Lawsuits were filed in California involving these alleged perpetrators. The vast majority of claims against these individuals have not been fully evaluated in a civil or criminal court. The allegations should not be considered proved or substantiated in a court of law. All individuals should be considered innocent until proven guilty.
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Ken and I were in the freezer aisle at the Azusa Costco, looking for our favorite Kirkland cauliflower crust pizza. We’re both masked. I look to my left (ironic) and see a lovely woman wearing a T-shirt with an exceedingly garish graphic of Drumpf’s multiple faces. I do a take. If I’d had liquid in my mouth, I would have done a spit-take. Instead, I do a double take, then a triple. That much Drumpf mug in my face is hard for me to, er, take. I look at her companion, and she’s wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Free dom is Coming: Trump 2024.” Ye gads!
Then the woman with the multiple Drumpf faces — let’s call her Rebecca Republican — notices me and immediately launches into a verbal volley of vitriol: “Geez, lady. If looks could kill, I’d be dead. You liberals, you can’t stand people who don’t agree with you!”
“I didn’t say anything,” I say.
She says, “You didn’t have to. I saw your dirty, dirty look!”
“I was simply amazed that you would dare to wear that in public,” I say. Truthfully, I was taken aback and fresh out of scintillating witticisms. That’s what happens when humans are hit with adrenalin and cortisol, the flight, fight or freeze chemicals. I was semi-frozen in the freezer section while she was lucid; I’m using that term “liber ally.” I suspect she’d either practiced grocery store assault techniques or studied “lib-tard” snark attack points.
I manage to say, “Your shirt is hard to ignore.”
“You liberals despise us! One guy in another aisle told me to get out,” Rebecca Republican says.
“I didn’t say anything like that,” I counter, “and I would never say such a thing.” I hated that I was defending myself against this clown. And I use the term clown objectively; her shirt looked like a clown shirt.
I then take the time to really look at her and say, “I didn’t give you a dirty look; if you knew my dirty looks, you wouldn’t say that.” I’m still on the defensive, and I don’t like it one bit. And I was convinced that the reason for her get-up was liberal baiting, so I say, “You’re simply wearing that shirt to provoke people.” She, of course, denies that, yet she behaves so cooly I know darned well this is not her first time. She returns to her refrain, “You lib-tards simply hate everyone while pretending to love everyone.” The other woman, Sandy Side kick, had very little to say, and Ken had up to then stayed quiet. After the “hate” accusation, he crossed the aisle, literally and figuratively, and held out both hands to offer Sandy a goodwill handshake.
As I turn away, Rebecca Republican lobs a parting shot: “And I’m a gay immigrant!” Wow. I surmise that Rebecca’s self-loathing must run deep. Ken asks for my disinfectant gel and uses it on his hands. Who knows where these gals have been?
Oh, the 20-20 hindsight that happens after an unexpected con frontation! I wish I’d brought my handy-dandy portable megaphone: it has a siren feature that is… arresting. Or what if I’d yelled, “There’s a 5-foot-3 woman in an offensive T-shirt harassing me on aisle 357! Someone intervene!” Or, the one I truly regret letting escape, “Hey, where’d you get that shirt, Rebecca? I want one for a play I’m cur rently writing.”
Thankfully I found Rebecca’s shirt on Etsy. Also, by Googling conservative talking points when confronting liberals, I found a boatload of nasty comments from Ann Coulter, the late Rush Lim baugh and Dennis Prager. Ah, Dennis … he once attacked me in one of his books and didn’t even have the decency to spell my last name correctly. What a dis! I’m proud to say that Dennis Prager and James Dobson of “Focus on the Family” have attacked me publicly, which encouraged me to keep writing my columns. Excellent job, boys!
Meanwhile, I needed to shake Rebecca off and reboot to get a grip
on what had just happened. As author and wise woman Anne Lam ott so aptly says, “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
My 5-year-old playground fighter was reliably ready with, “Nyah, nyah, nyah! No, you hate everyone! I know you are, but what am I?” When playground push comes to shove, part of me wanted to kick her in the shins and then run like hell, leaving Ken behind to deal with the mean girl.
I believe this kind of encounter will be more common as we barrel toward the midterms. We’ll see more provocative clothing — don’t fall for it. Or, if you do, be prepared. Hold your nose and Google “MAGA sayings and T-shirts.” Don’t be surprised at the level of scorn and hatred you see. And please get everyone you know out to vote! Call your relatives in reddish states and help them as well.
My final takeaway? Mother Jones said, “Sit down and read. Edu cate yourself for the coming conflicts.” They are already here.
Ellen Snortland has written this column for decades and also teach es creative writing. She can be reached at: ellen@beautybitesbeast. com. Her award-winning film “Beauty Bites Beast,” which features Gavin de Becker, is available for download or streaming at vimeo. com/ondemand/beautybitesbeast.
Being in print is a lot more meaningful than grouching on Facebook. Send compliments, complaints and insights about local issues to christina@timespublications.com.
Many people are fans of not just cats but the pop culture surrounding the creatures. CatCon in Pasadena was created for those with an appreciation for all-things feline.
Part convention and part symposium, the two-day event will run Saturday, Oct. 1, and Sunday, Oct. 2, at the Pasadena Convention Center. It is hosted by Ticket Out Inc., which also produces the Cat Art Show.
Susan Michals founded the event in 2015. Michals noticed there was a need for a cat-focused pop culture event when she was working for E! Entertainment.
“There was nothing that melded cats and pop culture,” said Michals, who grew up with cats.
“Except at that point, cat memes and cat videos were going strong. But there was nothing for cat people in real life.”
Michals’ background is in journalism, and she has written for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Art Economist, Vanity Fair and HuffPost. She is also an author and documentary filmmaker.
She started in 2014 with the Cat Art Show, which is biannual, and expanded to CatCon a year later.
That first year, around 4,000 people showed up for the Cat Art Show, which indi cated to Michals there was an audience for a convention.
“I realized that there was this definitive void, and all there was for cat people was really the breeder shows,” she said.
“(CatCon) is the in-person version of the dog park for cat people. It’s really based in community and also to change the perception of what it means to be a cat person.”
Michals hopes to debunk the stereotype of the “crazy cat lady” and highlight the diversity of cat enthusiasts. The event does attract seniors, but most attendees tend to be between 18 and 40. Guests come from all 50 states and 24 countries to attend the convention.
The event will offer vintage photo booths, cat and pop-culture exhibitors, celebrity and celebricat visits and workshops. New this year will be an immersive experience featuring kitty kitsch retro cat collectibles.
“We are recreating a 1970s grandma’s living room that is designed to showcase the kitty kitsch but at the same time evokes feelings of comfort, home and your grandma imparting aspects of her life, where she combined her love of cats with her love of art,” Michals said.
Michals is a longtime collector of kitty kitsch dolls and statues from the 1950s to the 1980s. This year, enthusiasts can have their kitty kitsch pieces appraised during the event.
“It’s all in good fun to tell you your kitty kitsch piece is from say the ’50s, and it could be worth $50 and $100. But it’s really to embrace that ‘Antiques Roadshow’ vibe and tell people a little bit more about the history of these collectibles,” Michals said.
CatCon will have two Bobby Flay immersive experiences. This will include a kitchen area in which visitors can make cat food designs and an office perfect for a “working cat” such as Flay’s feline friend Nacho.
Attendees can also take pictures in photo booths set up like a New York bodega and inspired by the Netflix series “Bridgerton.”
Many guests come out to the event in cat-themed cosplay. Some wear full cos tumes inspired by cat characters while others sport accessories such as cat ears.
During the convention, attendees can take photos with celebricats such as A Cat Named Squirrel, One_Eared_Uno, Juno the Blind Cat, Bowie the Siberian, Merlin Ragdoll and Adventure Cat Leo.
