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news ........................................................................9 A Fond Farewell Stephanie Edwards and Bob Eubanks call it quits as hosts of KTLA’s Rose Parade coverage.

— Carl Kozlowski

Christmas for Everyone Dinner in the Park is part of the Pasadena Way. —André Coleman

life ......................................................................... 13 Restaurant Review...................................13 Advice ....................................................19

Home Sales ............................................ 20 Wheels .................................................. 22

welcome to pasadena ............................................29 arts ........................................................................25 Into the Night.......................................... 27 Trax ...................................................... 28

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classifieds ..............................................................52 8 days ....................................................................62 @pasadenaweekly.com VIRAL VISION: CalPhil scores 34 million hits and counting with video of hip-hop take on ‘The Nutcracker’ ABOUT THE COVER: Cover photo illustration and design by Carla Cortez.

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ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED Your publication seems in favor of gun control and had a pro-gun control cartoon with the Letters to the Editor section. On page 23, however, was “Gunslinger Auctions” as a suggestion for giftgiving among other businesses listed.

Because of events in San Bernardino and your seeming support for gun control, insensitivity and a certain disconnect on the part of Pasadena Weekly can only be discerned in the Dec. 10 edition. ~ JOHN TOWNSEND, SOUTH PASADENA

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Councilman John Kennedy, We have spent a significant portion of our lives on the front line, speaking out when we believed inequities occurred. Now is another of those times!

Local newspapers have accurately quoted your response from a Pasadena City Council meeting. (“Judgment Day,” Dec. 10) Councilman, none of this makes any sense. For you to become aggrieved is something that we can understand. To get up and storm out of the council chambers is something we can respect. But to scold, berate and “sho’ put that preacher in his place” exceeds your authority on the Pasadena City Council.

We do not write this from a position of authority figures seeking to condemn you or anyone. We write only as people with a genuine emotional connection to this community, the black church in particular, with its keen understanding of the power

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it has within this community.

So please allow us to minimize the possibility of a misinterpretation by saying that we were fully embarrassed, confused and very disappointed. Your shameful deportment was stunning. It’s this level of disappointment that comes when a person we hold in high regard does or says something so offensive that one feels compelled to respond.

To be frank, we have developed a respect, love and appreciation for this office of our local pastors, so this response equally reflects most of their sentiments.

The very stakeholders who granted you various platforms to share your vision and seek support when you campaigned for the City Council question your motives and speculate why you would consider it beneficial to blast Pastor William Turner who was exercising his right of freedom of speech.

As you know, others and I, Joe Brown, also spoke during public comments. Yes, I departed after your

tirade because I could no longer sit and watch the verbal lashing and scolding you leveled at Pastor Turner. And, neither did I have the stomach to continue to wait and hope you would return and apologize to the city and the attendees. In the interests of still honoring the office of our clerics, apologies will go a long way.

And to be clear, as social-justice advocates, the part we found most disappointing was when, after encouraging many in this community to come together and share around a cause that historically has yielded positive change in our community, opposing comments were not welcomed. Diverse comments can give continual birth to changes for economic, social and civil rights.

They can also help continue progress in the Pasadena Unified School District educational system and reform efforts in the Pasadena Police Department.

We believe you would agree that leveling words of intolerance toward others who speak on non-agendized items hinders future dialogue.

There has been a failure on your part to explain how ridiculous a stakeholder [Turner] was to express his point.

We raise these issues without expecting a response, but in hopes that it may plant a seed that will produce a shift in your thinking that will be reflected in your future actions.

In closing, we sincerely hope that the rationale for such an emotional response and the intent of this letter were fully conveyed.

More importantly, it is our hope that the statements noted above will be considered. And if our prayers are answered, maybe some of them will be applied.

This community supports each council member’s efforts to improve the quality of life for residents and act as a model for others. We hope this letter reminds you of how instrumental your leadership has been when it wasn’t used for a political ploy. ~ JOE BROWN FORMER PRESIDENT, NAACP PASADENA BRANCH DEACON VELTON PAFFETT FORMER PRESIDENT, MENTORING PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

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Today, I grudgingly paid a $100 bill from Huntington Hospital for a trip to the emergency room on Sept. 23.

Shortly after 10 that night I checked into the emergency room, following complications from a recent surgery. For the next five hours I endured the discomforts of a hardbacked chair, blaring big-screen television and glaring fluorescent lights in the triage center, named for its wealthy benefactors Philip D. and Lois S. Matthews.

By accident or design, the end table was devoid of reading material.

Only an occasional trip to the vending machine alleviated the boredom that was worse than the pain.

Shortly after 3 a.m., I was finally given a bed — too short for my sixfoot four-inch frame. All I could do was curl up and wait for a doctor.

Huntington Hospital boasts a world-class facility with state-of-theart medical care. A plaque on the triage center wall welcomes patients to “the finest community-based medical center in Southern California.” But I defy President and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Ralph to spend one night in a waiting room that has all of the ambience and amenities of a bus station.

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FROM THE WEB: Re: “No Place for Black People,” May 7, 2014 You’re absolutely right. I was watching this with my wife and turned it off after the first time it was said. Can’t understand why they felt they could go on and say it two more times. Then we Googled the IMDB info for the show and saw the all-white production crew and cast. Then we Googled reviews that mentioned the racism and only yours came up. So disappointed that a show people have been raving about is so clueless about race and the world, like the commenters below. It’s sad how racism gets this automatic defense, while truth and justice is such a slow fight. I’m a white man and we’re not all like these people in Hollywood, or like these anonymous little monsters on the Internet. I’m sorry for your hurt and thank you for writing this. ~ TTALLER FOR

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The Passion Principle THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE TREADS ON PERILOUS GROUND WITH BERNIE SANDERS Bernie Sanders

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he third Democratic presidential candidate’s debate came in a distant second in the news headline game to the public warfare that’s erupted between presidential contender Bernie Sanders and the Democratic National Committee.

The charges and countercharges between Sanders and the DNC over access to voter data were bad enough. But they were made even worse by the now near-manic calls to dump DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for mismanagement, incompetence and micromanaging the campaign and the debates in order to coronate Hillary Clinton as the party’s nominee.

The far more serious issue is whether this controversy could ignite the same type of implosion that’s often talked about regarding Donald Trump and the GOP. This fear is real, because there is a real hazard here, one that begins and ends with Sanders.

The Vermont Independent has virtually singlehandedly revved up a huge part of the Democratic base that, to be charitable, has a lukewarm interest in Clinton. The far less flattering characterization is that a big swath of that base has flatly said that it would stay home on Election Day or write in Sanders’ name if Clinton is tapped as the nominee. Legions of progressive Democrats relentlessly pound Clinton as a hawkish centrist beholden to Wall Street. And it seems that no matter what the former secretary of state says to dispel this notion, it hasn’t been enough to counter deep anti-Clinton sentiment among countless Democrats.

Many Democrats smugly believe that the nasty public cat fighting between Trump and other GOP contenders, and the alliance that Democrats supposedly have with blacks, Hispanics, middle-income families, middle-class women, LGBT voters and Millennials, offers an ironclad guarantee that their party will win the White House. That’s a major mistake.

Obama forged his winning coalition based less on political interests than his charisma and the passion people had for his candidacy.

Obama stirred the feeling of hope that his election was a big break from the stodgy, backroom, good ole boy, Big Money-controlled politics of Washington bureaucrats and hacks. This is why many disconnected voters came out in droves in 2008 and 2012 and tipped several of the crucial swing states to Obama. Without their votes, those elections might have easily been cliffhangers, if not a defeat for the Democrats, especially in 2012.

As for counting on the GOP imploding, that’s even a bigger mistake. The GOP now controls the majority of state legislatures. It also has a king’s ransom in campaign cash, a well-oiled RNC campaign machine and lots of media outlets behind it. Plus, if the nominee is Sen. Ted Cruz, highly energized ultra-conservatives, especially white evangelicals, will be flocking to the polls in huge numbers. None of this will assure a GOP win in November, but it could turn the contest into a real horserace.

Sanders is the key to assuring that the millions of voters that the Democrats need at the polls next year actually show up. Sanders may be an Independent, but if he doesn’t get the nomination he’ll endorse Clinton. The real test will be how the Clinton campaign treats him.

That tracks right back to how the DNC treats Sanders. If they marginalize, humiliate, or kick him to the curb, this will simply reinforce the idea that the DNC and Clinton are handmaidens of corporate special interests and anything but democratic. Even if the DNC wines and dines Sanders and hoists him to a party throne, this won’t necessarily placate the worst of the disaffected Democratic voters who Obama successfully brought to the polls.

In the final analysis, Clinton will have much fence-mending to do with Sanders. How much and how effective it will be is not yet known. That’s because Clinton is, in truth, the rock-solid establishment Democrat that much of Sanders’ base or supporters are suspicious of or can’t stomach. She’ll walk a tightrope trying to appease both major corporate donors and Sanders’ very anti-corporate supporters. His populist, economic remake is anathema to them, which comes back to the DNC. It will walk the same tightrope between the two to placate Sanders and his supporters.

The 2016 race will again be a numbers and a passion game. Clinton will need all of both to win. But those numbers and that passion can only come from one place, and that is from the supporters of Bernie Sanders. ■ Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His latest book is “Trump and the GOP: Race Baiting to the White House” (Amazon Kindle). He is a frequent MSNBC contributor, an associate editor of New America Media and a weekly co-host of “The Al Sharpton Show” on Radio One. He is also the host of “The Hutchinson Report” each week on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles and the Pacifica Radio Network.

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A FOND FAREWELL STEPHANIE EDWARDS AND BOB EUBANKS CALL IT QUITS AS HOSTS OF KTLA’S ROSE PARADE COVERAGE

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or the past 34 years, millions of people around the world have started the New Year by watching the Rose Parade, hosted by uniquely spirited KTLA Channel 5 commentators Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards.

But that tradition will be coming to an end next week following the parade’s 2016 edition, as Eubanks and Edwards have decided to call it quits after the final float fades out of sight. The decision, said both longtime local personalities, was borne out of a desire to leave the event while they were still popular, rather than being forced out someday.

“Bob called me last January and said I want you to know I’m going to hang it up,” says Edwards. “I said I was thinking the same thing.

We felt it was good to withdraw while we still felt strong and turn it over to new voices and new faces.”

“It was Stephanie’s idea originally,” counters Eubanks in a

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separate interview, offering an example of how the pair playfully disagrees on a near-constant basis.

“I said, ‘Are you crazy?’” Eubanks exclaims. “This is the easiest money we make.”

But seriously, Eubanks, who turns 78 on Jan. 8, has been working the parade for 37 years, and “I didn’t want anyone coming to say were going to replace you,” he says. “We wanted to go out on our terms while we’re ahead. Our ratings still double all the others combined in the LA area.”

Leeza Gibbons, host of “America Now,” “Entertainment Tonight” and her own talk show “Leeza,” and Mark Steines, formerly of “”Entertainment Tonight” and host of the Hallmark Channel’s “Home & Family,” will take over for Eubanks and Edwards in 2017, KTLA President and General Manager Don Corsini announced last week.

You never know how popular a great idea can become.

That’s a fact that California Philharmonic Maestro Victor Vener has learned in the past several days, as a cellphone video of the orchestra’s “CalPhil Sleigh Ride Holiday Spectacular” show on Dec. 12 became a viral sensation, with more than 34 million views across Facebook and Youtube accounts through Tuesday.

The video in question was shot by an audience member in the packed Pasadena Civic Auditorium and depicts a trio of hip-hop dancers led by Cyrus “Glitch” Spencer — a top contestant on Season 9 of the FOX TV hit “So You Think You Can Dance” — as they bring dazzling new moves to a key segment of “The Nutcracker.” Vener hatched the idea of combining the urban moves with classical grooves after watching an episode of “Dance” and dreaming about what a mash-up of the two musical genres would be like.

“It’s unearthly, because who could imagine tens of millions of people in one week?” marveled Vener. “I don’t even know what the number is, but it went up thousands every couple of minutes Monday. It’s a real spiritual blessing for me to reach so many people, because my mission in life and CalPhil’s mission is to bring the finest performances to the widest audience. I thought playing the Rose Bowl or outdoor concerts was good, but to see 30 to 40 million have a few minutes of enjoyment is a real blessing.”

Once Vener dreamed up the idea, it was up to CalPhil’s executive director Brandon Dobbins to make it a reality. Knowing that Vener was a fan of Spencer’s choreography on “Dance,” he tracked the dancer down and offered him the opportunity.

While Spencer did a terrific job choreographing and performing with his dance crew, the experience was a surprising one to even himself. After all, he had not ever seen a symphony orchestra live in action, much less attempted to dance to the music of one.

“It’s pretty awesome, because we expected a large crowd to enjoy it, but we didn’t expect 32 million people,” said Spencer. ■ — Carl Kozlowski To see the video, visit youtube.com/watch?v=sb4mJ1zTLK4.

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DINNER IN THE PARK IS PART OF THE PASADENA WAY

BY ANDRÉ COLEMAN

Union Station Homeless Services will once again be spreading holiday joy on Christmas Day in Central Park by serving thousands of hot meals at the 43rd annual Dinner in the Rabbi Marvin Gross Park.

Since 1972 volunteers have served thousands of warm holiday meals to the homeless, hungry and lonely.

“The event brings the community together!” said Ginger Mort, a member of the Los Angeles Disney Volunteer Leadership Council and a Union Station Dinner in the Park volunteer since 2001.

“Even if it is for one day, hopefully one day leads to another and another and so on and so on,” she said.

The agency expects to serve hundreds more plates of food to the needy this Christmas, due largely to the event’s popularity since construction of the Gold Line near the park in the early 2000s.

The Christmastime tradition follows a Thanksgiving Day dinner in the park in which volunteers with Union Station serve more than 3,500 plates of food.

The Christmas Day event is sponsored by several local organizations and businesses, including the Pasadena Convention Center, the Pasadena Credit Union and Whole Foods Market.

“Dinner in the Park is truly a community event and simply would not be possible without the help of dedicated volunteers and dozens of businesses who make this event such a success,” said Marv Gross, CEO of Union Station.

Union Station Homeless Services is still in need of nonperishable food donations. A list of items needed can be found at unionstationhs.org/event/dinner-in-thepark-2015.

Supplies can be dropped off at 412 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena. Due to city Health Department regulations, Union Station is no longer able to accept turkeys or prepared food donations at the event. ■

SHAKING THINGS UP CONGRESS INCREASES FUNDING FOR EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM

BY ANDRÉ COLEMAN

Congress has included $8.2 million for the Earthquake Early Warning System in its proposed budget for the coming year, “a very substantial Adam Schiff sum in these budget constrained times,” said US Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank).

“The Early Warning System will give us critical time for trains to be slowed and surgeries to be stopped before shaking hits — saving lives and protecting infrastructure,” said Schiff.

Schiff called the early warning system “an investment we need to make now, not after the ‘big one’ hits.”

Earlier this year, Schiff led a group of 35 members of Congress — primarily from California, Washington and Oregon — in requesting that the House Appropriations Committee fund an Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast.

The system is currently being developed by scientists with Caltech, UC Berkeley, the University of Washington and the University of Oregon, in conjunction with the US Geological Survey (USGS).

According to the USGS, 42 states have a “reasonable” chance of experiencing damaging ground shaking from an earthquake, and 16 of those states have a relatively high likelihood of sustaining damage.

The system, which would send alerts to cell phones and emails, could provide residents with a warning seconds or even minutes before an earthquake hits, depending on the location’s distance from the epicenter. It could be used for such things as stopping elevators and closing off gas lines and shutting down other utilities near the quake’s epicenter.

A limited system has already been deployed. It will cost an estimated $38.2 million to build a full system for the West Coast, with annual operating and maintenance costs of $16.1 million.

Similar systems are in place in Mexico and Japan. Japan’s system has given residents there up to a two-minute warning of an impending quake. According to the USGS, those systems were not put into place until after devastating quakes caused hundreds of deaths.

“By increasing the funding for the West Coast Earthquake Early Warning System, Congress is sending a message to the western states that it supports this life-saving system,” Schiff wrote in a statement.

“But the federal government cannot do it alone and will need local stakeholders, both public and private, to get behind the effort with their own resources,” said Schiff. ■ 10 PASADENA WEEKLY | 12.24.15

“We’re there to treat the parade as an event and give the audience info we think they want to know about. I talk about horses, Steph talks about bands.

We treat it as an event. The parade is the star, not the hosts, so that’s how it all came down.”

— Bob Eubanks

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Eubanks started his run hosting the parade in 1979, three years before Edwards, following a successful career in which he produced the Beatles’ tours for all three years they appeared in the US and hosted the long-running hit game show “The Newlywed Game.” He had a long history on the Channel 5 lot, having hosted the music show “Hit or Miss” there in 1964, and shooting “The Newlywed Game” there as well.

Meanwhile, Edwards, who turned 72 in November, was a long-time host of several popular LA morning news shows and spokeswoman for the Lucky grocery store chain. They were magic together from the start, with Edwards trying to convey every possible detail she could about each float, while Eubanks often wisecracked about her overdoing the commentary.

“Our personalities work so well together, because we have a similar kind of sense of humor,” says Eubanks, who hosted his first two parades with actress Barbara Feldon of “Get Smart” fame and the third with sportscaster Jayne Kennedy. “I get a kick out of her because she wants to disseminate all the info she has, even as she leans forward to watch a float way down the boulevard. I won’t miss anything, but I will have great, great memories.”

“Part of the ribbing from Bob is that he chuckles about the fact that there are so many facts I want to share,” adds Edwards. “I want to talk about the 40 million flowers and 3,500 tons of dried materials, the 4,100 tons of steel, and the half-million feet of chicken wire, and that’s just what’s on the floats. I’ve

been trying to tell the audience for years about the three kinds of glue on a float but we never get to it.

He laughs that I follow a float right down to the last second you see it, whereas he has a sense of what’s really crucial.”

As the projected audience of 51.9 million Americans and millions more in countries around the world prepare to tune in, Eubanks is already contemplating his life after the parade. For one thing, he and his family are already planning their first genuine holiday vacation in 38 years for next year. And, Eubanks says. “I won’t miss going to bed at 8 o’clock and waking up at 3.

“I plan to speak more to corporate America, and I put together a one-hour show called ‘Backstage with the Beatles,’ with stories and photos that have never been heard or seen before,” said Eubanks. “I’m also producing a children’s soccer movie called ‘Goals to Glory.’ So I’m going to be really busy.”

But, as even Eubanks would say, enough about him. The magic of his coverage with Edwards came from being selflessly focused on the parade.

“What I believe makes us different is we’re not there to plug any other shows, advance any career,” says Eubanks. “We’re there to treat the parade as an event and give the audience info we think they want to know about. I talk about horses, Steph talks about bands. We treat it as an event. The parade is the star, not the hosts, so that’s how it all came down.” ■ The 2016 Rose Parade will air at 8 a.m. Friday on KTLA Channel 5 and be repeated throughout the day.

THE COUNT As of Monday, 348 days after the war in Afghanistan ended …

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American military service members (6 more than last week) were reported killed in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001, according to The Associated Press.

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US troops were killed and 2 others injured on Monday when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle drove into a patrol in Afghanistan.

