Fresh fruits and vegetables and a variety of other items like flowers and sprouts are available at the Glendale Farmers Market on Brand Blvd. on Thursdays.
Dexter Scott of Jazzy Sprouts plays the soprano sax during Thursday's Farmers Market on Brand Blvd. in Glendale on March 11, 2010. Scott has been selling his sprouts at this market for 18 years. (Raul Roa/News-Press)
Veteran actor Len Lesser plays Jacob in A Noise Within’s production “Awake and Sing!” which is having a special pay-what-you-can performance on Sunday March 14. Lesser is well known to contemporary audiences as Jerry Seinfeld's Uncle Leo in the “Seinfeld” TV series. (Photo Credit: Craig Schwartz)
A Noise Within, the classical repertory theater company, announces a pay-what-you-can date for its production of “Awake And Sing!” by Clifford Odets at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 14.
The program allows patrons to purchase tickets for what they can afford. They are sold first-come, first-served based on availability, with a limit of two per person. Tickets must be purchased in person at the box office, 234 S. Brand Blvd., after 2 p.m. on the day of the performance with cash only. The minimum suggested is $10.
The play opens March 20. Previews begin Saturday, March 13. To purchase tickets, call (818) 240-0910, Ext. 1.
The Glendale Youth Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Brad Keimach, will perform a free concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 14, at the Hall of Liberty, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles.
The Southern California Mormon Choir and soloists from the orchestra will be featured. The program selections are Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in g minor, K.550 and selected movements Bach’s B Minor Mass. A silent auction begins at 6:30 p.m.
For more information, call (323) 839-8135 or e-mail atmaraskelly@gmail.com.
Third-graders at Valley View Elementary School in La Crescenta on Wednesday learned about evacuation and safety techniques from the Kid’s Safety House.
Valley View Elementary students exit through a window of a smoke-filled room after learning proper evacuation techniques from Kid's Safety House on Wednesday, March 10. (Raul Roa/News-Press)
Awards were handed out Tuesday night to volunteers from throughout La Cañada Flintridge schools by the PTA at La Cañada High School.
La Cañada Elementary Very Special Person award recipient Shirley Roberts chats with La Cañada Elementary principal Elissa Deangelo after the La Cañada PTA Founders Day on Tuesday, March 9. (Raul Roa/News-Press)
Glendale Water & Power officials announced two community meetings that will take place next week for residents to learn more about the upcoming installation of “smart” meters that will provide residents with real-time water and electricity usage.
The meetings are:
The city’s Community Services & Parks department and Redevelopment Agency this afternoon will host a lunch at City Hall to raise funds for the Glendale Downtown Dash.
The Glendale Downtown Merchants’ Assn. will host the third annual 5K run/walk event this Sunday starting at 8 a.m to raise money for Glendale Adventist Medical Center’s stroke services.
At today’s fund raising lunch from 11:30 to 1 p.m. in the City Hall Plaza, city officials will be serving cheeseburgers, chips, soft drinks and cookies for a $5 donation.
A participant assembles signs for the 2004 CROP Walk. (Roger Wilson/News Press)
The Glendale 5K CROP Hunger Walk begins at 1 p.m. Sunday March 14 at Incarnation Catholic church, 1001 N. Brand Blvd., and finishes, with a celebration at St. Mark’s Episcopal church, 1020 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale.
CROP, or Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty, is an educational and fundraising event co-sponsored by an interfaith group of local congregations and Church World Service.
From the Los Angeles Times
Before the trendy apparel chains, frozen yogurt shops and fusion eateries arrived, Old Town Pasadena was a bohemian neighborhood where the rent was cheap, the bars were dives and one could peruse the Free Press bookstore after attending a folk dance class.
It was here that an irreverent parade named after a campy British rock group known as the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band was born. And for the last three decades, it’s where the Doo Dah Parade has stayed, drawing thousands to watch the offbeat and flamboyant entries — the BBQ & Hibachi Marching Grill Team, the Church of the Ornamental Lawn Decorations, Human-Powered Cupcakes and Martinis in the Morning.
… Continue Reading: Doo Dah Parade proceeds out of Old Town Pasadena
The sixth annual Bras for a Cause, April 18, 2009. (Tammy Abbott/News-Press)
Soroptimist International of Glendale is welcoming colorful and innovative creations for its seventh annual Bras for a Cause fundraiser on April 10 at the Embassy Suites Hotel.
Participants can decorate a bra with this year’s theme in mind “Bras for a Cause Salutes Television, ” or create their own theme. The entry fee is $100 and submissions are due by March 26. They can be dropped off at Beverly Ann Flowers, attn. Lou Rhodes, 1150 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale.
Fresh fruits and vegetables and a variety of other items like flowers and sprouts are available at the Glendale Farmers Market on Brand Blvd. on Thursdays.
Toll Middle School students held signs outside the Glendale school after class in support of their teachers. The students do not want their teachers to be laid off at the end of the year.
Burbank Leader reporter Max Zimbert appeared on CNN’s Headline News Wednesday to talk about Amy Beck, a teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student.
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Third-graders at Valley View Elementary School in La Crescenta on Wednesday learned about evacuation and safety techniques from the Kid’s Safety House.
Awards were handed out Tuesday night to volunteers from throughout La Cañada Flintridge schools by the PTA at La Cañada High School.
From the Burbank Leader
[DEVELOPING] A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Wednesday postponed the arraignment of a Burbank Unified teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student so that she can continue to work with authorities, her attorney said.
Amy Beck, a 33-year-old teacher at Jordan Middle School, will remain in jail and is [...]
The La Cañada High School PTA has endorsed legislation introduced last month by State Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada) designed to encourage teens to call for help in emergency situations.
The bill, AB1999, would protect a minor from criminal prosecution if he dials 9-1-1 and remains with a friend during a medical crisis. The bill is [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case involving employee background checks at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The Supreme Court justices will review an injunction issued by the 9th Circuit Court in January 2008 that barred NASA/JPL from requiring “low-risk” employees —those who do not handle classified material — to submit to extensive [...]
A singer from the pop group Girlicious was arrested Tuesday night after police allegedly found more than a dozen individual packages of cocaine in her Gucci purse, officials said.
Natalie Mejia, 21, of Diamond Bar is being held today in Glendale City Jail in lieu of a $30,000 bond, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s [...]
From the Los Angeles Times
Actor Corey Haim, who starred in some popular movies in the 1980s and recently tried to relaunch his career with a reality TV show, has died.
The Los Angeles Police Department said Haim, 38, was pronounced dead after 3 a.m. at a Burbank hospital. He had been living in the San [...]
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