the 

petition, you should appear at the hearing 

and state your objections or file 

written objections with the court before 

the hearing. Your appearance may be in 

person or by your attorney. 

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent 

creditor of the decedent, you must file 

your claim with the court and mail a copy 

to the personal representative appointed 

by the court within the later of either (1) 

four months from the date of fi rst issuance 

of letters to a general personal representative, 

as defi ned in section 58(b) 

of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 

days from the date of mailing or personal 

delivery to you of a notice under section 

9052 of the California Probate Code. 

Other California statutes and legal authority 

may affect your rights as a creditor. 

You may want to consult with an attorney 

knowledgeable in California law. 

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the 

court. If you are a person interested in 

the estate, you may file with the court 

a Request for Special Notice (form DE- 

154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal 

of estate assets or of any petition 

or account as provided in Probate Code 

section 1250. A Request for Special Notice 

form is available from the court clerk. 

Attorney for Petitioner 

WILLIAM E. EICK - SBN 056944 

EICK & FREEBORN LLP 

2604 FOOTHILL BLVD. SUITE C 

LA CRESCENTA CA 91214 

10/4, 10/11, 10/18/18 

CNS-3179674# 

PASADENA WEEKLY 


ADMINISTER ESTATE OF 

ESTELLA MESA SANCHEZ 

CASE NO. BP153872 



may otherwise be interested in the will or 

estate, or both of ESTELLA MESA SAN- 

CHEZ, ESTELLA SANCHEZ, STELLA 

SANCHEZ. 


filed by Maria Theresa Lopez in the Superior 

Court of California, County of LOS 

ANGELES. 


that: Maria Theresa Lopez be appointed 

as personal representative to administer 

the estate of the decedent. 



Administration of Estates Act. (This 

authority will allow the personal representative 

to take many actions without 

obtaining court approval. Before taking 

certain very important actions, however, 

the personal representative will be 

required to give notice to interested persons 

unless they have waived notice or 

consented to the proposed action.) The 

independent administration authority 

will be granted unless an interested person 

files an objection to the petition and 

shows good cause why the court should 

not grant the authority. 

A HEARING on the petition will be held in 

this court as follows: Date: October 31, 

2018, Time: 8:30 AM, Dept.: 9, Location: 

111 North Hill Street Los Angeles, 

CA 90012 






























Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice 


Attorney for Petitioner: 

Alison Minet Adams 

SBN 1107475 

12400 Ventura Blvd., #701 

Studio City, California 91604 

(510) 384-3423 


10/4/18, 10/11/18, 10/18/18 


ADMINISTER ESTATE OF 

ROBERT LEE CARTER 

CASE NO. 18STPB09005 



10.04.18 PASADENA WEEKLY 125

126 PASADENA WEEKLY | 10.04.18 

may otherwise be interested in the will or 

estate, or both of ROBERT LEE CARTER 

AKA BOBBY CARTER. 


filed by Lunona N. Burton and Melissa 

English in the Superior Court of California, 

County of LOS ANGELES. 


that: Lunona N. Burton and Melissa 

English be appointed as personal representative 

to administer the estate of the 

decedent. 



Administration of Estates Act. (This 

authority will allow the personal representative 

to take many actions without 

obtaining court approval. Before taking 

certain very important actions, however, 

the personal representative will be required 

to give notice to interested persons 

unless they have waived notice or 

consented to the proposed action.) The 

independent administration authority 

will be granted unless an interested person 

files an objection to the petition and 

shows good cause why the court should 

not grant the authority. 

A HEARING on the petition will be held in 

this court as follows: Date: October 26, 

2018, Time: 8:30 AM, Dept.: 5, Location: 

111 North Hill Street Los Angeles, 

CA 90012 






























Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice 


Attorney for Petitioner: 

Halil Hasic 

SBN 245251 

633 West 5th St., 26th Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90071 

(424) 240-9272 


10/4/18, 10/11/18, 10/18/18 

BULK SALES NOTICES 

NOTICE OF SALE OF 

ABANDONED PROPERTY 

Notice Is Hereby Given That Pursuant To 

Sections 21700-21716 Of The Business 

And Professions Code, Section 2328 

Of The UCC, Section 535 Of The Penal 

Code And Provisions Of The Civil Code, 

ALLEN AVENUE SELF STORAGE PASA- 

DENA, 234 N. ALLEN AVE PASADENA 

CA 91106, County Of Los Angeles, 

State Of California, Above Address Will 

Sell, To Satisfy Lien Of The Owner, At 

Public Sale. Auction To Be Conducted 

Through Online Auction Services of 

WWW.LOCKERFOX.COM, with bids 

opening On Or After October 3rd, 2018 

And Ending On Or After October 10th, 

2018, 9:30am. 

The Personal Goods Stored Therein 

by the Following May Include, but are 

not limited to: MISC. HOUSEHOLD 

GOODS, PERSONAL ITEMS, FURNI- 

TURE, CLOTHING AND/OR BUSINESS 

ITEMS ETCÖ 

Gancie Kreimer 

Stanley Patterson 

Frank Theony 

Irma Vargas 

Purchases Must Be Made in Cash and 

Paid at the time of Sale. All Goods are 

Sold as is and must be Removed within 

72 Hours of the time of Purchase. Allen 

Ave Self Storage-Pasadena Reserves the 

Right to Retract Bids. Sale is Subject to 

Adjournment. 

Pasadena Weekly 9/27/18, 10/4/18 

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE 

(UCC Sec. 6101 et seq and B&P 24074 

et seq) 

Escrow No. 107-038297 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Bulk 

Sale is about to be made. The name(s) 

and business address(es) of the Seller(s) 

is/are: THE MARKET ON HOLLY, INC., 

A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION 57 E. 

HOLLY ST., PASADENA, CA 91103 

Doing business as: LOST AT SEA 

All other business name(s) and 

address(es) used by the Seller(s) within 

three years, as stated by the Seller(s), is/ 

are: NONE 

The location in California of the chief 

executive offi ce of the Seller is: SAME 

AS ABOVE 

The name(s) and address(es) of the 

Buyer(s) is/are: THE PAN BISTRO, LLC, 

A CALIFORNIA LIMITED LIABILITY 

COMPANY 21422 LEGEND AVENUE, 

CARSON, CA 90745 

The location and general description 

of the assets to be sold are: THE BUSI- 

NESS, LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS, 

GOODWILL, IVENTORY OF STOCK, 

COVENANT NOT TO COMPETE, FUR- 

NITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT 

and transfer of License No. 41-507550 

of that certain business known as LOST 

AT SEA located at: 57 E HOLLY ST., 

PASADENA, CA 91103 

The Bulk Sale and transfer of the Alcoholic 

Beverage License is intended to be 

consummated at the offi ce of: THE HERI- 

TAGE ESCROW COMPANY, 2550 FIFTH 

AVE, SUITE 800, SAN DIEGO, CA 92103, 

Escrow #107-038297, Escrow Offi cer: 

BARBARA CURRY / DEBBIE HOWE, and 

the anticipated date of sale/transfer is 

NOVEMBER 1, 2018. The Bulk Sale IS 

NOT subject to California Uniform Commercial 

Code Section 6106.2., but is 

subject to Section 24074 of the Business 

and Professions Code. 

Claims will be accepted until Escrow 

Holder is notifi ed by the Department of 

Alcoholic Beverage Control of the transfer 

of the permanent Alcoholic Beverage 

License to the Buyer. 

As required by Sec. 24073 of the Business 

and Professions Code, it has been 

agreed between the Seller and the Buyer 

that the consideration for transfer of the 

business and license is to be paid only 

after the transfer has been approved by 

the Department of Alcoholic Beverage 

Control. 

Dated: AUGUST 22, 2018 

THE PAN BISTRO, LLC A CALIFOR- 

NIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, 

Buyer(s) 

LA2112333 PASADENA WEEKLY 

10/4/18 

NOTICE OF SALE ABANDONED PER- 

SONAL PROPERTY 

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned 

intends to sell the personal 

property described below to enforce a 

lien imposed on said property pursuant 

to the California Self Storage Act. Items 

will be sold at www.storagetreasures. 

com by competitive bidding ending on 

October 16, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. Property 

has been stored and is located at A-1 Self 

Storage, 2300 Poplar Blvd., Alhambra, 

CA 91801 Sale subject to cancellation 

up to the time of sale, company reserves 

the right to refuse any online bids. 

Property to be sold as follows: misc. 

household goods, computers, electronics, 

tools, personal items, furniture, 

clothing, offi ce furniture & equipment, 

sporting goods, etc.; belonging to the 

following: 

Mary Czerepuszko 

Cruz Contreras 

Christine Suro 

Arturo Cuevas 

Rebecca Gonzalez 

Auction by StorageTreasures.com 

800-213-4183 

Pasadena Weekly 10/4/18, 10/11/18 

TRUSTEE SALES 

T.S. No. 15-0518-11 NOTICE OF 

TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTE: THERE IS A 

SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN 

THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED 

NOTA: SE ADJUNTA UN RESUMEN DE 

LA INFORMACIÓN DE ESTE DOCU- 

MENTO 

TALA: MAYROONG BUOD NG IMPOR- 

MASYON SA DOKUMENTONG ITO NA 

NAKALAKIP 

PLEASE NOTE THAT PURSUANT TO 

CIVIL CODE ß 2923.3(d)(1) THE ABOVE 

STATEMENT IS REQUIRED TO APPEAR 

ON THIS DOCUMENT BUT PURSU- 

ANT TO CIVIL CODE ß 2923.3(a) THE 

SUMMARY OF INFORMATION IS NOT 

REQUIRED TO BE RECORDED OR 

PUBLISHED AND THE SUMMARY OF 

INFORMATION NEED ONLY BE MAILED 

TO THE MORTGAGOR OR TRUSTOR. 

YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED 

OF TRUST DATED 6/14/2007. UN- 

LESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT 

YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD 

AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN 

EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF 

THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, 

YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. 

A public auction sale to the highest bidder 

for cash, cashier’s check drawn on 

a state or national bank, check drawn 

by a state or federal credit union, or a 

check drawn by a state or federal savings 

and loan association, or savings 

association, or savings bank specifi ed 

in Section 5102 of the Financial Code 

and authorized to do business in this 

state will be held by the duly appointed 

trustee as shown below, of all right, title, 

and interest conveyed to and now held by 

the trustee in the hereinafter described 

property under and pursuant to a Deed 

of Trust described below. The sale will 

be made, but without covenant or warranty, 

expressed or implied, regarding 

title, possession, or encumbrances, to 

pay the remaining principal sum of the 

note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, 

with interest and late charges thereon, as 

provided in the note(s), advances, under 

the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest 

thereon, fees, charges and expenses 

of the Trustee for the total amount (at 

the time of the initial publication of the 

Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to 

be set forth below. The amount may be 

greater on the day of sale. Trustor: AB- 

DUL JAMI MUHAMMAD AND REGINA 

CAROLYN GRIMES, HUSBAND AND 

WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS Duly Appointed 

Trustee: The Wolf Firm, A Law 

Corporation Recorded 6/22/2007 as 

Instrument No. 20071503217 of Offi cial 

Records in the offi ce of the Recorder of 

Los Angeles County, California, Street 

Address or other common designation 

of real property: 210 HIGHLAWN PLACE 

ALTADENA, CA 91001 A.P.N.: 5835- 

042-035 Date of Sale: 10/16/2018 at 

10:00 AM Place of Sale: Behind the 

fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 

400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA 

91766 Amount of unpaid balance and 

other charges: $749,031.58, estimated 

The undersigned Trustee disclaims 

any liability for any incorrectness of the 

street address or other common designation, 

if any, shown above. If no street 

address or other common designation is 

shown, directions to the location of the 

property may be obtained by sending a 

written request to the benefi ciary within 

10 days of the date of fi rst publication of 

this Notice of Sale. NOTICE TO POTEN- 

TIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering 

bidding on this property lien, you should 

understand that there are risks involved 

in bidding at a trustee auction. You will 

be bidding on a lien, not on the property 

itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee 

auction does not automatically entitle 

you to free and clear ownership of the 

property. You should also be aware that 

the lien being auctioned off may be a 

junior lien. If you are the highest bidder 

at the auction, you are or may be responsible 

for paying off all liens senior to the 

lien being auctioned off, before you can 

receive clear title to the property. You 

are encouraged to investigate the existence, 

priority, and size of outstanding 

liens that may exist on this property by 

contacting the county recorder’s offi ce 

or a title insurance company, either of 

which may charge you a fee for this information. 

If you consult either of these 

resources, you should be aware that the 

same lender may hold more than one 

mortgage or deed of trust on the property. 

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The 

sale date shown on this notice of sale 

may be postponed one or more times by 

the mortgagee, benefi ciary, trustee, or a 

court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the 

California Civil Code. The law requires 

that information about trustee sale postponements 

be made available to you and 

to the public, as a courtesy to those not 

present at the sale. If you wish to learn 

whether your sale date has been postponed, 

and, if applicable, the rescheduled 

time and date for the sale of this 

property, you may call 916-939-0772 or 

visit this Internet Web site www.nationwideposting.com, 

using the file number 

assigned to this case 15-0518-11. Information 

about postponements that are 

very short in duration or that occur close 

in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately 

be refl ected in the telephone 

information or on the Internet Web site. 

The best way to verify postponement 

information is to attend the scheduled 

sale. Date: 9/12/2018 The Wolf Firm, A 

Law Corporation 2955 Main Street, 2nd 

Floor Irvine, California 92614 Foreclosure 

Department (949) 720-9200 Sale 

Information Only: 916-939-0772 www. 

nationwideposting.com Sindy Clements, 

Foreclosure Offi cer PLEASE BE 

ADVISED THAT THE WOLF FIRM MAY 

BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR, 

ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. 

ANY INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE 

MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 

NPP0340303 To: PASADENA WEEKLY 

09/20/2018, 09/27/2018, 10/04/2018 

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS 

No. CA-14-650064-RY Order No.: 

VTSG1156278 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT 

UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 

7/8/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION 

TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY 

BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU 

NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NA- 

TURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST 

YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A 

LAWYER. A public auction sale to the 

highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check 

drawn on a state or national bank, check 

drawn by state or federal credit union, or 

a check drawn by a state or federal savings 

and loan association, or savings 

association, or savings bank specifi ed 

in Section 5102 to the Financial Code 

and authorized to do business in this 

state, will be held by duly appointed 

trustee. The sale will be made, but without 

covenant or warranty, expressed or 

implied, regarding title, possession, or 

encumbrances, to pay the remaining 

principal sum of the note(s) secured by 

the Deed of Trust, with interest and late 

charges thereon, as provided in the 

note(s), advances, under the terms of 

the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, 

charges and expenses of the Trustee for 

the total amount (at the time of the initial 

publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably 

estimated to be set forth below. 

The amount may be greater on the day 

of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO 

BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT 

DUE. Trustor (s): STEVEN MITCHELL 

AND NICOLE ROSS-MITCHELL, HUS- 

BAND AND WIFE, AS JOINT TENANTS 

Recorded: 7/20/2005 as Instrument No. 

05 1706628 of Offi cial Records in the 

offi ce of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES 

County, California; Date of Sale: 11 /6 

/2018 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: Behind 

the fountain located in Civic Center 

Plaza, located at 400 Civic Center Plaza, 

Pomona CA 91766 Amount of unpaid 

balance and other charges: $756,378.74 

The purported property address is: 2361 

NORTH ARROYO BOULEVARD, PASA- 

DENA, CA 91103 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 

5823-030-011 5823-030-017 Legal 

Description: Please be advised that the 

legal description set forth on the Deed of 

Trust is in error. The legal description of 

the property secured by the Deed of Trust 

is more properly set forth and made part 

of Exhibit “A” as attached hereto. PAR- 

CEL 1: LOT 10 OF TRACT NO. 25707, IN 

THE CITY OF PASADENA, COUNTY OF 

LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 

AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 782, 

PAGE(S) 16 OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE 

OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID 

COUNTY. PARCEL 2: AN UNDIVIDED 

1/15TH INTEREST IN LOT 16 OF TRACT 

25707, IN THE CITY OF PASADENA, 

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF 

CALIFORNIA AS PER MAP RECORDED 

IN BOOK 782, PAGE 16 OF MAPS, IN 

THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RE- 

CORDER OF SAID COUNTY. NOTICE TO 

POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering 

bidding on this property lien, you 

should understand that there are risks 

involved in bidding at a trustee auction. 

You will be bidding on a lien, not on the 

property itself. Placing the highest bid at 

a trustee auction does not automatically 

entitle you to free and clear ownership of 

the property. You should also be aware 

that the lien being auctioned off may be 

a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder 




























property, you may call 916-939-0772 

for information regarding the trustee’s 

sale or visit this Internet Web site http:// 

www.qualityloan.com, using the file 

number assigned to this foreclosure by 

the Trustee: CA-14-650064-RY. Information 








sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims 


property address or other common designation, 

if any, shown herein. If no street 






this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside 

for any reason, including if the Trustee 

is unable to convey title, the Purchaser 

at the sale shall be entitled only to a 

return of the monies paid to the Trustee. 

This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and 

exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall 

have no further recourse against the 

Trustor, the Trustee, the Benefi ciary, the 

Benefi ciary’s Agent, or the Benefi ciary’s 

Attorney. If you have previously been 

discharged through bankruptcy, you 

may have been released of personal 

liability for this loan in which case this 

letter is intended to exercise the note 

holders right’s against the real property 

only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 

2763 Camino Del Rio South San 

Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For 

NON SALE information only Sale Line: 

916-939-0772 Or Login to: http://www. 

qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: 

(866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan 

Service Corp. TS No.: CA-14-650064- 

RY IDSPub #0145074 9/20/2018 

9/27/2018 10/4/2018 

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. 