The incident is the deadliest attack on international forces since August.

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women have been arrested in Syria for violating an Islamic dress code imposed by the radical group.

The group mandates women wear burqas that cover the entire body and face with a mesh screen over their eyes.

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head of state has threatened to use nuclear weapons against ISIS. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would “liquidate jihadis with nuclear warheads if conventional bombing raids fail to destroy the terror group.”

— Compiled by André Coleman

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’ve been inordinately fond of Denmark ever since I found out as a child that Victor Borge was Danish. The Copenhagen Zoo’s unconscionable actions over the past couple of years tempered my opinion a bit, but the Danes did protect their Jewish population during World War II. Moreover they happen to make some of the best pastry on the planet, and about a year ago a bakery specializing in Danish pastry opened its doors in East Pasadena.

I’m selfi shly submitting this review of Copenhagen Pastry for our Christmas Eve issue, too late for readers to rush over and deplete the shelves before I can load up on Christmas morning treats. Of course most lovers of traditional Danish pastry will have already discovered the bakery on their own. And the LA Times’ selection of Copenhagen’s adorable marzipan pigs ($15) as a “best gift idea for foodies” a couple

of weeks back will have clued in others. (I made off with two of the little fellas in mid-December, but the store was already running out.)

Speaking of marzipan, almond paste is a major ingredient in about half of Copenhagen’s creations. Another major ingredient in almost everything they make is butter. All the pastries I’ve tasted so far have been infused with the fragrance, fl avor and feel of it, sinfully so. And while most of Copenhagen’s baked goods are outwardly rather plain, their quality is undeniable.

As my old granny used to say “Beauty is as beauty does” and “If you put good things in; you’ll get good things out.”

Both axioms apply to Copenhagen’s goods. One bite of their unprepossessing “coffee bread” and it’s likely the surprise of its almond meringue topping (crunchy shell and soft interior) will produce a momentary ecstasy at the unexpected complexity of CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

MARGARITA’S 155 S. Rosemead Blvd., Pasadena (626) 449-4193, margaritasmexicanfood.com $$ MEAT DISTRICT CO. 69 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena (626) 965-9902 Meatdistrictco.com $$$ People are hooked! Meat District’s signature dish, The Meat Hook, boasts 10 oz of succulent chunks of 100% natural ‘Never Ever’ (hormone, steroid and antibiotic free) prime dry aged, for a minimum of 21 days, NY sirloin, rib eye and filet with peppers, onions and corn with creamy pepper sauce.

Creatively presented, The Meat Hook is served with a choice of fries or garden salad.

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LUNASIA DIMSUM HOUSE 239 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 793-8822 Lunasiadimsumhouse.com $$ Lunasia Dimsum House is known for its delectable Chinese dishes and dimsum, a style of Cantonese food prepared as “small bites.” Dimsum is served all day.

NEW DELHI PALACE 950 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 405-0666 newdelhipalacepasadena.com $$

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texture and flavor.

Ditto for Copenhagen’s kringle. If you want to get one in the traditional round or pretzel shape, you’ll have to opt for their large version ($11), but for $1.95 (the same price as all 16 individual pastries they stock) you can get a good sized rectangular slab, layered with butter, custard and almond paste, the top sprinkled with sugar and sliced almonds.

Kringles, by the way, are probably the single pastry most identified with Danish bakers. According to Wikipedia (I “heart” Wikipedia), a gold pretzelshaped kringle with a royal crown atop it is the official symbol of the Danish baker’s guild and is hung as an identifying marker outside many bakeries in Denmark. In 2013, the kringle became the official state pastry of Wisconsin. Not bad for this deceptively simple goodie.

There’s even a kringle joke: Lars Larson was on his deathbed. He was roused by the aroma of freshly baked kringles wafting up from the kitchen and mustered all his strength to make his way downstairs. Just as he was reaching for a piece, his wife saw him and swatted away his hand. “Stop that,” she said. “These are for your funeral.”

Nevertheless, despite the international renown of kringles, I think my favorite of Copenhagen’s individual pastries is the slightly more fl amboyant (due to its ruby-hued purée) raspberry macaroon — almond paste, custard and raspberry on a flaky puff pastry bottom, its top covered with crisped almond macaroon and sliced almonds.

Then there are the so-called morning pastries, including a “poppy” fashioned from flaky puff pastry thickly carpeted with poppy seeds ($1.60). For the same price, you can get it in a twist with sesame seeds sprinkled among the poppy seeds. Both derive their relatively subtle sweetness from the remonce (a blend of sugar and butter) with which they are basted.

Copenhagen’s five small dessert cakes (each $2.35) are the dressiest. The almond mazarin is a triangular pastry (like a miniature piece of pie) with a buttery cookie dough crust, creamy almond fi lling and a topping of almond brittle. Its sides and bottom 14 PASADENA WEEKLY | 12.24.15

are dipped in dark Belgian chocolate. (You can buy a full size mazarin for $16.)

The “coconut top” is a pyramidal macaroon with a toasted cap and soft center. Its base, like that of the mazarin, is coated with dark chocolate. Ditto for the “Napoleon hat” whose tricorne (OK — so it’s not quite the shape of Napoleon’s bicorne) cookie crust envelope conceals a ball of marzipan, and for the small kransekake, a rectangular sample of a pure almond paste confection usually far more spectacularly fashioned into a multi-layered wreath (kranse) or crown.

The most idiosyncratic of Copenhagen’s dessert cakes is the romkugle, a luscious cross between chocolate cake and truffle. The super moist fi lling is laced with rum and rolled in dark chocolate and sprinkles. It’s surprisingly dense, not as sweet as you might think to look at it, and, may I add, totally addictive.

Lest you think all of Copenhagen’s baked goods are packed with sugar and butter, I must mention their morning rolls (plain, sesame or poppyseed — $1 apiece) which are only available on Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings. These little gems are perfect reheated in the oven, slathered with butter and preserves of one’s choosing, then savored with a cup or two of strong coffee or fragrant tea.

Also their rye bread ($6 for a loaf/$4 for a halfloaf)! Get Jewish and/or New York rye out of your head. Copenhagen’s recipe is dense and wholegrain, fi lled with rye berries, black flax, sunflower and sesame seeds. It’s high fiber, low sodium and sugarfree. Perfect to accompany savory Scandinavian snacks such as gravlax, pickled herring or, gawdforbid, lutefi sk!

Although they do sell coffee by the cup, Pasadena’s Copenhagen (like its older sister in Culver City) is not a café and doesn’t have chairs or tables to encourage hanging out. As their website states: they “encourage customers to take their purchases to a place where the pastries can be shared with family and friends in a relaxed, cozy setting.” And, now that I’ve got my Christmas stash, I encourage you to visit Copenhagen and do the same.■

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BY PATTI CARMALT-VENER

Christmas Gifts BEING A GOOD A PARTNER IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS PICKING ONE

Dear Patti, Four years ago, I remarried at age 57. I was thrilled as I adored my husband (and still do), but no matter how hard we tried, we just couldn’t seem to merge our respectively wellestablished lives. The biggest issue is that I never connected meaningfully with his family.

I didn’t say too much about it but I felt as if they tolerated me and didn’t really want to get to know me. If I began talking about my own work or travels, they’d listen for a sentence or two and then resume talking and reminiscing with each other. Although none of our problems — including this one — were a big deal to me, I wanted to keep working on our marriage.

Frustrated, my husband insisted on separating three months ago. I was devastated but respectfully agreed to this, hoping it wasn’t permanent.

Two days ago, I came out of my office after work and my husband was standing by my car which was filled with beautifully wrapped Christmas presents. Many of them were from him but each of his children and grandchildren left a present for me, too. The very best gift is that he wants to get back together. His family wants me to come celebrate Christmas Eve with them. I’m beyond happy about it and want to be a part of their family but I’m also concerned I may not know how to get close to them. What skills should I be concentrating on to support our marriage since I’m lucky enough this Christmas to get him back?

— Michelle Dear Michelle, It’s not always easy assimilating with a family that’s already close-knit. For starters, begin looking at each family member as individuals rather than as a group, even if they’re always together. Write down all their names and list at least three topics each one is really interested in.

Even if it’s the same topic, personalize it. Embrace the conversation-starter rule of going from general to specific. If, for instance, one sister says she just got back from looking at Christmas lights in nearby neighborhoods, ask her what her favorite decorated home was and how her children like the excursion. If another sister is starting a new job, ask her more questions about its challenges and opportunities.

Write down at least three ways you could spend time with them as individuals or couples.

Have them over to your house and invite them to share your interests. If you love theater or music, for example, ask a couple to go with you and your husband. Always seize the opportunity when it arises for one-on-one interactions. Offer a teenage grandson driving lessons or go walking with your sister-in-law who wants to lose weight.

This approach takes time but if you’re patient and truly interested in each of them, they’ll eventually become more bonded with you. It’s also OK if you end up becoming closer to some more than others; that’s inevitable. Just make sure you make an individual effort with everyone and don’t leave anybody out.

Whenever you can, listen to your husband completely. Communication — verbal and nonverbal — is essential. Before contradicting his point of view, understand that his perceptions are real to him and shouldn’t be dismissed. If he says you pay more attention to your friends than him, even if you believe it’s not true, imagine what it’s like for him to feel ignored.

Everybody else should come second to your husband. The world is often challenging, and couples who protect each other’s back and put each other first are the richest. Always support his self- esteem. Believe in him, especially when he’s having trouble believing in himself. Value his needs and wishes. Remember to give the healing, nurturing gift of your love. Every time you take care of him, you’re also taking care of yourself.

While I encourage you both to keep trying to become a part of each other’s lives, it’s also important that you strive to merge and create a new life together. Your recognition that all good marriages have difficulties is crucial. Take responsibility, knowing a successful union isn’t about picking the right partner but becoming the right partner. Have a wonderful holiday and Christmas Eve celebration with your husband and family. ■ Patti Carmalt-Vener, a faculty member with the Southern California Society for Intensive Short Term Psychotherapy, has been a psychotherapist in private practice for 23 years and has 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.

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HOME SALES RECENT HOME CLOSINGS IN THE PASADENA WEEKLY FOOTPRINT

ADDRESS ALHAMBRA 309 La France Avenue 103 North Hidalgo Avenue 1132 South Stoneman Avenue 2240 Whitney Drive 115 North Almansor Street #34 2441 El Paseo ALTADENA 2455 Highland Avenue 2469 Holliston Avenue 3367 Canyon Crest Road 3031 Via Maderas Street 2835 Maiden Lane 235 East Palm Street ARCADIA 1415 Oaklawn Road 56 East Floral Avenue 1300 Rodeo Road 1506 Highland Oaks Drive 56 Eldorado Street #B 2844 Fairgreen Avenue 18 Fano Street #2 EAGLE ROCK 5213 Townsend Avenue 2522 Langdale Avenue 4727 Townsend Avenue GLENDALE 1104 East California Avenue 3448 Emerald Isle Drive 1368 Raymond Avenue 2200 Flintridge Drive 1435 Garden Street 1116 Marion Drive 1626 Ina Drive 306 North Jackson Street 710 Luring Drive 222 Monterey Road #701 910 Palm Drive 634 Fischer Street 1206 Graynold Avenue 1616 North Verdugo Road #105 2718 Piedmont Avenue #5 415 North Columbus Avenue 221 East Lexington Drive #207 450 West Dryden Street #302 1340 Glenwood Road #3 707 Orange Grove Avenue #7 1935 Alpha Road #321 312 North Louise Street #210

CLOSE DATE

PRICE

BDRMS. SQ. FT. YR. BUILT

12/03/15 12/03/15 12/02/15 12/03/15 12/01/15 12/02/15

$1,000,000 $729,000 $640,000 $617,000 $555,000 $548,000

4 4 3 5 3 2

3017 1788 1304 1736 1672 1284

1929 1913 1927 1951 1968 1936

12/07/15 12/07/15 12/04/15 12/04/15 12/01/15 12/02/15

$1,025,000 $825,000 $801,000 $780,000 $675,000 $495,000

2 2 3 3 3 3

2168 2264 1855 1858 1304 832

1929 1925 1965 1970 1946 1925

12/04/15 12/02/15 12/03/15 12/04/15 12/01/15 12/01/15 12/02/15

$5,350,000 $2,750,000 $2,375,000 $1,525,000 $870,000 $840,000 $775,000

5 3 4 3 0 3 3

6381 1646 3233 2124 0 1856 2333

2014 1937 1940 1951

12/07/15 12/04/15 12/03/15

$900,000 $890,000 $855,000

3 3 3

12/04/15 12/04/15 12/02/15 12/04/15 12/07/15 12/01/15 12/01/15 12/04/15 12/02/15 12/03/15 12/02/15 12/07/15 12/04/15 12/02/15 12/03/15 12/03/15 12/07/15 12/02/15 12/03/15 12/03/15 12/07/15 12/04/15

$1,535,000 $1,260,000 $1,040,000 $1,025,000 $860,000 $801,000 $797,000 $765,000 $738,000 $690,000 $675,000 $630,000 $595,000 $519,000 $461,500 $430,000 $410,000 $405,000 $399,000 $378,000 $336,000 $330,000

8 4 2 4 4 4 3 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

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PREV. PRICE

PREV. SOLD

$345,000 $400,000

03/30/2001 07/16/2003

$425,000

02/08/2013

$595,000 $400,000

08/31/2009 09/26/2007

$5,250,000 $1,150,000

12/24/2014 12/24/2014

1948 2000

$835,000 $659,000 $660,000

12/01/2015 06/24/2015 10/18/2006

1580 1694 1576

1925 1963 1924

$755,000 $870,000 $574,000

09/19/2012 03/20/2014 08/14/2015

5958 3172 1301 2829 2957 2021 2141 2342 1567 1864 1360 1456 1276 1475 1710 660 1335 987 1250 1028 1233 901

1932 1970 1925 1978 1952 1930 1999 1916 1941 1982 1936 1947 1939 2001 1979 1921 1974 1993 1985 1965 1969 1960

$650,000 $432,000 $600,000 $174,500

12/31/2002 02/10/1997 04/08/2014 09/15/1978

$296,000 $387,500 $930,000

12/08/1999 02/17/2000 08/21/2006

$600,000

01/16/2015

$441,000

08/05/2015

$445,000 $228,500 $265,000 $315,000 $295,500

12/20/2010 11/15/1999 12/01/2011 07/22/2003 12/14/2012

$137,000 $425,000 $162,500

08/01/1991 01/08/2007 12/11/2002

ADDRESS CLOSE DATE LA CAÑADA 949 Inverness Drive 12/02/15 5077 Princess Anne Road 12/07/15 314 Oriole Road 12/03/15 1516 Sugar Loaf Drive 12/04/15 4837 Carmel Road 12/04/15 1004 White Deer Drive 12/02/15 1304 Journeys End Drive 12/03/15 PASADENA 1681 San Pasqual Street 12/04/15 290 California Terrace 12/01/15 411 Gordon Terrace #1 12/07/15 865 Wright Avenue 12/02/15 3745 Ranch Top Road 12/01/15 1215 Wabash Street 12/01/15 65 Annandale Road 12/02/15 1865 North Hill Avenue 12/04/15 275 Patrician Way 12/02/15 1188 North Hill Avenue 12/03/15 260 Glenullen Drive 12/01/15 66 South Altadena Drive 12/03/15 321 South Orange Grove Blvd.

12/04/15 1090 Rocton Drive 12/07/15 2602 Dove Creek Lane #B 12/01/15 111 South Orange Grove Blvd. #300 12/04/15 1189 South Orange Grove Blvd.

12/07/15 3233 La Tierra Street 12/01/15 330 Cordova Street #341 12/02/15 2682 East Villa Street 12/07/15 1424 East Woodbury Road 12/03/15 1786 Asbury Drive 12/02/15 390 North Sunnyslope Avenue 12/04/15 330 Cordova Street #160 12/04/15 535 Westgate Street 12/03/15 77 North Michigan Avenue #16 12/02/15 355 South Los Robles Avenue #201 12/03/15 125 South Sierra Madre Blvd. #310 12/07/15 330 West California Blvd. #112 12/03/15 SAN MARINO 1310 Lorain Road 12/07/15 2790 Gainsborough Drive 12/01/15 2750 Canterbury Road 12/02/15 SIERRA MADRE 1925 Vista Avenue 12/01/15 443 West Highland Avenue 12/04/15 464 Mariposa Avenue 12/03/15 684 West Sierra Madre Blvd. #21 12/02/15 SOUTH PASADENA 1138 Oxley Street 12/02/15 801 Meridian Avenue #Q 12/03/15

source: CalREsource

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BDRMS. SQ. FT. YR. BUILT

PREV. PRICE

PREV. SOLD

$2,665,000 $1,735,000 $3,695,000 $2,350,000 $1,591,000 $1,490,000 $990,000

5 4 5 5 2 4 3

5061 3031 4301 4271 1417 2388 1666

1954 1948 1949 1957 1948 1967 1957

$1,500,000 $880,000 $1,912,500 $1,838,000 $681,000

08/01/2001 06/23/2000 08/28/2012 06/18/2013 05/09/2012

$4,300,000 $1,684,000 $1,425,000 $1,332,500 $1,323,000 $1,300,000 $1,125,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $965,000 $949,000 $728,000 $715,000 $687,500 $680,000 $655,000 $643,000 $640,000 $637,500 $624,000 $610,000 $600,000 $579,000 $575,000 $420,000 $375,000 $365,000 $352,500 $330,000

5 4 3 8 3 4 3 4 2 5 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 4 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1

4542 2687 2379 3969 2056 2544 1978 1927 2907 2708 1676 1644 1415 1660 1567 1713 1429 1525 1592 1273 936 945 982 1115 894 913 866 882 966

1999 1941 1981 1929 1960 1951 1931 1931 1951 1912 1951 2014 1957 1990 1988 1974 1960 1925 1981 1928 1949 1923 1925 1981 1951 1988 1972 1972 1974

$4,200,000 $1,225,000 $1,000,000 $1,237,500 $895,000

04/04/2013 07/21/2009 11/01/2011 12/03/2013 06/19/2015

$1,000,000

08/17/2006

$312,000

02/18/1998

$485,000 $270,000 $485,000 $137,500 $621,000 $425,000 $575,000

10/27/2003 12/16/1998 11/19/2010 05/25/1979 11/17/2005 04/16/2004 07/08/2005

$243,000 $480,000 $570,000 $380,000 $450,000

05/11/2001 08/14/2009 06/17/2008 08/15/2011 06/14/2005

$315,000 $270,000 $335,000

01/13/2015 07/31/2015 10/26/2006

$2,888,000 $2,250,000 $2,139,000

4 3 3

3596 2381 2115

1949 1938 1948

$430,000 $90,000 $1,500,000

04/05/1995 04/05/1976 04/01/2013

$1,260,000 $920,000 $629,000 $442,000

3 3 2 2

2372 1668 1505 988

1954 1888 1987 1963

$1,100,000 $440,000 $656,500 $235,000

01/15/2014 08/30/1999 07/03/2008 02/06/2013

$985,000 $682,000

3 2

1712 1392

1923 2005

$520,500

07/15/2005

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Drive-by Holiday MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS IN THE PASADENA OF YEARS PAST

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BY LAUREN HOLLAND

ome years ago (and I won’t say how many), I was a child of Pasadena, which was good thing, especially during the holidays. There were so many things to see and do.