There will also be appearances by feline-loving celebrities such as model/actor Na than the Cat Lady, comedian Kat Curtis, influencer Holly Garcia, advocates Two Cra zy Cat Ladies and the Youngest Old Cat Lady, podcaster Georgia Hardstark, author and photographer Paul Koudounaris, comedians Julie Klausner and Tom Scharpling and podcasters Sara Iyer and Steven Ray Morris.
Author Hannah Shaw will sign copies of her book “Adventures in Fosterland.” A portion of book sales will benefit Best Friends Animal Society.
During CatCon, cats will be available for adoption. CatCon often has visits from celebricats such as Merlin Ragdoll, known for his grumpy expressions.Continued from page 5
The convention will also have special entertainment from Baby Wants Candy, an improv group that writes songs on the spot about cats, and rapper Sterling “Trap King” Davis.
Davis and Nathan the Cat Lady will also draw cat caricatures and offer cat tarot card readings and cat whispering for guests. Proceeds will towards TrapKing Humane Cat Solutions.
More than 150 exhibitors will offer the latest products for cats and their owners. This will include items such as artwork, clothing and jewelry and cat products such as toys, dental products, DNA tests, leashes and harnesses, wands and electronic litter boxes.
Workshops will focus on cat health and wellness topics, including cat diets, foster ing, clicker training, cat bathroom habits, travel with cats and special-needs felines. There will also be cat trivia at the event.
Firefighters from the “Australian Firefighters Calendar” will sell their calendars and lßead a workshop detailing their experiences doing photo shoots with cats.
Many pet parents view their cats as family members and try to stay informed on topics such as dietary needs and nail trimming methods. Michals said CatCon helps to educate them but in an engaging way.
“If I can help to educate people more about how to take care of their pets through the guise of entertainment, then my work is done,” Michals said.
There are a number of celebrities who are known for being cat lovers, including Taylor Swift, Salma Hayek, Angela Kinsey, George Clooney, Ed Sheeran, Steve Mar tin, Drew Barrymore, Macaulay Culkin and Nicolas Cage.
This year, a special art exhibit called “Uncaged: The Unbearable Weight of Genius Cat Art” will feature seven pieces of original artwork inspired by Cage’s love of cats.
Cats are not allowed at the convention for safety purposes. There is, however, a cat adoption village. Best Friends Animal Society will bring 200 cats and kittens, which will be available for adoption. The event encourages fostering and adopting cats instead of shopping for them.
As part of this effort, Ticket Out Inc. has donated over $300,000 to cat rescue organizations.
This year, a $1 of every ticket sale will go toward helping cats in need.
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, and Sunday, Oct. 2
WHERE: Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E. Green Street, Pasadena.
COST: $25 virtual-only admission, $42 general admission, $80 weekend pass, $150 VIP pass, children under 12 free. VIP tickets come with front-of-theline entrance, a limited-edition sculpture, CatCon swag and discounts inside the convention.
INFO: catconworldwide.com.
Many actors, including Ian Somerhalder, are cat enthusiasts.
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Pasadena is a special place, and the owner of Saxum Tile Design Studio, Kim Gould, feels encouraged to own a business in a community that celebrates women.
Saxum offers a curated collection of tiles that are well organized, making it very easy for customers — professionals or homeowners — to peruse. The show room’s trained staff can help at any stage of a project.
“Our process is to first think of the kind of experi ence we want our customer to have and then bring in the materials to support that experience,” Gould said.
A Glendora native, Gould has been interested in interior design since she was young. She attended UC Santa Barbara and after that attended FIDM in Down town LA for interior design. Gould is on the board for the Pasadena Chapter of the American Society for Interior Designers (ASID).
“Our mission is to connect with trade professionals in the community,” she said. “If you are a designer, consider us an extension of your team. We pride our selves on being knowledgeable, responsive and profes sional.”
Saxum Tile Design Studio represents around 70 tile makers and importers from around the world. It has a well-curated collection of tiles that are specific to the needs of the greater Pasadena client. It also specializes in custom work.
To continue staff training, Gould’s team attended Coverings, the preeminent event for the ceramic tile and natural stone industry in North America.
“All the manufacturers and tilemakers from around the world go to the event and show all their new prod ucts,” Gould said. “We can see all the new materials. Like with fashion, there’s been a resurgence of 1970s, 1980s and 1990s designs. Whereas it’s fun to see the teenagers wearing the same clothes we wore in high school, it’s the same with tile. Materials, shapes and colors are familiar but presented in a new and fresh way.
“We have a substantial interior design community that continues to grow here in Pasadena. We feel fortu nate to be in the company of showrooms like George’s Pipe and Supply, Hollis Pasadena and Cozy Stylish Chic, who just this year launched Designer Domicile, a new space that provides a multitude of resources for professionals.”
Saxum is also a big supporter of the Pasadena Showcase House of Design. The 2022 house featured materials in the Guest Suite designed by Rachel Duarte Design Studio and the Young Gentleman’s Quarters designed by Hermogeno Designs.
Saxum is by appointment only to maximize your time in the showroom.
“This one-on-one experience allows us to prepare for your project and to be available to help you find the perfect tiles to fit your style and budget,” she said. “Our goal is that you leave our showroom feeling productive and excited about your project.”
2295 E. Foothill Boulevard, Pasadena 626-365-1330, saxumtile.com
By appointment only Kim Gould owns Saxum Tile Design Studio.Tohelp provide aid and crucial resources to one of LA’s largest homeless popu lations, Allbirds Pasadena has donated over 500 shoes to the Midnight Mission on Skid Row, where they were offered to people in need during the mission’s giveaway event on Sept. 24.
“It’s so needed, and we are just so grateful,” TMM community events organizer Kendall Moran said.
In total, donators contributed over 1,200 sneakers, work boots and socks that filled the mission’s courtyard off 6th Street. Out of Allbirds Pasadena’s donation of around 525 shoes, around 350 were gently used and 175 were brand new.
Throughout the afternoon, hundreds of Skid Row residents and families entered the 6th Street courtyard and picked up a pair of shoes and socks to take with them. The crowd was a mix of men, women and children in need.
“Their basic needs are not being met,” TMM director of public affairs Georgia Berkovich described.
Shoe and socks are two of the most requested items at TMM, alongside food, wa ter and underwear. It’s an apparel that many take for granted, Berkovich explained, but can be crucial to human health.
“I think about shoes as part of my ensemble. I don’t think about the protection from the hot streets, the cold streets, the protection from disease,” she said. “A lot of health issues start in our feet, which I didn’t really know until I came to work here.”
With temperatures scheduled to pick up in the coming week, Berkovich called the event “timely…We’re going to see triple digits.”
Skid Row is an urban heat island. With little greenery and an excess of pavement and buildings to trap heat, the area can become dangerous to those living on its streets. A new pair of shoes can help protect Skid Row’s homeless population from the high temperatures.
“Our feet are not just about putting cute shoes on or about taking us from point A to point B,” Berkovich said. “They’re a big part of our overall health.”
Days like the 24th are nothing new for the team at TMM, which has been serving Skid Row since 1914. The mission provides four basic services: immediate suste nance with free food, water, shelter and clothing offered to any man woman or child in need, a drug and alcohol recovery program for people trying to get sober, crisis and bridge housing for men and women that acts as a conduit connecting those who are homeless with existing services, and a family living program in the South Bay called HomeLight Family Living that gives housing to homeless families.
The mission serves an estimated million meals a year, hosts events for holidays such Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter that typically serve 2,000 people in the street with over 200 volunteers, and has its own music and art program as the mis sion’s team believes that “art and music are to the soul what food is to the body.”