CA-17-774961-AB Order No.: 8707346 







THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU 

SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public 

auction sale to the highest bidder for 

cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or 

national bank, check drawn by state or 

federal credit union, or a check drawn 

by a state or federal savings and loan 

association, or savings association, or 

savings bank specifi ed in Section 5102 

to the Financial Code and authorized to 

do business in this state, will be held 

by duly appointed trustee. The sale will 

be made, but without covenant or warranty, 




note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, 

with interest and late charges thereon, 

as provided in the note(s), advances, 

under the terms of the Deed of Trust, 

interest thereon, fees, charges and 

expenses of the Trustee for the total 

amount (at the time of the initial publication 

of the Notice of Sale) reasonably 

estimated to be set forth below. The 

amount may be greater on the day of 

sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID 

LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. 

Trustor(s): ALENE PATRIDGE, A WIDOW 

Recorded: 12/22/2000 as Instrument 

No. 00 1996874 of Offi cial Records in 

the offi ce of the Recorder of LOS AN- 

GELES County, California; Date of Sale: 

10/11/2018 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: 

Behind the fountain located in Civic 

Center Plaza, located at 400 Civic Center 

Plaza, Pomona CA 91766 Amount 

of unpaid balance and other charges: 

$15,671.45 The purported property address 

is: 287 ACACIA ST, ALTADENA, 

CA 91001-5513 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 

5827-017-017 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL 

BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding 

on this property lien, you should 










































the Trustee: CA-17-774961-AB. Information 



































Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For 






AB IDSPub #0145081 9/20/2018 


NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS 

No. CA-17-761889-RY Order No.: 

170039715-CA-VOI YOU ARE IN DE- 

FAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST 

DATED 10/5/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE 

ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROP- 

ERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC 

SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION 

OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING 

AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CON- 

TACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale 

to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s 

check drawn on a state or national bank, 

check drawn by state or federal credit 

union, or a check drawn by a state or 

federal savings and loan association, 

or savings association, or savings bank 

specifi ed in Section 5102 to the Financial 

Code and authorized to do business 

in this state, will be held by duly appointed 

trustee. The sale will be made, but 

without covenant or warranty, expressed 

or implied, regarding title, possession, 

or encumbrances, to pay the remaining 

principal sum of the note(s) secured by 

the Deed of Trust, with interest and late 

charges thereon, as provided in the 

note(s), advances, under the terms of 

the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, 

charges and expenses of the Trustee for 

the total amount (at the time of the initial 

publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably 

estimated to be set forth below. The 

amount may be greater on the day of sale. 

BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS 

THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor 

(s): GLEN D. COOPER AND KAREN 

R. COOPER, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS 

JOINT TENANTS Recorded: 10/16/2006 

as Instrument No. 06 2288334 of Offi cial 

Records in the offi ce of the Recorder of 

LOS ANGELES County, California; Date 

of Sale: 11/6/2018 at 10:00 AM Place of 

Sale: Behind the fountain located in Civic 


Plaza, Pomona CA 91766 Amount 

of unpaid balance and other charges: 

$551,472.72 The purported property 

address is: 343 BARTHE DRIVE, PASA- 

DENA, CA 91103 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 

5726-008-001 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL 

BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding 

on this property lien, you should 










































the Trustee: CA-17-761889-RY. Information 



































Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For 






RY IDSPub #0145227 9/20/2018 


TSG No.: 160353696 TS No.: L550097 

FHA/VA/PMI No.: APN: 5705-003- 

029 Property Address: 1370 LINDA 

VISTA AVENUE PASADENA, CA 91103 

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU 

ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF 

TRUST, DATED 02/10/2006. UNLESS 

YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT 





SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 

11/06/2018 at 10:00 A.M., First American 

Title Insurance Company, as duly 

appointed Trustee under and pursuant 

to Deed of Trust recorded 02/17/2006, 

as Instrument No. 06 0368130, in book , 

page , , of Offi cial Records in the offi ce of 

the County Recorder of LOS ANGELES 

County, State of California. Executed by: 

JULIO O GONZALEZ AND KIMBERLY A 

GONZALEZ HUSBAND AND WIFE AS 

COMMUNITY PROPERTY, WILL SELL 

AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BID- 

DER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/ 

CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of 

payment authorized by 2924h(b), (Payable 

at time of sale in lawful money of 

the United States) Behind the fountain 

located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic 

Center Plaza, Pomona CA 91766 All 

right, title and interest conveyed to and 

now held by it under said Deed of Trust 

in the property situated in said County 

and State described as: AS MORE 

FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE 

MENTIONED DEED OF TRUST APN# 

5705-003-029 The street address and 

other common designation, if any, of 

the real property described above is 

purported to be: 1370 LINDA VISTA 

AVENUE, PASADENA, CA 91103 The 

undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability 

for any incorrectness of the street 

address and other common designation, 

if any, shown herein. Said sale will be 

made, but without covenant or warranty, 




note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, 

with interest thereon, as provided in 

said note(s), advances, under the terms 

of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and 

expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts 

created by said Deed of Trust. The total 

amount of the unpaid balance of the 

obligation secured by the property to be 

sold and reasonable estimated costs, 

expenses and advances at the time of 

the initial publication of the Notice of 

Sale is $1,116,717.01. The benefi ciary 

under said Deed of Trust has deposited 

all documents evidencing the obligations 

secured by the Deed of Trust and 

has declared all sums secured thereby 

immediately due and payable, and has 

caused a written Notice of Default and 

Election to Sell to be executed. The un-

10.04.18 PASADENA WEEKLY 127 

dersigned caused said Notice of Default 

and Election to Sell to be recorded in the 

County where the real property is located. 

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: 

If you are considering bidding on this 

property lien, you should understand 

that there are risks involved in bidding 

at a trustee auction. You will be bidding 

on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing 

the highest bid at a trustee auction 

does not automatically entitle you to free 

and clear ownership of the property. You 

should also be aware that the lien being 

auctioned off may be a junior lien. If 

you are the highest bidder at the auction, 

you are or may be responsible for paying 

off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned 

off, before you can receive clear 

title to the property. You are encouraged 

to investigate the existence, priority, 

and size of outstanding liens that may 

exist on this property by contacting the 

county recorder’s offi ce or a title insurance 

company, either of which may 

charge you a fee for this information. If 

you consult either of these resources, 

you should be aware that the same 

lender may hold more than one mortgage 

or deed of trust on the property. 












and if applicable, the rescheduled 


property, you may call (916)939-0772 

or visit this Internet Web http://search. 

nationwideposting.com/propertySearchTerms.aspx, 

using the file number 

assigned to this case L550097 Information 

about postponements that are very 

short in duration or that occur close in 

time to the scheduled sale may not immediately 



The best way to verify postponement information 

is to attend the scheduled sale. 

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the 

Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled 

only to a return of the deposit paid. The 

Purchaser shall have no further recourse 

against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee 

or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Date: First 

American Title Insurance Company 

4795 Regent Blvd, Mail Code 1011-F 

Irving, TX 75063 First American Title Insurance 

Company MAY BE ACTING AS 

A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO 

COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION 

OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT 

PURPOSE FOR TRUSTEES SALE IN- 

FORMATION PLEASE CALL (916)939- 

0772 NPP0340709 To: PASADENA 

WEEKLY 09/27/2018, 10/04/2018, 

10/11/2018 

T. S . N o.: 2 0 17- 0 2 19 8 - C A 

A.P.N.:5702-019-026 

Property Address: 1157 Forest Avenue, 


NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE 

PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE ß 2923.3(a) 

and (d), THE SUMMARY OF INFORMA- 

TION REFERRED TO BELOW IS NOT AT- 

TACHED TO THE RECORDED COPY OF 

THIS DOCUMENT BUT ONLY TO THE 

COPIES PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR. 

NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE 

INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT 

ATTACHED 

NOTA: SE ADJUNTA UN RESUMEN DE 

LA INFORMACIÓN DE ESTE DOCU- 

MENTO 

TALA: MAYROONG BUOD NG IMPOR- 

MASYON SA DOKUMENTONG ITO NA 

NAKALAKIP 

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY 

OWNER: 








SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. 

Trustor: Jenice C Cattouse AN UNMAR- 

RIED WOMAN 

Duly Appointed Trustee: Western Progressive, 

LLC 

Deed of Trust Recorded 02/06/2007 as 

Instrument No. 20070255551 in book 

—-, page—- and of Offi cial Records in 

the offi ce of the Recorder of Los Angeles 

County, California, 

Date of Sale: 10/25/2018 at 11:00 AM 

Place of Sale: 

BEHIND THE FOUN- 

TAIN LOCATED IN CIVIC CENTER 

PLAZA, 400 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, 

POMONA, CA 91766 

Estimated amount of unpaid balance, 

reasonably estimated costs and other 

charges: $ 524,541.27 


THE TRUSTEE WILL SELL AT PUBLIC 

AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR 

CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON 

A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK 

DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL 

CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN 

BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS 

AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, A SAVINGS 

ASSOCIATION OR SAVINGS BANK 

SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE 

FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED 

TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: 

All right, title, and interest conveyed to 

and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter 

described property under and 

pursuant to a Deed of Trust described as: 

More fully described in said Deed of 

Trust. 

Street Address or other common designation 

of real property: 1157 Forest 

Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103 

A.P.N.: 5702-019-026 

The undersigned Trustee disclaims any 

liability for any incorrectness of the 

street address or other common designation, 

if any, shown above. 