My mother worked at the lunch counter at Woolworth’s. I would spend blustery cold afternoons sitting at the end of the counter sipping hot apple cider through a paper straw and wandering around the store looking at the eclectic collection of holiday decorations neatly arranged on the shelves.

If I was a very good girl, my mother would reward me near the end of her shift. I would return from wandering the isles to fi nd a saucer at my seat, a neat stack of Saltine crackers and two miniature candy canes! Sometimes, she would let me count up her tips for the day while she cleaned up behind the counter. Her with stacks of coffee cups, saucers and glasses, and me with rows of stacked quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies — cracker crumbs everywhere and the minty sweet tell-tale signs of red candy cane around my mouth.

On Christmas Eve, we would all pile into the family’s wood-panel station wagon. As the youngest, I was sent to scramble over the rear bench seat and ride in the station wagon’s seatless (and seatbeltless) cargo area. My sister (18 months older) took up a perch opposite me in the back of the wagon.

The rear seat was reserved for our elder sister and brother. My Dad had disconnected the buzzer wires on the sensors and the seatbelts were shoved haphazardly into the red patent leather cracks between the front and back bench seats.

Even though the roughly carpeted backseat was less comfortable than the center of the benches, and we had to hold on tightly during a sharp turn, everybody wanted a window seat for our annual Christmas Eve ride. Besides, my brother was of an age where flatulence was his weapon of choice in his ongoing war with his little sisters, and the center of the front seat was occupied by a Styrofoam cooler full of Hamm’s beer.

The blue and silver cans might have struck me as having holiday flair of their own, had they not been a daily feature of our lives. In fact, any time my Dad was driving after noon or so, you could always find one of those blue and silver cans perched in his right hand or resting on the seat between his legs. My mother, who couldn’t hold her liquor and therefore rarely if ever drank, sat (sober as a pin) dutifully in the front passenger seat while my inebriated father took his un-tethered brood on a driving tour of the Pasadena area’s best holiday decoration offerings.

The fi rst “stop” was a rolling tour through Hasting’s Ranch. My face plastered to the rear window I was in awe of the neatly manicured lawns with matching decorations on each street. We went slowly and the local AM country music station (KLAC) played holiday classics through the car speakers.

After what seemed like forever, we would wind our way out of Hasting’s Ranch and make our way over to New York Drive and then up Allen to the Balian Mansion on Mendocino Lane. Here, depending on how cold it was, we got to get out of the car and walk the length of the house’s south and west side, decked out in what to my young Santa-believing eyes was on par with the North Pole. Back then the Balian’s handed out little cups of ice cream that we ate with the little wooden spoons provided. I loved the strawberry swirl and ate it all, even though it was so cold outside.

We would all pile back in the station wagon and drive across Mendocino, past Lake Avenue to “Christmas Tree Lane” (Santa Rosa Avenue in Altadena). The car’s heater never quite reached the cargo hatch and I was usually tired but too cold to fall asleep. But, when we pulled into the driveway, I would shut my eyes tight and pretend. And my father, smelling of cigarettes, beer, and sawdust would carry me up the stairs and put me in my warm bed.

Christmas morning was always magical. I would wake to the sounds and smells of every imaginable pork product sizzling on the stove. Mom was in the kitchen, Dad still in bed, Santa’s milk and cookies gone and presents under the tree.

A lot has changed since then. Kids don’t ride their second-hand bikes up and down residential streets, seatbelts are the rule, drinking and driving is much less prevalent, and pork is apparently bad for you. The Balian’s don’t hand out ice cream anymore … but Pasadena is still an awesome place to be a kid at Christmastime. ■ 22 PASADENA WEEKLY | 12.24.15

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SWEET SOUNDS

The Sweet Note plays jazz during Jazz Brunch at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at redwhite+bluezz, 37 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena.

No cover. Call (626) 792-4441 or visit redwhite-

bluezz.com.

JAZZ PERFORMANCE

The Richard Glaser Quartet plays jazz from 7 to 11 p.m. Sundays at The Barkley, 1400 Huntington Drive, South Pasadena.

No cover. Call (626) 799-0758 or visit thebarkleyrestaurant.com.

GREAT FUN ON GREEN

KWANZA CELEBRATION

The Pasadena Public Library’s La Pintoresca Branch honors Kwanza with music, stories and tasty dishes prepared by the Pasadena Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at 1355 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena. Call (626) 744-7268 or visit pasadenapubliclibrary.net.

THE FREE LIVE ON GREEN FAMILY FESTIVAL OFFERS NEW WAYS TO CELEBRATE PRIOR TO THE ROSE PARADE AND ROSE BOWL GAME

BY CARL KOZLOWSKI

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he week after Christmas has long been the biggest time of the year in Pasadena, with hundreds of thousands of tourists hitting town and looking for fun and adventure leading up to the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl College Football Game on New Year’s Day. There is much to see and do. For instance, Bandfest enables fans to check out early performances by all of the marching bands that perform in the parade, and equestrian shows are always fun, while parade float viewing is another popular way to spend the week.

This year, a giant new event is launching in the Crown City, a free family festival called Live on Green that takes place Tuesday through Thursday at the Pasadena Convention Center on East Green Street.

Featuring several pavilions housing themed activities that pay tribute to the parade and the game, as well as the centennial anniversary of the National Park Service, the festival is expected to make a big splash on the city’s broader family-friendly celebration scene.

“We are all local folks and have wanted to do something in Pasadena for a long time,” says Alessandra Schulman, executive producer of Live on Green for the Glendale events promotions fi rm Huerta Quorum.

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FUN FLICK

The romantic comedy “New Year’s Eve” (2011), following several singles and couples in New York City on New Year’s Eve, screens for free at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Pasadena Prublic Library’s Central Branch, 285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena.

Call (626) 744-4066 or visit pasadenapubliclibrary.net.

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ADVENTURE ON GREEN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 25 Bowl celebration,” says Schulman. For Super Bowl XLIX earlier this year in Scottsdale, Arizona, “we put on the fan fest for the ESPN broadcast village, a seven-day event for their live broadcast,” she says.

“We came back and said we should be doing this in Pasadena.”

The agency’s passion for creating Live on Green stems from the fact that its staff is almost entirely comprised of residents of Pasadena and its surrounding communities, including Sierra Madre and Altadena. They officially launched preparations in April, meeting with Tournament of Roses official as well as Convention Center CEO Mike Ross to set up a plan and gain permission.

From the outset, organizers sought to make this an event that would hold timeless appeal, with activities aimed at people “ranging from 2 years old to 100,” says one of the organization’s media releases. As such, Live on Green features both extensive interactive play areas for children and stimulating author discussions for adults among the many activities.

The festival is organized around five pavilions called Pillars, each of which has a particular focus.

Pillar 1 greets visitors and kicks off their experience with a variety of display and interactive pieces.

Interactive New Year’s resolution postings, a National Parks exhibit and interactive displays with National Parks web cams bring the park system to life for new generations. This year’s parade theme, “Find Your Adventure,” aims to honor the National Parks Service’s 100th birthday.

In addition, visitors can sign up for the “Live on Green” selfie scavenger hunt, visit an Air Force popup souvenir shop, or learn about several important local charities, such as the Union Station Homeless Services.

Pillar 2 focuses on the Rose Parade itself, with exhibits that teach visitors about the engineering and artistry involved in creating the floats. People can also enjoy a video wall screening of past parades and Rose Bowls as they learn about the respective histories of the two national institutions. There will also be a virtual tour of Tournament House and a special tribute to master float builder Raul Rodriguez, a resident of Pasadena who died of heart failure in February at the age of 71. In addition, a pop-up souvenir shop is available at the pavilion.

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ily centered around a Pac-12 and Big Ten theme in keeping with the athletic conferences represented in the game. There are game and skill competitions like football tosses, soccer kicks and basketball free throws for the whole family, along with kids’ clinics and sports instructions.

Also in Pillar 3, the Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA Mobile Unit promotes animal rescue and pet care, while ice skating exhibitions take place next door in the city’s skating rink. A sidewalk cafe will offer delicious drinks, soft pretzels, ice cream and yogurt, popcorn and more. There will also be Face painting, balloon twisting and street performers on hand.

There will be two locations on the site where alcohol will be sold. Alcoholic drinks will be prohibited in the Pillar 3 area, the Coaches’ Challenge Family Fun Zone, says Schulman.

In Pillar 4, Chef Ben Ford will be in charge of the culinary offerings, having officially earned his cooking stripes at some of the country’s most established restaurants and alongside several iconic American chefs. He claims to have opened the fi rst gastropub in the nation, which grew into Ford’s Filling Station at LAX Delta and Ford’s Filling Station at LA Live, which were awarded the prestigious Cochon555 prize.

Pillar 5 is where the live entertainment will be located, as the festival celebrates Pasadena’s many diverse offerings — from the Pasadena Playhouse and Gamble House to the many entertainers who live and perform in the area. Live music, live comedy, a Pasadena Playhouse mini-performance and speakers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech speaker series will make this pavilion a who’s who and what’s what display of Pasadena.

“By showing the public the vast expanse of our national parks, the National Park Service wants to foster the next generation of park-goers, and we said ‘Let’s team up,’” says Schulman. “There’s over 20,000 feet of exhibit space, more than 100 rangers, a rock wall, a kayaking demo, and even a nature walk within the exhibit area. It’s a replica … we’re not going out in nature, but they’re bringing aspects in to show what kind of parks there are.” ■ The Live on Green family festival will take place from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, New Year’s Eve, at the Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E. Green St., Pasadena. Admission is free. Visit liveongreenpasadena.com.

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PASADENA, SOUTH PASADENA & ALTADENA 1881 Bar 1881 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena (626) 794-3068 pasadena-bars.com/1881-club Live entertainment on select nights of the week The Boulevard Bar 3199 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena (626) 356-9304 blvdbar.com Fridays—Drag performances hosted by Tia Wanna every Friday Cabrera’s Mexican Cuisine 655 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena (626) 795-0230 cabreras.com Thursdays—Live jazz Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays—Karaoke Coffee Gallery Backstage 2029 N. Lake Ave., Altadena (626) 798-6236 coffeegallery.com Live music most nights of the week

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Coffee Gallery Community Stage 2029 N. Lake Ave., Altadena (626) 398-7917 coffeegallery.com Thursdays—Artisan Alley w/ two musical acts, two musical open mics, works of a featured artist, DJ and fresh barbecue

Fridays—Music open mic Saturdays—Potlikker Showcase w/musical performers, poets, spoken word, Americana music and deejay Sundays—Music open mic hosted by King Tuesdays—Comedy open mic El Portal Restaurant 695 E. Green St., Pasadena (626) 795-8553 elportalrestaurant.com Fridays—Mariachi México Saturdays—Alanniz Sundays—Mariachi Bella Esquire Bar & Lounge 3772 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena (626) 795-0360 esquirebar.com Friday & Saturday—DJ Ice House 24 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena (626) 577-1894 icehousecomedy.com Thursday—Closed Friday—Jo Koy Saturday—Jo Koy Sunday—Jo Koy Wednesday—Comedy Madness Kings Row Gastropub 20 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 793-3010 kingsrowpub.com Saturday—Steel Rod Sunday—Reggae Sunday w/My Reggae Band MEOWMEOWZ! 2423 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 798-6969 facebook.com/meowmeowz –CONTINUED ON PAGE 28

SEARCHING FOR MUSICAL LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

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t’s holiday time, and I’m looking, and listening, for what once seemed to define the world all around me. I’m driven by something more visceral than nostalgia, although that inevitably factors in too. The trigger for all this is Christmas music.

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Lightnin’ Hopkins’ “Santa.”

Otis Redding’s “Merry Christmas, Baby.” Ella Fitzgerald’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

Willie Nelson’s “Pretty Paper.” Joni Mitchell’s “River.” The songs are everywhere, from home to car to work to store and back again, recorded by successive generations of artists.

This is my favorite time of year, when people renew connections amidst frenzied activity and communal celebration. When I left home and packed my hatchback for the cross-country drive to California, one of the first boxes I loaded into the back seat cradled Christmas ornaments made by my grandmother and her friends. They still hold pride of place on my tree.

I gaze at them while listening to one of the few holiday records played on my grandparents’ stereo when I was little. This is where nostalgia slips in: It doesn’t feel like Christmas until I hear Mahalia

Jackson singing “Silver Bells,” Robert Goulet cheesily asking “Do You Hear What I Hear,” and Cary Grant reciting “Christmas Lullaby.”

They remind me of my dearly missed grandparents, how safe I felt in their blue-carpeted home, and how they and my mom made it feel like the whole world glowed with twinkly lights and kindness and Christmas carols.

Next I spin perennials that are traditional to me: Koko Taylor wailing “Merry, Merry Christmas,” Norah Jones quietly singing Horace Silver’s “Peace,” the Staple Singers’ “Who Took the Merry Out of Christmas,” Dr. John’s grooving “Silent Night,” Luther Vandross’ and Nat King Cole’s renditions of “The Christmas Song,” Peter Green’s rocking “We Three Kings,” Robert Earl Keen’s “Merry Christmas From the Family,” Emmylou Harris’ “Light of the Stable,” Jeannie Kendall’s “Smoky Mountain Christmas,” Irma Thomas’ “Christmas Without the Creole,” Trisha Yearwood’s definitive version of Skip Ewing’s “It Wasn’t His Child,” Asylum Street Spankers goofing around with “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” … Brother Ray. Springsteen. Hag. Handel’s “Messiah.”

Still searching, I pull out my

guitar and play “Little Drummer Boy” and homemade Christmas songs.

In Georgian-era and Victorian England, wassailers shared carols with neighbors like candle flames against the cold. Scrooge chased away a frost-nipped caroler in Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” but I would welcome the sounds of “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen” at my door.

What I’m craving is light. “Jingle Bells” feels like a schoolyard relic in a year riven by tyrannical miscreants, refugee-scapegoating fear-mongers and twisted ideology.

I need light to find my way through the cynical darkness. Friends, neighbors and total strangers voice the same need: We need light, more than ever.

Define it how you will — a baby’s birth, nightly candle lighting, weeklong feasting, a mistletoe kiss — that’s this season’s theme song: light. Peace, wonder, and music. Harmony and hope.

I cue up “Peace in the World,” a soulful track by the Subdudes.

“Everything is possible/ Even the unthinkable can happen/ …

There’s peace in the world/ A little more peace in the world tonight.”

Peace on earth and goodwill toward all. Happy holidays. ■

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STEEL ROD DISPLAYS WINNING STYLE AT KINGS ROW GET THE GIFT OF SOME GREAT ROCK THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS WHEN STEEL ROD BLOWS INTO KINGS ROW GASTROPUB ON ONE OF ITS FREQUENT VISITS. The talented trio’s busy performing schedule offers testimony to its drawing power. Playing some 300 shows a year, Steel Rod has performed at top venues including the House of Blues, BB Kings, San Manuel and Morongo casinos, Santa Anita Park and numerous other clubs around Southern California.

For special events, the group has included among its clients the LA Dodgers, the LA Galaxy, the LA County Sheriff’s Department and many others. The band has toured the world, performing in Germany, Japan, Austria, Bosnia, Mexico and other points on the globe.

The secret to Steel Rod’s success lies in the fact that the talented members boast chops spanning a variety of styles, including R&B, pop, classic rock, alt rock, metal and even some country, with some 500 songs in its repertoire.

Visit the band at steelrodband.com. — John Sollenberger Music starts at 10 p.m. Saturday at Kings Row Gastropub, 20 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena.

No cover. Call (626) 793-3010 or visit kingsrowpub.com.

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ALICE WALLACE, Memories, Music & Pride (California Country): ★★★½✩ The OC songbird establishes her country cred and engaging performance style upfront with roadhouse romp “I Just Don’t Care Anymore” and a fun, yodeling cover of Patsy Montana’s “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart.”

In the style of ’70s heroes, most of her midtempo songs address life on the road, characters met there and relationships gone awry amid sparkling acoustic guitars and harmonies. Highlights: “A Traveling Song,” “Luck, Texas” (“We don’t have much money to show for our time/ When you do what you love you don’t need a dime”). At Wine & Song in South Pasadena Wednesday, Dec. 30. alicewallacemusic.com EVA CASSIDY,Nightbird (Blix Street): ★★★★ The late song stylist’s resolute eclecticism cost her label deals during her tragically short life, but it made for enduringly soulful music. This two-disc set collects all 31 songs from her 1996 concert at Washington, D.C.’s Blues Alley club months before she succumbed to melanoma, including the 13 from 1997’s “Live at Blues Alley.” Remastered, it offers eight previously unissued tracks plus a more pristine showcase for Cassidy’s glistening tones, commanding phrasing and free-ranging artistry as she and her in-the-pocket band stir soul, blues, jazz, folk and pop into one organic brew. evacassidy.org SEINABO SEY, Pretend (Universal): ★★★½✩ The Swedish artist balances questioning introspection with edgy pop production, mining dramatic momentum from contrasts. Tracks like lead-off single “Younger,” “Pistols at Dawn” and “Who,” with its rippling “Holiday”-esque synths, have endeared her to club audiences. But Sey, daughter of late Gambian musician Mawdo Sey, impresses most during sparely arranged tracks that bare her tonal similarities to Amy Winehouse and complement her deliberate phrasing. Other highlights: the stunning “Sorry,” “Hard Time,” “Easy” (“I’d rather fail on my own terms/ And call it a lesson learned”). seinabosey.com TOM JONES, Long Lost Suitcase (Virgin/EMI): ★★★½✩ The inveterate Welshman continues his late-career artistic renaissance with another Americana-soaked set of material from the tune bags of William Bell, Willie Dixon, Lonnie Johnson, Los Lobos, Willie Nelson, the Rolling Stones, Gillian Welch and Hank Williams, among others. Ever the savvy stylist, he deploys his rich tones with the impassioned finesse of a soul veteran, while Ethan Johns’ tasteful production choices (the otherworldly reverb of “Elvis Presley Blues,” the Hawaiian steel of “Tomorrow Night,” the old-timey instrumentation of “Raise a Ruckus”) keep this far, far removed from Jones’ cheesy “What’s New, Pussycat” heyday. tomjones.com

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The Novel Café 1713 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 683-3309 novelcafe.com Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays—Live music every Thursday, Friday and Saturday

Arcadia Blues Club 16 E. Huntington Drive, Arcadia (626) 447-9349 arcadiabluesclub.com Friday and Saturday—Closed

Old Towne Pub 66 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena (626) 577-6583 theoldtownepub.com Live music most nights of the week

The Buccaneer 70 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre (626) 355-9045 myspace.com/piratedive Wednesday—Wednesday Night Platter Party: Bring your fave vinyl to be spun on turntable

Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association 73 N. Hill Ave., Pasadena (626) 799-5689 pasadenaballroomdance.com The Saturday Swing Dance features Phat Cat Swinger

First Cabin 46 E. Huntington Drive, Arcadia (626) 446-2575 Thursdays-Saturdays—Pat O’Brien & the Priests of Love exalt the blues and classic rock

Pasadena Presbyterian Church 585 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 793-2191 ppcmusic.org Wednesday—The Music at Noon concert series features Duo Grimes-Nigro Plate 38 2361 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 793-7100 plate38.com Fridays & Saturdays—Live music on select Fridays & Saturdays redwhite+bluezz 37 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena (626) 792-4441 redwhitebluezz.com Thursday—Jazzaholics Saturday—Curtis Parry Sunday—Brunch w/The Sweet Note Tuesday—Steve Johnson Wednesday—Danny Donnelly T. Boyle’s Tavern 37 N. Catalina Ave., Pasadena (626) 578-0957 tboylestavern.com Sunday—Action Trivia Tuesday—Action Trivia

The Granada 17 S. First St., Alhambra (626) 227-2572 thegranadala.com Thursday—Closed Friday—Closed Saturday—Live music w/The Granada All Star Band; Deejay Miro; Deejay Kenny; Deejay Mayimbe Sunday—Ballroom Dinner Dance w/Two’s Company; Deejay Steve Tuesday—Deejay Good Times Matt Denny’s Ale House 145 E. Huntington Drive, Arcadia (626) 462-0250 mattdennys.com Tuesday—J.C. Hyke Songwriter Serenade is dark this week The Peppertree Grill 322 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre (626) 355-8444 thepeppertreegrill.com Friday—Closed Saturday—Len Mendoza Villa Catrina 251 N. Santa Anita Ave., Arcadia (626) 294-1973 villacatrina.com

Sounds Worth Repeating JAZZ LEGACY FEATURES CROWD-PLEASING STYLE AT JAX IN GLENDALE SATURDAY NIGHT OFFERS A CHANCE TO SHAKE THE POST-CHRISTMAS BLUES BY CATCHING SOME JAZZ AT JAX BAR & GRILL IN GLENDALE. THAT’S WHEN JAZZ LEGACY COMES IN FOR ONE OF ITS REGULAR VISITS. The group is led by trombonist Steve Johnson. The artist has earned a high ranking in the musical world, performing tunes by greats, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane and other masters.