Editor:
The framers of the Constitution prohibited the establishment of religion. Anyone stating that the United States of America was founded under, for, or about any religion is incorrect.
What motivates one to say that when the First Amendment expressly banned the passing of laws that are religion and faith-based? The founders drafted the Articles of Confederation, the framework of our nation for some time, then the Constitu tion, which established a democratic republic. This country’s framers expressly and intentionally banned faith-based legislation through the First Amendment.
We know that religion promotes tribalism while dividing the insiders from the outsiders. Religion also teaches self-deception, shut out contradictory evidence, and trust authorities rather than their own capacity to think while diverting generous
Allbirds Pasadena donated over 525 shoes, around 350 of which were gently used and 175 were brand new.
The mission is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, runs its own medical clin ic and has one of the only public restrooms and shower facilities open in Skid Row.
“One of the things I love about the Midnight Mission is that we’ve continued to grow as the needs of our community have grown,” Berkovich said.
One of the primary needs has been access to shoes and socks throughout Skid Row and beyond, as Moran explained while reflecting on her time at TMM and in mutual aid circles.
“Everyone is always asking for shoes,” she described. “There’s such a need, not even in just skid row but all around the city. I hope that potentially other brands can start working with other organizations that serve other areas of Los Angeles and really fulfill that need.”
Allbirds Pasadena
WHERE: 77 W Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena HOURS: 10 a.m. – 9 p.m., Monday to Saturday, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Sunday INFO: allbirds.com
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impulses and good intentions. Religion doesn’t reflect the times.
Our forefathers’ plan was to create an environment in which people were free to believe what they want without the government or the Supreme Court getting in the way. Today, our Supreme Court has decided that they, the reactionary group, know what is right for everyone. “The court shouldn’t be wandering around just inserting itself into every hot button issue in America, and it especially, you know, shouldn’t be doing that in a way that reflects one ideology or one...set of political views over another,” Justice Kagan claims.
They are giving us no choice but to replace the court or reform the court. Where is our president and congress when we need action not words.
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PASADENA ALHAMBRA ALTADENA ARCADIA EAGLE ROCK | GLENDALE | LA CAÑADA | MONTROSE | SAN MARINO | SIERRA MADRE | SOUTH PASADENAa special place,” Isaias said. “It’s a nostalgic vibe with chef driven food and drinks in a casual atmosphere.”
All of the restaurant’s meats – the beef from Harris Ranch, lamb from New Zea land and turkey from Minnesota – are 100% halal.
“It’s a more humane way of running a restaurant,” Isaias said. “We live and breathe barbecue.”
Starting with drinks, Craft offers beer ($8 to $10) and wine ($6 to $13) as well as fun cocktails ($13 to $15), including the Duck Around and Find Out with Nosotros Blanco tequila, Giffard Abricot, honey syrup and lemon juice served in a battery powered mini bathtub; the La Chona with Nosotros Jalapeño infused tequila, Ancho Reyes Chile Liqueur, mango syrup and lemon juice with a Tajín rim; and Burn the Ships, an Old Fashioned with Dickel Bourbon, Johnnie Walker Black and Cointreau with house made tobacco bitters served smoked with a Middleton SmokeTop.
“(Duck Around and Find Out) is sweet, tart and on the refreshing side,” said Lou ie Tinoco, principal bartender. “La Chona is a classic Hispanic song about a woman who dances the night away, while the Burn the Ships is dear to our hearts; it’s dedi cated to our owners who dropped everything they were doing to open a business.”
For appetizers ($10 to $16), there’s the brisket queso fundido with chopped smoked brisket, Oaxaca cheese, blue corn tortilla chips and cilantro; giant Bavarian pretzel with house made cheese sauce and honey mustard; mountain high loaded fries with a choice of prime brisket, smash burger or Nashville hot chicken; and the short rib birria quesadilla with a flour tortilla, Oaxaca cheese, prime short rib, come back sauce, cilantro and onions.
“Our short rib is popular and smoked over Texas oak for seven hours,” Isaias said.
For those who savor smoked meats that are slow cooked anywhere between two to 12 hours ($6 to $28), there’s the free-range smoked turkey breast half pound, New Zealand rack of lamb with fresh chimichurri sauce, Prime Harris Ranch brisket half pound, Prime Harris Ranch short rib 1 1/2 pound, scratch brisket and short rib sausage with a handcrafted brisket, short rib, jalapeño and cheddar sausage, and the smoked prime pastrami half pound brined for five days.
“Our cooking technique and the smoker gives the best quality of the meat,” Isaias said.
Craft’s prime steak list ($42 to $135) includes the 16-ounce prime hand-cut New York steak; the 32-ounce prime hand-cut porterhouse and the 32-ounce prime handcut tomahawk. All steaks are served with two sides of either loaded mac and cheese, street corn named desire, garlic and herb masted potatoes, loaded brisket potato sal ad, waffle fries, brisket and grits, creamy bleu cheese slaw, brisket and short rib chili.
“(The tomahawk) will put you in an amazing food coma,” Isaias said.
In 2008, Isaias Hernandez, his brother, Juan, and friend, Josh Bentrem, wrote a plan on a bar napkin: to create a restaurant specializing in craft cocktails and comfort food.
“Food is in our blood, and we had the confidence to make it happen,” Isaias said.
With an extensive background working in the restaurant industry, the trio opened Texas-style barbecue restaurant Smoke & Fire Social Eatery in La Habra, followed by their Paramount and Pomona locations over the next year. The sister restaurant, Craft by Smoke & Fire, opened in Anaheim in 2021 and the Arcadia, Pasadena and Riverside locations followed this year.
“Smoke & Fire is more casual, and Craft is a grown-up version,” Isaias said. “The original business plan was to have five restaurants open by 2025 and here we are with seven self-funded restaurants.”
The Pasadena location has a patio and 14 televisions for customers to watch sports. There are even murals created by a local Pasadena street artist with the generations of the Lakers, a “Stay Classy, Pasadena” mural with movie character Ron Burgundy, a mural honoring Pops (Mr. Jones) from the movie “Friday,” a “That’s so Fetch” saying from the movie “Mean Girls” and character Dominic Toretto from the “Fast and the Furious” movies.
“We wanted to open restaurants in iconic locations and Pasadena has always been
Those who enjoy sandwiches and burgers ($12 to $32) can order the MAC rib with a double smash burger, American cheese, prime brisket, giant short rib, come back sauce, campfire onions, burger spread and barbecue sauce on Texas toast; Nash ville hot chicken sandwich with 1/2-pound breast, 16-spice Nashville blend, curtido slaw, bread and butter pickles, and comeback sauce on a Martins bun; double smash burger with American cheese, burger spread, campfire onions, bread and butter pickles on a Martins bun; and the Stockburger with double smash burger, American cheese, brisket, mac n cheese, burger spread, campfire onions and barbecue sauce on Texas toast.
“(The MAC Rib) is what catapulted us into social media, it’s hearty, rich and creamy,” Isaias said.
Barba-Cruda street food ($14 to $21) at Craft includes the birria tacos with blue maize tortillas, Oaxaca cheese, prime short rib, onions and cilantro; brisket burrito with prime brisket, three cheese blend, mac and cheese, fries, comeback sauce and cilantro; Nashville tacos with fried chicken tenders, blue maize tortillas, cheese, cur tido slaw, comeback sauce and cilantro; and the big Texas loaded brisket potato with smoked brisket, Idaho potato, cheese sauce, butter, barbecue sauce, ranch, onion straw and cilantro.
“It’s really good street and hangover food,” Isaias said.
Isaias’ goal with the restaurants is to continue giving back to the community and maintain it as a family business. He also wants to invest in its operating managers.
