Arroyo November 2012

FINE LIVING IN THE GREATER PASADENA AREANOVEMBER 2012

INNOVATORSPasadena Inc.

YOU THINK IT'S EASY BEING GREEN?Help is on the way

BLOODY SCOTLANDThe mystery is revealed

PIONEERING UNMANNED FLIGHTAeroVironment's Dr. Paul MacCready

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PASADENA INC 11 UPPING THE ANTE ON GREEN LIVING

Christine Lenches-Hinkel of Waste Less Living takes sustainable lifestyles astep further with detailed advice on recycling and composting.—By Carole Jacobs

15 TRACKING TASTES 4.0 Pasadena’s fast-growing RateSpecial Interactive is making waves in thesuper-hot online advertising sector.—By Kathleen Kelleher

21 IT’S A BIRD! IT’S A PLANE! IT’S SUPERDRONE! Pasadena's late Dr. Paul Macready helped chart the future of unmannedflight as the founder of AeroVironment Inc. in Monrovia.—By Bettijane Levine

39 GREAT SCOT! A crime-fiction aficionado investigates Bloody Scotland, the country's firstfestival for mystery writers and fans, and discovers gorgeous Glasgow andStirling along the way.—By Nancie Clare

DEPARTMENTS11 FESTIVITIES Pasadena Museum of History, Los Angeles Master Chorale and

Pacific Oaks College and Children's School

31 ARROYO HOME SALES INDEX

43 KITCHEN CONFESSIONS Much-maligned butter is back, so you might aswell enjoy it.

46 WINING AND DINING Burger Haven is a new pop-up lunchtime eatery forbusy foodies

50 THE LIST Costume designer Edith Head is resurrected at the Pasadena Playhouse, Descanso presents its Japanese Garden Festival and more

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IT’S UNLIKELY THAT WHOEVER COINED THE SAYING “A BIRD IN THE HAND” MEANT

the tiny spy drone on this month’s cover. Incredibly nimble at a mere 19

grams, the nanotech hummingbird, armed with a camera, is just one of the

wonders created by AeroVironment Inc., founded by Pasadena’s late Dr. Paul

MacCready. The pioneer in unmanned flight, as well as electric cars and

other marvels of the age, was so influential that Time magazine named him

one of the 100 “greatest minds” of the 20th century. The use of military drones

is currently controversial, but as contributor Bettijane Levine was heartened to

discover, Dr. MacCready’s brainchildren have the potential to benefit hu-

mankind in myriad ways.

With MacCready’s alma mater Caltech in Pasadena’s corner, you’d ex-

pect the town to be a hotbed of innovation, and it is. For our Pasadena Inc.

business issue, we also looked at “civilians” who are helping to expand the

city’s impact beyond its borders. Kathy Kelleher introduces the folks behind

RateSpecial Interactive, an online marketing company whose efforts to stay

ahead of the curve helped it land the No. 14 ranking on Inc. magazine’s 2012

list of the country’s 500 fastest-growing companies. And Carole Jacobs talks to

Christine Lenches-Hinkel, founder of Waste Less Living, a “zero-waste consultant”

who lights the way for eco-friendly souls when they discover it’s not so easy

being green.

Ergo, Pasadena’s Janus-like identity as metro Los Angeles’ link to its future

as well as its past — an intellectual Petri dish, helping to shape the new cen-

tury, while savoring the fruits of the city’s dedication to historic preservation.

—Irene Lacher

arroyoFINE LIVING IN THE GREATER PASADENA AREA

EDITOR’S NOTE

Greiman with her work

LAMC Music Director

Grant Gershon

Wielding golden scissors, Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard, Pasadena Museum

of History President Laura Thompson and Paloheimo Trust President Paul

Halme cut the red ribbon stretched across the entrance of the Beaux Arts-

style Fenyes Mansion on Sept. 29 in a salute to the Pasadena Cultural Heritage

Landmark's reopening after a $1.7 billion renovation. The ribbon-cutting also

kicked off the museum's black-tie dinner gala, which raised $130,000 for PMH's

education programs. Honored at the 2012 Contemporary History Makers din-

ner were Thompson, Karen Craig, Don Fedde, Janet Kadin, William F. Kruse,

Randolph G. Wilson, and Fred G. Zepeda... The Los Angeles Master Chorale,

led by Music Director Grant Gershon of Eagle Rock, celebrated its 49th season

on Oct. 21 with a post-concert dinner gala at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The

event, which also included an eclectic concert that showcased the venue's

pipe organ, raised $275,000 for the chorale's artistic and education pro-

grams... Dr. Ezat Parnia was inaugurated as the ninth president of Pacific

Oaks College and Children's School during a ceremony outside Pasadena

City Hall on Sept. 8.

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(First row, 3rd from left) Mayor Bill Bogaard,Laura Thompson and Paul Halme cut the ribbon

Adbellatif Moufakkir, Sue Toigo, DerekSchearer and Kirsti Westphalen

Parnia’s wife, Lisa Boucher, sonMax and daughter Yasmin Parnia

Keynote speaker Dr. Jack Scott

Dr. Ezat Parnia

Patrick Fitzgerald, Steve Kanterand Michael Fitzgerald

George Martin, Fran Shellgren and Jim Watterson

Actress Jane Kaczmarek with Brian and Virginia Brooks

Phil Swan and his daughter, Audrey

Mayor Bill and Claire Bogaard with

Deborah and Police ChiefPhilip Sanchez

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UPPING THE

ANTE ON

GREEN LIVINGChristine Lenches-Hinkel of Waste

Less Living offers her recycling expertise to businesses and

nonprofits that want to minimizetheir carbon footprint.

BY CAROLE JACOBS

TWO-THIRDS OF THAT TRASH IS ORGANIC AND,

IN THE RIGHT HANDS, COULD BE CONVERTED TO

COMPOST. YET IT USUALLY WINDS UP IN LANDFILLS,

WHERE IT BREAKS DOWN INTO DANGEROUS

METHANE GASES AND CONTRIBUTES TO THE

POLLUTION OF LOCAL WATER SOURCES, SAYS

CHRISTINE LENCHES-HINKEL, AN ENVIRONMENTAL

PLANNER, WASTE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST AND

OWNER OF WASTE LESS LIVING IN PASADENA.

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BUSINESSES GENERATE MOUNTAINS OF TRASH EVERY DAY.

Christine Lenches-Hinkel leading an employee training workshop

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Lenches-Hinkel is on a mission to reverse that trend byteaching local schools and businesses the ABCs of safe andefficient recycling. Since its inception in 2007, Waste LessLiving estimates it has prevented more than 43,000 poundsof organic waste from reaching landfills, diverting it insteadto commercial composting facilities where specialized equip-ment and high temperatures transform it into much-neededcompost. “Even eco-friendly businesses who think they’redoing everything right dispose of things in the trash or recy-cling bins under the misconception that it will break down inthe landfill,” says Lenches-Hinkel. “There’s a huge differencebetween recycling and composting. People don’t realize thatwhen you put eco-friendly organic trash in a landfill, itdoesn’t biodegrade. It becomes toxic.”

Fortunately, Lenches-Hinkel has a simple, sure-fire approach to recycling that hasturned some aspiring eco-friendly businesses and community organizations into virtualgreen giants. Consider Waste Less Living client Robert Shahnazarian, Jr., general managerand co-owner of Noor, an upscale event space located in Pasadena’s Paseo Colorado. Forthe past two years, Noor has been recycling leftover food from weddings, banquets andother events to Union Station Homeless Services in Pasadena. “It doesn’t just feel like ahumane thing to do, it feels like my duty,” says Shahnazarian.

Noor was already using Waste Less Living for recycling compostable trash at all itsevents when Lenches-Hinkel approached the company about a year ago about a com-plete eco-overhaul — from its trash to its lighting fixtures. Noor jumped at the chanceto help Pasadena become more eco-friendly, says Shahnazarian.

Lenches-Hinkel analyzed the company’s waste management system, trained thekitchen staff to recycle and installed color-coded bins around the facilities. Then sheinspected the company’s two indoor ballrooms and large outdoor facility for some fastand easy energy fixes. “At Christine’s suggestion, we switched to energy-efficient lightbulbs and replaced a carpet in the main ballroom [which had to be cleaned regularly]with a wood floor that our clients absolutely love,” says Shahnazarian. “We’re still inthe planning stages as there are so many levels to recycling and saving energy, but weexpect to be fully with the program by Jan. 1.”