Johnson is accomplished in a wide range of styles, from be bop and soft pop to classical and salsa. He’s performed with such artists as Ray Charles, Buddy Collette, Little Anthony, The Temptations, Benny Carter, David Benoit and many others.

His work has appeared in a variety of television productions, and he’s gathered a group of top-flight musicians to delight crowds wherever they play.

Visit the group at jazzquorum.com. — John Sollenberger Music starts at 8 p.m. Saturday at Jax Bar & Grill, 339 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. No cover. Call (818) 500-1604 or visit jaxbarandgrill.com.

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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—Closed Saturday—Ernie Draffen; The Andersons Sunday—Mari Nobre and Friends Monday—Eric Eckstrand 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 Jax 339 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale (818) 500-1604 jaxbarandgrill.com Thursday—Leslie Nesbitt Friday—Closed Saturday—Jazz Legacy Sunday—Lenny Stack Trio Monday—Leslie Nesbitt Tuesday—J.C. Spires Wednesday—Combo Llamativo Left Coast Wine Bar 117 E. Harvard St., Glendale (818) 507-7011 leftcoastwinebar.com Live music and deejays most nights of the week Winchester Room 6522 San Fernando Road, Glendale (818) 241-5475 thewinchesterroom.com Friday—Karaoke Saturday—Karaoke■

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A LIFE’S ADVENTURE

DOLE AND FIESTA PAY TRIBUTE TO BELOVED FLOAT DESIGNER RAUL RODRIGUEZ

BY JANA J. MONJI

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his year’s Rose Parade will feature an array of innovative floats representing this year’s theme “Find Your Adventure,” as well as its annual share of celebrity appearances.

But this year will take on added significance with a fitting tribute float planned for the venerable event’s most prodigious designer of spectacular, award-winning floats, Raul R. Rodriguez.

A towering figure in the history of the parade who began designing floats in 1960 at age 15, Rodriguez died of cardiac arrest at his Pasadena home on Feb. 18 at the age of 71. Among his many laurels over a more than 50-year career, Rodriguez won 30 prestigious Sweepstakes Trophies, awarded for the most beautiful parade entries.

The Los Angeles native, Art Center College of Design student and Cal State, Long Beach graduate created 500 floats until his last Rose Parade in 2013, 200 of those since 1988 for Fiesta Parade Floats.

Rodriguez, who also did design work for Las Vegas hotels and worked on the parade year-round for a collection of corporate clients, won more awards than any other float designer in the history of the parade.

“It’s hard to believe a float designer could become a celebrity of sorts,” said Tournament of Roses President Mike Matthiessen. With his jet black hair and goatee, and black shirt and pants, Rodriguez cut a dashing figure with his blue macaw Sebastian perched on his arm or shoulder. The parade, Matthiessen said, “benefited greatly from his unique presentation of so many different subjects.” Each year, Matthiessen recalled, “the fun thing was finding out what float Raul was going to be on.”

Fiesta has built a float for Dole Packaged Foods that will pay tribute to Rodriguez. Dole has won the Sweepstakes Trophy for five consecutive years, with four of those floats (20112014) designed by Rodriguez. This year the Dole float, “Soaring Over Paradise,” features waterfalls and a zip-line through a rain forest that includes a flock of colorful sculpted macaws. Rodriguez’s widower, Robert Cash, and Sebastian will be riding on the float.

Fiesta has also built a float designed by Rodriguez which will carry this year’s Rose Queen and her Royal Court.

For the 127th parade the Tournament of Roses is partnering with the US National Park Service, which is celebrating its centennial in 2016. Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is serving as this year’s Grand Marshal. Burns’ 2009 documentary “The National Park: America’s Best Idea” will be rebroadcast in 2016 on PBS. Burns’ latest documentary will be on one of Pasadena’s favorite sons, Jackie Robinson, which is also scheduled to premiere on PBS in 2016.

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A LIFE’S ADVENTURE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 33 The Final Adventure.” Designed by Paradiso Parade Floats’ Creative Director Charles Meier, the float features a 1919 Bentley and an English rose garden. A custom-made elevattor lift will ill allow ll D t Abb ’ central t l ttower tto d gh ffor th Downton Abbey’s drop llow enough the floatt tto pass under bridges and power lines.

“Paradiso is honored and delighted to collaborate with PBS on their Tournament of Roses float debut,” Meier said.

Meier has also designed the Rose Parade’s first fire-breathing Chinese dragon float, “Marco Polo: East Meets West,” sponsored by the Singpoli Group.

“Singpoli is about bringing cultures together,” said Singpoli Group CEO Kin Hui. “Our float uses spectacular symbols including an enormous dragon that highlights the similarities between Western and Chinese cultures.”

Fans of a different kind of romance than that depicted on “Downton Abbey” can cheer for ABC’s “The Bachelor.” That float, “Love is the Greatest Journey, was built by Fiesta and features an island paradise scenario.

Ashley Iaconetti and Samantha Steffen from “Bachelor in Paradise,” “The Bachelor” companion series, and Lacy Faddoul from season 18 are scheduled to ride. Ben Higgins, the bachelor from season 20, will sit in a lifeguard chair, and recently engaged Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert will sit in beach chairs.

Regarding Rodriguez, Fiesta’s Project Manager Beverly Stansbury referred to him as “Mr. Charisma.”

“He was integral part of our team,” Stansbury says. “He had a knack for remembering everyone he ever met,” she said, and “he had the ability to make people feel welcome and loved.”

Learn more about the floats by volunteering to decorate them. Fiesta’s volunteer roster is full, but Paradiso (http://paradisoparadefloats.com/volunteer/) and Phoenix Decorating Co. (phoenixdeco.com/volunteer/ ) are still welcoming volunteers.

For more on the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl College Football Game, visit tournamentofroses.com.

After the parade, the floats will be on display from New Year’s Day through Jan. 3 at Victory Park, located at Sierra Madre and Washington boulevards. Admission is $10. ■ 12.24.15 | PASADENA WEEKLY 37

PERFECT MATCH

FILMMAKER KEN BURNS FINDS A NEW ADVENTURE AS GRAND MARSHAL OF THIS YEAR’S TOURNAMENT OF ROSES

BY REBECCA KUZINS

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t seems fitting that Ken Burns, the acclaimed chronicler of American history and institutions, should serve as grand marshal of the 2016 Tournament of Roses, which, like many of his subjects, is a longstanding national traditional.

Burns and his family will ride in the 127th Rose Parade and attend the Rose Bowl College Football Game.

At a news conference in November, Tournament President Mike Matthiessen announced Burns was invited to be grand marshal because his fi lm series, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” dovetails with the theme of the parade “Find Your Adventure,” a collaboration between the tournament and the National Park Service, which celebrates its centennial in 2016. The TV series initially aired in 2009 and is scheduled to be rebroadcast on PBS in April.

Burns responded to Matthiessen’s invitation by doing what he does best: He made a short movie (available on YouTube) in which he expressed his gratitude for being named Grand Marshal and urged viewers to “go out and fi nd your park.”

“Our parks, like the Rose Parade, are an American institution that we can share together as family, neighbors and friends,” he said. “I am pleased that the [Tournament of Roses’] celebration of beauty and imagination is embodied in our parks. … I’ll see you in Pasadena and in one of our parks.”

The national parks documentary is one of many fi lms Burns has made in his almost 40-year career. After the release of “Brooklyn Bridge” in 1981, he went on to create some of the best-known and highly regarded television and fi lm documentaries, including “The Statue of Liberty” (1985), “The Civil War” (1990), “Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio” (1991), “Baseball” (1994), “Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery” (1997), “Frank Lloyd Wright” (1998), “Not for Ourselves Alone: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony” (1999), “Jazz” (2001), “Mark Twain” (2001), “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson” (2005), “The War” (2007), “The Dust Bowl” (2012), “The Central Park Five” (2012), “Yosemite: A Gathering of Spirt” (2013) and “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History” (2014).

The story of Jackie Robinson, the Pasadena resident who broke the color line in Major League Baseball, was told in “Baseball,” but Burns will revisit this story in greater detail in a new miniseries, “Jackie Robinson,” to premiere on PBS on April 11 and 12. His daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon partnered with Burns on the two-part program. According to a news release, the fi lm “will follow Robinson and his family from rural Georgia and a hardscrabble life of sharecropping to California where he lettered in four sports at UCLA,” through his baseball career and subsequent fight against racism.

Burns’ future projects include documentaries on “Vietnam” (scheduled for release in 2017), “Country Music” (2018) and “Ernest Hemingway” (2019). He is also working on a fi lm about stand-up comedy.

In his unique style of fi lmmaking Burns seeks to animate historic photographs by slowly zooming in on relevant subjects and panning from one subject to another, a technique that has been dubbed “the Ken Burns effect.” His fi lms also feature well-known actors who serve as narrators and the voices of historical characters Among the many honors for his productions, “The Civil War” received more than 40 major fi lm and television awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, the Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, a Peabody Award, a du Pont-Columbia Award, a D.W. Griffith Award and a $50,000 Lincoln Prize. Two other fi lms, “Baseball” and “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” also received Grammys.

In 2008, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented Burns with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony. ■ 38 PASADENA WEEKLY | 12.24.15

MASTER OF CEREMONIES

MIKE MATTHIESSEN HAS A BLAST AS THIS YEAR’S TOURNAMENT OF ROSES PRESIDENT

BY ANDRÉ COLEMAN

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n 1967 Mike Matthiessen participated in his first Rose Parade as a float observer hidden on the Sunkist float. He was charged with making sure the driver stayed on the blue line painted along the parade route to help guide the behemoth contraptions — something some drivers have difficulty seeing well from where they sit.

But the adventure-seeking Matthiessen lucked out; his driver’s float offered a great view of the road and he was able to nap through much of the event, tucked away from public view.

“I was only 16,” Matthiessen explains with a chuckle.

“I had been up all night.”

Matthiessen will be up all night again this New Year’s, only this time he won’t be bunking down on any floats. This Jan. 1, Matthiessen’s will be witnessing his reign as president of the Tournament of Roses Association culminate with the 127th Rose Parade presented by Honda and the 102nd Rose Bowl College Football Game presented by Northwestern Mutual.

The theme of this year’s parade is “Find Your Adventure,” which was inspired by both Matthiessen’s love of America’s national parks and this year’s centennial of the National Parks Service.

In the Rose Bowl, the Stanford Cardinal will be representing the Pac 12 Conference, with the Iowa Hawkeyes playing for the Big Ten Conference.

“It’s an enormous honor and responsibility to represent our association and be an ambassador for Pasadena’s New Year’s celebration,” Matthiessen tells the Pasadena Weekly.

“The experience seems like a lifetime of fabulous experiences crammed into one year,” he says.

Matthiessen hooked up with the National Parks Service (NPS) in 2009, during his second year on the Tournament of Roses Executive Committee. At that time, NPS officials reached out to the association to see if they could promote the NPS centennial anniversary at the parade. Matthiessen proposed making the entire parade about the parks, explaining how this year’s theme was chosen.

“The 2016 Rose Parade will help shine light on the centennial celebration of our nation’s national parks,” says Matthiessen. “As proponents of the American spirit,

we encourage people to find beauty in the landscape that builds the backdrop of their lives. From coast to coast, we will add stories of adventure to our collection while protecting our unique heritage and looking to the future.”

Matthiessen’s personal adventure with the Tournament of Roses has been grand in its own right.

After serving as an observer in 1967, Matthiessen drove the city of Lakewood’s float in 1969. His observer could only see one side of the road and he could only see the other, so he swerved back and forth as he steered the float along the parade route.

While attending Pasadena City College, he was part of the Pasadena Kiwanis Club’s Circle K Group, which parked cars for the Tournament of Roses and sang at the association’s Kick Off Luncheon prior to the Rose Bowl Game in 1970, featuring USC and the University of Michigan. USC won by a score of 10-3.

After graduating from San Diego State University, Matthiessen came back to the area in search of a job. A friend’s father invited him to submit an application for membership, but he was turned down. He was eventually admitted in 1979.

Since then he has served on several committees and chaired the association’s Communications and Credentials, Coronation/VIP Tailgate, Decorating Places and Parade Operations committees. He was first named Tournament Director in 2000 and was elected to the Executive Committee in 2008.

“Absolutely, it has been fun,” says Matthiessen.

Matthiessen is the general manager of the Pasadenabased storage company Space Bank. He is also the past president of the Pasadena Optimist Club and a former board member with Foothill Vocational Opportunities, a nonprofit for people with disabilities, and the San Marino Tennis Foundation.

He is also a past member of the Pasadena Jaycees, the Boys’ Club Advisory Council, the Pasadena Kiwanis Club and the South El Monte Rotary Club.

Matthiessen and his wife Ann have three adult children: Lisa, Jennie and Greg.

“I found my adventure,” says Matthiessen. “Being able to sit on committees with old friends, making new friends, and planning events and executing those events has been a blast.” ■ 12.24.15 | PASADENA WEEKLY 39

THRILL OF A LIFETIME QUEEN ERIKA WINTER AND HER ROYAL COURT LEAD THE 127TH ROSE PARADE

BY SHEILA MENDES COLEMAN

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ind Your Adventure” is the theme for the 127th Rose Parade presented by Honda, and it’s a marvelous reminder of the possibilities in life and the amazing opportunities one can be given with hard work, dedication and perseverance. Nowhere is this fact more evident than when one considers the seven young women who represent the newest installment of the Tournament of Roses Royal Court, and the formidable competition they faced in the months and weeks leading up to their selection.

On Oct. 22, Erika Karen Winter was bestowed with the most honored title of Rose Queen at the Pasadena Convention Center in a coronation ceremony presented by Citizen’s Bank.

She is joined on her Royal Court by Donaly Elizabeth Marquez, 17, of Blair International Baccalaureate School; Sarah Sumiko Shaklan, 17, of La Cañada High School; Natalie Breanne Hernandez-Barber, 17, of Alverno High School; Rachelle Chacal Renee Liu, 17, of San Marino High School; Regina Marché Pullens, 17, of Maranatha High School; and Bryce Marie Bakewell, 17, of Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy.

Upon hearing her name, Queen Erika was stunned and struggled to maintain her composure at the elaborate ceremony, held every year to herald the selection of a new Rose Queen and her Royal Court. As for the undercurrent of thrilling emotions she experienced at the crowning, Winter tells KTLA Channel 5, which broadcasts the parade nationally, that it was “one of the most incredible moments of my life. My knees buckled when they said my name.

Thank goodness Princess Bryce was next to me and she grabbed me and gave me a hug — actually caught me a little bit because my knees went out.”

It is fortuitous that “Find Your Adventure” was chosen as this year’s theme, as it dovetails nicely with the Tournament of Roses’ ongoing partnership with the National Park Service, and also represents the challenges and dedication necessary to any hopeful Rose Queen. And it is indeed, a spirit of adventure and perseverance that has landed these seven fortunate young women coveted spots on the Tournaments’ Royal Court for the 2015-16 season.

For 98 years, young women from the Pasadena area have vied for a seat on the Tournaments’ Royal Court. They come from diverse cultural backgrounds and excel in a variety of ways, but their common denominators are strong educational goals, civic-minded passion for community service, and a desire to represent the Rose Parade with pride and grace.

For Rose Queen hopefuls, the road to the Royal Court is challenging, but worthwhile.

Each year, more than 900 young women begin the arduous tryout process, which consists of a series of four interviews. In the initial interview, candidates are allotted 15 seconds to express their desire to join the Royal Court. From there, the list of hopefuls is whittled down to approximately 250, then 75 candidates, and ultimately, 30 fortunate young women 40 PASADENA WEEKLY | 12.24.15

make the fi nal cut on the list. The names and shining faces of these representatives may change over the years, but the criteria for Rose Queen remains consistent and true. According to the Tournament of Roses website (tournamentofroses.com), “The Rose Queen and Royal Court were selected based upon a combination of qualities, including public speaking ability, poise, academic achievement and community involvement.”

Winter said she is thrilled to have the opportunity to be among the long list of bright, energetic young women who’ve held the title. A Pasadena resident and senior at Flintridge Prep, she’s worked hard for her education and her community and has long dreamt of standing among those on the Royal Court. Her school spirit is evident in her work as part of the cheer and dance team, and her strong leadership skills allow her to shine in the student senate, and as a middle school commissioner. The well-rounded 18-year-old is also president of the Craft Club and the Hip Hop Club at Flintridge Prep. Additionally, Winter serves as a peer counselor and a volunteer instructor for autistic dance classes. And she wowed audiences with her leading role in their spring musical.

Winter’s favorite pastimes include singing, the dramatic arts and athletic endeavors, like spin-cycling or even just catching a hockey game. Her long-term educational goals include studying marketing and psychology, with a focus on applying those skills within the fashion industry.

She is also the beloved daughter of parents, Tim and Kristine Winter, who uses the name Kris Knutsen professionally. Knutsen is the assistant news director at KTLA, which broadcasts the parade. According to a news report on the coronation by Laura Monteros, appearing at examiner.com, Queen Erika’s connection to the television station was kept from the 11-member Queen and Court Committee until after the Rose Queen was announced.

Committee members knew the contestants only through their assigned numbers, and not by their names.