“We will see how many people we can impact as we go along,” Isaias said. “There is a huge demand for quality, full-service restaurants right now.”
30 W. Green Street, Pasadena craftbysmokeandfire.com
Smoke & Fire founder Isaias Hernandez said the prime hand-cut tomahawk can induce an “amazing food coma.”From live music series to musicals to world premiere theatrical works to paintings classic and modern, the arts organizations in the Pasadena area are rolling out artistic works designed to comfort, challenge and entertain this fall and winter.
With the world a different place than it was even two years ago, arts organizations are inviting audiences in to take in art and to ask the questions great and small while connect ing with others.
Here are some of the events taking place between now and the end of the year.
3352 E. Foothill Boulevard, Pasadena 626-356-3100, anoisewithin.org
After the musical version of George Orwell’s “An Animal Farm” closes on Oct. 2, A Noise Within is returning to August Wilson’s 10-play American Century Cycle, with the final installment, “Radio Golf,” from Oct. 16 to Nov. 13. Set in the 1990s, it examines the high price we pay for progress as Pittsburgh’s first Black mayoral candidate is faced with choices between his integrity and his personal aspirations.
Then from Dec. 3 to Dec. 23 the theater’s co-artistic directors will bring back a Pasade na favorite — Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”
216 N. Brand Boulevard, Glendale 818-243-ALEX (2539), alextheatre.org
Alex Theatre brings diverse shows to its stage from music to comedy to opera to musi cals. This fall, they’re launching their programming with Lokillo Florez on Oct. 1 followed by the Domination Tour featuring Gigi de Lana and the Gigi Vibes on Oct. 15.
Come November, they’ll be home to four events. Nov. 5 will see the Wild Honey Foundation and Jody Stephens presenting “Big Star #1,” a benefit celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Big Star “#1” album that will support the Autism Healthcare Coopera tive. Performers include Big Star drummer Jody Stephens and Mike Mills of R.E.M.
On Nov. 12, the Asian Hall of Fame will induct new members including Hiroshima, Olympian Chloe Kim, Daniel Ho and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, among others.
Then the Musical Theatre Guild will present “Brigadoon” on Nov. 14, the musical about
a mystical land that only appears once every 100 years for a single day. On Nov. 16 and Nov. 17 there will be a tribute concert to singer and composer Hayko.
December heads east with The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles presents “A Motown Holiday” on Dec. 17 and Dec. 18.
110 E. Broadway, Glendale 818-506-5436, antaeus.org
What happens when a modern playwright riffs on 15th century morality plays? Find out with “Everybody” through Oct. 17 at Antaeus Theatre Company, a troupe that explores classics and new takes on classics. In it, five of the actors don’t find out what their roles are until a lottery takes place at the beginning of the play. In October they will also release a free podcast with three of their actors performing, “Changeling,” by Jennifer Rowland.
Boston Court Pasadena
70 N. Mentor Avenue, Pasadena 626-683-6801, bostoncourtpasadena.org
Whether you want theater, music or film, Boston Court Pasadena is the place to be this fall. They are developing two new works on their stages, both in workshop stage. The first is “Escapegoat: A Workshop Presentation” from Oct. 27 to Nov. 6, which has three actors playing humans, tortoises and goats in an eco-parable set on Galapagos Islands.
Then on Nov. 12 and Nov. 13, they will host “Dojyoji: A New Opera Workshop” ex ploring the tragic Japanese love tale newly conceived by Kentaro Kameyama and featuring piano, two singers and Kameyama’s fashion designs.
Their live music series includes world-class cellist Anita Graef on Oct. 15 and the Nolan Shaheed Quintet on Dec. 3. Boston Court is also hosting a series of National Theatre Live film screenings of British theatrical performances. Oct. 1 features Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”) starring in Shakespeare’s “Henry V,” Oct. 6 is “Jack Absolute Flies Again” by Richard Bean, and Oct. 15, Oct. 22, Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 is “Frankenstein” starring Bene dict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, who switch off the roles of monster and creator (Boston Court will alternate shows of Version A and Version B).
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The Huntington 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino huntington.org
The Huntington has had a lot to celebrate this fall with the return of “The Blue Boy” by Gainsborough, one of its best-known pieces which is now being paired with Kehinde Wiley’s modern interpretation of it. Also showing throughout the fall is “Gee’s Bend: Shared Legacy,” made up of quilts and prints celebrating the work of the Alabama Gee’s Bend Quilt makers’ Collective. Another temporary exhibit on display throughout the fall is “Method and Material: Tempera Painting in Focus” that looks at the history of tempera.
Two new exhibitions open this fall. On Oct. 22, The Huntington will open “Crafting a Garden: Inside the Creation of Liu Fang Yuan,” which explores the intricacies of Chinese gardens through models, photographs, tools and videos. On Dec. 10, they’ll welcome the traveling exhibition “Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts” which explores Walt Disney’s fascination with European art and the use of French motifs in Disney films and theme parks.
Cal State LA, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles 323-343-6600, luckmanarts.org
At the gateway to the San Gabriel Valley, The Luckman Fine Arts Complex sees the Yam ma Ensemble visit on Oct. 2. The internationally renowned musical group plays an array of music that sticks with the Middle East.
Singing fado — a traditional Portuguese genre — Mariza “embraces the new while never forsaking the old.” She comes to town Oct. 7.
Legendary actress Isabella Rossellini brings her one-woman show, “Darwin’s Smile,” to the complex Oct. 8 and Oct. 9. The performance is said to “reconcile two worlds that are often at opposite ends: art and science.”
Diva Gloria Gaynor will offer a career-spanning set, including her Grammy-winning hit “I Will Survive,” on Nov. 5. She has scored a hit in five decades.
CocoRosie blends indie, hip-hop, pop, blues, opera and electronica to develop an avant-garde sound. They perform Nov. 19.
Finally, Dionne Warwick will bring her hits — among them “Don’t Make Me Over,” “Walk on By,” “Say a Little Prayer,” “A House is Not a Home,” “Alfie,” “Heartbreaker” and Déjà Vu”—on Dec. 17.
300 E. Green Street, Third Floor, Pasadena 626-844-7703, muse-ique.com
An organization that travels Los Angeles to pioneer new musical experiences through curated live music events and outreach programs, its only show in Pasadena this fall will feature “Grand Avenue” at The Huntington on Oct. 6 in a concert that explores the world wide influences of Downtown Los Angeles’ earliest days to now.
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Norton Simon Museum
411 W. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena 626-449-6840, nortonsimon.org
From the masters to the moderns, Norton Simon Museum has memorable exhibitions planned for this fall. On loan from LACMA, Paul Gaugin’s “The Swineherd” will be on view until Nov. 14 along with other pieces of post-Impressionist art. Opening Oct. 14 and run ning through Feb. 13 are the work of six women lithography artists working in ink, stone and paper. All six women visited Los Angeles in the 1960s on a two-month fellowship to study lithography.
From Oct. 21 to Jan. 30, “a” brings together for the first time (on loan from London’s National Gallery) Pablo Picasso’s “Woman with a Book” next to the painting that inspired it — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ Madame Moitessier.
Open Fist Theatre Company
Atwater Village Theatre, 3269 Casitas Avenue, Los Angeles 323-882-6912, openfist.org
A company that has worked to spread social awareness through art since its founding in 1990, Open Fist presents a “This Week This Week” sketch show about the week’s news every Thursday through November. Starting Oct. 1 and running through Nov. 5, they will present the world premiere of Catherine Butterfield’s “To the Bone” about the “hard girls” in high school — 20 years later when the party is over. Combining family, genetics and baseball, this is a dark comedy about the vagaries of life.