So why aren’t more local businesses following suit?“Going green is initially quite expensive,” says Shahnazarian. “Fortunately, even in

this economy, people still need to get married and corporations still need to have con-

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ventions, so Noor is doing really well.”While Lenches-Hinkel is finding some companies reluctant to be partners, several

nonprofits and schools have jumped on the eco-train. One success story is FlintridgeCenter, a nonprofit Pasadena organization well known for its community programs inNorthwest Pasadena and Altadena, such as the Mustangs on the Move after-schoolprogram, apprenticeship preparation classes and educational services for nonprofit or-ganizations. While this big-hearted group has helped countless youth, its administra-tors had a hunch it was doing wrong by its trash. “Our president, Jane Moseley, hasalways been interested in the environment and wanted to make sure we were doingeverything we could,” says the center’s Karen Gerst.

In January, 2011, Lenches-Hinkel came in to provide the organization with a com-plete waste management overhaul, starting with an analysis of the environmental im-pact of Flintridge’s current waste-generating practices. How much “good trash” did thecompany produce which could, in turn, be recycled into compost?

After investigating the refuse, Lenches-Hinkel turned to the employees, offeringthem a crash course in recycling and composting. “We thought we knew the differencebetween them, but Christine really opened our eyes,” says Gerst.

From Lenches-Hinkel’s primer on trash: “Good trash” includes food waste,biodegradable tableware, paper towels, juice and milk cartons, paper, cardboard andyard waste, as well as recyclables like plastic and metal containers and utensils, alu-minum soda cans and Styrofoam. “Bad trash” — the kind that should be sent to a land-fill — includes everything else, from bottle caps, plastic baggies, used candy wrappers,plastic plates and utensils to headless dolls and toy airplanes without wings.

Gerst said Lenches-Hinkel also taught them everything they ever wanted to knowabout compost. More than mere dirt, compost is a valuable but rapidly diminishing resource that reduces the need for pesticides and irrigation and increases crop yieldswhile improving the soil, Lenches-Hinkel said. The U.S. is losing soil 10 times fasterthan it can be naturally replenished and paying a steep price for it — about $37.6 billion ayear in lost soil productivity, she said.

Thoroughly versed in recycling and compost, Flintridge Center employees were readyto take a stab at managing their trash. To ensure good and bad trash didn’t get mixed up,Lenches-Hinkel installed color-coded bins (one color for each type of trash) at key loca-tions throughout the center, including the lunch and meeting rooms. To spread the wordabout recycling, instructions and bins were also placed in Flintridge’s Retreat Center, ameeting/convention room the nonprofit rents out to local businesses. (The results weremixed, acknowledges Yvonne Taylor, director of administration. “Some businesses reallygot with the program, but we could tell when businesses didn’t try or didn’t care,” shesaid. “People have to care about the environment for the system to work.”)

Finally, Lenches-Hinkel worked with trucking firms to coordinate regular trashpickup and ensure that compostable items went to a commercial composting facility


Waste Less Living educates clients on how to sort trash three ways. For example, organic trash should be composted, not sent to a landfill

because it won’t biodegrade there — it actually becomes toxic.

Lenches-Hinkel baggingsome finished compost

and bad trash went to landfills. A year into the program, the results are encouraging, says Gerst. “It’s been a learn-

ing curve and it was confusing at first what to put where, but I think we finally havethe hang of it, although I think there’s room for improvement,” she says. The organiza-tion’s goal is an 80 percent waste-diversion rate, leaving only 20 percent for landfills.

In addition to overhauling waste management systems, Lenches-Hinkel offers aneco-event-planning service for businesses interested in staging a green party, conven-tion or banquet. So far she has helped organize zero-waste parties for big clients likeWarner Brothers, the Audubon Society, the Boy and Girl Scouts of America and theJet Propulsion Lab, as well as for local caterers whose customers want to hold a sustain-able dinner party but don’t want to set the table — or take out the trash.

Talk about the hostesswith the mostest: Lenches-Hinkel comes in before theparty to set the table with herown product line ofbiodegradable and 100 per-cent compostable plates, cups,utensils, napkins and trashbags. When the party’s over,she handles the cleanup andarranges to have all the waste,including tableware andscraps, trucked to a commer-cial composting facility.

“Whenever we have cater-ing clients who want to gogreen, I call Christine,” saysPatty Fallahee, co-owner ofThe Spot Gourmet cateringcompany in Pasadena. “Whenthe party is over, she comes inand takes over. We don’t haveto deal with the trash and wealso know that what we’redoing is good for the environment.”

Waste Less client Rickey Smith, founder of Urban Green, also brings in Lenches-Hinkel to reduce the company’s footprint after catering events and parties. UrbanGreen, headquartered in Pasadena, restores green space in the Los Angeles area andruns a small organic farm in Alta Loma that supplies its two culinary outlets, TheSweet Spot and Urban Green Cuisine. While more people are interested in sustain-ability, Smith says, they may need a company like Waste Less to give them the toolsto accomplish it. “So many people want to do the right thing, but they usebiodegradable utensils that end up in the landfill anyway because they don’t under-stand how to recycle,” he says. “With Christine, we never have to worry about any-thing going into the wrong bin.”

Beyond good stewardship of the planet, Shahnazarian says it’s too soon to tell ifgoing green will save Noor money or generate more business. “It will take about a yearto see if we realize any savings on things like electric bills,” he says. “From a marketingperspective, I don’t think it will help business much, unless it’s important to a client tohave a green wedding or event.”

That said, “The real value for Noor [when it comes to going greener] isn’t economi-cal but philosophical,” says Shahnazarian. “Recycling is the right thing to do. Pasadenawill be cleaner and we’ll be able to better our city and community. When it came togoing green, that was our first decision-maker.”||||


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TRACKING TASTES 4.0Pasadena’s fast-growing RateSpecial Interactive is making waves

in the super-hot online advertising sector.BY KATHLEEN KELLEHER

RateSpecial Interactive’s Bertrand Seow,David Tam and Tom McErlane

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Inconspicuousness may be a condition of the past, for this online-advertisingboutique is shooting upward at an attention-getting rate. RateSpecial Interactive isthe 14th-fastest-growing company in the nation, so named in Inc. 500/5000, themagazine’s 2012 rankings. RateSpecial earned its spot for its staggering 8,593-per-cent growth over three years (earnings for 2011 were $15.5 million, up from $178Kin 2008). This year the Los Angeles Business Journal ranked RateSpecial No. 1 ingrowth among companies in L. A. County, , and Pasadena Weekly (by popular vote)last month named it the 2012 best place to work in Pasadena. But success was nei-ther easy nor swift.

“It has definitely been a challenge,” said Bertrand Seow, co-founder, chief financial of-ficer and chief technology officer. “We did get our start at the beginning of the financialcrisis in 2007, and we did have a number of years of not paying ourselves, self-fundingand not paying our first employees. We drained all our personal resources. I was living oncredit cards. So this has been a really great moment for every member of our team. Ourability to execute, being both flexible and directed, has really contributed to our success.”

If ever the time was right for online advertising, it is now. Internet advertising rev-enues for the first half of 2012 spiked to an unprecedented high of $17 billion, marking a14 percent increase year over year, according to an October report from the Internet Ad-vertising Bureau and the professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. By compari-son, Internet ad revenue for the first six months of 2011 was $14.9 billion. Mobileadvertising almost doubled in growth for the year, increasing 95 percent to $1.2 billionfor the first half of 2012, up from $636 million in the comparable period of 2011.

“The growth trend in Internet advertising is here to stay,” said Kirk Snyder, assistantprofessor of business management communication at USC’s Marshall School of Busi- –continued on page 18

ness. “Global Internet traffic has increased eight-foldover the past five years. The conduit we increasingly prefer to use to connect to eachother, to our entertainment and to goods and services is technology. So the increase inonline advertising makes sense because we are increasingly living our lives online.”

With the online marketplace seemingly flush with banner ads, interactive videoads, irritating pop-ups and intrusive promotional text messages that seem to stalk us,what makes RateSpecial special?

“Our whole approach is putting relevant products in front of online users based onthe context of what they are interested in,” said Thomas McErlane, co-founder andpresident, adding that a consumer searching for an auto loan would see ads for autoinsurance, auto loans and credit reports during their search. “Typically, the consumeris bypassing ads on Yahoo and the web. So what we do is advertise on the article itselfwhere we have the user for a period of time on that page.”

