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he renowned bookstore Vroman’s is hosting more top-notch virtual programs throughout October. The “Vroman’s Live” events are held virtually through Crowdcast. Register through vromansbookstore.com. All “Vroman’s Presents” events are ticketed and will be held in person off-site and will have COVID-19 event safety guidelines that need to be followed attend. Anyone with questions is asked to contact email@vromansbookstore.com. Vroman’s Live Rep. Adam Schiff, in conversation with Jason Alexander, discusses “Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could” 4 p.m. Saturday, October 16 Vroman’s presents Rep. Adam Schiff, in conversation with Jason Alexander, discussing “Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could.” Vaccinations and masks are required for all audience members attending this event. In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Trump’s Russia- and Ukraine-related abuses of presidential power, Schiff came to the terrible conclusion that the principal threat to American democracy now came from within. This ticketed event will take place at Pasadena Presbyterian Church at 585 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena. Ticket includes one entry plus one copy of “Midnight in Washington.”
Sutton Foster discusses “Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life” 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 20 Vaccinations and masks are required for all audience members attending this event. From the two-time Tony Award winner and the star of TV’s “Younger,” funny and intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love and show business — and how it can help others, too. Whether she’s playing an “age-defying” book editor on television or dazzling audiences on the Broadway stage, Sutton Foster manages to make it all look easy. How? Crafting. From the moment she picked up a cross stitch needle to escape the bullying chorus girls in her early performing days, she was hooked. Cross stitching led to crocheting, crocheting led to collages, which led to drawing and so on. This ticketed event will take place at Pasadena Presbyterian Church, located at 585 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena. Ticket includes one entry plus one signed copy of “Hooked.” Vroman’s Presents Kate Bowler, in conversation with Lori Gottlieb, discusses “No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)” 6 p.m. Monday, October 4 It’s hard to give up on the feeling that the life you really want is just out of reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on the horizon. Everyone wants to believe that they are headed toward good, better, best. But what happens when the life you hoped for is put on hold indefinitely? Kate Bowler believed that life was a series of unlimited choices, until she discovered, at age 35, that her body was wracked with cancer. “In No Cure for Being Human,” she searches for a way forward as she mines the wisdom (and absurdity) of today’s “best life now” advice industry, which insists on exhausting positivity and on trying to convince us that we can out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness. We are, she finds, as fragile as the day we were born. With dry wit and unflinching honesty, Bowler grapples with her diagnosis, her ambition and her faith as she tries to come to terms with her limitations in a culture that says anything is possible. She finds that we need one another if we’re going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible, full of hope and despair and everything in between — and there is no cure for being human. continued on page 22
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