39 S. El Mollino Avenue, Pasadena 626-356-7529, pasadenaplayhouse.org
The season opener, a new play by Martyna Majok, continues until Oct. 9. “Sanctuary City” explores the American Dream from the viewpoint of those who were brought here in their youth and must fight to become citizens in the only land they know.
Pasadena Symphony Ambassador Auditorium
131 S. St. John Avenue, Pasadena 626-793-7172, pasadenasymphony-pops.org
Indoors and out, the Pasadena Symphony has a diverse menu of symphonic classic and pop music this fall, culminating in the ever-popular Holiday Candlelight Concert on Dec. 17 at All Saints Church.
Leading up to that is the Symphony Series featuring Mozart and Saint-Saens on Oct. 22 and Tchaikovsky and Sibelius on Nov. 12.
On Dec. 3 and Dec. 4, the Women’s Committee of the Pasadena Symphony Association will host the 55th annual Holiday Look in Home Tour, showcasing tours of the architecture and gardens of four homes with symphony musicians providing live holiday music in the background.
Madame Moitessier, 1856 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867) Oil on canvas 120 x 92.1 cm The National Gallery, LondonFRIDAY,
6–10 PM
Enjoy a free evening of art, music and entertainment when the city’s most prominent arts and cultural institutions open their doors for ArtNight Pasadena.
Alkebu-Lan Cultural Center, A Room to Create, Armory Center for the Arts, ArtCenter College of Design (3 sites), artWORKS Teen Center at First United Methodist, Boston Court Pasadena, City of Pasadena City Hall, Jackie Robinson Community Center, Lineage Performing Arts Center, Parson’s Nose Theater, Pasadena City College Galleries, Pasadena Conservatory of Music, Pasadena Museum of History, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena Public Library Lamanda Park Branch, Red Hen Press, Remainders Creative Reuse, The Gamble House, and USC Pacific Asia Museum
•Limited shuttle service due to regional bus and driver shortages.
•Free shuttles run 6–10 p.m. and loop throughout the evening with stops at each venue.
Pasadena Transit Route 10 runs along Colorado Boulevard and Green Street until 8 p.m. Schedule at: PasadenaTransit.net
Attend ArtNight by taking the Metro Gold Line to Memorial Park Station in Pasadena. Check metro.net for information.
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ArtNight is an ongoing partnership among many cultural institutions and the Cultural Affairs Division of the City of Pasadena.
For information on ArtNight, please call the ArtNight Pasadena Hotline at (626) 744-7887 or visit ArtNightPasadena.org. For information on accessibility and/or to request written materials in alternative formats, please call the City of Pasadena at (626) 744-7062
Some classmates are hard to forget — even decades later. The bullies. The hard girls. The ones who liked to make other people’s lives miserable.
However, writers get to grab a chance for revenge — which is what Cather ine Butterfield thought she was going to get 10 years ago when she started to write “To the Bone.” Her play, which was optioned for Broadway until the pandemic squashed things, will get its world premiere Saturday, Oct. 1 to Saturday, Nov. 5 at Open Fist Theatre in Atwater.
Butterfield moved from a close, very “nice” community in Minnesota to Boston when she was in middle school and as a new girl who showed up in a dirndl with yarn in her hair while all the other girls were wearing fishnet stockings, high heels and Amy Winehouse eye liner, she quickly found out what it was like to be bullied.
“I feel like I took a lot of abuse,” Butterfield said. “It may have been just in my
eyes because nobody ever gave anybody abuse in Minnesota. I was in shock a lot of the time.”
Years later, she took up her pen to get some revenge on those girls who tor mented her. She made them in their 40s and life wouldn’t have turned out quite the way they were expecting.
“When I first started writing it, I thought, I’m just going to make these girls pay,” Butterfield said. “I’m going to do a hatchet job on them. It’s my time for revenge. But as always happens when you write characters, you start to fall in love with them. You start to relate to them. You start to wish them the best, even if you didn’t like the original people they were based on. It turned out to be a very different play.”
It’s set in 2013, 20 years after the Red Sox lost their chance at winning the pen nant because a Yankees fan ran out on the field, voiding the game-winning out. And
Playwright and Director Catherine Butterfield brings to the stage the premiere of a play she wrote in 2013 about the hard girls she grew up with.yes, baseball is as much a part of this story as family and genetics.
Even though she became sympathetic to her characters, Butterfield said the hard ship is still in the play. The girls she based it on lived in an area called the Gulch and she said they were really tough. They were infamous for such things as stealing cars, doing drugs and being promiscuous.
It was the latter that fed the playwright’s speculation on how their lives might have turned out. The play deals with the child one of them had when she was 17 who was turned over for adoption. The daughter and mother are about to have their first reunion, much to the surprise of the teenage son who didn’t know he had an older sister.
“What you might have expected to be a touching mother-daughter reconciliation doesn’t turn out that way at all,” Butterfield said. “Both of them turned out to have their own agenda, not only the daughter, but the mother.”
Butterfield said the time is right for comedies and her show will give people a laugh. However, she added, the comedy is sometimes on the dark side. There’s a lot of heartbreak, especially for Kelly, the mother and main character, who is being played by Tisha Terrasini Banker.
“Kelly is grappling with a lot of sadness and a lot of her own personal failings that are getting in the way of making things work — her own hot temper, her own inabil ity to apologize,” Butterfield said. “She’s got some personality traits that are pretty tough.”
Her sister, Maureen, played by Amanda Weier, tries to provide some stability for Kelly and her nephew Sean, played by Jack Sharpe. She acts as a facilitator who tries to smooth things out between mother and daughter as well as protect Sean.
The daughter, Geneva, played by Alice Kors, shows up with her roommate, Darcy, played by Kacey Mayeda. Geneva wants Darcy to catch the reunion on film with the plan of making a documentary.
Butterfield, who has been living in Santa Monica for 27 years, has worked with Open Fist before. She and her husband did a series of political shorts in 2017 after the national election. Her husband, Ron West, has done a lot of work with the theater.
When they told her that not only could she direct it, but she could bring the actors who had done readings of the show, Butterfield said it was a no-brainer.
“I started thinking, when is this little play going to get its chance?” Butterfield said, adding that she had a few plays that were due for premieres before the pandemic. “They really deserve their shot and they’re not getting it. When (Open Fist) said I can direct it, I thought, that sounds creatively really fun.”
Open Fist is also a community she trusts to do the work the way she feels is needed. It was a place where she felt a part of the community and where she knew she
Jack David Sharpe plays the son who suddenly learns he has a sister, a sister who brings her roommate, played by Kacey Mayeda, to film the reunion.
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would have artistic control over her work.
The first half of rehearsals for this show was done over Zoom. Butterfield said that allowed them to really dig deep into the inner lives of the characters, to figure out their backgrounds and the timeline of when things happened.
“By the time we finally got on stage, I think everybody was really well grounded,” Butterfield said.
A week after the show opens, Butterfield will be going to her first high school reunion. Some of her former classmates have already seen the earlier Zoom reading of “To the Bone.”
“They recognize themselves and they still love it.”
It’s a love that should protect her from falling victim to any of her classmates who might still be bad to the bone.
Open Fist Theatre Troupe’s “To the Bone” by Catherine Butterfield
WHEN: Various times Saturday, Oct. 1, to Saturday, Nov. 5 WHERE: Atwater Village Theatre, 3269 Casitas Avenue, Los Angeles COST: Tickets start at $30, with discounts for seniors and students INFO: openfist.org
Tisha Terrasini Banker, left, and Amanda Weier play hard-girl sisters in the new play, “To the Bone.”
Tisha Terrasini Banker, left, and Amanda Weier play sisters who have a surprise for the son and nephew, played by Jack David Sharpe in “To the Bone.”