The sale will be made, but without covenant 

or warranty, expressed or implied, 

regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, 

to pay the remaining principal 

sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of 

Trust with interest thereon, as provided 

in said note(s), advances, under the 

terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges 

and expenses of the Trustee and of the 

trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The 

total amount of the unpaid balance of the 

obligation secured by the property to be 

sold and reasonable estimated costs, 

expenses and advances at the time of the 

initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: 

$ 524,541.27. 

Note: Because the Benefi ciary reserves 

the right to bid less than the total debt 

owed, it is possible that at the time of the 

sale the opening bid may be less than the 

total debt. 

If the Trustee is unable to convey title for 

any reason, the successful bidder’s sole 

and exclusive remedy shall be the return 

of monies paid to the Trustee, and the 

successful bidder shall have no further 

recourse. 

The benefi ciary of the Deed of Trust has 

executed and delivered to the undersigned 

a written request to commence 

foreclosure, and the undersigned caused 

a Notice of Default and Election to Sell to 

be recorded in the county where the real 

property is located. 


NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If 

you are considering bidding on this 

property lien, you should understand 

that there are risks involved in bidding at 

a trustee auction. You will be bidding on 

a lien, not on the property itself. Placing 

the highest bid at a trustee auction does 

not automatically entitle you to free and 

clear ownership of the property. You 

should also be aware that the lien being 

auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you 

are the highest bidder at the auction, you 

are or may be responsible for paying off 

all liens senior to the lien being auctioned 

off, before you can receive clear 

title to the property. You are encouraged 

to investigate the existence, priority, and 

size of outstanding liens that may exist 

on this property by contacting the county 

recorder’s offi ce or a title insurance 

company, either of which may charge 

you a fee for this information. If you 

consult either of these resources, you 

should be aware that the same lender 

may hold more than one mortgage or 

deed of trust on this property. 














property, you may call (866)-960-8299 

or visit this Internet Web site http://www. 

altisource.com/MortgageServices/ 

DefaultManagement/TrusteeServices. 

aspx using the file number assigned to 

this case 2017-02198-CA. Information 

about postponements that are very short 

in duration or that occur close in time to 

the scheduled sale may not immediately 

be refl ected in the telephone information 

or on the Internet Web site. The best way 

to verify postponement information is to 

attend the scheduled sale. 

Date: September 13, 2018 We s t- 

ern Progressive, LLC, as Trustee for 

benefi ciary 

C/o 1500 Palma Drive, Suite 237 

Ventura, CA 93003 

Sale Information Line: (866) 960-8299 

http://www.altisource.com/MortgageServices/DefaultManagement/TrusteeServices.aspx 

Trustee Sale Assistant 

WESTERN PROGRESSIVE, LLC MAY 

BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR 

ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. 

ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE 

USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 

TS No.: CA-18-838642-NJ Order No.: 

8743542 NOTICE OF DEFAULT “AND 

FORECLOSURE SALE” WHEREAS, on 

11/4/2009, a certain Deed of Trust was 

executed by NADINE GWALTNEY, A 

WIDOW, as trustor(s), in favor of MORT- 

GAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION 

SYSTEMS, INC. (MERS) AS NOMINEE 

FOR FINANCIAL FREEDOM ACQUISI- 

TION LLC, A SUBSIDIARY OF ONE- 

WEST BANK, FSB, ITS SUCCESSORS 

AND ASSIGNS, as benefi ciary, and was 

recorded on 11/12/2009, Instrument No. 

20091700269 in the Offi ce of the County 

Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, CA; 

and WHEREAS, the Deed of Trust was 

insured by the United States Secretary of 

Housing and Urban Development (the 

Secretary) pursuant to the National 

Housing Act for the purpose of providing 

single family housing; and WHEREAS, 

the Deed of Trust is now owned by the 

Secretary, pursuant to an Assignment 

recorded on 12/9/2011 as Instrument 

Number 20111667813 in Book xx, Page 

xx of LOS ANGELES County, CA; and 

WHEREAS, a default has been made in 

the covenants and conditions of the 

Deed of Trust in that: THE PROPERTY 

CEASED TO BE THE PRINCIPAL RESI- 

DENCE OF THE BORROWER(S) FOR A 

REASON OTHER THAN DEATH AND 

THE PROPERTY IS NOT THE PRINCIPAL 

RESIDENCE OF AT LEAST ONE OTHER 

BORROWER AND, AS A RESULT, ALL 

SUMS DUE UNDER THE NOTE HAVE 

BECOME DUE AND PAYABLE. This default 

can be resolved if at least one borrower 

takes possession of the property 

as his or her principal residence. In order 

to cure the default in this manner you 

must contact Quality, the current trustee, 

whose contact information is set forth 

herein. WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, 

the Secretary has declared the entire 

amount of the indebtedness secured 

by the Mortgage to be immediately due 

and payable and suffi cient payment has 

not been made as of the date of this notice; 

and WHEREAS, the total amount 

due as of 9/18/2018 is $741,611.90. 

NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to the powers 

vested in Quality Loan Service Corp. 

by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure 

Act of 1994, 12 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., 

by 24 CFR Part 27 subpart B, and by the 

Secretary’s designation of Quality Loan 

Service Corp as Foreclosure Commissioner 

as indicated on the attached Foreclosure 

Commissioner Designation, notice 

is hereby given that on 10/30/2018 

at 10:00 AM local time, all real and personal 

property at or used in connection 

with the following described premises 

will be sold at public auction to the highest 

bidder: Commonly known as: 1299 

Cordova St, Unit 200, Pasadena, CA 

91106 Located in: City of Pasadena , 

County of LOS ANGELES, CA More particularly 

described as: PARCEL 1 AN 

UNDIVIDED 859/34,937 INTEREST IN 

AND TO LOT 1, TRACT 35853, CITY OF 

PASADENA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGE- 

LES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER 

MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 919 PAGES 

52 AND 53 OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE 

OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID 

COUNTY EXCEPT UNITS 1 TO 32 IN- 

CLUSIVE AS SHOWN AND DEFINED ON 

CONDOMINIUM PLAN RECORDED 

JUNE 28, 1979 AS INSTRUMENT NO 

79-705443, OFFICIAL RECORDS PAR- 

CEL 2 UNIT 12 AS SHOWN AND DE- 

FINED ON CONDOMINIUM PLAN RE- 

CORDED JUNE 28, 1979 AS 

INSTRUMENT NO 79-705443, OFFI- 

CIAL RECORDS PARCEL 3 AN EXCLU- 

SIVE EASEMENT TO USE PARKING 

SPACE (S) PS12, FOR VEHICLE PARK- 

ING PURPOSES AS DEFINED ON SAID 

CONDOMINIUM PLAN EXCEPTING 

THEREFROM ALL OIL, GAS, MINERALS 

AND OTHER HYDROCARBON SUB- 

STANCES BELOW A DEPTH OF 500 

FEET, WITHOUT RIGHTS OF SURFACE 

ENTRY, AS RESERVED IN INSTRU- 

MENTS OF RECORD The sale will be 

held Behind the fountain located in Civic 


Plaza, Pomona CA 91766 The Secretary 

of Housing and Urban Development will 

bid $749,805.80 There will be no proration 

of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, 

except that the purchaser will 

pay, at or before closing, his pro rata 

share of any real estate taxes that have 

been paid by the Secretary to the date of 

the foreclosure sale. When making their 

bids, all bidders except the Secretary 

must submit a deposit totaling approximately 

$74,980.58 in the form of certifi 

ed check or cashier’s check made out to 

the Secretary of HUD. A deposit need not 

accompany an oral bid. If the successful 

bid is oral, a deposit of $74,980.58 must 

be presented before the bidding is 

closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. 

The remainder of the purchase price 

must be delivered within 30 days of the 

sale or at such other time as the Secretary 

may determine for good cause 

shown, time being of the essence. This 

amount, like the bid deposits, must be 

delivered in the form of a certifi ed or cashier’s 

check. If the Secretary is the highest 

bidder, he need not pay the bid 

amount in cash. The successful bidder 

will pay all conveyancing fees, all real 

estate and other taxes that are due on or 

after the delivery date of the remainder of 

the payment and and all other costs associated 

with the transfer of title. At the 

conclusion of the sale, the deposits of 

the unsuccessful bidders will be returned 

to them. The Secretary may grant 

the winning bidder an extension of time 

within which to deliver the remainder of 

the payment. All extensions will be for 

15-day increments for a fee of $500.00, 

paid in advance. The extension fee shall 

be paid in the form of a certifi ed or cashier’s 

check made payable to the Secretary 

of HUD. If the high bidder closes the 

sale prior to the expiration of any extension 

period, the unused portion of the 

extension fee shall be applied toward the 

amount due. If the high bidder is unable 

to close the sale within the required period, 

or within any extensions of time 

granted by the Secretary, the high bidder 

may be required to forfeit the cash deposit 

or, at the election of the foreclosure 

commissioner after consultation with the 

HUD representative, will be liable to HUD 

for any costs incurred as a result of such 

failure. The Commissioner may, at the 

discretion of the HUD representative, offer 

the property to the second highest 

bidder for an amount equal to the highest 

price offered by that bidder. There is no 

right of redemption, or right of possession 

based upon a right of redemption, in 

the trustor(s) or others subsequent to a 

foreclosure completed pursuant to the 

Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner 

will issue a Deed to the 

purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire 

purchase price in accordance with the 

terms of the sale as provided herein. 

