Slience is Golden : A Participant’s Perspective on 24hrs of Silence

Slience is Golden : A Participant’s Perspective on 24hrs of Silence

Silence is Golden: A Participant’s Perspective in the Speaking without Speaking Event By: Austin Sill ( Special to Beacon Media) Experience the full power of your voice, by staying completely silent. Starting on April 24, at 7 pm, young people all over the world took a 25-hour vow of silence to raise money and awareness [...]

Absolutely Fabulous Treasures for Sale at the Art Alliance’s Huge Closet Clean Out Touted as “the Tiffany of all garage sales”

Absolutely Fabulous Treasures for Sale at the Art Alliance’s Huge Closet Clean Out Touted as “the Tiffany of all garage sales”

Absolutely Fabulous Treasures for Sale at the Art Alliance’s Huge Closet Clean Out Touted as “the Tiffany of all garage sales” Once every 5 years (or there about), the Pasadena Art Alliance cleans out the closets, empties the garage, clears out the attic, and has an Absolutely Fabulous Treasure Sale…all to support contemporary visual art [...]

Pacific Asia Museum Announces Exhibition Opening of  Through the Colonial Lens: Photographs of 19th and 20th Century India

Pacific Asia Museum Announces Exhibition Opening of Through the Colonial Lens: Photographs of 19th and 20th Century India

Samuel Bourne (British, 1834-1912)Kutub Minar with the Great Arch, from the West Delhi, 1866 Albumen print Loaned by Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer Through the Colonial Lens: Photographs of 19th and 20th Century India is now open at Pacific Asia Museum and will be on view until September 4, 2011. The exhibition is generously [...]

Annual Spring Plant Sale Slated April 2 and 3  at Arboretum

Annual Spring Plant Sale Slated April 2 and 3 at Arboretum

SPRING PLANT SALE April 2 & 3 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden Mark your calendars. You’ll find fabulous buys at the Arboretum’s two-day plant sale. Come early to shop for orchids, berries, fruit trees, vegetables, succulents and a variety of annuals and perennials. The Arboretum Library will be selling used garden [...]

Beacon Media caught up with Halford and Dramarama bass player Mike Davis chatting up Michelle Mills (aka Naughty Mickie) at the NAMM show recently between signing autographs.

Beacon Media caught up with Halford and Dramarama bass player Mike Davis chatting up Michelle Mills (aka Naughty Mickie) at the NAMM show recently between signing autographs.

Temple City Musician Mike Davis Chats up Doo Dah Queen at 2011 NAMM Show – Photo by Terry Miller A great bass player who is not only a funny guy who just happens to live in Temple City but Mike Davis leads a double life, serving as sous chef for the FrontRunner at Santa Anita [...]

Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez arrives with Santa via Helicopter  During Operation Polar Wind

Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez arrives with Santa via Helicopter During Operation Polar Wind

The Pasadena Police Air Operations Section and the Foothill Air Support Team (FAST) created quite a buzz Wednesday morning and a lot of wind while helping fly Santa in the new helicopter to visit pediatric patients at Huntington Memorial Hospital and to Hathaway-Sycamores home for boys in Altadena. Santa had a special helper this year [...]

University of Phoenix Donates Toys in Pasadena Sat.

University of Phoenix Donates Toys in Pasadena Sat.

Pasadena community help spread holiday cheer throughout the southland University of Phoenix Southern California Campus and Pasadena residents handed out new toys to local underprivileged children who live in Pasadena and surrounding cities at the second annual Toys for Tots Winter Wonderland event. The event was held at University of Phoenix Pasadena Learning Center. In [...]

Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou? Retirement Home’s 10 Month Old Shih Tzu  Needs your Held after being struck by Car

Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou? Retirement Home’s 10 Month Old Shih Tzu Needs your Held after being struck by Car

10 month old Romeo is undoubtedly California Mission Inn’s best therapy dog for the residents and Is currently in a pet hospital awaiting surgery after being hit by a car. The residents and staff are asking for the public’s help to pay the $6000 in medical fees to gets Romeo back to his home at [...]

Girl Scout Fest Inspires Art and Science of Innovation More than 2,000 attend annual family science festival

Girl Scout Fest Inspires Art and Science of Innovation More than 2,000 attend annual family science festival

“Imagination Meets Innovation” was the theme at Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles’ (GSGLA) Annual Family Science Festival on Sunday on the Caltech campus in Pasadena. The event, held in association with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), brought over 2,000 Girl Scouts and their families to a fun-filled day of exploring the wonders of science, [...]

Supporters Push Dreier for Legislation Protecting San Gabriel Mountains

Supporters Push Dreier for Legislation Protecting San Gabriel Mountains

A stack of 400 letters from local residents who are asking Rep. David Dreier (R-San Dimas) to introduce legislation to protect the San Gabriel Mountains was delivered to the Congressman’s office last Wednesday. To date, more than 1,500 letters and postcards have been sent to Rep. Dreier asking him to introduce a bill to help [...]