In the interview with Channel 5, Winter expresses an affection for the Rose Parade that runs deep, one that ultimately spurred her to consider vying for the top spot on the Royal Court.

The royal title is not without its challenges. During her reign, every Rose Queen is expected to promote and protect the image and reputation of the Rose Parade with poise and diplomacy. Estimates are that this year’s Queen will make as many as 100 community and media appearances.

For Pasadena and its surrounding communities, our newest Rose Queen and her Royal Court will continue to exemplify the best and brightest our city — and our country — have to offer. ■

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CROWD CONCERNS ROSE-COLORED RETURN

AFTER A QUARTER-CENTURY, IOWA FINALLY EARNS A TRIP BACK TO PASADENA TO FACE STANFORD IN THE ROSE BOWL GAME

BY ANDRÉ COLEMAN

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owa returns to the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day for the first time in 25 years with the No. 5 Hawkeyes (12-1) squaring off against the No. 6 Stanford Cardinal (11-2) on New Year’s Day in the Grandaddy of Them All, the 102nd Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual.

The game will be televised nationally on ESPN beginning at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 1.

The last time the Hawkeyes played in the bowl in 1990 they lost to the Washington Huskies by a score of 46-34.

The team earned its ticket to Pasadena this year, despite losing only once, to Michigan State by a score of 16-13 in the Big Ten Championship Game. A win in that game would have put them in the playoffs for the National Championship.

Michigan State will now face Alabama in the Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Day. “We thought Iowa proved more in that loss than maybe they did in the rest of the schedule,” Jeff Long, chairman of the selection committee told ESPN. “If this is a consolation prize, what a deal it is,” said Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz.

This year, Iowa’s All Big Ten quarterback C.J. Beathard delivered after Hawkeyes’ coaches decided to put him in the starting lineup over two-year QB Jack Ridock.

Beathard has thrown just three interceptions this year and ranks 23rd nationally. The Hawkeyes prefer to move the ball incrementally, which can be problematic if they fall behind.

So far, Iowa fans have requested more than 40,000 tickets to the game, although the school only received an allotment of 22,000. Two weeks ago, ticket prices soared to over $500, said Rose Bowl General Manager Darryl Dunn.

“It’s exciting,” said Dunn. “I just left a tournament event and this guy who works in Iowa’s athletic department said it has been his dream for 20 years to come to the Rose Bowl. It’s like a bucket list item for him. Stanford is great, but there is something really special when it you see someone’s dream coming true.”

Iowa will need all of the support it can muster up to beat the Cardinal. Stanford is making its third Rose Bowl appearance in four years and 15th in school history. The Cardinal defeated Wisconsin 20-14 in 2013 and lost to Michigan State 24-20 in 2014.

Stanford embarrassed USC 41-22 in the last game of the season for both teams to capture the Pac-12 Conference title and an invitation to play in the Rose Bowl.

“In the pregame talk I had all the guys stand up who had played in Pac-12 title games, and that’s half the team,” said Coach David Shaw after the game. “Our guys are used to playing in big games. We need to act like it and play like it. We’re five out of seven in last seven games versus USC. No discredit to them. These are tough, physical games. They beat us two years in a row, we beat them some before. Every game will be like this, exciting and physical. Thankfully, we got the lead at the end and a huge kick to make it two scores with two minutes to go.”

After a dismal opener at Northwestern where the Cardinal lost l6-6, the team won eight straight games before falling to Oregon 38-36 due to miscues in the fourth quarter.

Northwestern is the only common opponent between the two schools. While Stanford lost to the Wildcats, Iowa obliterated Northwestern 40-10 on their home field.

Stanford’s best moment this year came after falling behind to Notre Dame with 30 seconds left. Quarterback Kevin Hogan through a 27-yard pass to Devon Cajuste to set up a 45-yard field goal.

Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey leads the country with 3,496 all-purpose yards and broke Barry Sanders’ NCAA single-season record, earning a spot in the running candidate in the Heisman Award. Alabama running back Derrick Henry took home the coveted trophy this year.

Hogan is ranked in the top five nationally in rating and yards per attempt. The Cardinal is third in the country in third-down efficiency, converting on 51.2 percent of its opportunities. ■

PASADENA POLICE AND OTHERS STAND READY TO PROTECT ROSE PARADE AND ROSE BOWL GAME ATTENDEES

BY CARL KOZLOWSKI

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ith more than 700,000 people watching live along the route and a worldwide television audience of more than 50 million, the Rose Parade is always a logistical and safety challenge for law enforcement officials. In the wake of the recent terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, security at this year’s parade and Rose Bowl College Football Game and the night-long celebration leading up to them will be more active than ever.

Yet Pasadena police want participants to know that as long as they follow the rules and keep their eyes open in the principle of “see something, say something,” things should go smoothly on the most important day of the year for the Crown City.

“Throughout the year, the Pasadena Police Department meets with other agencies like the Fire Department and Tournament of Roses officials and the Rose Bowl, and this is just more frequent lately after the attacks,” says Lt. Tracy Ibarra, public information officer for Pasadena police.

“We’ve had daily communications this past month with law enforcement partners like the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the FBI, DHS (Department of Homeland Security), and several other law enforcement representatives, so we make sure we’re cross-sharing any intelligence information.

“But most importantly, we want the public to know that there has been no known identified threat to the city of Pasadena and any of our New Year’s Eve or Day events,” Ibarra continues.

“That doesn’t mean that something isolated, or an inkling of an idea aren’t out there, but the city is working towards enhancing capabilities for anything that arises,” she says.

Indeed, among the array of advanced techniques being employed to keep the crowds safe is an enhanced uniform presence for game, parade and pre-game activities. In addition, explosivedetection canines — aka bomb-sniffing dogs — will be working over several days leading up to the parade, at the parade, and post-parade events.

Of course, even more vital are the undercover law-enforcement personnel who will be mixing into the crowd. And beyond that, the city and other law-enforcement agencies have teamed with Pasadena police to add an extensive network of surveillance cameras to the parade route. In the name of preserving intelligence, Ibarra declined comment on whether the cameras are temporary and the actual number of officers involved.

“The public should be aware that it may take longer to get through checkpoints at the entrances to the Rose Bowl and key intersections of the parade, so give extra time,” says Ibarra.

“At high security checkpoints at the game, key points in the parade route. These are all things we have in place every year, just expanded.”

Even though there are expanded public safety measures in place, city residents are asked to maintain extra vigilance and report anything of concern to them.

For immediate emergencies, for which Ibarra includes “seeing someone placing a backpack on the route and running away,” call 911 or notify uniformed officers or the white-suited Tournament representatives along the parade route. For nonemergency situations, call (626) 744-4241.

Parade and game attendees can also help keep things safe by registering for NIXLE, an app which enables smartphones to receive real-time public safety notifications from the Police and Fire departments. To receive NIXLE, text 91101 to 888777, or go to nixle.com to sign up.

Residents can also register their cell phones for reverse 911 notifications by logging in at pleas.com. These enable police dispatch supervisors to send notifications of emergencies to cellphone users in either specific parts of the city or the whole city.

The bottom line?

“We want the public to be assured that we are well-prepared for the 2016 Rose Parade and Rose Bowl game,” says Ibarra.

Rose Parade attendees are being asked by Pasadena police and fire officials to follow the following safety tips: • Overnight camping is permitted only on the night of Dec. 31.

• Sidewalk spots may be maintained beginning at noon, Dec. 31. All persons and property must remain on the curb until 11 p.m., Dec. 31. The “Blue Line” placed along the route is the honor line, and after 11 p.m., spectators may move out to the honor line.

• Report suspicious activities and packages to emergency authorities along the parade route or call (626) 744-4241. Life threatening emergencies call 911. Know your cross streets and location.

• Small, professionally made barbecues at least one foot off ground are allowed but must be 25 feet away from buildings or other combustibles. Fire extinguisher and water must be on hand. Absolutely no bonfires or fireworks are allowed.

• Minors under 18 are allowed on the parade route only with adult supervision.

• Dress for cold weather.

• Open containers of alcohol are illegal in all public areas.

• Tents, sofas, boxes of any type, ladders and scaffolding are prohibited.

• It is illegal to buy, sell or give away horns on parade route.

• Keep pets safe at home.

• Throwing any projectile into the parade, or parade route, is prohibited.

• All illegally parked vehicles will be towed, and no drones of any kind are allowed along the parade route. ■ 12.24.15 | PASADENA WEEKLY 43

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THURSDAY All Saints Church 132 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena (626) 796-1172 allsaints-pas.org Christmas Eve services include a 3 p.m. family service, a Festive Eucharist in Spanish at 5:30 p.m. and Festive Eucharist services at 5:30, 8 and 11 p.m.

LA County Holiday Celebration Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles (213) 972-3099 holidaycelebration.org The 55th Annual LA County Holiday Celebration features more than 20 music ensembles, choirs and dance companies representing the area’s diverse neighborhoods and cultures. The free show offers family-friendly fun celebrating the wealth of musical styles the area has to offer.

Entertainment starts at 12:30 p.m. outside on the Music Center Plaza, and doors to the Pavilion open at 2:30 p.m. The event continues inside to 6 p.m., and will be broadcast live on PBS SoCal (pbssocal.org) from 3 to 6 p.m. No tickets or reservations are required.

FRIDAY All Saints Church 132 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena (626) 796-1172 allsaints-pas.org A Christmas Day service features a SpanishEnglish Eucharist at 10:30 a.m.

Toon Time THE ALEX FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS ITS ANNUAL GREATEST CARTOONS EVER SHOW SATURDAY

BY CARL KOZLOWSKI Frank Gladstone must be one of the wisest men around. That’s because Gladstone knows that even during the brightest holidays of the year, people need fun things to do.

For the past 18 years, he and his fellow members of the Alex Film Society Board of Directors have hosted Three Stooges marathons on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Knowing that families need a good laugh at Christmas too, he and the AFS deliver post-holiday fun by presenting “The Greatest Cartoons Ever!” on the day after Christmas.

The fifth annual edition, screening at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, features an impressive slate of shorts that include such animated stars as Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and Mr. Magoo, as well as historic commentary by Gladstone and animation historian Jerry Beck.

“This all started five years ago and it kind of happened in the same way the Stooges fest started years before that,” says Gladstone. “It’s easier to get to the theater on the week of Christmas or Thanksgiving because people are away, and so it’s not booked a lot.”

This year’s collection of films includes the Oscar-nominated 1938 short “Brave Little Tailor,” which stars Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse and is one of the last cartoons to feature Walt Disney’s voice as Mickey. The story features 44 PASADENA WEEKLY | 12.24.15

a town that mistakenly thinks Mickey is a giant killer and its townspeople send him out to kill one.

Meanwhile, the 1947 Oscar-winning Tom and Jerry cartoon “Cat Concerto” features Tom as a classical pianist in a tuxedo and tails, while Jerry is asleep in the piano and trying to disrupt the concert throughout. The 1953 Warner Brothers cartoon “Duck, Rabbit, Duck!” features Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in the last of three cartoons in a hunting trilogy.

Gladstone is also excited about another Daffy Duck short called “The Great Piggy Bank Robbery,” which he considers one of the wacky mallard’s wildest adventures. A parody of the “Dick Tracy” newspaper comic strip, he calls it “maybe the penultimate Daffy Duck cartoon.”

No classic roundup of cartoons could leave out Popeye, so the event also includes the 1938 cartoon “Goonland.”

One of Gladstone’s favorite “Popeye” cartoons, it features the swollen-armed sailor “looking in search of his lost father, Poopdeck Pappy, on an island of goons and features several very interesting cinematic tricks in it I don’t want to give away.”

Another wild one will be the 1949 Tex Avery cartoon “Little Rural Riding Hood,” which is part of the filmmaker’s Red Riding Hood trilogy, with her playing “a sexy nightclub chanteuse in the

vein of Betty Grable” who has to contend with two wolves, two mice and a doppelganger, all in one night. Gladstone notes “it has the overdone, eye-popping takes that Avery’s famous for.”

Those looking for a few superhero thrills to go with the silliness should enjoy “Magnetic Telescope,” a 1942 “Superman” short that features the man from Kryptonite and Lois Lane in a cartoon that Gladstone says “features really great Art Deco design and cinematic direction.” Finally, Mr. Magoo stars in the 1954 short “When Magoo Flew,” in which the near-sighted nincompoop thinks he’s going to the movies but winds up on an airplane.

“Jerry and I teach animation at colleges and Jerry has written books on animation history,” says Gladstone.

“We’d do this anyway, out of our own interest. While we’d love to have the purity of always using prints, it’s often difficult to find ones of these old cartoons and so we’ve started doing it digitally too. We now project with a high-definition visual projector and have beautiful prints, and the audience has made this event a tradition already.” ■ The Alex Film Society presents the “5th Annual Greatest Cartoons Ever!” at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Saturday at the Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. Tickets are $11 for AFS members, $12 for students, seniors and kids, and $16 general admission. Visit alexfilmsociety.org or alextheatre.org, or call (818) 243-ALEX (2539).

Union Station Homeless Services Dinner in the Park Central Park 219 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena (626) 240-4550 unionstationhs.org Union Station hosts its annual free Dinner in the Park for homeless individuals, seniors, lowincome families and those with no place to go for Christmas from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

SATURDAY Alex Film Society Alex Theatre 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale (818) 243-2539 alexfilmsociety.org The Society presents “The Greatest Cartoons Ever” featuring selections starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tom and Jerry, Popeye and others at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $16 general admission, $12 for seniors and students, $11 for members.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino (626) 405-2100 huntington.org The Huntington presents the annual Viewing Stones Show, featuring more than 100 examples of stones exhibiting subtle, fanciful forms shaped by the elements and time, on view from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday through Jan. 3 (closed New Year’s Day). Cost is the regular Huntington admission of $25 for weekends for adults, $23 on week days, $21 on weekends for seniors and students age 12 to 18, $19 on week days, $10 for youth age 4 to 11 weekends and week days, free for children younger than 4 and members.

Kidspace Children’s Museum 480 N. Arroyo Blvd., Pasadena (626) 449-9144 kidspacemuseum.org Kidspace’s annual Snow Days event features trucked-in snow for snow-related activities, cookie decorating, art activities, snow-themed

stories, science demonstrations, art activities and live entertainment, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday. Cookie decorating is $3, plus regular admission and other activities are free with Kidspace admission of $11 for adults and children one year and older, free for children younger than one year and for members.

Norton Simon Museum 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 449-6840 nortonsimon.org A guided tour visits works highlighting darkness and light, from 1 to 2 p.m. free with museum admission of $12 for adults, $9 for seniors and free for members, students and those 18 and younger.

Pasadena Public Library, Santa Catalina Branch 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena (626) 744-7272 pasadenapubliclibrary.net The Emerging Urban Poets group meets for featured and open poetry readings, facilitated

by Don Kingfisher Campbell, at 3 p.m.

Santa Anita Park 285 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia (626) 574-7223 santaanita.com Santa Anita opens for the season, with live holiday music, thoroughbred racing and the annual Guest Chef Series. Doors open at 10 a.m. and the first race starts at noon. The Guest Chef event, from noon to 5 p.m. in the Chandelier Room features Executive Chef Steven Fretz of LA restaurant The Church Key, providing a catered menu, one glass of Champagne, live music by the Ryan Cross Trio and James Torme, son of Mel Torme. General admission tickets to opening day are $5, $10 for Club House admission. Tickets to the Guest Chef Series are $85. Call or visit the website for tickets and information.

School of Self-Reliance Hahamongna Watershed Park Foothill Boulevard and Oak Grove Drive, La Cañada Flintridge (626) 791-3217 schoolofself-reliance.com Learn to make fire in the wilderness and collect wild plants for a salad, at 10 a.m. Cost is $25.

SUNDAY The Barkley 1400 Huntington Drive, South Pasadena (626) 799-0758 thebarkleyrestaurant.com The Richard Glaser Quartet performs classic jazz from 7 to 11 p.m. every Sunday. No cover.

Norton Simon Museum 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 449-6840 nortonsimon.org A guided tour visits highlights of the Norton Simon collections, from 1 to 2 p.m. Stories in the Afternoon invites guests with children ages 4 to 8 to make winter-themed artwork reflecting animals and trees in a snow-covered landscape, using colored pencils and foam stickers, from 2 to 3 p.m. Both are free with museum admission of $12 for adults, $9 for seniors and free for members, students and those 18 and younger.

Rose Parade Float Decoration Viewing Rosemont Pavilion 700 Seco St., Pasadena Brookside Pavilion Lot I, Rose Bowl Stadium 1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena Rose Palace 835 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena (626) 795-4171 sharpseating.com View the floats being decorated, with viewing hours and dates from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday at Rosemont Pavilion and Brookside Pavilion, and noon to 5

p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Wednesday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 31 at the Rose Palace. Cost is $5 for Sunday viewing, $10 for Monday through Wednesday viewing and $15 for Dec. 31 viewing. Call or visit Sharp Seating for tickets.

MONDAY Pasadena Public Library, Central Branch 285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena (626) 744-4066 pasadenapubliclibrary.net A young adult book swap invites teens to bring in their old books and trade them for other selections, with snacks and games provided, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Pasadena Public Library, La Pintoresca Branch 1355 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena (626) 744-7268 pasadenapubliclibrary.net The library honors Kwanza, with music, stories and tasty dishes prepared by the Pasadena Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Barks and Books, the Pasadena Humane Society’s literacy program, invites kids to read stories to a gentle dog, at 3 p.m.

TUESDAY Bandfest Pasadena City College 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 795-4171 sharpseating.com Bandfest offers a first look at the marching bands scheduled to perform in the Rose Parade. Bandfest I starts at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Bandfest II starts at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday and Bandfest III starts at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets to each session are $15, free for children 5 and younger, available through Sharp Seating.

Pasadena Public Library, Central Branch 285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena

(626) 744-4066 pasadenapubliclibrary.net Teen Game Day invites kids to play classic board and video games and pizza, from 1 to 4 p.m.

And They’re Off!

Pasadena Public Library, Hill Avenue Branch 55 S. Hill Ave., Pasadena (626) 744-7264 pasadenapubliclibrary.net Barks and Books, the Pasadena Humane Society’s literacy program, invites kids to read stories to a friendly dog, at 3:30 p.m.

Pasadena Public Library, La Pintoresca Branch 1355 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena (626) 744-7268 pasadenapubliclibrary.net Tweens age 8 and older are invited to Ean’s Game Jam, as computer game artist Ean Moore teaches coding, creating and designing computer and video games, at 11:30 a.m.

Pasadena Public Library, Santa Catalina Branch 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena (626) 744-7272 pasadenapubliclibrary.net The Santa Catalina Anime Club invites kids to check out the latest anime with a special screening, at 3:30 p.m.

School of Self-Reliance Hahamongna Watershed Park Foothill Boulevard and Oak Grove Drive, La Cañada Flintridge (626) 791-3217 schoolofself-reliance.com Learn to make the atlatl, an ancient weapon, by finding and cutting wood to produce it, starting at noon. Cost is $20.

WEDNESDAY Pasadena Public Library, Central Branch 285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena (626) 744-4066 pasadenapubliclibrary.net Free films start at 1 p.m. Wednesdays.