HUD does not guarantee that the property 

will be vacant. The scheduled foreclosure 

sale shall be cancelled or adjourned 

if it is established, by 

documented written application of the 

mortgagor to the Foreclosure Commissioner 

not less than 3 days before the 

date of sale, or otherwise, that the default 

or defaults upon which the foreclosure is 

based did not exist at the time of service 

of this notice of default and foreclosure 

sale, or all amounts due under the mortgage 

agreement are tendered to the 

Foreclosure Commissioner, in the form 

of a certifi ed or cashier’s check payable 

to the Secretary of HUD, before public 

auction of the property is completed. To 

obtain a pre-sale reinstatement all defaults 

must be cured prior to the scheduled 

sale, plus all other amounts that 

would be due under the mortgage agreement 

if payments under the mortgage 

had not been accelerated, advertising 

costs and postage expenses incurred in 

giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable 

road distance for posting notices 

and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s 

attendance at the sale, reasonable 

and customary costs incurred for title 

and lien record searches, the necessary 

out-of-pocket costs incurred by the 

Foreclosure Commissioner for recording 

documents, a commission for the 

Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other 

costs incurred in connection with the 

foreclosure prior to reinstatement. To 

obtain information regarding reinstating 

the loan by paying the sums that are delinquent 

you should contact the Foreclosure 

Commissioner, Quality Loan Service 

Corp., at the address or phone 

number listed below. Tender of payment 

by certifi ed or cashier’s check or application 

for cancellation of the foreclosure 

sale shall be submitted to the address of 

the Foreclosure Commissioner provided 

below. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED 

A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO 

COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMA- 

TION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR 

THAT PURPOSE. Dated: Foreclosure 

Commissioner Nicole Jordan, Assistant 

Vice President on behalf of Quality Loan 

Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del 

Rio South, San Diego, CA 92108 (866) 

645-7711 Quality Loan Service Corporation 


Diego, CA 92108 (866) 645-7711 For 

Sale Information: Sales Line: 916-939- 

0772 Website: www.nationwideposting. 

com TS No.: CA-18-838642-NJ A notary 

public or other offi cer completing this 

certifi cate verifi es only the identity of the 

individual who signed the document to 

which this certifi cate is attached, and not 

the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of 

that document. State of: California) 

County of: San Diego) On 9/18/2018 

before me, Katherine A. Davis a notary 

public, personally appeared Nicole Jordan, 

who proved to me on the basis of 

satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) 

whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the 

within instrument and acknowledged to 

me that he/she/they executed the same 

in his/her/their authorized capacity(ies), 

and that by his/her/their signature(s) on 

the instrument the person(s), or the entity 

upon behalf of which the person(s) 

acted, executed the instrument. I certify 

under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the 

laws of the State of California that the 

foregoing paragraph is true and correct. 

WITNESS my hand and offi cial seal. Signature 

Katherine A. Davis Commission 

No. 2095368 NOTARY PUBLIC - California 

San Diego County My Comm. Expires 

12/29/2018 IDSPub #0145563 

10/4/2018 10/11/2018 10/18/2018 

FICT. BUSINESS NAMES 

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 

NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 

2018211900 

Type of Filing: Original. The following 

person(s) is (are) doing business as: 

TDR ENGINEERING. 2566 N. San Fernando 

Road Los Angeles, CA 90065. 

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED 

OWNER(S) TDR Inc., 2566 N. San Fernando 

Road Los Angeles, CA 90065. 

State of Incorporation or LLC: California. 

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a 

Corporation. The registrant commenced 

to transact business under the fi ctitious 

business name or names listed above 

on: 01/2018. I declare that all information 

in this statement is true and correct. 

/s/ Ysali Araceli Pockman. TITLE: 

CEO, Corp or LLC Name: TDR Inc. This 

statement was filed with the LA County 

Clerk on: August 21, 2018. NOTICE in 

accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 

17920, a Fictitious Name statement 

generally expires at the end of fi ve years 

from the date on which it was filed in 

the offi ce of the county clerk, except, as 

provided in subdivision (b) of Section 

17920, where it expires 40 days after any 

change in the facts set forth in the statement 

pursuant to Section 17913 other 

than a change in the residence address 

of a registered owner. a new Fictitious 

Business Name statement must be filed 

before the expiration. The filing of this 

statement does not of itself authorize 

the use in this state of a fi ctitious business 

name in violation of the rights of 

another under federal, state, or common 

law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business 

and Professions code). Publish: Pasadena 

Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18, 

9/27/18, 10/4/18 




Type of Filing: Refile. The following 


CAF… NELA. 1916 Cypress Avenue 

Los Angeles, Ca 90065, PO Box 50381 

Los Angeles, CA 90050. COUNTY: Los 

Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) The 

Nosh Pit Inc., 1916 Cypress Avenue Los 

Angeles, Ca 90065. State of Incorporation 

or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS 

IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The 

registrant commenced to transact business 

under the fi ctitious business name 

or names listed above on: 09/2013. 

I declare that all information in this 

statement is true and correct. /s/ David 

Travis. TITLE: President, Corp or LLC 

Name: The Nosh Pit Inc. This statement 

was filed with the LA County Clerk on: 

August 15, 2018. NOTICE in accordance 

with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, 

a Fictitious Name statement generally 

expires at the end of fi ve years from the 

date on which it was filed in the offi ce of 

the county clerk, except, as provided in 

subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where 

it expires 40 days after any change in the 

facts set forth in the statement pursuant 

to Section 17913 other than a change 

in the residence address of a registered 

owner. a new Fictitious Business Name 

statement must be filed before the expiration. 

The filing of this statement does 

not of itself authorize the use in this state 

of a fi ctitious business name in violation 

of the rights of another under federal, 

state, or common law (see Section 

14411 et seq., Business and Professions 

code). Publish: Pasadena Weekly. Dates: 

9/13/18, 9/20/18, 9/27/18, 10/4/18 




Type of Filing: Original The following 

person(s) is (are) doing business 

as: DELCORP, DELPRO INDUSTRIES, 

ARTESANO INDUSTRIES; 1230 Front 

Street Alhambra, CA 91803. COUNTY: 

Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) 

Jessica Delgado and Rudy Delgado, 

1230 Front Street Alhambra, CA 91803. 

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a 

Married Couple. The registrant commenced 

to transact business under the 

Fictitious Business Name or names 

listed above on: 09/2018. I declare that 

all information in this statement is true 

and correct. /s/: Jessica Delgado. TITLE: 

Owner. This statement was filed with the 

LA County Clerk on: September 4, 2018. 

NOTICE in accordance with subdivision 

(a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name 

Statement generally expires at the end 

of fi ve years from the date on which it 

was filed in the offi ce of the county clerk, 

except, as provided in subdivision (b) of 

Section 17920, where it expires 40 days 

after any change in the facts set forth in 

the statement pursuant to Section 17913 

other than a change in the residence address 


Business Name statement must be 

filed before the expiration. The filing of 

this statement does not of itself authorize 

the use in this state of a Fictitious Business 

Name in violation of the rights of 


law (see Section 14411 et seq., business 

and professions code). Publish: Pasadena 

Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18, 

9/27/18, 10/4/18 






HIGHLAND PARK CLASSICS; 1022 

Mission Street Suite A South Pasadena, 

CA 91030, 6113 Piedmont Ave. 

Los Angeles, CA 90042. COUNTY: 


Rodney Ascher, 6113 Piedmont Ave. Los 

Angeles, CA 90042. THIS BUSINESS IS 

CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant 

commenced to transact business 

under the Fictitious Business Name or 

names listed above on: 06/2018. I declare 

that all information in this statement 

is true and correct. /s/: Rodney 

Ascher. TITLE: Owner. This statement 

was filed with the LA County Clerk on: 

August 28, 2018. NOTICE in accordance 

with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a 

Fictitious Name Statement generally 













of a Fictitious Business Name in violation 



14411 et seq., business and professions 


9/13/18, 9/20/18, 9/27/18, 10/4/18 






THE NANCY LOUISE SELIR TRUST, 

THE MARIE NANCY SELIR TRUST, 

CHRISTOPHER KANE CASEY, DA- 

VID CASEY, DAVID CHRISTOPHER 

CASEY TRUST, ELEXIS MARIE CASEY, 

JUAN M SANCHEZ, JUAN MARTIN 

SANCHEZ, MAHAN,NANCY L TR, 

NANCY L MAHAN TRUST, NANCY 

LOUISE MAHAN, NANCY LOUISE 

SELIR, POTRERO GRANDE, RANCHO 

POTRERO GRANDE, RANCHO POTRE- 

RO GRANDE TRUST, ROCHELLE M 

CASEY, ROCHELLE MARIE BENTON, 

ROCHELLE MARIE BRETT; 7862 East 

Steddom Drive Rosemead, CA 91770. 


OWNER(S) Luke Skywalker, 7862 East 

Steddom Drive Rosemead, CA 91770. 