Personalizing ads to reach people based on their expressed interests is consideredmore profitable and effective, a longtime practice of traditional advertising based ondemographics and consumer behavior. Still, despite those tactical placement efforts,some advertising in newspapers, magazines and television has employed the so-called“spray and pray” approach. In the online world, ads can move and follow someonedown the rabbit-hole equivalent of an interactive Internet search. Though many of uscomplain about this transparency (called “see-through marketing” by USC’s Snyder),which allows every move we make online to be tracked and collected in some datapool and exploited by marketers and advertisers, Snyder says it plays on a deep humandesire to be understood and cared for.

NOTHING ABOUT THESE PEOPLE HINTS AT THEIR

COMPANY’S RECENT TURN IN THE SPOTLIGHT. THEY ARE NOT

MAD MEN CHIC OR THIRTYSOMETHING BIG-KID CREATIVES.

THEY WEAR JEANS, PLAID BUTTON-DOWN SHIRTS AND UNRE-

MARKABLE TENNIS SHOES. THEIR OLD PASADENA OFFICE IS

UNASSUMING — A MINIMALIST INDUSTRIAL DESIGN WITH

VINEGAR-STAINED WOOD CUBICLES, ALL TEMPERED BY WARM

EARTH TONES. THE OPEN-FLOOR ENVIRONMENT HUMS AS EM-

PLOYEES TALK INTO HEADSETS AND TAP COMPUTER KEYBOARDS.

A SIZABLE WHITE SCREEN MONITOR, CORNER-MOUNTED HIGH

IN THE ROOM, TRACKS TOP SALES PERFORMERS, AD CAMPAIGN

REVENUE AND EACH EXECUTIVE’S CALLS.

Bertrand Seow

David Tam

Tom McErland

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“We have an increasing demand for it,” says Snyder. “It is like when Amazon sug-gests readings and purchases based on what you have bought before. Personalizationplays into a need to be catered to. Technology is meeting that need in spades.”

The rapid pace of technological change makes staying relevant and adaptable achallenge. The founders agree that their different strengths give the company a robustdepth and flexibility to accomplish that. Both McErlane and CEO David Tam, also aco-founder, are seasoned online businessmen with managerial and executive experi-ence. McErlane and Tam actually knew of each other as competitors in the onlinebusiness world first, then eventually became friends when they shared a tiny officeworking for an online mortgage loan company. Tam and Seow — the technologicalmaster of the three, with a computer science degree and experience working atNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the ionosphere department — were collegeroommates at UCLA. They launched an online mortgage company in early 2007, butit faltered in the stumbling economy. Seeing the promise of online advertising andopting to take another chance, Tam and Seow, now joined by McErlane, pivoted thatearly failure into a new company, RateSpecial Interactive.

“The model we were using for the mortgage company is the one we are still usingtoday,” said Tam. “We had an understanding of what worked and what didn’t workfrom our past experiences, but we are still running with that original concept.”

To keep pace, Seow said, RateSpecial expanded upon that original program by de-veloping technology in a “responsive design” to interact with seemingly ubiquitouscellphones and tablets. “Our platform/framework will detect the browser, device andresolution of the consumer and dynamically adjust the ‘look and feel’ of our sites tomatch accordingly,” Seow explained in an email. “Our platform is also optimized forspeed and deliverability, which is essential for the wireless world.”

The three men, all now 34, launched the business in an L.A. office with no employ-ees. Currently housed next to the Paseo Colorado shopping center in a 1925 bank build-ing, the company has 34 employees and 15 clients, including Experian, RealtyStore.com,Lexington Law and KidsLive (which presents cultural events for families), to name a few.RateSpecial also runs a “secondary revenue platform,” which includes an exhaustive arrayof still more online advertising opportunities, such as email marketing, call centers, directemail, SMS texting, “cross-selling” and something called “exit traffic optimization” —that last-chance opportunity to hit the consumers with one more ad as they exit a search.

The co-founders recently returned from an advertising technology conference in Lon-don where they sized up the international online marketplace. “I can’t go into detail as toour next steps in that market,” said Tam, who added that the company goal is to grow100 percent every year. “But I can say there’s plenty of opportunity for growth there.”

Throughout the explosive growth of RateSpecial, the co-founders’ personal livesalso expanded. All three are married now, and both Seow and McErlane have chil-dren. Seow was a groomsman at Tam’s wedding last April. Seow’s wife, Stacy Seow,designed the interiors of RateSpecial’s headquarters, even making a modern light fix-ture that hangs on a wall near the entryway. Three of the original employees, one ofwhom was not paid for almost a year, are still with the company.

“It is really about taking care of the people who are here in the trenches with usday in and day out,” says Seow. “We have a mutual respect for each other and we knowthat some of the people we hire are smarter than us. There is definitely a commonpurpose and ownership here.” ||||


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IT’S A BIRD! IT’S A PLANE! IT’S SUPERDRONE!

The future of flight is unmanned, and that can bea good thing for all of us, say some in the business

of making the pilotless aircraft known as drones.

BY BETTIJANE LEVINE

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We bring you this bit of aeronautical information because this is our business issue, andthe Nano Hummingbird was born right here in our happy valley at AeroVironment inMonrovia — currently the country’s largest producer of drones and one of most interestingbusinesses around. Dr. Paul MacCready, AeroVironment’s founder in 1971 and its leaderuntil his death in 2007, was one of aviation’s most original thinkers and one of Pasadena’smost illustrious residents. His wife, Judy, still lives here.

Dr. MacCready, named one of the 20th century’s 100 “greatest minds” by Time maga-zine, is known worldwide as a visionary whose untethered imagination helped lead to suchinventions as the electric car and the drone. Obsessed with aerodynamics from childhood,he studied the flight of birds, butterflies, vultures and moths. Armed with a B.S. in physicsfrom Yale, he segued into gliders. He designed them, flew them, won multiple soaring con-tests and in 1956 was the first American to become International Soaring Champion.Along the way, he invented the airspeed selector still used by glider pilots worldwide to de-termine optimum flight speed, now known as the MacCready Speed.

That was just the start of many firsts comprising MacCready’s saga. He earned a Ph.D.in aeronautics from Caltech in 1952, then founded a meteorology research firm that be-came a leader in weather modification and atmospheric research. MacCready pioneered theuse of small aircraft (which he piloted himself ) to study storm interiors. He became knownas “the father of human-powered flight” after founding AeroVironment, where he designedthe first heavier-than-air craft to be powered solely by human muscle — i.e., a man pedal-ing the plane as if it were a bicycle. This was the first human-powered craft ever to cross theEnglish Channel.



Paul MacCready at 25 years old

In 1985, MacCready was commissioned to build a half-scale, remote-controlled flying replica of the pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus for the Smithsonian Institution.


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Such a device may seem impractical, but then MacCready was not a practical man. In hisobituary, The New York Times wrote, “MacCready believed daydreaming was his most pro-ductive activity. Practical results mattered little to him, although many of his breakthroughsled to practical expression.” Indeed, they did. Every one of his creations taught him moreabout the theory and practice of flight and alternative energy transport. His human-poweredplane led to a solar-powered plane, which led to a solar-powered car, which led to an electricautomobile and then to the nanotech hummingbird spy drone that weighs less than a new-born baby. Each “impractical” success became a platform for something practical, althoughhe could not have predicted that. He enjoyed the journey, ignored the destination (althoughhis Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered plane to accomplish sustained flight, made afinal “landing” at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum).

MacCready’s solar-powered plane was the first to fly powered solely by sunbeams.Decades ahead of the curve, he had decided to help demonstrate the benefits of photo-voltaic cells as a potential source of non-polluting, renewable energy for homes and indus-try. Later, with NASA support, he built an unmanned solar-powered plane that could climbto 96,358 feet — more than two miles higher than any plane had ever sustained level flight.And in 1985, MacCready proposed to General Motors the creation of a battery-operatedautomobile according to his design. The company released it in 1990 as the Impact, whichled to their further collaboration on the EV-1, the first mass-produced electric car from amajor automaker.

Today, the firm he founded focuses on two principal projects — infrastructure forelectric vehicles and drones. The company’s newest rapid-charging system for electric carscan fully recharge an automobile in less than 30 minutes, says Steve Gitlin, vice presidentof marketing strategy at AeroVironment. “We’ve already installed them in Houston andDallas and along Interstate 5 in Washington and Oregon,” Gitlin says.