Women. Art. Science Fiction. These may not be the first three concepts that immediately seem to link together, but at Williamson Gallery at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, it makes a perfect trio.
With an inclusion of established and emerging art ists, Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood is a platform where artists reimagine presentations and statements of marginalized identities with the hope to impact future cultural conditions.
Co-curators Julie Joyce and Christina Valentine, both Pasadena locals with backgrounds in curation, are also fans of science fiction. And as such, they present “Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood,” a project in the making since 2019, which combines artists together who use science fiction, fantasy, spirituality and mythology.
“Christina and I both really love science fiction and admire female artists addressing themes around these alternate realities that search for power,” Joyce said.
“It is nice to see this show actualized after so much
time has passed with all the disruptions,” Valentine added. “But now, it has become even more significant in light of recent court decisions.”
Women especially throughout history have held a special place as trusted sources to foretell the future. In other words: sibyls. This exhibit of sibyl feminist, queer and trans artists is an eclectic mix of mediums, messages, colors and materials.
Each artist presents differently. The show includes pieces from April Bey, Chitra Ganesh, Lezley Saar, Erica Ryan Stallones, Molly Surazhsky, Mariko Mori, Mai-Thu Perret, Marnie Weber, Saya Woolfalk and The Revolution School.
Mori’s digital piece, one of the earliest pieces de signed in the exhibit among all the artists, plays on a continuous loop and can be seen as both the art that greets at the entrance as well as closes at the exit.
“The piece’s title roughly translates into ‘the god dess’ song,’” Valentine said. “Mariko Mori oftentimes intersects spiritual religious practices with science fictions contexts. This performance creates an in-be
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tween space.”
The video was recorded at the Kansai International Airport in Japan, which is known for its futuristic architecture. Therefore, it elevates the idea of the “in-be tween” having been filmed in a “real space.” It opens the context of what space and intersects two worlds.
“She’s become a model for many artists,” Joyce said. “She was so important in the early 2000s. In fact, many of the other artists were excited to be included within the same exhibit as Mariko Mori. And this is one of her most iconic videos.”
Mori’s other included piece in the exhibit is at the opposite end of the show. While also a digital work, its contrast is that isn’t filmed in a real space but is digi tally derived to address a real space. Also worth noting, it is an older video showed in its original low resolution digital recording to honor the time in which it was conceived.
“Here she creates a whole space that is referencing a real space,” Valentine ex plains. “It is about ritualistic references and this idea of creating an interstitial space, which is an opening between magical and physical realms.”
Another established artist, Weber, a local, is included in the show with some of her early pieces.
“She had these Japanese soft porn magazines, and cut out figures and collaged them into more ideal landscapes,” Joyce said. “She saw herself as rescuing these women. There are magical, worldly landscapes included that have both real and science fiction connotations, like the desert, where often many stories take place.”
Another LA-based artist, April Bey, creates art from experiences as a woman of color.
“April is Bohemian American and has verbally told an anecdotal story once of when she was eight years old and heard her dad explain racialized experiences she would have throughout her life as a Black American,” Valentine said. “He had said, ‘It’s like we’re from another planet.’ And April went on to create works from this idea where she has these experiences and reports back to ‘her planet.’”
An early installation piece by artist Saya Woolfalk was re-designed for the space at the ArtCenter campus. Woolfalk has created a fictional utopian universe that unites science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology, for which she has deemed them as a new breed of women, the Empathics, who are tech-savvy, plant-human hybrids and are deeply empathic. A video of the origin story of the Empathics ac companies the large 3D work.
“It is obviously a science fiction narrative,” Valentine explained. “But you can see the underpinnings of social critique of commentary. It’s the idea that people would evolve through interconnective ways to the environment through empathic abilities. That’s a wonderful thing to consider. Art can address issues through the guise of science fiction narratives and this allows people to consider these angles without being guarded.”
While most of the artists included in the show are based in either New York or Los Angeles, artist Perret is based in Switzerland with a Vietnamese and French background. She has created life-size imaginary women, who part of “New Pon derosa” and live autonomously in the New Mexico desert. The works are borrowed from a local LA gallery.
“Your Failure is Not a Victory for Me, 2022” by April Bey (left), “Enjoyment, 2020” by April Bey (center), and “The Empathics, 2013” by Saya Woolfalk (right)
“These are part of a larger group of figures, and they are made out of extraordinary materials,” Joyce said of the ceramic, silicone, cloth and other media used. “I love the superhero feeling they present.”
Joyce and Valentine have put together a show with a common theme by artists who have used many different medias. Ganesh’s work is based on a comic book series for children; she was inspired by Hindu mythology and creates a new future narrative format. Artist Saar uses mixed-media, collage and photomontage to explore race, identity, gender and history.
Stallones created an installation work of intimate paintings and audio narratives to explore a relationship between history, mythology and contemporary narratives of science fiction encounters. She explores both wonder and horror at all the possibili ties. And The Revolution School is a group of artists, activists and volunteers launch ing the idea that superheroes can be real: as in real people can address homelessness and social economical inequities. And by releasing traumas, we can break the cycle of oppression in power. This piece is interactive and welcomes visitors to participate in the superhero stories.
Surazhsky, a Ukrainian Russian American, created an imagined utopian world of women around healing and care of others through a fashion line that references healing. Her idea of women is expansive and includes transwomen.
“So on the one hand, you have this science fictional world but it also addresses real world issues pertaining to the medical industry’s response to women’s health and LGBTQ community’s health issues,” Valentine explained.
One piece, a life-size female form, wears a sheath-like drape of pockets full of natural remedies.
“She comes from a family where medical needs were addressed by the grand mother,” Valentine said. “It shows a way in which women’s health is in our own hands.”
Although the show began its journey pre-COVID-19, the full journey only be comes relevant as the show finally launched in 2022.
“Art is always relevant in a cultural context because artists are always addressing things in a multi-dimensional way,” Valentine said. “The wonderful thing about what we do is the relevance to these current moments.”
WHEN: Various times through Wednesday, Nov. 23
WHERE: Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of De sign, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena
COST: See website
INFO: artcenter.edu; Visitors must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 (with booster when eligible) and provide proof of vaccination. Visitors who are unable to provide proof of vaccination must wear a medical grade multi-layered mask/ face covering on campus and practice physical distancing.
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Excerpts from this novel--The Pollinator In His Own Words--read by the author, exemplify the intimate relationship between two art forms: painting and writing. The protagonist of this tale, through the mystic art
Excerpts from this novel--The Pollinator In His Own Wordsread by the author, exemplify the intimate relationship between two art forms: painting and writing. The protagonist of this tale, through the mystic art of surfing, slowly develops the ability to fly. As the story evolves, he discovers that he can, during flight, by way of olfactory engendered clairvoyance, accumulate and store inter nally essential love; eventually he is able to bestow this love. The following excerpts, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper, occur in the story when the protagonist is beginning to collect such essences of primal bliss.
Excerpts from this novel--The Pollinator In His Own Words--read by the author, exemplify the intimate relationship between two art forms: painting and writing. The protagonist of this tale, through the mystic art of surfing, slowly develops the ability to fly. As the story evolves, he discovers that he can, during flight, by way of olfactory engendered clairvoyance, accumulate and store internally essential love; eventually he is able to bestow
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Excerpts from this novel--The Pollinator In His Own Words--read by the author, exemplify the intimate relationship between two art forms: painting and writing. The protagonist of this tale, through the mystic art of surfing, slowly develops the ability to fly. As the story evolves, he discovers that he can, during flight, by way of olfactory engendered clairvoyance, accumulate and store internally essential love; eventually he is able to bestow this love. The following excerpts, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper, occur in the story when the protagonist is beginning to collect such essences of primal bliss.