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an 

Individual. The registrant commenced to 

transact business under the Fictitious 

Business Name or names listed above 

on: 10/2004. I declare that all information 


/s/: Luke Skywalker. TITLE: Owner. This 


Clerk on: September 7, 2018. NOTICE 

in accordance with subdivision (a) of 

Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement 

generally expires at the end of fi ve 

years from the date on which it was filed 

in the offi ce of the county clerk, except, 

as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 














Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18, 

9/27/18, 10/4/18 




Type of Filing: Refile The following 


SKY BLU HOME; 26061 Shadow Rock 

Lane Valencia, CA 91361. COUNTY: 


Sandy Cho, 26061 Shadow Rock Lane 

Valencia, CA 91361. THIS BUSINESS 

IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The 


under the Fictitious Business Name 

or names listed above on: 07/2018. I 

declare that all information in this statement 

is true and correct. /s/: Sandy E. 

Cho. TITLE: Owner. This statement was 

filed with the LA County Clerk on: September 

5, 2018. NOTICE in accordance 


a Fictitious Name Statement generally 













of a Fictitious Business Name in violation 





9/13/18, 9/20/18, 9/27/18, 10/4/18 






as: ALPINE VILLAS; 301 E. Colorado 

Blvd., Suite 514 Pasadena, CA 91101. 


OWNER(S) John Tkach, 301 E. Colorado 

Blvd., Suite 514 Pasadena, CA 91101. 





on: N/A. I declare that all information 


/s/: John Tkach. TITLE: Owner. This 


Clerk on: August 30, 2018. NOTICE in 


17920, a Fictitious Name Statement 


from the date on which it was filed in 
















Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18, 

9/27/18, 10/4/18 




Type of Filing: Amended The following 


UNAGI FILMS; 4733 Orion Ave., Apt. 

14 Sherman Oaks, CA 91403. COUNTY: 


Lauren Nicole Grzybowski, 4733 Orion 

Ave., Apt. 14 Sherman Oaks, CA 91403, 

Carolyn Marie Martin, 12729 Riverside 

Drive Apt. 311 Sherman Village, CA 

91607, Dustin Gregory Martin, 12729 

Riverside Drive Apt. 311 Sherman Village, 

CA 91607. THIS BUSINESS IS 

CONDUCTED BY a General Partnership. 

The registrant commenced to 





/s/: Dustin Gregory Martin. TITLE: 

Managing Member. This statement was 

filed with the LA County Clerk on: September 













statement must be fi led before the expiration. 

The fi ling of this statement does 

not of itself authorize the use in this 

state of a Fictitious Business Name in 

violation of the rights of another under 

federal, state, or common law (see Sec-

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tion 14411 et seq., business and professions 

code). Publish: Pasadena Weekly. 

Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18, 9/27/18, 

10/4/18 






SAFE RAGS TRADING; 209 South Prospectors 

Road Diamond Bar, CA 91765. 


OWNER(S) Shahzad Lakhani, 209 South 

Prospectors Road Diamond Bar, CA 

91765. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCT- 

ED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced 


Fictitious Business Name or names listed 

above on: 08/2018. I declare that all 

information in this statement is true and 

correct. /s/: Shahzad Lakhani. TITLE: 

Owner. This statement was fi led with the 

LA County Clerk on: August 27, 2018. 





was fi led in the offi ce of the county clerk, 





other than a change in the residence 

address of a registered owner. a new 

Fictitious Business Name statement 

must be fi led before the expiration. The 

fi ling of this statement does not of itself 

authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious 

Business Name in violation of the 

rights of another under federal, state, or 

common law (see Section 14411 et seq., 

business and professions code). Publish: 

Pasadena Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 

9/20/18, 9/27/18, 10/4/18 






SMART WHOLESALE & DISTRIBU- 

TION; 3355 N. White Avenue #602 La 

Verne, CA 91750. COUNTY: Los Angeles. 

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Monica 

Ann Sandoval, 3355 N. White Avenue 

#602 La Verne, CA 91750. THIS BUSI- 

NESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. 

The registrant commenced to transact 

business under the Fictitious Business 

Name or names listed above on: 

09/2018. I declare that all information 

in this statement is true and correct. /s/: 

Monica Ann Sandoval. TITLE: Owner. 

This statement was fi led with the LA 

County Clerk on: September 5, 2018. 





















9/20/18, 9/27/18, 10/4/18 






RFT COACHING. 1782 E. Washington 

Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91104. COUNTY: 

Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or 

Organization Number: 201821310122. 

REGISTERED OWNER(S) RFT Coaching 

LLC, 657 S. Cochran Ave., Apt. 203 Los 

Angeles, CA 90036. State of Incorporation 


IS CONDUCTED BY a Limited Liability 

Company. The registrant commenced 

to transact business under the fi ctitious 

business name or names listed above 



/s/ Christopher M. Judy. TITLE: Manager, 

Corp or LLC Name: RFT Coaching 

LLC. This statement was fi led with the LA 




statement generally expires at the end 












authorize the use in this state of a fi ctitious 

business name in violation of the 



Business and Professions code). Publish: 


9/27/18, 10/4/18, 10/11/18 






MR BROWN SOLUTIONS, M.R. BROWN 

SOLUTIONS; 11254 Huston St. Apt. 104 

North Hollywood, CA 91601. COUNTY: 


Michael Rodney Brown, 11254 Huston 

St. Apt. 104 North Hollywood, CA 


ED BY an Individual. The registrant 

commenced to transact business under 

the Fictitious Business Name or names 



and correct. /s/: Michael Rodney Brown. 

TITLE: Owner. This statement was fi led 

with the LA County Clerk on: September 





date on which it was fi led in the offi ce of 





to Section 17913 other than a change in 

the residence address of a registered 







federal, state, or common law (see Section 



Dates: 9/20/18, 9/27/18, 10/4/18, 

10/11/18 





person(s) is (are) doing business as: RI- 

OTT HOUSE STUDIO; 5419 Cleon Ave. 

North Hollywood, CA 91601, 14625 

Magnolia Blvd., 22 Sherman Oaks, CA 

91403. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGIS- 

TERED OWNER(S) Barry Pointer, 14625 

Magnolia Blvd., 22 Sherman Oaks, CA 





listed above on: N/A. I declare that all 

information in this statement is true 

and correct. /s/: Barry Pointer. TITLE: 

Owner. This statement was fi led with the 

LA County Clerk on: August 22, 2018. 





















9/27/18, 10/4/18, 10/11/18 






RIGEL RENTALS; 311 W. Altadena Dr. 

Altadena, CA 91001. COUNTY: Los 

Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) 

Steven Schaffer, 311 W. Altadena Dr. 

Altadena, CA 91001. THIS BUSINESS IS 

CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant 



names listed above on: N/A. I declare 

that all information in this statement is 

true and correct. /s/: Steven Schaffer. 























Dates: 9/20/18, 9/27/18, 10/4/18, 

10/11/18 






CHARISSA S. CALLIGRAPHY; 624 W. 

Mauna Loa Ave. Glendora, CA 91740. 


OWNER(S) Charissa Seloadji, 624 W. 

Mauna Loa Ave. Glendora, CA 91740. 







/s/: Charissa Seloadji. TITLE: Owner. 























9/27/18, 10/4/18, 10/11/18 






as: LEVEL ONE PROPERTIES; 6275 

Ebbtide Way Malibu, CA 90265. 


OWNER(S) Jeffrey K. Hitz, 6275 

Ebbtide Way Malibu, CA 90265. THIS 

BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. 






/s/: Jeffrey K Hitz. TITLE: Owner. This 

statement was fi led with the LA County 





years from the date on which it was fi led 








Business Name statement must be fi led 

before the expiration. The fi ling of this 







Weekly. Dates: 9/20/18, 9/27/18, 

10/4/18, 10/11/18 






as: SHUCKS, SHUCKS LOS ANGELES; 

2785 Saleroso Drive Rowland Heights, 

CA 91748. COUNTY: Los Angeles. 

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Evelyn Wang, 

2785 Saleroso Drive Rowland Heights, 

CA 91748. THIS BUSINESS IS CON- 

DUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant 





is true and correct. /s/: Evelyn Wang. 























Dates: 9/20/18, 9/27/18, 10/4/18, 

10/11/18 

STATEMENT OF ABANDON- 

MENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS 

BUSINESS NAME FILE NO: 

2018-233519 

FILE NO: 2016-181748 DATE FILED: 

07/20/2016. Name of Business(es) 

ELEVEN 88 ART AND DESIGN, 806 S. 

Date Ave., Alhambra, CA 91803. REGIS- 

TERED OWNER(S): April Connors, 806 

S. Date Ave., Alhambra, CA 91803. Business 

was conducted by an Individual. I 


is true and correct. (A registrant 

who declares as true information which 

he or she knows to be false is guilty of a 

crime.) REGISTRANTS NAMES/CORP/ 

LLC (PRINT) April Connors TITLE: 

Owner. If corporation, also print corporate 

title of offi cer. If LLC, also print tile of 

offi cer or manager. This statement was 

fi led with the County Clerk of LOS AN- 

GELES County on the date indicated by 

the fi led stamp in the upper right corner: 

September 13, 2018. I HEREBY CER- 

TIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT 

COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT 

ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. DEAN C. LO- 

GAN, LOS ANGELES COUNTY CLERK 

by: Maxine Carrasco, Deputy Publish: 


10/4/18, 10/11/18, 10/18/18 






MAYFLOWER BOOKKEEPER; 1724 

Mayfl ower Ave. Arcadia, CA 91006. 