The biggest part of the business right now is drones, Gitlin says, although he wouldnever use the D-word. “We don’t make drones. We make unmanned aircraft systems.Only the media uses the word ‘drone,’” Gitlin explains. But MacCready himself did, infact, use the word “drone” in a talk accessible on the Internet, in which he described thefirm’s development of unmanned aircraft.

AeroVironment has produced about 85 percent of the 7,500 unmanned aircraft usedtoday by the U.S. military, Gitlin says. The firm, which went public in 2007, produces sixunmanned aircraft models, ranging in size from one to 13 pounds, most of which carrycameras rather than weapons. These can fly from just a few hundred feet off the ground to

The Puma AE is hand-launched.

11.12 | ARROYO | 25

comes in at 4.8 pounds and delivers real-time imagery day or night.)In fact, there seems to be no end to the beneficial possibilities of these little craft in

civilian life. They transmit precise and critical information in real time and can be equippedwith sensors to detect or monitor radiation and chemicals. They can track criminals, findlost children and fallen hikers. They can give early warnings and close-ups on floods, hurricanes and other disasters. And they can fly where piloted planes cannot. For example,an unmanned aircraft made by Honeywell was used at Fukushima to help get radiationreadings and images of Japan’s recent nuclear disaster.

Three of AeroVironment’s unmanned aircraft models can be hand-launched by an individual as easily as you’d fly a kite or a child’s model airplane.Most have handheld controls with a full color screen and buttons,much like a video game, Gitlin says. It’s understandable that policeand fire departments would like to investigate the use of these craft.And some day, unmanned aircraft may be considered essential inprivate industry, for such tasks as monitoring livestock and agricul-tural property. Although AeroVironment is one success story, thereare dozens of other entrants now in the field.

Right now, federal restrictions limit the use of unmanned aircraftfor non-military purposes. “But the government’s latest reauthoriza-tion bill to fund the FAA had a requirement to integrate unmannedaircraft into the national airspace by 2015,” Gitlin says.

It’s clear that drones (oops, unmanned aircraft) may one daybenefit humanity in ways that would make MacCready very proud.He was a passionate environmentalist, says his son, Parker Mac-Cready, a physical oceanographer and professor at the Universityof Washington. And, in a written memorial tribute to MacCreadyfrom a former colleague, Catherine Mohr, he was rememberedthusly: “I was lucky to work with Paul for nine years… I learned anawful lot about youthful idealism from a man so many years mysenior. Paul believed in education and the power of ideas to inspire.He was also very afraid that mankind’s ability to effect change farexceeded our collective understanding of the consequences.” Sheconcluded that all who wish to honor MacCready’s legacy should“resist the creeping cynicism that leads us to abandon what we be-lieve is right for what we believe is possible.” ||||

about 10,000 feet above sea level. And not all customers are military. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-

ministration (NOAA) recently purchased AeroVironment’s Puma model to monitorwildlife and other ecological concerns, Gitlin says. “The U.S. Geological Survey usesour four-pound Raven quite extensively for such things as monitoring wildlife, soil ero-sion along rivers, inspecting fences on public land,” he adds. (Both the Puma andRaven are portable and silent. They can be hand-launched and can operate au-tonomously. Both carry infra-red and electro-optic cameras along with other equip-ment. The Puma, which can land on ground or water, weighs 13 pounds. The Raven

The Raven gets launched in Iraq.

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RE/MAX Premier Properties’ new office in

Pasadena is designed to be a major

player in the real estate field.

Behind the operation is co-owner

Jenny Liu, a successful broker in her 30s

determined to modernize the industry.

Liu says she seized the franchise opportu-

nity in Pasadena.

“As a business owner, Pasadena’s di-

verse demographic excited me. It’s a

modern town, but I saw that real estate

practice was a little outdated,” says Liu. “I

saw the potential to modernize the mar-

ket.”

She says the new office is modern in

every sense.

“We are technology driven and hired

young staff so our approach and solu-

tions are new, effective and designed to

benefit the consumer in every way.”

The modern agent gives buyers an online

account with real-time search so the

process is easier and, more importantly,

transparent.

“We are not here to protect a commis-

sion, we are here to earn it,” says Liu. “And

we don’t mind buyers working with other

agents. We have the market data and

that’s what gives us an edge.”

Access to the newest market data is

one way Liu is modernizing the industry. It

is available to agents in-house to help

them give consumers current, accurate

information. Other unique approaches

include: providing title software to agents

at no cost; not providing closing services

so agents can assemble the team that

works best for them; providing in-house

design and printing services.

Liu is a second-generation broker and her

parents are still in the business. She says

the most dramatic change in the industry

in the last decade is the way agents have

been forced to embrace technology.

“As a business, we are driven by tech-

nology and we use it to help consumers

make informed decisions. It’s not enough

to talk. It’s important to give buyers the

most current facts.”

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New RE/MAX office geared to be star player in local real estateYoung owner focused on modernizing old practices

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The Sasaki Advanced Aesthetic Med-

ical Center is a university-affiliated pri-

vate practice center that serves

individual patients, the local commu-

nity and an international association

of professionals, academia, and inno-

vators. Established in 1985 by Dr. Gor-

don Sasaki, a Board Certified Plastic

Surgeon and Clinical Professor, the

Center has become a dynamic insti-

tution in the aesthetic field-at-large,

and unique among regional prac-

tices. For decades, Dr. Sasaki has dis-

tinguished himself and his practice

through an unrelenting pursuit of safe

and effective techniques, procedures

and treatments. His contributions to

Aesthetic Medicine and Plastic Sur-

gery have enhanced the practice of

the specialty throughout the world –

and in his own facility. These accom-

plishments, however, serve a single

and simple purpose: to meet the

needs of every patient who walks

through the Medical Center doors.

“My practice is one of listening to

the concerns of patients,” explains Dr.

Sasaki. “My staff and I are educators

first. We provide patients with knowl-

edge of evidence-based treatments

that range from non-surgical to mini-

mally-invasive and invasive proce-

dures. We’re interested in building

trusting, caring, long-lasting relation-

ships with our patients.”

The Center consists of three recog-

nized, medically-based, integrated di-

visions: the InnoVessence Skin Care

Center, the Advanced Nurse Injection

and Device Center, and the

renowned Surgical Center. Each cen-

ter provides exclusive treatments and

procedures, many of which Dr. Sasaki

contributed to in development.

Dr. Sasaki serves as lead investiga-

tor in the development of Cellulaze™,

an FDA-approved laser device, for

the safe, effective treatment of cel-

lulite. He is also one of the lead clin-

ical investigators for CoolScupting™,

the first FDA-approved cooling device

that non-invasively reduces body fat.

He leads the investigation in the de-

velopment of Ulthera™, the first non-

invasive, FDA-cleared device for lifting

and tightening of the skin and sub-

dermal tissues with precise ultrasonic

energy. Ultherapy demonstrates a re-

markably high response rate within

three months, with results lasting up

to 1 ½ years.

miraDry™, the first FDA-approved de-

vice for axillary perspiration with mi-

crowave energy, provides tremendous

relief to patients who suffer from exces-

sive sweating to the underarms. Cur-

rently Dr. Sasaki’s Medical Center is the

only facility in the San Gabriel Valley

that offers this non-invasive treatment.

The Medical Center is also the first in

the Valley to offer Dermapen, an FDA-

approved microneedling device that

delivers topical skin agents and pa-

tients’ regenerative cells into the skin for

improvement of large pores, fine lines,

wrinkles, stretch marks, crepey skin,

acne scars, and selected hair thinning.

Dr. Sasaki and his team have provided

state-of-the-art, patient-driven services to

the San Gabriel Valley for over twenty-

seven years. Dr. Sasaki contributes to the

international aesthetic medical commu-

nity, serving as Visiting Professor to over 32

countries. When asked about the future

of Aesthetic Medicine, he replies with

characteristic humility, “I will continue to

be involved in providing evidence-based

information about safe and effective

techniques for my patients in a caring en-

vironment.”


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SASAKI ADVANCED AESTHETICMEDICAL CENTER 800 South Fairmount AvenueSuite 319Pasadenahttp://www.drsasaki.com/

The Sasaki Advanced Aesthetic Medical CenterRegenerative Cell Center for Aesthetics –The Future

THE CENTER CONSISTS OF THREERECOGNIZED, MEDICALLY-BASED, INTEGRATEDDIVISIONS: THE INNOVESSENCE SKIN CARECENTER, THE ADVANCED NURSE INJECTIONAND DEVICE CENTER, AND THE RENOWNEDSURGICAL CENTER.