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“Urgency, 202” by Chitra Ganesh.Successful dual-sport athletes can give a jolt to any university’s athletic de partment. Among them is UCLA’s JonJon Vaughns.
A junior, Vaughns plays defense for the Bruins’ football team and out field for its baseball team. His athleticism shines in both sports.
Vaughns’ ability, speed and athleticism has helped him develop into a starting linebacker for UCLA football this season. A former safety, he is more of a hybrid than a true linebacker. He frequently drops into coverage and, during the course of a game, moves between positions.
His background in the secondary might have played a role in his first career interception during a Sept. 17 win against South Alabama. Before the snap, he instinctively took a cue from communication in the secondary.
“I heard Blay (safety Stephen Blaylock) in the background saying ‘Jump the screen, jump the screen,’ but he wasn’t talking to me,” Vaughns said. “He was talking to the corner, but I just overheard him and said, ‘OK. I’m just going to jump it.’”
Vaughns’ interception set up an eventual field goal in a game the Bruins won by just one point.
As gifted as he is on the gridiron, Vaughns is most at home on the diamond. It is not surprising considering his upbringing.
“Baseball is probably my passion,” Vaughns said. “Growing up, everybody
played baseball. My dad played baseball. Everybody played all sports and base ball just grew on me.”
Vaughns bolsters the Bruins’ outfield with a blend of speed and power. In addition to using his athleticism to track down fly balls, he cranked eight home runs and had 31 RBIs in less than 175 at-bats during his first two years in West wood.
Vaughns said he believes the physical nature of football has made him a bet ter baseball player. He compares the impact of running into lineman to that of running into an outfield wall or running into a pitcher’s mistake.
“I take that hitting (in football) into me hitting a baseball as well,” he said. “All that syncs together.”
Focused earlier in his childhood on baseball, Vaughns did not begin playing football until he was a little older. And as with baseball, it was the example of family members that inspired him.
“I didn’t play football until I was 10,” he said. “Seeing my brothers ball out every Saturday made me want to play. It was exciting.”
A natural athlete, Vaughns tends to develop quickly as a player, regardless of the sport. As a college football player, he did not need to redshirt, saw meaning ful playing time in his freshman and sophomore seasons, and has now become an integral part of the defense in his junior year. And he has done this despite
UCLA dual-sport athlete JonJon Vaughns hopes to eventually play as a professional in either football or baseball.focusing exclusively on baseball every year between January and July.
Despite being unable to work on football for half the year, Vaughns felt pre pared for a starting role heading into the 2022 season. Once he was done with baseball, he spent time catching up in the film room and weight room.
“It took some time to get back and get into things,” he said. “It had been every week building up and I just got the starting job. I just have to keep working hard at it, keep building on it.”
Vaughns wants to continue building on his on-field accomplishments after his collegiate playing days are over. He hopes to be able to play either pro baseball or football. If he realizes that goal, he would not be the first member of his family to do so.
His older brother, Tyler, while looking for a new employer in the NFL, has spent the past two seasons in the Indianapolis Colts’ and Pittsburgh Steelers’ organizations. Despite an impressive training camp, the wide receiver just missed out on making the Steelers’ opening day roster as part of a deep receiving corps.
Before pursuing his NFL dream, Tyler played wide receiver at USC. Playing on opposite sides of a crosstown rivalry has created a little bit of sibling rivalry be tween the brothers, though it is not intense because they are very close with each other. Still, it did play a role in JonJon’s decision to come to UCLA.
JonJon was not recruited by USC, but found a way to play college ball even closer to home than his brother. He is from Pasadena and had an opportunity to play his home games in his hometown.
“I’m going to stay at home so my mom, my dad, and family could see me play,” Vaughns said of his thought process while he was deciding where to attend col lege. “And at UCLA I could play both (football and baseball). Also, I got to play against my brother, which was a big deal.”
JonJon and Tyler lined up on opposite sides of the field when UCLA and USC played each other in 2020. JonJon was a freshman and Tyler a senior.
JonJon is a political science major who envisions a career in real estate or in coaching baseball once his playing days are over. But before then, if his game keeps developing rapidly, he just might meet his brother on the playing field again.
Vaughns’ athleticism allows him to shift positions during games as a hybrid linebacker.Have an event for the calendar? Send it to christina@timespublications.com
All month, swing down by the library and learn to make your own art projects at the San Rafael library. This Latino Heritage Month, learn to make rocking paper plate llamas from Peruvian culture and day of the dead skeleton puppets linked to the spirits of the ancestors.
San Rafael Branch Library, 1240 Nithsdale Road, Pasadena, free, cityofpasadena.net/library/
SEPT. 29
Join fellow teenagers for games on the Nintendo Switch. Drop by any time with no registration required. Meet new people and find new experi ences together while playing modern classics.
Hastings Branch Library, 3325 E. Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena, free, 4 to 6 p.m., cityofpasadena.net/library/
Moz Night, A Live Tribute to The Smiths & Morrissey by Strange Ways
SEPT. 30
Listen to all the great hits from The Smiths and Morrissey together in one big tribute night, played with the backing of the biggest LED screen in town.
The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, ticket prices vary, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., themixxclub.com
OCT. 1 and OCT. 2
Join the eighth annual CatCon and share the love of all things feline and furry with friends old and new. Expe rience giveaways, creative cat merch, over 150 exhibitors, and the biggest adoption lounge.
Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E. Green Street, Pasadena, $42 admission each day, catconworldwide.com
OCT. 2
With over 400 collectors and countless intermingling shoppers, the College Flea Market promises a little something for everyone, ranging from high end antiques to items from a typical rummage sale.
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colo rado Boulevard, Pasadena, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., 626-585-7906, pasadena.edu/community/flea-mar ket/
OCT. 2
Bring a blanket, pick up a picnic dinner from a local restaurant, and enjoy a pleasant evening of jaunty jazz at the newly built Playhouse Village. Enjoy the calm outdoors with friends and family. Playhouse Village Park, 701 E. Union Street, Pasadena, free admission, 5 to 7 p.m.
OCT. 4
Enjoy a free concert in the church with a duo for viola and cello by Pis ton; a duo piano solo by Liszt, arias for soprano by Puccini & Wagner, and a horn trio by Brahms.
Altadena Baptist Church, 791 E. Calaveras, Altadena, free, 12:30 p.m., 626-797-1994
Flu Shot and Moderna Vaccine Clinic
OCT. 6
Prevention is the best medicine. With flu season right around the corner and so many kids going back to school spreading germs, there’s never a more perfect time to get a flu shot or vaccinate against the coronavirus.
Hill Avenue Branch Library, 55 S. Hill Avenue, Pasadena, 2 to 4:30 p.m., cityofpasadena.net/library/
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La Pintoresca Branch Library, 1355 N. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., free, cityofpasadena.net/library
OCT. 6
Those who need computer help to learn the basic important skills of using a computer or tablet are encouraged to La Pintoresca Library to book a half-hour appointment. It’s never too early or too late to understand a new technology.
La Pintoresca Branch Library, 1355 N. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., cityofpasadena.net/library
OCT. 8
Come to victory park with friends and family to watch a classic film out in the open air. A brilliant inventor manages to create life but dies before he can complete
his creation. Now “Edward,” the creation of the scientist, must learn to live with his new body and strange bladed hands.
Victory Park, 2575 Paloma Street, Pasa dena, admission price varies, 5:30 to 11 p.m., streetfoodcinema.com/schedule
OCT. 8
Celebrate Latino heritage with paint ing, chocolate skull making, painting Agua Frescas, and more at Villa Parke. All supplies provided with participants working under supervision of an experi enced artist.