OWNER(S) Channa Tun, 1724 Mayfl 

ower Ave. Arcadia, CA 91006. THIS 







/s/: Channa Tun. TITLE: Owner. This 






years from the date on which it was fi led 
















Weekly. Dates: 9/27/18, 10/4/18, 

10/11/18, 10/18/18 






as: TRANSPORT MARTINEZ; 13825 

Beaver St., Unit 53 Sylmar, CA 91432. 


OWNER(S) Jose F. Martinez and Ruth 


10.04.18 PASADENA WEEKLY 129 

Martinez, 13825 Beaver St., Unit 53 

Sylmar, CA 91432. THIS BUSINESS 

IS CONDUCTED BY a Married Couple. 



Name or names listed above on: N/A. 


statement is true and correct. /s/: Ruth 

Martinez. TITLE: Wife. This statement 

was fi led with the LA County Clerk on: 

September 20, 2018. NOTICE in accordance 

with subdivision (a) of Section 



from the date on which it was fi led in 



17920, where it expires 40 days after 

any change in the facts set forth in the 

statement pursuant to Section 17913 








rights of another under federal, state, 

or common law (see Section 14411 et 

seq., business and professions code). 

Publish: Pasadena Weekly. Dates: 

9/27/18, 10/4/18, 10/11/18, 10/18/18 






as: FRANK’S VACUUM & SEWING 

MACHINE; 2145 Verdugo Blvd. Montrose, 


REGISTERED OWNER(S) Julie 

P. Lewis and Harlin L. Lewis, 1176 E. 

Topeka Street Pasadena, CA 91104. 

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY 

a Married Couple. The registrant commenced 


Fictitious Business Name or names 

listed above on: 01/1987. I declare that 


and correct. /s/: Julie P. Lewis. TITLE: 

Owner. This statement was fi led with 

the LA County Clerk on: September 

5, 2018. NOTICE in accordance with 

subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a 






it expires 40 days after any change 

in the facts set forth in the statement 

pursuant to Section 17913 other than 

a change in the residence address of 

a registered owner. a new Fictitious 







law (see Section 14411 et seq., 



10/4/18, 10/11/18, 10/18/18 






CALPHAE RESIDENTIAL SERVICES; 

118 Ω East 54th Street Los Angeles, CA 

90011. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGIS- 

TERED OWNER(S) Pedro Vargas, 118 

Ω East 54th Street Los Angeles, CA 







and correct. /s/: Pedro Vargas. TITLE: 
























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YAU SHING LOCKSMITH & HANDY- 

MAN; 9167 Garibaldi Ave. Temple City, 


REGISTERED OWNER(S) Wah Shu Li, 

9167 Garibaldi Ave. Temple City, CA 







and correct. /s/: Wah Shu Li. TITLE: 
























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as: FRANK R. WEBB ARCHITECTS, 

FRANK WEBB ARCHITECTS, FRANK R. 

WEBB ARCHITECTS, INC. 8607 Venice 

Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90034, 80 

Glastonbury Boulevard, Glastonbury, 

CT 06033. COUNTY: Los Angeles. 

Articles of Incorporation or Organization 

Number: 3777147. REGISTERED 

OWNER(S) The S/L/A/M Collaborative, 

Inc., 80 Glastonbury Boulevard, 

Glastonbury, CT 06033. State of Incorporation 

or LLC: CT. THIS BUSINESS 

IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. 


business under the fi ctitious business 

name or names listed above on: N/A. I 


is true and correct. /s/ Daniel S. 

Kantor. TITLE: Treasurer, Corp or LLC 

Name: The S/L/A/M Collaborative, Inc. 




(a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious 

Name statement generally expires at the 

end of fi ve years from the date on which 

it was fi led in the offi ce of the county 

clerk, except, as provided in subdivision 

(b) of Section 17920, where it 

expires 40 days after any change in the 






The fi ling of this statement 

does not of itself authorize the use in 

this state of a fi ctitious business name 

in violation of the rights of another 

under federal, state, or common law 

(see Section 14411 et seq., Business 


Weekly. Dates: 9/27/18, 10/4/18, 

10/11/18, 10/18/18 






as: TOOSHIEBABY. 2216 Eckhart Ave. 

Rosemead, CA 91770. COUNTY: Los 

Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or 

Organization Number: 201816310297. 

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Twotaur 

LLC, 2216 Eckhart Ave. Rosemead, CA 

91770. State of Incorporation or LLC: 

CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED 

BY a Limited Liability Company. The 



or names listed above on: N/A. I declare 


true and correct. /s/ Diana Trieu. TITLE: 

CEO, Corp or LLC Name: Twotaur LLC. 




(a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious 

Name statement generally expires at the 

end of fi ve years from the date on which 

it was fi led in the offi ce of the county 

clerk, except, as provided in subdivision 

(b) of Section 17920, where it 

expires 40 days after any change in the 






The fi ling of this statement 

does not of itself authorize the use in 

this state of a fi ctitious business name 

in violation of the rights of another 

under federal, state, or common law 

(see Section 14411 et seq., Business 


Weekly. Dates: 9/27/18, 10/4/18, 

10/11/18, 10/18/18 






as: FELT. 1601 N. Sepulveda Blvd., 

#211 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266. 


OWNER(S) Nice LLC, 1601 N. Sepulveda 

Blvd., #211 Manhattan Beach, CA 


DE. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED 

BY a Limited Liability Company. The 



or names listed above on: 01/2018. 


statement is true and correct. /s/ Robert 

S. Fetcher. TITLE: Manager, Corp or 

LLC Name: Nice LLC. This statement 





















seq., Business and Professions code). 


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TARGET HOME LOANS, WPA LEND- 

ING. 121 W. Lexington Drive #L106L 

Glendale, CA 91203, 9353 Bolsa 

Ave., #K21 Westminster, CA 92683. 

COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation 

or Organization Number: 

3734749. REGISTERED OWNER(S) 

GV Lending and Realty, Inc., 121 W. 

Lexington Drive #L106L Glendale, CA 


CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED 

BY a Corporation. The registrant commenced 

to transact business under 

the fi ctitious business name or names 

listed above on: 10/2015. I declare that 


and correct. /s/ Robert M. Le. TITLE: 

CEO, Corp or LLC Name: GV Lending 

and Realty, Inc. This statement was fi led 




a Fictitious Name statement generally 













the use in this state of a fi ctitious business 

name in violation of the rights of 



Business and Professions code). Publish: 


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Type of Filing: Amended. The following 


DOWNEY HYUNDAI. 7550 Firestone 

Blvd., Downey, CA 90241. COUNTY: 

Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation 

or Organization Number: 4189537. 

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Downey 

Hyundai Inc., 7550 Firestone Blvd., 

Downey, CA 90241. State of Incorporation 


IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The 



or names listed above on: N/A. I declare 


true and correct. /s/ Rakesh Malhotra. 

TITLE: President, Corp or LLC Name: 

Downey Hyundai Inc. This statement 























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Type of Filing: Amended. The following 


as: MORTGAGE HEAVEN, THE ABICH 

GROUP. 898 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Suite 

A-1 Pasadena, CA 91103. COUNTY: 

Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation 

or Organization Number: 3609068. 

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Real Estate 

Haven Mortgage Corp., 898 N. Fair 

Oaks Ave., Suite A-1 Pasadena, CA 


California. THIS BUSINESS IS CON- 

DUCTED BY a Corporation. The registrant 


under the fi ctitious business name or 



true and correct. /s/ Omar Abich. TITLE: 

President, Corp or LLC Name: Real Estate 

Haven Mortgage Corp. This statement 

was fi led with the LA County Clerk 

on: September 25, 2018. NOTICE in 





















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BECKETT STUDIO; 1051 E. Altadena 

Drive Altadena, CA 91001. COUNTY: 


Edward Beckett and Sharon Bailey 

Beckett, 1051 E. Altadena Drive Altadena, 

CA 91001. THIS BUSINESS IS 

CONDUCTED BY a Married Couple. 



Name or names listed above on: 

01/2000. I declare that all information 


/s/: Edward Beckett. TITLE: Owner. This 






years from the date on which it was 

fi led in the offi ce of the county clerk, 

except, as provided in subdivision 

(b) of Section 17920, where it expires 

40 days after any change in the facts 

set forth in the statement pursuant to 

Section 17913 other than a change in 











Dates: 10/4/18, 10/11/18, 10/18/18, 

10/25/18 






CUTE ëN CLEVER; 29025 Catherwood 

Ct. Agoura Hills, CA 91301. COUNTY: 


Beverly Higgins, 29025 Catherwood 

Ct. Agoura Hills, CA 91301. THIS 

BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an 

Individual. The registrant commenced 

to transact business under the Fictitious 

Business Name or names listed 

above on: 01/2018. I declare that all 

information in this statement is true and 

correct. /s/: Beverly Higgins. TITLE: 
























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TAGGED SHIRTS; 639 N. Broadway 

Unit 609 Los Angeles, CA 90012. 