28 | ARROYO | 11.12

“Nothing is more fun than color,”

says Lori Winters Samuels, owner of

Colori USA, a vibrant new boutique

opening in San Marino. And, she

adds, no one crafts finer products

than the Italians. Colori features two

Italian, family-owned lines of

merchandise, both of which she

discovered while wandering the

magical, maze-like streets of Venice.

From their studio nestled in the

Alps, the Giacobbi family of skilled

artisans creates hand-made, sterling

silver jewelry infused with radiant

colors and patterns. Their exclusive,

digital technique and signature

finish combine to form lustrous

bracelets, necklaces, rings,

pendants and earrings that proved

irresistible when Ms. Samuels

encountered a few of their pieces in

a shop near San Marcos Square on

a brilliant summer afternoon.

By contrast, she stumbled upon

Campo Marzio on a frigid, dreary

day in January. “I think that’s why

their bright colors caught my eye,”

she recalls. “I was astonished by the

selection of business, office and

travel items in such exciting, upbeat

colors.” She learned that, like the

Giacobbis, the Campo Marzio family

takes tremendous pride in their work,

and a second partnership was born.

In addition to bringing a unique

array of exciting products to the

area, Colori will also provide an

opportunity to invest back in our

community. Ms. Samuels has formed

a partnership with The Help Group,

which provides education, therapy

and support to children with special

needs related to autism spectrum

disorders, learning disabilities, ADHD,

developmental delays, abuse and

emotional problems. A percentage

of all gross sales goes to this

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“Pop into the colorful world of colori and discover a kaleidoscope of hand-picked accessories fresh from italy.

2639 Mission Street

San Marino, CA 91108

626.793.0554

www.colori-usa.com

Dr. Jennifer Cha started her practice as a

Periodontist. She was one of the first es-

tablished dental implant experts that was

able to provide all necessary procedures

in one facility and she still holds true to

this approach. Dr. Cha has been in busi-

ness for over 20 years and, as the Presi-

dent of both the Dental Implant Institute

in Las Vegas and American Dental Im-

plant Center in Pasadena, have per-

formed more than 30,000 dental implant

surgeries.

The Dental Implant Institute and the

American Dental Implant Center were

founded based on the idea that the pa-

tient deserves to have all dental implant

treatment performed in one facility using

less invasive protocols, physiologically cor-

rect results and aesthetic allure. What

sets us apart is that we have eliminated

the hassle of multiple procedures per-

formed by different doctors at separate

facilities. All procedures are performed at

one location by either Dr. Jennifer Cha or

Dr. Leon Chen.

The highly specialized equipment and

patented procedures used by Dr. Jennifer

Cha, and the inventor of those proce-

dures, Dr Leon Chen, have revolutionized

dental implant surgery. The Dental Im-

plant Institute and the American Dental

Implant Center are furnished with a state-

of-the-art 3D CT scan, ImplantNavigation

and RoboticGuide . The 5 in 1 technique

is a bladeless procedure which allows for

same day and single session teeth ex-

traction, bone grafting, sinus lift, implant

placement and provisional crowns. This

significantly reduces healing time,

swelling and the number of surgeries

which patients often tell us how much

they appreciate.

The Dental Implant Institute and the

American Dental Implant Center were es-

tablished to provide patients with the

most comprehensive surgical experience

coupled with the highest possible rate of

success. Less invasive surgery with less re-

covery time is the future of dental implan-

tology.”

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Pasadena

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If you have owned your home for 25

years or more, and you’re planning

a local or long distance relocation,

you’re probably looking for a

seasoned, thoughtful professional

to assist you through the process.

Mikki Porretta is your answer. Mikki

offers comprehensive services to

her clients that include everything

from general consultation to

inspections, staging, photography,

print and online promotion,

referrals, and regular updates on

current market trends.

“I go the extra mile for my clients

and 96% of my business is by

referral,” says Mikki. Homeowners

and service providers agree,

describing Mikki as the most

hands-on, conscientious real estate

agent they have ever encountered.

Her approach to her business is

simple, and it’s all about

relationship. From the moment she

meets with clients, she is

committed to determining their

goals, needs, and expectations.

Drawing from her own expertise in

the field and her dedication to

every aspect of the buying, selling

and moving process, Mikki provides

a positive and proactive

experience for every one of her

clients.

MIKKI PORRETTA

Dilbeck Realtors

Senior Services Director

626.462.2416


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A different Kind of Realtor

“To move the memories of a lifetime…you’ll need my years of experience.”

Mikki Porretta Dilbeck Realty

Chip and Crystal Reibel attended

their first olive oil tasting at a winery

in Paso Robles about six years ago.

“We looked at each other and said,

‘Wow,’” recalls Crystal. “It was amaz-

ing. We had never experienced any-

thing like this before.” Today they

own and operate their own award-

winning boutique, specializing in

California’s high-quality, extra virgin

olive oils, gourmet vinegars, unique

food products and merchandise.

Visitors to Beyond the Olive may

sample a rich variety of regional

olive oils at the tasting bar, where

the Reibels focus on education. In

an often unreliable and misunder-

stood industry, Chip and Crystal

have developed an informed pas-

sion for both the epicurean pleas-

ures and extraordinary health

benefits of their carefully selected

products.

“We focus on California products

because we know we can guaran-

tee the quality of these products,”

Crystal explains. “We have devel-

oped relationships with all of our

producers and we believe in every-

thing we do and offer in our store.”

They’ve been recognized for their

efforts. Beyond the Olive was chosen

as Best Specialty Food Store two

years in a row by Pasadena Weekly

readers; and they are listed among

The Top Ten Places in the World to

Buy Olive Oil by industry-leading re-

source oliveoiltimes.com.

For information about monthly tast-

ing events and cooking classes, visit

their website:

www.beyondtheolive.com

BEYOND THE OLIVE

10 N. Raymond Ave.

Pasadena

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30 | ARROYO | 11.12

arroyoHOME SALES ABOVE $750,000RECENT HOME CLOSINGS IN THE ARROYO FOOTPRINT SOURCE: CalREsource

ADDRESS CLOSE DATEPRICE BDRMS. SQ. FT. YR. BUILT PREV. PRICE PREV. SOLD

ALTADENA

3332 Camp Huntington Road 09/10/12 $828,000 8 $465,000 07/21/1998

608 Chaparral Court 09/28/12 $885,000 5 3348 1999 $482,000 10/29/1999

3455 Rubio Crest Drive 09/13/12 $940,000 5 3207 1965 $1,200,000 06/08/2007

3687 Giddings Ranch Road 09/17/12 $950,000 4 2844 1998 $388,000 08/28/1998

2150 Holliston Avenue 09/21/12 $1,100,000 6 2794 1911 $965,000 07/17/2012

ARCADIA

34 East Floral Avenue 08/31/12 $790,000 4 2948 1989 $500,000 04/05/1991

129 East Magna Vista Avenue 09/10/12 $809,000 3 1692 1955

54 Eldorado Street 08/31/12 $826,000 4 2656 1959

2121 South 2nd Avenue 09/14/12 $828,000 4 1861 1950 $785,000 09/21/2010

312 East Camino Real Avenue 09/17/12 $848,000 2 1183 1940

1734 Oakwood Avenue 09/26/12 $880,000 2 1544 1949 $585,000 11/14/1989

2409 South Santa Anita Avenue 09/19/12 $900,000 4 2144 1964 $800,000 06/17/2008

2124 Highland Oaks Drive 09/04/12 $950,000 7

312 East Longden Avenue 09/14/12 $1,010,000 2 1732 1923

2301 South 4th Avenue 09/21/12 $1,014,000 4 2217 1949 $380,000 09/06/2000

1667 Oakwood Avenue 09/12/12 $1,050,000 3 2123 1951

1845 El Vista Circle 09/07/12 $1,096,000 4 2452 1967 $670,000 09/06/2002

1009 South 8th Avenue 09/14/12 $1,110,000 5 2530 1911

1628 South 10th Avenue 08/30/12 $1,280,000 4 3535 1998 $700,000 05/17/2002

319 East Haven Avenue 09/19/12 $1,520,000 $585,000 11/23/2009

1130 West Orange Grove Avenue 08/31/12 $1,610,000 3 3371 1947 $1,500,000 12/13/2011

1228 Magnolia Court 09/26/12 $1,715,000 5 4080 2011 $1,630,000 10/18/2011

20 East Las Flores Avenue 09/19/12 $1,790,000 5 4790 1997 $1,080,000 08/16/2002

1400 Highland Oaks Drive 09/28/12 $1,878,000 6 $265,000 03/14/1980

1601 Rodeo Road 09/19/12 $2,260,000 4 3552 1946 $2,048,000 11/16/2005

EAGLE ROCK

5240 La Roda Avenue 09/27/12 $750,000 6 $200,000 03/20/1997

5213 Townsend Avenue 09/19/12 $755,000 3 1580 1925 $436,000 02/27/2012

5320 Vincent Avenue 08/31/12 $1,165,000 4 3861 1938 $1,100,000 11/19/2003

GLENDALE

3837 Cedarbend Drive 09/19/12 $765,000 3 2352 1959 $426,000 04/29/1991

2412 Bywood Drive 09/04/12 $770,000 4 2352 1930 $770,000 08/18/2008

3612 Las Palmas Avenue 09/27/12 $780,000 3 1606 1923 $243,000 11/08/1988

3836 Markridge Road 09/27/12 $780,000 4 2062 1956 $248,000 06/20/1997

3502 St. Elizabeth Road 09/17/12 $792,500 3 1960 1960 $830,000 07/14/2006

990 Calle Del Pacifico 09/26/12 $810,000 3 2397 1989 $658,000 09/27/2002

3530 Foxglove Road 09/19/12 $820,000 3 2665 1987 $284,500 03/14/1988

3530 Foxglove Road 09/27/12 $820,000 3 2665 1987 $820,000 09/19/2012

1620 Allen Avenue 08/30/12 $831,000 3 2053 1951

3637 Sierra Vista Avenue 09/06/12 $860,000 5 2736 1926 $488,000 08/23/2000

3411 Oakmont View Drive 09/17/12 $870,000 5 4176 1981

1966 Calle Sirena 09/07/12 $920,000 4 3272 1993 $950,000 08/25/2004

3967 San Augustine Drive 09/07/12 $970,000 4 2123 1968

1462 Andenes Drive 09/11/12 $1,040,000 5 3305 1922 $150,000 09/05/1986

463 Myrtle Street 09/07/12 $1,100,000 2 1184 1920 $810,000 01/04/2002

1542 North Columbus Avenue 09/19/12 $1,105,000 4 2377 1927 $575,000 11/24/1998

2126 Rimcrest Drive 08/31/12 $1,675,000 6 5696 1990

ALTADENA AUG ’12 SEPT ’12HOMES SOLD 32 36MEDIAN PRICE $423,000 $422,500MEDIAN SQ. FT. 1384 1478ARCADIA AUG ’12 SEPT ’12HOMES SOLD 32 39MEDIAN PRICE $809,500 $790,000MEDIAN SQ. FT. 1974 1861EAGLE ROCK AUG ’12 SEPT ’12HOMES SOLD 8 19MEDIAN PRICE $472,500 $500,000MEDIAN SQ. FT. 1370 1606GLENDALE AUG ’12 SEPT ’12HOMES SOLD 122 117MEDIAN PRICE $477,500 $430,000MEDIAN SQ. FT. 1510 1510LA CANADA AUG ’12 SEPT ’12HOMES SOLD 26 26MEDIAN PRICE $1,122,500 $1,099,000MEDIAN SQ. FT. 2287 2379PASADENA AUG ’12 SEPT ’12HOMES SOLD 127 125MEDIAN PRICE $515,000 $465,000MEDIAN SQ. FT. 1474 1354SAN MARINO AUG ’12 SEPT ’12HOMES SOLD 22 11MEDIAN PRICE $1,440,000 $1,160,000MEDIAN SQ. FT. 2422 2149SIERRA MADRE AUG ’12 SEPT ’12HOMES SOLD 12 13MEDIAN PRICE $644,500 $710,000MEDIAN SQ. FT. 1647 1805SOUTH PASADENA AUG ’12 SEPT ’12HOMES SOLD 13 21MEDIAN PRICE $730,000 $795,500MEDIAN SQ. FT. 1660 1532TOTAL AUG ’12 SEPT ‘12HOMES SOLD 394 407AVG PRICE/SQ. FT. $407 $397

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The Arroyo Home Sales Index is calculated from residential home sales in Pasadena and the surrounding communities of South Pasadena, San Marino, La Canada Flintridge, Eagle Rock, Glendale (including Montrose), Altadena, Sierra Madre and Arcadia. Individual home sales data provided by CalREsource. Arroyo Home Sales Index © Arroyo 2012.

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ADDRESS CLOSE DATEPRICE BDRMS. SQ. FT. YR. BUILT PREV. PRICE PREV. SOLD