Wednesday’s film is “New Year’s Eve.” ■

SANTA ANITA PARK OPENS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS

BY CARL KOZLOWSKI THE ROSE BOWL COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME MIGHT BE JUST AROUND THE CORNER ON NEW YEAR’S DAY, BUT FOOTBALL ISN’T THE ONLY SPORT THAT THE PASADENA AREA IS KNOWN FOR. On Saturday, Santa Anita Park in Arcadia will open its 79th Winter Meet horse racing season with a dizzying array of activities, special deals and giveaways.

Everyone in attendance will receive an official Santa Anita 2016 wall calendar, with the first 20,000 guests also receiving a $100 gift certificate for Mathis Brothers Furniture.

The first 5,000 guests ages 17 and under will receive a mini- plush doll of a thoroughbred from Mathis Brothers, which will also be sponsoring the Passion for Fashion fashion show at the park that day. The winner of the fashion show will take home a $2,500 gift certificate from Mathis Brothers.

Extra incentives abound for racing fanatics, including a $30 trackside package that includes a T-shirt commemorat-

ing American Pharaoh’s Grand Slam of victories last season, plus admission, first drink, program and seating. There is also a $40 handicapping contest and four graded stakes races with two Grade 1 races, a Grade 2 and a Grade 3 — a rare combination of races that promotes a good betting card for the day.

Finally, the late Pick 4 race will have a guaranteed pool amount of $1 million that should keep handicappers excited.

“The wall calendars are always a huge giveaway, with an amazing photo set,” says Alexis Garke, a media relations representative for Santa Anita. “Families are more than welcome out here, and we have a family fun zone in the infield if you don’t want to be confined in a seat.” ■ Santa Anita Race Track opens its 79th Winter Meet at 10:30 a.m.

Saturday at 285 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia. Admission is $5 general, $10 club house. Call (626) 574-7223 or visit santaanita.com.

ONGOING

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, presents the exhibition “Alex Israel at the Huntington,” featuring works by the emerging artist including paintings and sculpture, on view Dec. 12 through July 11. Call (626) 405-2100 or visit huntington.org.

The Intuitive Movement Jam at Farnsworth Park, 568 Mount Curve Ave., Altadena, is a rocking, free-form, eclectic dance event offering the chance to dance to your own muse without judgment, alcohol or small talk from 7 to 9 p.m.

Mondays. No experience is needed and there are no steps to learn. The first visit is free with a printout of the website home page at imjam.net; admission is $10 thereafter.

Offramp Gallery, 1702 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, presents Hillary Baker’s solo exhibition “Colossalalia,” featuring her new paintings and the exhibition “Where Am I Today? Self Portraits

by Jayme O,” by Jayme Odgers, which opened Dec. 6 and continue through Jan. 3. Call (626) 298-6931 or visit offrampgallery.com.

Pasadena Museum of California Art, 490 E. Union St., Pasadena, presents “The Nature of William S. Rice: Arts and Crafts Painter and

Printmaker,” featuring a rare glimpse into the private world of the artist and naturalist famous for his ability to refine nature to its simplest forms, featuring more than 50 watercolors and block prints, and “Of Cottages and Castles: The Art of California Faience,” the first survey of one of the longest, enduring art potteries in California.

The exhibition consists of more than 120 works representing the full range of the company’s decorative vessels, tiles, lamps and sculptures.

Both exhibitions went on view Nov. 15 and continue through April 3. Call (626) 568-3665 or visit pmcaonline.org.

Rose Bowl Stadium Tours, 1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena, offer behind-the-scenes visits to the facility. Tours are from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the last Friday of the month. Cost is $17.50 for adults, $14.50 for children, seniors and military members. Call (626) 275-2714 or visit rosebowlstadium.com.

Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, presents “A Christmas Memory,” a musical based on a Truman Capote short story about a boy’s life growing up during the Great Depression in rural Alabama. It opened Nov. 27 and closes Sunday. Tickets are $34.50 general, $32 for seniors, $25 for youth age 21 and younger. Call (626) 355-4318 or visit sierramadreplayhouse.org.

Unity of Pasadena Church, 3053 E. Del Mar Blvd, Pasadena, offers a free 30-minute guided meditation from noon to 12:30 p.m. every Thursday. Call (626) 577-4207 or visit unityofpasadena.org.

Photo: Philicia Endelman.

Forest Lawn Museum, 1712 S. Glendale Blvd., Glendale, presents the exhibition “Leading Ladies: From Fantasy to Reality,” celebrating more than 75 women who have impacted the world, from ancient legends to Hollywood actresses, including images of Audrey Hepburn, Cleopatra, Eleanor Roosevelt and many others, on view through March 27. Call (800) 204-3131 or visit forestlawn.com.

Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena, and Lythgoe Family Productions present “Peter Pan and Tinker Bell — A Pirate’s Christmas.” The holiday spectacular is the story of Tinker Bell, Peter Pan and Wendy as they embark on a quest to foil pirates’ plot to kidnap Peter for Captain Hook’s Christmas present, in a swashbuckling adventure featuring comedy, magic, dancers from “So You Think You Can Dance” and music ranging from Taylor Swift tunes to music of the Bee Gees. It opened Dec.

9 and continues at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, noon, 4 and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays. and noon and 4 p.m. Sundays through Jan. 3. Special matinees are scheduled for 3 p.m. Dec. 22, 23, 24, 29 and 30. No performances are scheduled for Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. Tickets are $34 to $77, with premium seating available for $125. Call (626) 356-7529 or visit pasadenaplayhouse.org.

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Battle of the Sexes ‘HATEFUL EIGHT’ AND ‘SISTERS’ GIVE MEN AND WOMEN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MOVIES TO SEE

hristmas movies are like a pile of presents under the tree: Hopefully, there’s something for everyone.

This season is no exception, with an eclectic array of films for seemingly every taste, and then, of course, the “Star Wars” movie, which is making so much money one might think Congress made viewing it a requirement for citizenship.

This week, we’re looking at two movies that couldn’t be any more different: Quentin Tarantino’s latest bizarro epic, “The Hateful Eight,” and the Tina Fey-Amy Poehler comedy “Sisters.” One is one of the year’s most brutal yet impressive films, while the other is just brutally unfunny.

“Hateful” is Tarantino’s second Western in a row, following 2012’s superb and superior “Django Unchained,” which rode a powder-keg mix of racial tensions, ace performances and crackerjack action all the way to huge box office, a Best Picture nomination and a Best Screenplay Oscar. That movie was wildly original in every frame, but “The Hateful Eight” doesn’t have that fresh sense of unpredictability.

Rather, “Hateful” plays like a combination of “Django” and Tarantino’s debut fi lm, “Reservoir Dogs.” Both are great films and “Hateful” is also entertaining, but there’s defi nitely a sense of “been there, done that” in much of it. Tarantino’s creative muse, Samuel L. Jackson, is back as Major Marquis Warren, who claims his military title from fighting against the Confederates in the Civil War and also claims that he has a letter of support from President Lincoln himself.

Warren is trapped in the middle of nowhere with a blizzard approaching, when he encounters a stagecoach with two passengers: a self-proclaimed bounty hunter named John Ruth (Kurt Russell in his coolest role in years), and his latest capture, a hard-as-nails woman with a black eye and bloody mouth named Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh).

Soon, they pick up yet another passenger: a man named Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), who claims that he’s the newly elected sheriff in the town that Ruth is bringing Domergue to for his reward.

The four pull up for the night at a remote store and boarding house called Minnie’s Haberdashery, only to fi nd that Ruth’s old friend Minnie is mysteriously missing, with four other men (Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth and Demian Bichir) as the only occupants. As they settle in for a long night huddled against the elements, it becomes clear that no one in the store has friendly intentions for anyone else, and that everyone has a hidden agenda.

You truly don’t want to know more than that. While “Hateful” does copy the “Reservoir

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Dogs” setup of putting a bunch of dangerous and untrustworthy thugs into a confined area and watching them turn on each other, Tarantino is still utterly incapable of writing a bad screenplay. There are surprises throughout, although if there is one big complaint to make, the film is nearly three hours long and takes nearly half that time for the fi rst gunshot to be fired.

The second half is much more action-packed, but it’s also hard to watch at times.

Tarantino’s largest budget expense appears to have been the buckets of blood involved from shootings, stabbings and worst of all, the vomiting that occurs after two of the men drink poisoned coffee.

Tarantino also is likely to rile some viewers with another problematic aspect: his characters’ copious use of the N-word toward, against and about Warren. But taken in the context of its setting — a bunch of tough white men being outwitted by a black man shortly after the Civil War — and the fact that Jackson always defends Tarantino completely for his uses of that word, should make it tolerable to viewers who know they’re in for a very wild ride.

Meanwhile, “Sisters” is the latest teaming of Fey and Poehler, adding to their decadeplus collaboration in everything from “SNL” to the hit movie “Baby Mama,” and co-hosting the Golden Globes awards. This time, they play two middle-aged sisters named Kate and Maura Ellis, who have grown apart as adults, only to be drawn together when their parents (James Brolin and Dianne Wiest) decide to sell their childhood home, and they refuse to let that happen.

Fey’s Kate is a former hard partier, while Poehler’s Maura has spent her life in ridiculous levels of repression. But with Maura refusing to stop grieving the end of her marriage a full two years after her divorce and Kate learning that their home’s new buyers will only purchase the place if it’s in great shape, the two decide to hatch the wildest party of their lives and invite everyone they knew from high school to the house for one last rager.

From there, the movie’s script feels nonexistent, as the movie drifts into endless scenes of bad behavior that seem disconnected from not only each other but any sense of compelling narrative. It seems that Fey and Poehler talked a studio into spending about $30 million on letting them turn on a camera and speak and act as crudely as possible.

The movie is packed wall-to-wall with nearly as much swearing and bad behavior as “Hateful,” but is even less funny despite trying to be a straight-up comedy. Director Jason Moore seems to have turned the camera on and walked away in frustration. Viewers will think about doing the same. ■

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Friday December 25 to Thursday December 31 Note: Times are p.m., and daily, unless otherwise indicated. All times are subject to change without notice.

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ACADEMY 6 1003 E Colorado Bl, (626) 229-9400.

Goosebumps Fri.-Thurs., 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7:10 p.m.

Hotel Transylvania 2 Fri.-Thurs., 11:50 a.m., 2:20 p.m.

The Intern Fri.-Thurs., 10:05 p.m.

Krampus Fri.-Thurs., 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 p.m.

Love the Coopers Fri.-Thurs., 2:30, 9:50 p.m.

The Peanuts Movie Fri.-Thurs., 11:20 a.m., 12:40, 2:10, 3:30, 4:50, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10 p.m.

Secret in Their Eyes Fri.-Thurs., 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 p.m.

Sicario Fri.-Thurs., 11:40 a.m., 5, 7:40, 10:20 p.m.

IPIC THEATERS AT ONE COLORADO PASADENA 42 Miller Alley, (626) 639-2260.

The Big Short Fri.-Sat., 9 a.m., 12:30, 3:45, 7:15, 10:20, 1:15 a.m.; Sun. 9 a.m., 12:30, 3:45, 7:15, 10:30 p.m.; Mon. 9 a.m., 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:20 p.m.; Tues.-Thurs., 9:15 a.m., 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:30 p.m.

Joy Fri.-Sun., 9:45 a.m., 1, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45 p.m.; Mon. 9:45 a.m., 1, 4:15, 7:30, 10:30 p.m.; Tues.-Thurs., 9:45 a.m., 1, 4:15, 7:15, 10:45 p.m.

Sisters Fri.-Sun., 9:15 a.m., 12:15, 3:15, 6:30, 9:30 p.m.; Mon.-Thurs., 9:10 a.m., 12:10, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fri. 8:30 a.m., 12 noon, 3:30, 7, 10:30, 1:35 a.m.; Sat. 8:30 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 3:15, 6:45, 10:15, 1:20 a.m.; Sun. 8:30 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 3:15, 6:45, 10:15 p.m.; Mon. 9 a.m., 12:15, 3:45, 7:15, 10:45 p.m.; Tues.Thurs., 9:15 a.m., 12:30, 4, 7:30, 11 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Fri.Sun., 8 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2:50, 6:15, 9:40, 12:45 a.m.; Mon. 8:30 a.m., 12 noon, 3:20, 6:45, 10:15, 1:15 a.m.; Tues.-Thurs., 8:45 a.m., 12 noon, 3:20, 6:45, 10:15 p.m.

LAEMMLE’S PLAYHOUSE 7 673 E Colorado Bl, (626) 844-6500.

The Big Short Fri. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10 p.m.; Thurs. 1, 2, 4, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn Fri. 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 10:50 a.m., 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 p.m.; Thurs. 1:40, 4:30 p.m.

Carol Fri. 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50 p.m.; Sat.Sun., 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50 p.m.; Thurs. 1:20, 4:10 p.m.

Heart of a Dog Sat.-Sun., 11 a.m.

Legend Fri.-Wed., 10:10 p.m.

Mustang Fri. 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 p.m.; Thurs. 1:50, 4:40 p.m.

The Room Fri.-Thurs., 3:50 p.m.

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Fri.-Wed., 1:10 p.m.

Trumbo Fri.-Wed., 7:10 p.m.; Thurs. 1 p.m.

Youth Fri. 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 10:40 a.m., 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10 p.m.; Thurs. 1:30, 4:20 p.m.

ARCLIGHT PASADENA 14 280 E Colorado Bl, (626) 568-8888.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Fri.-Sun., 7:15 a.m., 8:15 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 12:15, 1:05, 3:20, 6:10, 7:20, 9:25 p.m.

Concussion Fri.-Sat., 12:15 a.m., 8:45 a.m., 9:45 a.m., 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 3:25, 4:50, 7:25, 10:25 p.m.; Sun. 12:05 a.m., 8:45 a.m., 9:45 a.m., 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 3:25, 4:50, 7:25, 10:25 p.m.

Creed Fri.-Sun., 8:05, 10:55 p.m.

Daddy’s Home Fri.-Sat., 12:05 a.m., 7:20 a.m., 9:25 a.m., 11:35 a.m., 1:40, 3:45, 6:05, 8:15, 10:20 p.m.; Sun. 12:15 a.m., 7:20 a.m., 9:25 a.m., 11:35 a.m., 1:40, 3:45, 6:05, 8:15, 10:20 p.m.

The Danish Girl Fri.-Sun., 8:10 a.m., 11:05 a.m., 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 p.m.

Joy Fri.-Sun., 12:25 a.m., 7:10 a.m., 9:05 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:05, 11:35 p.m.

Point Break Fri.-Sat., 12:45 a.m., 10:15 a.m., 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 p.m.; Sun. 10:15 a.m., 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 p.m.

Point Break 3D Fri.-Sun., 2:15 p.m.

Sisters Fri.-Sun., 9:10 a.m., 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 8:10, 10:40 p.m.

Spotlight Fri.-Sun., 8:25 a.m., 12:40, 5:25 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fri.-Sat., 12:30 a.m., 1 a.m., 7 a.m., 7:30 a.m., 8 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 1, 2, 2:30, 3:30, 4, 5, 5:30, 6:30, 7, 8, 8:30, 9:30, 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30 p.m.; Sun. 7 a.m., 7:30 a.m., 8 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 1, 2, 2:30, 3:30, 4, 5, 5:30, 6:30, 7, 8, 8:30, 9:30, 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30 p.m.; Mon. 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 p.m.; Tues. 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 1, 2, 4, 7, 8 p.m.; Wed. 11 a.m., 1, 2, 4, 7, 8 p.m.; Thurs. 8 a.m., 9:55 a.m., 10:55 a.m., 12:55, 1:55, 3:55, 4:55, 6:55 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Fri.Sun., 12 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12 noon, 1:30, 3, 4:30, 6, 7:30, 9 p.m.

GLENDALE PACIFIC GLENDALE 18 The Americana at Brand, 322 Americana Way, Glendale (818) 551-0218.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Fri.-Wed., 9:10 a.m., 10:15 a.m., 12:30, 1:45, 2:45, 4:45, 7:05, 9:40 p.m.

The Big Short Fri.-Sun., 9:45 a.m., 12:35, 3:30, 6:25, 7:55, 9:15, 11:55 p.m.; Mon.Wed., 9:45 a.m., 12:35, 3:30, 6:25, 7:55, 9:15 p.m.

Carol Fri.-Wed., 9:20 a.m., 12 noon, 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:35 p.m.

Concussion Fri.-Wed., 10:55 a.m., 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 10:40 p.m.

Creed Fri.-Wed., 4:45, 9:30 p.m.

Daddy’s Home Fri.-Sun., 9:20 a.m., 10:25 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:45, 3, 5, 7:15, 9:35, 11:55 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 9:20 a.m., 10:25 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:45, 3, 5, 7:15, 9:35 p.m.

The Danish Girl Fri.-Wed., 9:15 a.m., 12 noon, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 10:55 p.m.

The Good Dinosaur Fri.-Wed., 9:25 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 2:15, 4:35, 7:05, 9:50 p.m.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Fri.-Wed., 1:45, 7:40 p.m.

Joy Fri.-Wed., 11:05 a.m., 2:05, 4, 6, 7, 9:55, 11:25 p.m.

Point Break Fri.-Wed., 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 4:55, 7:25, 10:45 p.m.

Point Break 3D Fri.-Wed., 10:05 a.m.

Sisters Fri.-Sun., 12 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 12:40, 3:20, 5:15, 8:45, 9:20 p.m.; Mon.Wed., 11:10 a.m., 12:40, 3:20, 5:15, 8:45, 9:20 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fri.-Sun., 12 a.m., 9 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12 noon, 12:30, 1, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4, 5, 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7, 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30, 10, 11, 11:30 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 9 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12 noon, 12:30, 1, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4, 5, 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7, 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30, 10, 11, 11:30 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Fri.Wed., 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 p.m.

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Fri. 12:15, 3, 6:40, 9:15 p.m.; Sat.-Tues., 8:50 a.m., 10 a.m., 12:15, 3, 6:40, 9:15 p.m.

The Big Short Fri. 12 noon, 3:50, 8, 11:20 p.m.; Sat.-Tues., 8:45 a.m., 12 noon, 3:50, 8, 11:20 p.m.

Concussion Fri. 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:55 p.m.; Sat.-Tues., 10 a.m., 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:55 p.m.

Daddy’s Home Fri. 1:30, 5:20, 7, 10:35 p.m.; Sat.-Tues., 11:10 a.m., 1:35, 5:20, 7, 10:35 p.m.

Point Break Fri.-Tues., 1, 8:45 p.m.

Point Break 3D Fri. 4, 11:20 p.m.; Sat.Tues., 8:30 a.m., 4, 11:20 p.m.

Sisters Fri. 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:25 p.m.; Sat.-Tues., 11 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:25 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fri.-Tues., 11:30 a.m., 3:50, 6, 7:10, 10 p.m.; Wed.Thurs., 3:50, 7:10, 10 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Fri. 12 noon, 12:30, 2:45, 3:20, 6:40, 9:20, 10:30 p.m.; Sat. 8:20 a.m., 8:50 a.m., 8:55 a.m., 12 noon, 12:30, 2:45, 3:20, 6:40, 9:20, 10:30 p.m.; Sun.-Tues., 8:20 a.m., 8:50 a.m., 9 a.m., 12 noon, 12:30, 2:45, 3:20, 6:40, 9:20, 10:30 p.m.; Wed.-Thurs., 9 a.m., 12 noon, 12:30, 3:20, 6:40, 10:30 p.m.