OWNER(S) Christopher Najmi, 639 

N. Broadway Unit 609 Los Angeles, 







true and correct. /s/: Christopher Najmi. 
























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BARTHOLOMEW METHOD WELL- 

NESS; 830 Traction Ave., 3rd Floor 

Los Angeles, CA 90013. COUNTY: 


Sean Bartholomew, 830 Traction Ave., 

3rd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90013. THIS 





on: N/A. I declare that all information in 

this statement is true and correct. /s/: 

Sean Bartholomew. TITLE: Owner. This 






years from the date on which it was 

fi led in the offi ce of the county clerk, 

except, as provided in subdivision 


40 days after any change in the facts 

set forth in the statement pursuant to 

Section 17913 other than a change in 











Dates: 10/4/18, 10/11/18, 10/18/18, 

10/25/18 






as: SLAM TECH SOLUTIONS; 21509 

Craig Ct. Carson, CA 90745. COUNTY: 


Steven Lam, 21509 Craig Ct. Carson, 




under the Fictitious Business Name 

or names listed above on: 09/2018. I 


is true and correct. /s/: Steven 

Lam. TITLE: Owner. This statement 





















seq., business and professions code). 


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as: KTS CAREER COACHING; 1751 

Colorado Blvd., #321 Los Angeles, 


REGISTERED OWNER(S) Karen Suarez, 

1715 Las Flores Drive Los Angeles, 







is true and correct. /s/: Karen Suarez. 
























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SHANGHAI LAOTIENLU LIMITED, 

SHANGHAI LAOTIANLU LIMITED, 

LAOTIANLU LIMITED, LAOTIENLU 

LIMITED, 

QUANTUMCEUTICALS 

LIMITED; 18351 Colima Road #586 

Rowland Heights, CA 91748. COUNTY: 


Howard Shaw, 18351 Colima Road 

#586 Rowland Heights, CA 91748. 

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY 

an Individual. The registrant commenced 

to transact business under 


listed above on: N/A. I declare that all 

information in this statement is true 

and correct. /s/: Howard Shaw. TITLE: 
























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ANGIE MITCHELL FITNESS, ANGIE- 

MITCHELLFITNESS, ANGIEMITCHELL 

FITNESS; 11254 Huston St., Apt. 104 

North Hollywood, CA 91601. COUNTY: 


Angela Mitchell Rodriguez, 11254 Huston 

St., Apt. 104 North Hollywood, CA 







and correct. /s/: Angela Mitchell Rodriguez. 

TITLE: Owner. This statement 















must be fi led before the expiration. 

The fi ling of this statement does not of 

itself authorize the use in this state of 

a Fictitious Business Name in violation 





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person(s) is (are) doing business as: LWB 

POTTERY; 2091 Huntington Dr. South Pasadena, 


REGISTERED OWNER(S) Lynn Warnesky- 

Baker, 2091 Huntington Dr. South Pasadena, 

CA 91030. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED 

BY an Individual. The registrant commenced 


Business Name or names listed above on: 

N/A. I declare that all information in this 

statement is true and correct. /s/: Lynn 

Warnesky-Baker. TITLE: Owner. This statement 

was filed with the LA County Clerk 

on: September 10, 2018. NOTICE – in accordance 


17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally 

expires at the end of five years from the 

date on which it was filed in the office of the 

county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision 


40 days after any change in the facts set forth 

in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 

other than a change in the residence address 

of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business 

Name statement must be filed before 

the expiration. The filing of this statement 

does not of itself authorize the use in this 

state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation 


state, or common law (see Section 14411 

et seq., business and professions code). 

Publish: Pasadena Weekly. Dates: 10/4/18, 

10/11/18, 10/18/18, 10/25/18 





person(s) is (are) doing business as: SISCO 

SOLUTIONS, 

PASADENAPORPERTYIN- 

SPECTIONS.COM; 518 Hathaway Ave. 

Monterey Park, CA 91754. COUNTY: Los 

Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Warren 

Sisco, 518 Hathaway Ave. Monterey Park, CA 

91754. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY 

an Individual. The registrant commenced to 

transact business under the Fictitious Business 

Name or names listed above on: N/A. I 


is true and correct. /s/: Warren Sisco. TITLE: 

Owner. This statement was filed with the LA 

County Clerk on: September 27, 2018. NO- 

TICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of 


generally expires at the end of five years from 

the date on which it was filed in the office 

of the county clerk, except, as provided in 

subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it 

expires 40 days after any change in the facts 

set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 

17913 other than a change in the residence 

address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious 

Business Name statement must be 

filed before the expiration. The filing of this 

statement does not of itself authorize the use 

in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in 

violation of the rights of another under federal, 

state, or common law (see Section 14411 

et seq., business and professions code). 

Publish: Pasadena Weekly. Dates: 10/4/18, 

10/11/18, 10/18/18, 10/25/18 





person(s) is (are) doing business as: HOUSE 

OF VFS; 747 Zanja St. Pasadena, CA 91103, 

PO Box 93905 Pasadena, CA 91109. COUN- 

TY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) 

Peggy Ann Names, 747 Zanja St. Pasadena, 

CA 91103. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED 

BY an Individual. The registrant commenced 


Business Name or names listed above on: 

N/A. I declare that all information in this 

statement is true and correct. /s/: Peggy Ann 

Names. TITLE: Owner. This statement was 

filed with the LA County Clerk on: October 2, 

2018. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision 


Statement generally expires at the end of five 

years from the date on which it was filed in 

the office of the county clerk, except, as provided 

in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, 

where it expires 40 days after any change in 

the facts set forth in the statement pursuant 

to Section 17913 other than a change in the 

residence address of a registered owner. a 

new Fictitious Business Name statement 

must be filed before the expiration. The filing 

of this statement does not of itself authorize 


Name in violation of the rights of another under 




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8 

CHOICE 

THURSDAY 10.04.18 

The free South Pasadena Library Harvest Concert features the band Allensworth, showcasing a wide 

variety of diverse cultures and influences, ranging from laid-back, coastal sounds to gritty harmonies, soul 

tunes, rockers and ballads. It starts at 5:30 p.m. in front of the South Pasadena Library Community 

Room, 1115 El Centro St., South Pasadena. Guests may bring lawn chairs and blankets. Call (626) 403- 

7350 or visit southpasadenaca.gov. 

EVENTS 

FOR THE WEEK OF 

10.04–10.11 

BY JOHN SOLLENBERGER 

FRIDAY 10.05.18 

SATURDAY 10.06.18 

Boston Court Performing Arts Center, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena presents The Art of 

Claude Debussy mini-festival, with events from Friday through Sunday, including chamber music 

concerts by cellist John Walz, pianist Edith Orloff and violinist Roger Wilkie performing the composer’s 

works at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $30 and $35. Call (626) 683-6801 or visit 

bostoncourtpasadena.org. 

SUNDAY 10.07.18 

MONDAY 10.08.18 

TUESDAY 10.09.18 

WEDNESDAY 10.10.18 

The Eagle Rock Music Festival, presented by Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock and LA City Council 

member Jose Huizar, features a huge list of local acts from 4 to 10 p.m.at the corner of Colorado and Eagle 

Rock boulevards, Eagle Rock. Free. Visit eaglerockmusicfestival.org for a full listing of performers. 

A Jazz ‘n Paz concert by Lolly Allen and Friends, featuring vibraphonist and composer Lolly Allen, 

Rickey Woodard on sax, Mike Alvidrez on bass and Gary Fukushima on piano, starts at 5 p.m. at 

Neighborhood Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena. Tickets are $25 in advance, $28 at 

the door. Call (626) 296-9843 or visit jazznpaz.com. 

Activist organization Nuns on the Bus stop at All Saints Church, 132 N. Euclid Ave., 

Pasadena at 6 p.m. for a town hall event, as they travel to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort 

in their Tax Justice Truth Tour, in a protest of the so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 

passed by Congress, as well as protesting repeal attempts of the Affordable Care Act. Free. 

Call (626) 796-1172 or visit allsaints-pas.org. 

The fall term of the Masters Series continues from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Nov. 13 at the Pasadena 

Senior Center, 85 E. Holly St., Pasadena. Tuesday’s session features Mike Genovese, political 

science professor at Loyola Marymount University discussing US presidential scandals in previous 

administrations. Cost is $15 for each session. Call (626) 795-4331 or visit pasadenaseniorcenter.org. 

Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse discuss and sign “Mycroft & Sherlock” at 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. 

Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. It’s a murder mystery, as Mycroft Holmes and his brother, Sherlock investigate the squalid opium dens of the 

London docks. Call (626) 449-5320 or visit vromansbookstore.com. 

THURSDAY 10.11.18 

The Blue Guitar, at Arroyo Seco Golf Course, 1055 Lohman Lane, South Pasadena presents the 

duo AltaMusica, a collaboration between pianist Chad Edward and saxophonist Robert Kyle, featuring 

elements of jazz, Latin and Brazilian music, performing at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 general admission, 

$15 for table seating. Visit blueguitar.club.

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