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE

940 De Linda Lane 09/17/12 $800,000 5 $877,000 04/29/2009

1352 Salisbury Road 09/05/12 $808,000 3 1721 1937 $325,000 08/23/1994

5214 Crown Avenue 09/06/12 $906,000 3 2097 1957 $960,000 09/24/2007

5233 Bubbling Well Lane 09/11/12 $975,000 6

325 Knight Way 09/14/12 $1,068,000 3 2379 1952 $106,000 09/08/1977

1005 White Deer Drive 09/26/12 $1,130,000 4 2427 1967

4931 Ocean View Boulevard 09/21/12 $1,145,000 7

1307 Flanders Road 09/10/12 $1,185,000 3 2185 1949 $1,259,000 11/01/2006

5155 Oakwood Avenue 09/06/12 $1,340,000 4 3033 1950 $625,000 08/09/1993

5029 Indianola Way 09/25/12 $1,349,000 4 2326 1971 $1,565,000 05/31/2007

4322 Bel Aire Drive 08/31/12 $1,499,000 3 3484 1979 $1,375,000 08/29/2003

804 Chehalem Road 09/07/12 $1,540,000 4 3317 1951 $1,375,000 01/11/2011

4434 Chevy Chase Drive 08/30/12 $1,689,000 4 3733 1921 $925,000 05/05/2000

1018 Wiladonda Drive 09/27/12 $1,750,000 4 4416 1948 $820,000 06/07/1991

306 Oriole Road 08/31/12 $1,758,000 5 4050 1948 $580,000 06/01/1987

66 Normandy Court 09/13/12 $2,000,000 5 4682 1998 $1,150,000 06/25/1999

4293 Chevy Chase Drive 09/12/12 $2,300,000 8 $1,185,000 01/19/1996

181 Normandy Lane 08/31/12 $2,310,000 5 6362 1994 $1,775,000 07/16/2003

PASADENA

776 South Orange Grove Blvd #7 08/30/12 $759,000 2 2292 1982 $615,000 08/30/2002

3300 Grayburn Road 09/24/12 $760,000 3 1915 1931 $325,000 09/16/1996

1274 La Loma Road 09/14/12 $790,000 6 $805,000 04/20/2004

1339 Riviera Drive 09/28/12 $825,000 3 1929 1955 $900,000 05/17/2006

1270 Cresthaven Drive 09/12/12 $832,500 4 1836 1958 $925,000 08/30/2005

1793 North El Molino Avenue 09/05/12 $859,000 4 2030 1912 $268,000 07/17/1996

378 Virginia Avenue 09/07/12 $860,000 5 1836 1926 $757,000 09/09/2008

1580 Glen Oaks Boulevard 09/27/12 $895,000 5 3673 1987 $500,000 02/01/1988

3775 Fairmeade Road 09/05/12 $958,500 3 2049 1948 $349,000 02/19/1997

160 California Terrace 09/18/12 $1,013,000 4 4332 1905

670 South Oak Knoll Avenue 09/12/12 $1,018,000 4 2277 1994 $420,000 04/24/1998

621 Alpine Street 09/20/12 $1,185,000 6 2698 1914 $1,255,000 07/30/2004

1488 Oakdale Street 09/13/12 $1,370,000 4 2885 1925

2958 San Pasqual Street 09/11/12 $1,375,000 5 3597 1999 $205,000 08/10/1988

1237 Rancheros Road 09/06/12 $1,500,000 3 $987,000 12/12/1996

3625 Lombardy Road 09/25/12 $1,510,000 9

1419 Wellington Avenue 08/30/12 $1,775,000 5 3340 1937 $1,751,000 06/30/2005

500 South San Rafael Avenue 09/28/12 $2,950,000 6 4338 1928

SAN MARINO

572 La Paz Drive 09/17/12 $929,000 3 1741 1927 $1,080,000 05/30/2006

1355 Winston Avenue 09/12/12 $938,000 2 1148 1928 $375,000 08/22/1995

1869 McFarlane Street 09/19/12 $980,000 2 1561 1953

1386 Bradbury Road 09/18/12 $985,000 2 1791 1948

2925 Somerset Place 08/30/12 $1,080,000 3 2149 1961

2784 Fleur Drive 09/18/12 $1,160,000 4 2773 1927

2320 Adair Street 09/21/12 $1,388,000 4 2662 1937 $1,300,000 05/05/2009

1519 Wilson Avenue 09/20/12 $1,450,000 3 1856 1931 $665,000 12/26/2001

2325 Brentford Road 09/18/12 $1,590,000 5 2892 1938 $1,520,000 05/28/2009

2850 Canterbury Road 09/05/12 $1,775,000 5 3584 1950

1423 Wembley Road 09/25/12 $3,070,000 5 2911 1948 $1,900,000 12/02/2009

SIERRA MADRE

215 South Mountain Trail 08/03/12 $892,000 3 1686 1951

60 South Michillinda Avenue 08/29/12 $899,000 2 2137 1942

571 Sierra Meadows Drive 08/27/12 $1,253,000 5 $1,300,000 09/02/2004

435 Fairview Avenue 08/14/12 $1,925,000 6 3980 1905 $950,000 06/09/2009

SOUTH PASADENA

1927 Meridian Avenue 09/11/12 $781,000 3 1471 1923 $275,000 02/20/2002

1000 Arroyo Drive #A 09/26/12 $795,500

815 Garfield Avenue 08/31/12 $851,000 3 1280 1915 $685,000 09/16/2009

533 Grand Avenue 08/31/12 $875,000 6 $855,500 09/24/2009

56 Oak Hill Lane 09/12/12 $890,000 3 3029 1991

1957 Fletcher Avenue 09/24/12 $975,000 3 1946 1912 $848,000 06/01/2004

1730 Hanscom Drive 09/27/12 $980,000 3 2503 1987 $275,000 01/29/1988

2041 Amherst Drive 09/21/12 $1,100,000 4 1997 1925 $270,000 09/03/1986

1121 Buena Vista Street 09/28/12 $1,150,000 3 1699 1956 $315,000 02/16/1996

804 Stratford Avenue 09/07/12 $1,190,000 3 2324 1915 $804,000 08/08/2002

540 Alta Vista Avenue 09/28/12 $1,200,000 7 $262,000 05/28/1986

425 El Coronado Street 09/12/12 $1,650,500 4 4078 1969

HOME SALES ABOVE $750,000RECENT HOME CLOSINGS IN THE ARROYO FOOTPRINT SOURCE: CalREsource

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WHEN JOHN KEATS WROTE “A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER,” HE PROBABLY WASN’T THINKING OFINTERIOR DESIGN. BUT THE SUMPTUOUS, LAYERED LOOK OF AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY SITTING ROOMMAY OFFER A RENEWED APPEAL, AT LEAST IN BITS AND PIECES, TO DESIGNERS AND HOMEOWNERSTODAY. MAKING THE OLD LOOK NEW, AND VICE VERSA, IS A TREND WHICH WE CANNOT OVERLOOK IN ACONVERSATION ABOUT MAKING A BEAUTIFUL HOME. AND THE ACQUISITION OF DIVERSE AND EXOTICFURNISHINGS, DESIGN AND ACCESSORIES HAS TRANSFORMED THE ART OF HOMEMAKING INTO SOME-THING OF AN UPSCALE SCAVENGER HUNT - AN EXCURSION THROUGH ATTICS, SHOWROOMS, ESTATESALES, STUDIOS, WEBSITES, VIRTUAL AND REAL-LIFE TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD. INDEED, THE PURSUIT OFBEAUTY AND JOY IS AS ETERNAL AS KEATS SUGGESTS, AND WHILE IT MAY LEAD US AROUND THE GLOBE,IT STARTS AT HOME.

LITTLE MISS MUFFET SAT ON A TUFFET

What exactly is a tuffet, you may ask, and until recently I myself had no idea. It rhymes with Muffet, so who cares, it belongs in

the dreamlike realm of a children’s tale. But a tuffet isn’t an enchanted toad stool or tree stump. It’s actually a low stool, or a

foot rest. In fact, given recent trends in furnishing and décor you might expect to stumble upon a tuffet in a showroom or

your neighbor’s living room, especially if it’s been refurbished, because then it tells a story.

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rehabilitating interesting furniture for years. Her boutique in the Pasadena Antique Center fea-

tures a marvelous assortment of artwork and interiors, all of which resonate with quality and

character.

“A home is more interesting when there are items you don’t expect there,” says Angela.

She encourages clients to explore relationships among objects, to mix eras and styles, and to

establish spaces that truly reflect the people who inhabit them.

Her design philosophy is echoed among many homeowners and professionals, includ-

ing Brad Cloepfil, founding principal architect of Portland’s Allied Works Architecture. “I’m

struck by rooms formed by a strong personal viewpoint. They’re like a visual labyrinth of inten-

sity,” Cloepfil says in a recent Wall Street Journal Design and Decorating article. “Designing a

house is not unlike designing a museum. You’re creating a superstructure of beautiful rooms

with beautiful light, which are then curated by whoever lives there.”

In other words, says Angela Dickerson-Lee, “The days of the bedroom set are well over.”

For the moment, most of us hunger for interior design that kindles our senses and imagina-

tions in unpredictable ways.

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH…

A hundred years ago when an ardent suitor pledged to search the world for his lover’s

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promise, the fulfillment of which would undoubtedly involve a lot of travel, expense and ef-

fort. These days it’s a little simpler. Clearly we’re no longer confined to the geographical ra-

dius of a physical, daytime commute.

Websites like Etsy and Custom Made provide homeowners with access to vintage and

handmade items that would have been difficult or impossible to find even a decade ago. In

fact, the number of visitors to Custommade.com tripled between 2009 and 2010, and has in-

spired numerous, similar sites. Artists, collectors and craftspeople increasingly connect with a

global clientele through the web, which means that an 18th century, gilded bronze end

table, or a rich Peruvian tapestry fresh off the loom may be just a few finger taps away.

Still, many of us like to actually see and touch items without having to make a road trip or

jump on a plane to reach them. The Southern California region offers homeowners thousands

of outlets that often represent the finest and freshest design ideas from around the world.

Carrie Farrow and her colleagues from Teak Warehouse in Monrovia, for example, re-

cently returned from an excursion among this season’s European Furniture trade shows,

where they discovered emerging trends for 2013.

“Furniture expos are exhibited in huge venues as large as shopping malls,” Ms. Farrow

says. “They’re full of new designs and furniture trends from European and worldwide manufac-

turers and designers. We travel the world annually to do these shows and visit our factories.”

Farrow and her team encountered the kind of free spirited diversity that Brad Cloepfil

and Angela Dickerson-Lee espouse. “Mixing materials to create an eclectic look is a major

trend in the new seasons, and something we at Teak Warehouse have been promoting for a

long time. The ‘matching’ look is a thing of the past, as designers are embracing a new direc-

tion of styling materials together to create a fun and interesting aesthetic. No more rules!”

THE ETERNAL RETURN…

Soon the old year will pass and a new one will begin. During the autumn and winter holidays

we revel in traditions and renewals with a breathlessness that makes us feel reborn and an-

cient at once, creating a sort of narrative vertigo.

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No one celebrates the season more magnificently than the staff of Aldik Home, who

dedicate half of their showroom to Christmas decorations: thousands of ornaments, and a

magical forest of trees. “It’s the most spectacular thing you’ve ever seen,” says Michael Perez,

store manager. “I couldn’t possibly build it up enough to capture the experience.”

Among recent favorite accessories are reclaimed plant roots, repurposed and used as

organic bases for flowers and décor. Like the reclaimed teak that distinguishes furnishings at

The Teak Warehouse, these roots have a raw, ageless beauty.

“The end result,” says Carole Farrow, describing reclaimed teak products, “gives the ef-

fect of being a family heirloom from many generations before.”