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Fri.-Wed., 10:15 a.m., 12:45, 1:50, 3:20, 4:20, 6, 8:30, 11:10 p.m.

The Big Short Fri.-Wed., 10:50 a.m., 2, 5:10, 8:15, 11:20 p.m.

Concussion Fri.-Wed., 10:10 a.m., 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 p.m.

Creed Fri.-Wed., 10:30 a.m., 6:50, 10:10 p.m.

Daddy’s Home Fri.-Sun., 8:40 a.m., 9:40 a.m., 12:15, 1:45, 2:50, 4:20, 5:30, 7:10, 8:10, 9:50, 10:50 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 9:40 a.m., 12:15, 1:45, 2:50, 4:20, 5:30, 7:10, 8:10, 9:50, 10:50 p.m.

The Good Dinosaur Fri.-Wed., 11:20 a.m., 2:10, 4:50 p.m.

The Hateful Eight Thurs. only, 6 p.m.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Fri.-Wed., 7:35, 10:45 p.m.

Joy Fri.-Wed., 10:40 a.m., 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 p.m.

Mr. Six Fri.-Sun., 8:30 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 3:10, 6:25, 9:40 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 11:50 a.m., 3:10, 6:25, 9:40 p.m.

Point Break Fri.-Wed., 10:20 a.m., 4:15, 10:15 p.m.

Point Break 3D Fri. 1:20, 7:15 p.m.; Sat. 1:20, 7:20 p.m.; Sun.-Wed., 1:20, 7:15 p.m.

Sisters Fri.-Wed., 9:40 a.m., 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fri. 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12 noon, 3, 3:30, 6:30, 7, 10, 10:30 p.m.; Sat. 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12 noon, 3, 3:30, 6:30, 7, 10, 10:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12 noon, 3, 3:30, 6:30, 7, 10, 10:30 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12 noon, 3, 3:30, 6:30, 7, 10, 10:30 p.m.; Thurs. 11:30 a.m., 3, 6:30, 10 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens — An IMAX 3D Experience Fri.-Thurs., 9 a.m., 12:30, 4, 7:30, 11 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Fri. 9:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 1, 1:30, 4:30, 5, 8, 8:30, 11:30 p.m.; Sat. 9:30 a.m., 1, 1:30, 4:30, 5, 8, 8:30, 11:30 p.m.; Sun.-Wed., 9:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 1, 1:30, 4:30, 5, 8, 8:30, 11:30 p.m.; Thurs. 9:30 a.m., 1, 4:30, 8, 11:30 p.m.

ALHAMBRA EDWARDS ALHAMBRA RENAISSANCE STADIUM 14 & IMAX, 1 E. Main Street, 626-300-0107 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Fri.-Wed., 10:15 a.m., 12:45, 1:50, 3:20, 4:20, 6, 8:30, 11:10 p.m.

The Big Short Fri.-Wed., 10:50 a.m., 2, 5:10, 8:15, 11:20 p.m.

Concussion Fri.-Wed., 10:10 a.m., 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 p.m.

Creed Fri.-Wed., 10:30 a.m., 6:50, 10:10 p.m.

Daddy’s Home Fri.-Sun., 8:40 a.m., 9:40 a.m., 12:15, 1:45, 2:50, 4:20, 5:30, 7:10, 8:10, 9:50, 10:50 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 9:40 a.m., 12:15, 1:45, 2:50, 4:20, 5:30, 7:10, 8:10, 9:50, 10:50 p.m.

The Good Dinosaur Fri.-Wed., 11:20 a.m., 2:10, 4:50 p.m.

The Hateful Eight Thurs. only, 6 p.m.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Fri.-Wed., 7:35, 10:45 p.m.

Joy Fri.-Wed., 10:40 a.m., 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 p.m.

Mr. Six Fri.-Sun., 8:30 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 3:10, 6:25, 9:40 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 11:50 a.m., 3:10, 6:25, 9:40 p.m.

Point Break Fri.-Wed., 10:20 a.m., 4:15, 10:15 p.m.

Point Break 3D Fri. 1:20, 7:15 p.m.; Sat. 1:20, 7:20 p.m.; Sun.-Wed., 1:20, 7:15 p.m.

Sisters Fri.-Wed., 9:40 a.m., 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fri. 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12 noon, 3, 3:30, 6:30, 7, 10, 10:30 p.m.; Sat. 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12 noon, 3, 3:30, 6:30, 7, 10, 10:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12 noon, 3, 3:30, 6:30, 7, 10, 10:30 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12 noon, 3, 3:30, 6:30, 7, 10, 10:30 p.m.; Thurs. 11:30 a.m., 3, 6:30, 10 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens — An IMAX 3D Experience Fri.-Thurs., 9 a.m., 12:30, 4, 7:30, 11 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Fri. 9:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 1, 1:30, 4:30, 5, 8, 8:30, 11:30 p.m.; Sat. 9:30 a.m., 1, 1:30, 4:30, 5, 8, 8:30, 11:30 p.m.; Sun.-Wed., 9:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 1, 1:30, 4:30, 5, 8, 8:30, 11:30 p.m.; Thurs. 9:30 a.m., 1, 4:30, 8, 11:30 p.m. ■

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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, office furniture & equipment, sporting goods, etc.; belonging to the following:

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 PASADENA, 234 N. ALLEN AVE PASADENA CA 91106, County Of Los Angeles, State Of California Will Sell By Competitive Bidding The Following Units. Auction To Be Conducted Through Online Auction Services of WWW. STORAGEBATTLES.COM, with bids opening on or after 2:00pm DECEMBER 28TH 2015 and closing on or after 2:00pm, JANUARY 6th 2016.

The Personal Goods Stored Therein by the Following May Include, but are not limited to: MISC. HOUSEHOLD GOODS, PERSONAL ITEMS, FURNITURE, CLOTHING AND/OR BUSINESS ITEMS/FIXTURES. ROLANDO BECKER ROXANA FUENTES STANLEY LARGE SUSAN KEHOE-JERGENS LUIS RODRIGUEZ MAYRA GARCIA DEBBIE JOHNSON MARIO BENITEZ Purchases Must Be Made in Cash and Paid at the time of Sale. All Goods are Sold as is and must be Removed within 48 Hours of the time of Purchase. Allen Ave Self Storage-Pasadena Reserves the Right to Retract Bids. Sale is Subject to Adjournment.

Pasadena 12/31/15

Weekly

12/24/15,

NOTICE OF SALE ABANDONED PERSONAL 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

Attorney for petitioner:

Marcus Flyc Auction by StorageTreasures.com

SBN 106192

800-213-4183

LAW OFFICE OF

Pasadena 12/31/15

Weekly

12/24/15,

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF KIMBERLY D. GANT CASE NO. BP168812 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of KIMBERLY D. GANT A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Patricia A. Gant in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Patricia A. Gant be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent 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 on January 15, 2016 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 67 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

SHERRY YOUNG

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.

MITCHELL A PORT ESQ

PROBATE NOTICES

BULK SALES NOTICES

with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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 first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined 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

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: REBECCA SUE BIGLER CASE NO. BP168962 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the lost WILL or estate, or both of REBECCA SUE BIGLER. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JOSEPH SWEENEY in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JOSEPH SWEENEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s lost WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The lost 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 . (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: 01/13/16 at 8:30AM in Dept. 67 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 first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined 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.

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 deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

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 first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined 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.

Attorney for Petitioner

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.

LISA J. PETERSON, ESQ.

Attorney for Petitioner:

HART, MIERAS & MORRIS, INC

Guodi Sun

255 E SANTA CLARA ST #300

Guodi Sun & Associates

ARCADIA CA 91006

SBN 266538

12/10, 12/17, 12/24/15

1008 S. Baldwin Ave., Suite E

CNS-2823250#

Arcadia, California 91007

PASADENA WEEKLY

(626) 318-5752

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 Pro-bate Code section 1250. A Re-quest for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

PASADENA WEEKLY

Attorney for petitioner:

12/10/15, 12/17/15, 12/24/15

DANIEL G MCMEEKIN ESQ

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ES-TATE OF MARGARITA V. MACHADO

SBN 94162

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF ANDY KIN-MING LAU CASE NO. BP168961 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of ANDY KIN-MING LAU. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Lilian Lau in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Lilian Lau 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. (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: January 13, 2016, Time: 8:30 AM, Dept.: 29, Location: Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 111 N. Hill Street 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

CASE NO. BP168035 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MARGARITA V. MACHADO A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by German E. Machado in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PRO-BATE requests that German E. Machado be appointed as per-sonal representative to administer the estate of the de-cedent.

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 au-thority to administer the estate under the Independent Admin-istration 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 on January 28, 2016 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 5 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the grant-ing of the petition, you should appear at

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attor-ney knowledgeable in Califor-nia law.

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why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on January 12, 2016 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 5 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 first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined 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: JUDITH M HILLS ESQ SBN 279582

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF SALLY J. MILLER aka SALLY JEAN MILLER aka SALLY MILLER BALDETTI aka SALLY BALDETTI CASE NO. BP169105 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of SALLY J. MILLER aka SALLY JEAN MILLER aka SALLY MILLER BALDETTI aka SALLY BALDETTI A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Eric J. Baldetti & Elizabeth L. Baldetti in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Eric J. Baldetti & Elizabeth L. Baldetti be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent 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

JAMES F MILLER ESQ SBN 66867 LAW OFFICES OF JAMES F MILLER 1275 EAST GREEN STREET PASADENA CA 91106 CN918913 Pasadena Weekly 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15

TRUSTEE SALES T.S. No.: 9986-6398 TSG Order No.: 730-1504852-70 A.P.N.: 5839-006-020 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 01/26/2007. UNLESS 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. NBS Default Services, LLC, as the duly appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded 02/01/2007 as Document No.: 20070217871, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, executed by: HENRY G SANDERS AND NAILA ALADDIN SANDERS HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS, as Trustor, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER — CONTINUED ON PAGE 55

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— CONTINUED FROM PAGE 52 FOR CASH (payable in full at time of sale by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by 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, 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 it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and state, and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust.

Sale Date & Time: 01/07/2016 at 10:00 AM Sale Location: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 521 EAST COLMAN STREET, ALTADENA, CA 91001 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 in an ìAS ISî condition, 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 said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $625,414.78 (Estimated) as of 12/04/2015. Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due.

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 office 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, beneficiary, 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, 916-9390772 for information regarding the trusteeís sale or visit this Internet Web site, www.nationwideposting. com, for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, T.S.# 9986-6398. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the

Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidderís sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. NBS Default Services, LLC 301 E. Ocean Blvd. Suite 1720 Long Beach, CA 90802 800-766-7751 For Trustee Sale Information Log On To: www. nationwideposting.com or Call: 916-939-0772. NBS Default Services, LLC, Kim Coker, Foreclosure Associate This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. However, if you have received a discharge of the debt referenced herein in a bankruptcy proceeding, this is not an attempt to impose personal liability upon you for payment of that debt. In the event you have received a bankruptcy discharge, any action to enforce the debt will be taken against the property only.

NPP0265586 To: PASADENA WEEKLY 12/10/2015, 12/17/2015, 12/24/2015 NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE TS No. CA-14-620945-RY Order No.: 140088975-CA-MAI YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 6/26/2006. UNLESS 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 state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified 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): MYLU G LLADO, A MARRIED WOMAN AS HER SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY Recorded: 7/6/2006 as Instrument No. 06 1490719 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California; Date of Sale: 12/31/2015 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: $378,151.50 The purported property address is: 1460 CORSON STREET UNIT 2, PASADENA, CA 91106 Assessorís Parcel No.: 5737-008-084 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 con-

tacting the county recorderís office 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, beneficiary, 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 for information regarding the trusteeís sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.com , using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-14-620945-RY . Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. 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 beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. 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. 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 Mortgageeís 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 rightís against the real property only. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations.

QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street San Diego, CA 92101 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-14-620945-RY IDSPub #0096861 12/10/2015 12/17/2015 12/24/2015 NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE TS No. CA-11-428663-RM Order No.: 110109175-CA-GTI YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 8/22/2007. UNLESS 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 state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or

savings bank specified 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): DEBORAH L BERMAN Recorded: 9/28/2007 as Instrument No. 20072244231 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California; Date of Sale: 12/31/2015 at 10:30AM Place of Sale: Near the fountain located at 400 Civic Center Plaza Pomona, California 91766 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $1,050,495.33 The purported property address is: 3629 GRAYBURN RD, PASADENA, CA 91107 Assessorís Parcel No.: 5755011017 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 recorderís office 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, beneficiary, 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 888-988-6736 for information regarding the trusteeís sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.com , using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-11-428663-RM . Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. 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 beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. 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 Trust-

ee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. 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 Mortgageeís 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 rightís against the real property only. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations.

QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 888-988-6736 Or Login to: http:// www.qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp.

TS No.: CA-11-428663-RM IDSPub #0096751 12/10/2015 12/17/2015 12/24/2015 T.S. No.: 2014-06809-CA A.P.N.:5702-018-021 Property Address: 1238 Armada Dr, Pasadena, CA 91103-2404 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE ß 2923.3(a), THE SUMMARY OF INFORMATION REFERRED TO BELOW IS NOT ATTACHED 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 IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER:

NOTA: SE ADJUNTA UN RESUMEN DE LA INFORMACIÓN DE ESTE DOCUMENTO TALA: MAYROONG BUOD NG IMPORMASYON SA DOKUMENTONG ITO NA NAKALAKIP

YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 08/04/2006. UNLESS 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. Trustor: Carmela Torres, A Single Woman Duly Appointed Trustee: Western Progressive, LLC Recorded 08/15/2006 as Instrument No. 06 1811198 in book —-, page—- and of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, Date of Sale: 01/06/2016 at 11:00 AM Place of Sale: BEHIND THE FOUNTAIN LOCATED IN CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, 400 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, POMONA, CA Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $ 618,615.39 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIERíS 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: 1238 Armada Dr, Pasadena, CA 911032404

your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (866)-9608299 or visit this Internet Web site http://www.altisource.com/MortgageSer vices/ DefaultManage ment/TrusteeServices.aspx using the file number assigned to this case 2014-06809-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

Date: November 28, 2015 We s tern Progressive, LLC, as Trustee for beneficiary C/o 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606

A.P.N.: 5702-018-021 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. 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:

Automated Sale Information Line: (866) 960-8299 http://www.altisource.com/MortgageServices/ DefaultManagement/TrusteeServices.aspx For Non-Automated Sale Information, call: (866) 240-3530 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. APP2831485 Pasadena Weekly 12/10/15, 12/17/15, 12/24/15

$ 618,615.39.

If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidderís sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

The beneficiary 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 recorderís office 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.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Note: Because the Beneficiary 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 NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, 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

Trustee Sale No. : 00000004764820 Title Order No.: 140022631 FHA/VA/PMI No.: NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 02/12/2007. UNLESS 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. BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER & WEISS, LLP, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 02/26/2007 as Instrument No. 20070403147 , RE-RECORDED DEED OF TRUST ON 06-20-2007 AS INSTRUMENT NO. 20071483079 AND RERECORDED DEED OF TRUST ON 06-20-2007 AS INSTRUMENT NO. 20071483080 of official records in the office of the County Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, State of CALIFORNIA. EXECUTED BY: LYNNDI SCOTT, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized

by California Civil Code 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States). DATE OF SALE: 01/06/2016 TIME OF SALE: 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: BEHIND THE FOUNTAIN LOCATED IN CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, 400 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, POMONA CA. STREET ADDRESS and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 452 ORANGE GROVE PLACE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91103 APN#: 5726012-062 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, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the 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 reason-

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able estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $52,143.87. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned 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 office 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, beneficiary, 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 916-9390772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site www.nationwideposting. com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the

file number assigned to this case 00000004764820.

Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

FOR TRUSTEE SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: NATIONWIDE POSTING & PUBLICATION A DIVISION OF FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY 1180 IRON POINT ROAD, SUITE 100 FOLSOM, CA 95630 916-9390772 www.nationwideposting. com BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER & WEISS, LLP IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER & WEISS, LLP as Trustee Dated: 12/04/2015 NPP0266025 To: PASADENA WEEKLY 12/17/2015, 12/24/2015, 12/31/2015 Trustee Sale No. : 00000005305792 Title Order No.: 150151760 FHA/VA/PMI No.: NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 04/25/2007.

UNLESS 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. BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER & WEISS, LLP, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 05/01/2007 as Instrument No. 20071043243 of official records in the office of the County Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, State of CALIFORNIA. EXECUTED BY: BRIAN L. CHIN, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized

by California Civil Code 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States). DATE OF SALE: 01/06/2016 TIME OF SALE: 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: BEHIND THE FOUNTAIN LOCATED

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IN CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, 400 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, POMONA CA. STREET ADDRESS and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 297 SOUTH MADISON AVENUE, #1, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91101 APN#: 5734-010-135 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, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the 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 $364,232.37. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned 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 office 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, beneficiary, 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 916-9390772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site www.nationwideposting. com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case 00000005305792.

Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

FOR TRUSTEE SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: NATIONWIDE POSTING & PUBLICATION A DIVISION OF FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY 1180 IRON POINT ROAD, SUITE 100 FOLSOM, CA 95630 916-9390772 www.nationwideposting. com BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER & WEISS, LLP IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER & WEISS, LLP as Trustee Dated: 12/02/2015 NPP0265795 To: PASADENA WEEKLY 12/17/2015, 12/24/2015, 12/31/2015 NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE TS No. CA-13-564133-CL Order No.: 130123708-CA-API YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 11/16/2005. 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 state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified 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): FRANK T. HIRAKAWA AND NOBUKO HIRAKAWA, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS Recorded: 11/30/2005 as Instrument No. 05 2913207 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California; Date of Sale: 1/21/2016 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Doubletree Hotel Los Angeles-Norwalk, 13111 Sycamore Drive, Norwalk, CA 90650, in the Vineyard Ballroom Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $313,404.49 The purported property address is: 162 E PALM STREET, ALTADENA, CA 91001 Assessorís Parcel No.: 5833025-023 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 recorderís office 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, beneficiary, 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 800-280-2832 for information regarding the trusteeís sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.com , using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-13-564133-CL . Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. 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 beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. 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. 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 Mortgageeís 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 rightís against the real property only. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations.

QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http:// www.qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp.

TS No.: CA-13-564133-CL IDSPub #0097909 12/24/2015 12/31/2015 1/7/2016

FICT. BUSINESS NAMES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015299784 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BARN CAFE; 45 N. San Gabriel Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107. COUNTY: Los Angeles.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Kiat Lean Ooi, 743 N. Hill Ave. Pasadena, CA 91104. 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 declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Kiat Lean Ooi. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: November 25, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/3/15, 12/10/15, 12/17/15, 12/24/15

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015299424 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BALLSBRIDGE BEHAVIOR AND CONSULTATION SERVICES. 1031 Alpine Villa Drive Altadena, CA 91001,PO Box 628 La Canada, CA 91012. COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 3831490.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Ballsbridge Academy, Inc. Behavior and Education Center, 1031 Alpine Villa Drive Altadena, CA 91001. State of Incorporation or LLC: California.