Villa Parke, 363 E. Villa Street, Pasade na, 2 to 5 p.m., pasadenalatinoheritageparade.org
OCT. 9
Toon Con is a celebration of American cartoons new and old, from the Wartime Era Golden Age to the present day. Come see actors, writers and animators and pick up creative swag.
Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E. Green Street, Pasadena, $25 admission, https://twitter.com/toon_con
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2 0 2 2 2 0 4 1 0 6 T h e f o l l o w i n g p e r s o n ( s ) i s ( a r e ) doing business as: JDY TRANS P O R T 1 9 0 1 8 B r y a n t S t A p t 1 Northridge CA 91324 COUNTY: L o s A n g e l e s R E G I S T E R E D O W N E R ( S ) E z e q u i e l G o n z a l e z , 19018 Bryant St Apt 1 Northr dge C A 9 1 3 2 4 TH IS BU SIN ESS I S C O N D U C T E D B Y a n I n d i v d u a l The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fict t ous business name or names lis ted above on: 09/2022 I dec are that all information in this state ment s true and correct (A reg s t r a n t w h o d e c l a r e s a s t r u e a n y mater al matter pursuant to Sec t i o n 1 7 9 1 3 o f t h e B u s i n e s s a n d Professions Code that the reg s trant know to be false is gui ty of a misdemeanor punishable by a f ne not to exceed one thousand do l a r s ( $ 1 0 0 0 ) )
REGISTRANT/CORP/LLC NAME: Ezequ el Gonza ez TITLE: Own er Th s statement was f ed w th the LA County Clerk on: Septem b e r 1 6 , 2 0 2 2 N O T I C E i n a c cordance with subdivis on (a) of Sect on 17920, a F ctitious Name statement general y expires at the end of f ve years from the date on which it was f ed n the office of t h e c o u n t y c l e r k , e x c e p t , a s provided in subdivis on (b) of Sec t i o n 1 7 9 2 0 , w h e r e i t e x p i r e s 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursu ant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a reg stered owner a new Ficti t i o u s B u s i n e s s N a m e s t a t e m e n t must be fi ed before the expiration The filing of this statement does not of itself author ze the use i n this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of a n o t h e r u n d e r f e d e r a s t a t e o r common law (see Section 14411 et seq , Business and Profess ons code) Publish: Pasadena Weekly D a t e s : 0 9 / 2 9 / 2 2 , 1 0 / 0 6 / 2 2 , 1 0 / 1 3 / 2 2 , 1 0 / 2 0 / 2 2
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TED BY an Individual The date reg strant commenced to transact business under the fictitious bus ness name or names l sted above on: 08/2022 I declare that all in formation in this statement s true and correct (A reg strant who de clares as true any mater al matter pursuant to Sect on 17913 of the Business and Profess ons Code that the registrant know to be fa se is gui ty of a misdemeanor punish able by a fine not to exceed one t h o u s a n d d o l l a r s ( $ 1 , 0 0 0 ) ) R E G I S T R A N T / C O R P / L L C N A M E : A r a M a l k h a s y a n T I T L E : O w n e r Th s statement was f led with the L A C o u n t y C l e r k o n : A u g u s t 2 9 2 0 2 2 N O T I C E i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h s u b d i v s i o n ( a ) o f S e c t o n 1 7 9 2 0 a F i c t i t i o u s N a m e s t a t e ment genera y expires at the end o f f i v e y e a r s f r o m t h e d a t e o n which it was filed in the off ce of t h e c o u n t y c l e r k e x c e p t a s prov ded in subdiv sion (b) of Sec t i o n 1 7 9 2 0 , w h e r e i t e x p r e s 4 0 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursu ant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a reg stered owner a new F ct t o u s B u s i n e s s N a m e s t a t e m e nt must be f led before the expiration
The f ng of th s statement does not of itself authorize the use n this state of a fict tious business name n vio at on of the rights of a n o t h e r u n d e r f e d e r a l , s t a t e , o r common law (see Section 14411 et seq Business and Professions code) Pub sh: Pasadena Weekly D a t e s : 0 9 / 1 5 / 2 2 0 9 / 2 2 / 2 2 0 9 / 2 9 / 2 2 1 0 / 0 6 / 2 2
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C O U N T Y : L o s A n g e l e s R E G I S T E R E D O W N E R ( S ) E v e r e t t M c n a i r 8 0 6 G r e e n V a l l e y R d Suite 200 Greensboro, NC 27408
T H I S B U S I N E S S I S C O N D U C TED BY an Ind vidual The date reg strant commenced to transact business under the fictitious busi ness name or names l sted above on: 07/2018 I declare that all in formation in this statement s true and correct (A reg strant who de clares as true any mater al matter pursuant to Sect on 17913 of the Business and Profess ons Code that the registrant know to be false is gui ty of a misdemeanor punish able by a fine not to exceed one t h o u s a n d d o l l a r s ( $ 1 , 0 0 0 ) ) R E G I S T R A N T / C O R P / L L C N A M E : E v e r e t t M c n a r T I T L E : O w n e r Th s statement was f led with the LA County C erk on: September 1 6 2 0 2 2 N O T I C E n a c c o r d ance with subd vision (a) of Sec t o n 1 7 9 2 0 , a F c t i t i o u s N a m e statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the off ce of t h e c o u n t y c l e r k , e x c e p t , a s prov ded in subdiv sion (b) of Sec t o n 1 7 9 2 0 , w h e r e i t e x p r e s 4 0 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursu ant to Section 17913 other than a change n the res dence address of a registered owner a new F ct t i o u s B u s n e s s N a m e s t a t e m e n t must be f led before the expiration
The f ng of th s statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fict tious bus ness name in vio ation of the r ghts of a n o t h e r u n d e r f e d e r a l s t a t e o r common law (see Section 14411 et seq Bus ness and Professions code) Pub ish: Pasadena Weekly D a t e s : 0 9 / 2 2 / 2 2 , 0 9 / 2 9 / 2 2 , 1 0 / 0 6 / 2 2 1 0 / 1 3 / 2 2
F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S N A M E S T A T E M E N T F I L E N O 2 0 2 2 1 9 8 8 5 9 T h e f o l l o w n g p e r s o n ( s ) s ( a r e ) doing business as: AESTHETIKA MEDICAL CENTER 12801 Vic tory B vd Unit A North Hollywood C A 9 1 6 0 6 C O U N T Y : L o s A n g e e s R E G I S T E R E D O W N E R ( S ) A e s t h e t k a M e d i c a l C e n t e r , I n c , 1 2 8 0 1 V i c t o r y B l v d U n t A N o r t h H o l y w o o d , C A 91606 State of Incorporation or LLC: California THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Corpora t o n T h e d a t e r e g s t r a n t c o m menced to transact business un der the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 09/2022 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct ( A r e g i s t r a n t w h o d e c l a r e s a s t r u e a n y m a t e r a l m a t t e r p u r s u a n t t o S e c t i o n 1 7 9 1 3 o f t h e B u s i n e s s and Professions Code that the re g strant know to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishab e by a fine not to exceed one thousand d o l l a r s ( $ 1 0 0 0 ) )
REGISTRANT/CORP/LLC NAME: Ruzanna Margaryan TITLE: Pres i d e n t C o r p o r L L C N a m e : A e s thetika Med cal Center, Inc This s t a t e m e n t w a s f i l e d w t h t h e L A County Clerk on: September 08 2 0 2 2 N O T I C E n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h s u b d i v i s i o n ( a ) o f S e c t o n 1 7 9 2 0 a F i c t i t o u s N a m e s t a t e ment general y expires at the end o f f i v e y e a r s f r o m t h e d a t e o n