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Joyce Lee. TITLE: Secretary, Corp or LLC Name: Ballsbridge Academy, Inc. Behavior and Education Center. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: November 25, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/3/15, 12/10/15, 12/17/15, 12/24/15

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015301168 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ATM4U; 68 E. Bay State Street #3E Alhambra, CA 91801.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Liwei Chen, 68 E. Bay State Street #3E Alhambra, CA 91801, Johnny Kuan-Nan Chen, 227 W. valley Blvd. Ste. #308 San Gabriel, CA 91736 . THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a General Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Johnny Kuan-Nan Chen. TITLE: General Partner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: November 30, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/3/15, 12/10/15, 12/17/15, 12/24/15

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015298946 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SUN DAIRY. 5471 W. San Fernando Road Los Angeles, CA 90039. COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 1478885.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Pac Fill Inc., 5471 W. San Fernando Road Los Angeles, CA 90039. State of Incorporation or LLC: California.

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED

BY A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Vhaik Sarkissian. TITLE: President, Corp or LLC Name: Pac Fill Inc. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: November 24, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/10/15, 12/17/15, 12/24/15 Current File No. 2013208667

STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL FROM PARTNERSHIP OPERATING UNDER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following person(s) has/have withdrawn as a general partner(s) from the partnership operating under the fictitious business name of: CREDONIX AND CREDOTUM FINANCIALS, 212 N. Primrose Ave Suite A, Alhambra, CA 91801 The fictitious business name statement for the partnership was filed on 10/04/2013 in the County of Los Angeles.

Name of withdrawal from Partnership; Stephen Souw, 6341 Provence Rd., San Gabriel, CA 91775 This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on December 1, 2015 Publish: Pasadena Weekly. Dates 12/10/15, 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015306994 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PASADENA. 1133 Rosemont Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 2770059. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Life Skills Fore Pasadena Youth, Inc., 1133 Rosemont Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103. State

of Incorporation or LLC: California.

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED

BY A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 6/1/2006. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Robert C. Baderian. TITLE: CEO, Corp or LLC Name: Life Skills Fore Pasadena Youth, Inc. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 7, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/10/15, 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015304154 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: OBSIDIAN SECURITY CONSULTANTS; 680 E. Colorado Blvd. Suite 180 Pasadena, CA 91101. COUNTY: Los Angeles.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Victor Everett, 33 N. El Molino Ave. Pasadena, CA 91101, Marcel Bacon, 1121 Overlook Ridge Road Diamond Bar, CA 91765. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a General Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: 11/14/15.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Victor Everett. TITLE: Co-Owner.

This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 2, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/10/15, 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015299090 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EAST WEST INVESTMENT SERVICES. 2982 E. Colorado Blvd.

135 N. Los Robles Ave. 3rd Floor Pasadena, CA 91101. COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 1944458. REGISTERED OWNER(S) East West Bank, 135 N. Los Robles Ave. 7th Floor Pasadena, CA 91101.

State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all informa-

tion in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Shadya Diaz. TITLE: Vice President, Corp or LLC Name: East West Bank. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: November 24, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015307683 Type of Filing: New (Amended).

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CREATIVERAUL; 820 Locus Street #3119 Pasadena, CA 91101. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Raul Velazquez, 820 Locus Street #3119 Pasadena, CA 91101. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: 3/18/2014.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Raul Velazquez. TITLE: Owner.

This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 7, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015310892 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NEWBREW WEB DEVELOPMENT; 1241 E. Comstock Glendora, CA 91741. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Joseph Edward Nava, 1241 Comstock Glendora, CA 91741. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Indivdual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Joseph Edward Nava. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 10, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015310906 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NEWBREW; 1248 Willowglen Lane San Dimas, CA 91773. COUNTY: Los Angeles.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Edward Distarce, 1248 Willowglen Lane San Dimas, CA 91773. 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 declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Edward Distarce. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 10, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015303846 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: WALK RABBIT STUDIO; 25335 Via Artina Valencia, CA 91355. COUNTY: Los Angeles.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Bethany T Elmer, 25335 Via Artina Valencia, CA 91355. 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 declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Bethany T Elmer.

TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 02, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE

NO. 2015305440 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BLUE PANDA MEDIA, S. HUNTER ENTERPRISES; 1538 El Sereno Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Stephen Hunter Lutes, 1538 El Sereno Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103. 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 declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Stephen Hunter Lutes.

TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 3, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015310272 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LC MEDIA; 3032 Prospect Avenue La Crescenta, CA 91214. COUNTY: Los Angeles.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Laura B Cohen, 3032 Prospect Ave. La Crescenta, CA 91214. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: 2/03/2003.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Laura B. Cohen. TITLE: Publicist/Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 9, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015309386 Type of Filing: Amended (New).

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: STERLING FARMERS MARKETS, PASADENA CERTIFIED FARMERS MARKETS; 363 E. Villa Street Pasadena, CA 91101. COUNTY: Los Angeles.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Gretchen A. Sterling, 454 N. Euclid Ave. Pasadena, CA 91101. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names list-

ed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Gretchen A. Sterling. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 8, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015302049 Type of Filing: Amended (New).

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ASTRO PHARMACY, 617 E. Colorado Blvd. Glendale, CA 91205, ADVANCED HEALING SOLUTIONS, 20162 SW Birch Street Ste 220A Newport Beach, CA 92660. COUNTY: Los Angeles.

Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: N/A. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Glen RX Drugs, Inc., 617 E. Colorado Blvd. Glendale, CA 91205. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 7/9/2015. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Wilburt L. Mays Jr. TITLE: President, Corp or LLC Name: Glen RX Drugs, Inc. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 1, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015313932 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ENS EQUINE; 3481 Chaney Trail CA 91001. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Sydney Najduch, 3481 Chaney Trail Altadena, CA 91001.

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 declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Sydney Najduch. TITLE: Owner.

This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 14, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed

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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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015303947 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EARTHLINGS, 496 Allen Ave Pasadena, CA 91105. COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: N/A. REGISTERED OWNER(S) PASADENA HEALTH & WELLNESS GROUP, INC., A CALIFORNIA. 496 Allen Ave. Pasadena, CA 91105.

State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Zachary D Brandt. TITLE: President, Corp or LLC Name: PASADENA HEALTH & WELLNESS GROUP, INC., A CALIFORNIA. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 2, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015312566 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ZHONGSHI MATERIAL SUPPLY; 386 Pomelo Ave. Unit C Monterey Park, CA 91755. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Weimin Zhang, 368 Pomelo Ave. Unit C Monterey Park, CA 91755. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: 12/10/2015. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Weimin Zhang.

TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 11, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME ñ FILE NO: 2015312550 FILE NO: 2015-303752 DATE FILED: 12/02/2015. Name of Business(es) ZHONGSHI CONSTRUCTION, 388 Pomelo #C Monterey Park, CA 91755. REGISTERED OWNER(S): Weimin Zhang & Liqiu Chen , 388 Pomelo # C Monterey Park, CA 91755. Business was conducted by a Married Couple. I declare that all information in this statement 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) Weimin Zhang TITLE: Owner. If corporation, also print corporate title of officer. If LLC, also print tile of officer or manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on the date indicated by the filed stamp in the upper right corner: December 11, 2015. I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. DEAN C. LOGAN, LOS ANGELES COUNTY CLERK by: , Deputy Publish: Pasadena Weekly. Dates: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015297384 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SAWAB INC., SHASHLIK BROS INC., 3203 Halsey Ct. West Covina, CA 91791. COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 3840690. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Komiljanov Inc., 3203 Halsey Ct. West Covina, CA 91791. State of Incorporation or LLC: California.

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Timur Komiljanov. TITLE: President, Corp or LLC Name: Komiljanov Inc. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: November 23, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015293943 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ALL NATURE INC., JUST NATURE INC., ONLY NATURE INC. 1415 Eagle Park Rd. Unit #126 Hacienda Heights, CA 91745 . COUNTY: Los Angeles.

Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 3369359.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Yuanís

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Group Inc., 1415 Eagle Park Rd. Hacienda Heights, CA 91745. State of Incorporation or LLC: California.

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Jien Fong Yuen. TITLE: CEO, Corp or LLC Name: Yuanís Group Inc. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: November 18, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015296492 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NAFIT INC., BUBBLE BUBBLE, BUBBLE BUBBLE INC. 1415 Eagle Park Rd. Unit #126 Hacienda Heights, CA 91745 . COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 3369359.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Yuanís Group Inc., 1415 Eagle Park Rd. Hacienda Heights, CA 91745. State of Incorporation or LLC: California.

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Jien Yuen. TITLE: CEO, Corp or LLC Name: Yuanís Group Inc. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: November 20, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015304527 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SLOWPOKE LEATHER GOODS, SLOWPOKE; 564 Meridian Terrace Los Angeles, CA 90042.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Joshua Gilman, 564 Meridian Terrace 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: 5/01/2013. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Joshua Gilman.

TITLE: Owner. This statement was

filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 02, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/17/15, 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 01/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015310304 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SUNNY Q WELLNESS CENTER; 17706 Chatsworth Street Granada Hills, CA 91344.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Nan Ma, 716 E. Valley Blvd San Gabriel, CA 91776.

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 declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Nan Ma. TITLE: Owner.

This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 9, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 1/7/16, 1/14/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015318623 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CREEK YOGA; 671 E. Walnut Street Pasadena, CA 91101.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Yan Jiang, 349 S. Arroyo Dr. Apt. 1 San Gabriel, CA 91776. 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 declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Yan Jiang. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 18, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 1/7/16, 1/14/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015309065 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: INCOME TAX SPECIALISTS; 2690 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90006. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) John J. Diaz, 2690 W. Pico Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90006. 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 declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: John J Diaz. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 8, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 1/7/16, 1/14/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015302745 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RXNOVATE; 1858 Galbreth Road Pasadena, CA 91104.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Todd Alan Hays, 1858 Galbreth Road Pasadena, CA 91104. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: 10/25/2015. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Todd Alan Hays.

TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 01, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 1/7/16, 1/14/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015308687 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: WAITING FOR GRACE PRODUCTIONS; 601 South Hudson Ave. Pasadena, CA 91106. COUNTY: Los Angeles.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Sharon Schlarth, 601 South Hudson Ave. Pasadena, CA 91106. 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 declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Sharon Schlarth. TITLE: Owner.

This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 8, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 1/7/16, 1/14/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015316770 Type of Filing: Amended (New).

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MAX PACKAGING USA INC., MAX GROUP TECHNOLOGY. 17011 Green Drive Los Angeles, CA 91745. COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 1340956.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Max Group Corporation, 17011 Green Drive Industry, CA 91745. State of Incorporation or LLC: California.

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Ray Tsai. TITLE: Vice President, Corp or LLC Name: Max Group Corporation. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 16, 2015. NOTICE ñ in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 1/7/16, 1/14/16

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO: 2015307478 FILE NO: 2014-094890 DATE FILED: 04/09/2014. Name of Business(es) THE ONE THERAPEUTIC AND BEAUTY SPA, 1210 South Glendora Ave. West Covina, CA 91791. REGISTERED OWNER(S): The One Women Day Spa, 904 West Vine Ave. West Covina, CA 91790. Business was conducted by a Corporation. I declare that all information in this statement 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) The

One Women Day Spa TITLE: CEO. If corporation, also print corporate title of officer. If LLC, also print tile of officer or manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on the date indicated by the filed stamp in the upper right corner: December 7, 2015. I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. DEAN C. LOGAN, LOS ANGELES COUNTY CLERK by: Misti Brooks , Deputy Publish: Pasadena Weekly.

Dates: 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 1/7/16, 1/14/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015313989 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DNACCURACY; 4424 E. 14th Street Long Beach, CA 908043103, 700 E. Birch Street 891 Brea, CA 92822. COUNTY: Los Angeles.

REGISTERED OWNER(S) Elise E Chavez, 700 E. Birch Street 891 Brea, CA 92822. 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 declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Elise E Chavez.

TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 14, 2015. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 1/7/16, 1/14/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2015316202 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: HIGH SPEED WIRELESS; 328 E. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90015. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) MHD Tarek Oulabi, 328 E. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90015.

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 declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: MHD Tarek Oulabi. TITLE: Owner.

This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: December 16, 2015. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 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 (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: 12/24/15, 12/31/15, 1/7/16, 1/14/16

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SNEAK PREVIEW

BAND MUSICIANS LIMBER UP AS ROSE PARADE FANS GET ONE LAST CHANCE TO SEE FLOATS IN THE MAKING

BY JOHN SOLLENBERGER ROSE PARADE FLOAT DECORATION VIEWING

Before they travel down Colorado Boulevard on New Year’s Day, see the floats being decorated. Tickets are available at the door or through Sharp Seating, free for children 5 and younger. Locations are at Rosemont Pavilion, Brookside Pavilion and the Rose Palace.

Dec. 27 through 30 — View the decorating process at Rosemont Pavilion and Brookside Pavilion from noon to 5 p.m. Dec. 27, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 28 and 29 and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 30. Tickets are $5 for Dec. 27, $10 for Dec. 28 through 30. Rosemont Pavilion is located at 700 Seco St., Pasadena. Brookside Pavilion is located at Lot I, south side of Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena.

Dec. 27 through 31 — View the process from noon to 5 p.m. Dec. 27, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Dec. 28 through 30 and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 31 at the Rose Palace. Cost for Dec. 31 is $15.

The Rose Palace is located at 835 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena. Call or visit Sharp Seating at (626) 795-4171 or visit sharpseating.com. Visit tournamentofroses.com/ events for information.

BANDFEST OFFERS EARLY LOOK AT ROSE PARADE MARCHING BANDS

Dec. 29 and 30 — Get a first look at the marching bands scheduled to perform in the Rose Parade during Bandfest at Pasadena City College. Bandfest I starts at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 29.

Bandfest II starts at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 30 and Bandfest III starts at 2 p.m. Dec. 30. Tickets to each session are $15, free for children 5 and younger, available through Sharp Seating.

Pasadena City College is located at 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Call Sharp Seating at (626) 795-4171 or visit sharpseating.com. Visit tournamentofroses.com/ events for information.

EQUESTFEST SPOTLIGHTS ROSE PARADE EQUESTRIAN UNITS

Dec. 29 — Equestfest, a family-friendly showcase offers a preview of the equestrian units performing in the Rose Parade as they perform drills and dances, trick riding and roping at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. Tour the stables, meet the riders and learn about the riding equipment and the breeds of horses participating. Live music is included, and food and beverages are available for purchase. Gates open at 10 a.m. Tickets are $15, free for children 5 and younger or $40 for VIP reserved seating and a souvenir seat cushion.

Tickets are available at the venue or through Sharp Seating.

The Los Angeles Equestrian Center is located at 480 Riverside Drive, Burbank. Call Sharp Seating at (626) 795-4171 or visit sharpseating.com. Visit tournamentofroses. com/events for information.

SMELL THE ROSES

Jan. 1 — Pasadena is the focus of world attention as the 127th Rose Parade kicks off at 8 a.m. New Year’s Day. The parade starts at the corner of Orange Grove Boulevard and Green Street, wending its way down Colorado Boulevard 5 ½ miles, turning north on Sierra Madre Boulevard before ending at Villa Street. This year’s theme is “Find Your Adventure,” based on a partnership between the Pasadena Tournament of Roses and the National Park Service, and the parade will serve to highlight the centennial celebration of the establishment of the United States’ national parks. This year’s Grand Marshal is award-winning documentary fi lmmaker Ken Burns (“The Civil War,” “Prohibition”). The 2016 Rose Queen is Erika Karen Winter, a senior at Flintridge Preparatory School.

Visit tournamentofroses.com for information.

POST-PARADE FLOAT VIEWING

Jan. 1, 2 and 3 — Guests can get an up-close look at Rose Parade floats following the parade, as they are parked at the corner of Sierra Madre and Washington boulevards.

Viewing starts at 1 p.m. Jan. 1, with the last entry allowed at 4 p.m. Viewing continues at 9 a.m. Jan. 2 and 3, with senior citizens and disabled guests welcome between 7 and 9 a.m., and the last entry is at 4 p.m. both days. Tickets are $10, available at the viewing location until 3 p.m. each day, with children age 5 and younger admitted free. Advance tickets can be purchased from Sharp Seating (sharpseating.com).

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8DAYS THURSDAY 12.24.15

CHOICE EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF 12.24–12.31

BY JOHN SOLLENBERGER Alice Wallace

The Annual LA County Holiday Celebration features more than 20 music ensembles, choirs and dance companies representing the area’s diverse neighborhoods and cultures from 12:30 to 6 p.m. at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles. The event will be broadcast live on PBS SoCal (pbssocal.org). Free. Call (213) 972-3099 or visit holidaycelebration.org.

FRIDAY 12.25.15 Union Station Homeless Services hosts its annual, free Dinner in the Park for homeless individuals, seniors, low-income families and those with no place to go for Christmas from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Central Park, 219 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena. Call (626) 240-4550 or visit unionstationhs.org.

SATURDAY 12.26.15 Santa Anita Park, 285 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia, opens for the season, with live music, thoroughbred racing and the Guest Chef Series. Doors open at 10 a.m. and the first race starts at noon. The Guest Chef event from noon to 5 p.m. features a catered menu and live music. General admission tickets to opening day are $5, $10 for Club House admission. Tickets to the Guest Chef Series are $85. Call (626) 574-7223 or visit santaanita.com.

SUNDAY 12.27.15 See the Rose Parade floats being decorated Sunday through Dec. 31 at Rosemont Pavilion, Brookside Pavilion and the Rose Palace. Tickets are $5 to $15, available at the door or through Sharp Seating, free for children 5 and younger. Call (626) 795-4171 or visit sharpseating. com for tickets and tournamentofroses.com/events for information.

MONDAY 12.28.15 Vocalist Leslie Nesbitt (leslienesbitt.com) sings a range of music stretches from standards and blues and pop at 7 p.m. at Jax Bar & Grill, 339 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. No cover. Call (818) 500-1604 or visit jaxbarandgrill.com.

TUESDAY 12.29.15 Bandfest offers a first look at the marching bands performing in the Rose Parade. Bandfest I starts at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. Bandfest II starts at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday and Bandfest III starts at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Tickets to each session are $15, free for children 5 and younger, available through Sharp Seating. Call (626) 795-4171 or visit sharpseating.com.

WEDNESDAY 12.30.15

THURSDAY 12.31.15 Ring in the New Year with Past Action Heroes (pastactionheroes.com), the wild and crazy crew that dresses like TV action heroes and plays hits of the 1980s, starting at 10 p.m. at Kings Row Gastropub, 20 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. No cover. Call (626) 793-3010 or visit kingsrowpub.com.

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PHOTO: RJ Corby Photography

The Wine and Song music series features Alice Wallace (alicewallacemusic.com) and JC & Laney (jcandlaney. com) at 7 p.m. at Arroyo Seco Golf Course, 1055 Lohman Lane, South Pasadena. A $10 donation is requested.

Visit wineandsong.com.