IN THE END…

The aforementioned Keats, who died of tuberculosis at 25, knew as much about the power of

objects and stories as anyone. In his “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” written in the last years of his life,

he concludes with one of the most famous lines in the English language: “’Beauty is truth,

truth beauty.’ – that is all/Ye know on earth, and ye need to know.” From which I will draw a

new application from old words for the purpose of this article. If your home is beautiful, at

least to you, then it is a true home, to you and to all who enter it. AMHD



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TRAVELERS SEEM TO FALL INTO TWO PHILOSOPHICAL

CAMPS, MORE OR LESS: THOSE WHO GO PLACES “JUST

BECAUSE,” AND THOSE WHO LIKE TO BUILD THEIR GLOBAL

PERAMBULATIONS AROUND A GOAL. THIS PIECE IS

ABOUT THE LATTER.Fans of cultural festivals of all stripes — sports, science, comedy, theater, literature, music,

art and combinations thereof — have long found Scotland, with its 370 or so annual gather-ings, a logical destination. But in spite of the abundance of choices, it turns out that until2012, the year of Creative Scotland —- the campaign to spotlight Scottish arts offerings —the country was short one particular festival: crime writing. And so Bloody Scotland wasborn, organized by some of Scotland’s best-known crime fiction writers — Alex Grey andLin Anderson — and aided and abetted by Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Craig Robertson,Denise Mina and many others. “Bloody brilliant,” said fans from as far away as Australia.

Chances are that your Scottish life of crime is going to commence in either Glasgow orEdinburgh; I had been to Edinburgh a number of times, but never to Glasgow. My friend,Scottish crime writer Denise Mina, sealed the deal by offering to take me on a tour of herhometown if I chose Glasgow as my gateway to Scotland.

Getting to Glasgow by air from Southern California involves a minimum of two flights.There are non-stops to Glasgow from New Jersey and Philadelphia, but the easiest way fromSoCal is via London’s Heathrow, transfering to a Glasgow flight. Among the airlines that flyto London, Virgin Atlantic happens to be my favorite. I like the cheeky attitude and themind-boggling array of in-flight entertainment choices. I also like that they have a late after-noon return flight to Los Angeles, which translates into less of a nail-biting race against theclock to make your plane. Changing airlines for the short flight to Glasgow will mean a busride between terminals, but Heathrow has that nailed with frequent dedicated transport. Oryou could opt to spend some time in London and take a train between cities. Trains to Glas-gow leave from London’s Euston Station often and, depending on the train, take from four-and-a-half to just over five hours.

Glasgow is a vibrant city, a mash-up of the old (including reminders of its Georgianand Victorian past as one of the primary commercial ports of the British Empire) and thenew, such as Sir Norman Foster’s Clyde Auditorium, affectionately called the “Armadillo,”and, nearby, the visual treat of the “Squinty” bridge (official name: the Clyde Arc) over theRiver Clyde. It’s a walking city with pedestrian malls such as Buchanan and Sauchiehallstreets, with outposts of brands from across the globe (Hermes, Chanel, Gap) and aroundGreat Britain ( John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, Monsoon). There’s the dazzling (literally)Argyll Arcade (102 Argyle St.; argyll-arcade.com), a collection of jewelry shops in one ofBritain’s oldest covered streets.

GREAT SCOT!A harmonic convergence of atmosphere andcrime fiction makes Bloody Scotland in Stirling,called the gateway to the Highlands, the perfectdestination for mystery fiction lovers.

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Museums run the gamut from starchitect Zaha Hadid’s Riverside Museum: Scotland’sMuseum of Transport and Travel (100 Pointhouse Pl.; 0141 287 2660; glasgowlife.org.uk)to St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, adjacent to the splendid, medieval Glas-gow Cathedral (Cathedral Square, Castle Street; 0141 552 6891;glasgowcathedral.org.uk), which has had a continuous active congregation for more than800 years. (According to Denise, the cathedral did not suffer the fate of so many sackedCatholic churches during the Reformation because the residents of Glasgow surrounded itand prevented its destruction.) There’s GoMA, Gallery of Modern Art (Royal ExchangeSquare; 0141 287 3050; glasgowlife.org.uk), which was featuring “Tales of the City,”demonstrating how urban spaces impact various artists; The Burrell Collection (2060 Pol-lokshaws Rd.; 0141 287 2550; glasgowlife.org.uk), which had a fascinating exploration ofthe works of French artist Jean-Francois Millet; and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Mu-seum (Argyle Street; 0141 276 9599; museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk), presenting an ex-amination of furniture designed in the wake of natural resources rationing during WorldWar II, “Utility: Rationalizing Furniture Design.”

Denise Mina took me to some spots off the beaten track. Fans of her mysteries wouldrecognize our first stop: the neighborhood of Garnethill, so named, Mina informed me,because garnets had been mined there. Now it’s a hilly section of town with lovely terracehouses, the mother synagogue of Glasgow — Garnethill Synagogue (129 Hill St.; 0141332 4911; garnethillsynagogue.com) — and The Glasgow School of Art (167 RenfrewSt.; 0141 353 4526; gsa.ac.uk), whose Mackintosh Museum was showing “Studio 58:Women Artists in Glasgow since World War II.”

Accommodations in Glasgow are plentiful and reasonably priced. In fact, I foundeverything in Great Britain’s second largest city refreshingly reasonable compared toLondon. The most centrally located neighborhood, City Centre, offers quite a few op-

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–continued from page 39 tions. A wonderful full-service, luxurious choice is the Radisson Blu Hotel (0141 2043333; radissonblu.com) on Argyle Street, an excellent location. I opted for the citi-zenM Hotel (0141 404 9485; citizenm.com) on Renfrew Street, which can only bedescribed as a modern, minimalist luxury space: teeny, tiny rooms with a remote con-trol that manages everything from the TV and mood lighting to window shades. Citi-zenM’s rooms are narrow slices the width of the extra-long king-size bed thatoccupies the space under the window, with a bathroom module that is enclosed in anoval sheath of Plexiglass. However, there is luxury where it’s important, at least for me:The floors are bamboo (no icky carpets), the bed sheets, pillows and lovely duvet areFrette and the shower is terrific. Rates depend on demand and run from £55 ($88.77)to £93 ($150.10) a night. There is a bar area with full breakfast, served buffet style.Purchased ahead it’s about £8 ($12.91). It’s a perfect nest for a single traveler and it’salso 100 percent non-smoking.

To get in the mood for my Bloody Scotland weekend, I walked over to the GlasgowNecropolis, just east of Glasgow Cathedral. It’s a marvelously atmospheric cemetery mod-eled after Paris’ Pére Lachaise, with lots of Victorian funereal iconography. It reminded meof the macabre illustrations of Edward Gorey. The walk up to the monument to JohnKnox, the leader of Scotland’s religious Reformation, is steep, but there are lots of interest-ing tombs to contemplate along the way. It’s worth the hike, as the view west over Glas-gow from the top is breathtaking.

Fortified with my trip to the graveyard, it was time to get to Bloody Scotland. Travel toStirling is easy. Trains leave frequently from the Queen Street Station, and the one-wayticket costs £7.70 ($12.46). The journey takes about 40 minutes through really beautifulcountryside. Once in Stirling, I took a cab (my first in Scotland — getting into town fromthe airport had been a very reasonable £5 [$8.09] bus ride that deposited me two shortblocks from my Glasgow hotel) — for £2.50 ($4.04) to the festival’s headquarters in the PH

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Stirling Highland Hotel. The hotel has an interesting provenance; it was formerly thetown’s high school. And the public rooms retain some of that secondary education vibe.Fortunately, I wasn’t in Stirling for the hotel facilities. They were clean and comfortable butlacked the really comfy mattresses and high-thread-count sheets offered even by hotelchains catering to businesspeople. Nevertheless, any mystery fan who had traveled this farwanted to be at the center of the action, and that was the Stirling Highland Hotel (SpittalStreet; 01786 272727; pumahotels.co.uk). The next two-and-a-half days were a whirl of au-thor dinners (banquets where there is an author at each table — mine were Peter James onFriday night and Karen Campbell on Saturday) and panels chock-a-block with some of myfavorite writers from Scotland, England and Scandinavia, including my friend Denise, ValMcDermid, Ian Rankin, Lin Anderson, William McIlvanney (the founding father of themodern Scottish mystery novel), Alex Grey, Icelandic writer Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Norwe-gian Karin Fossum, Ann Cleeves, Peter May, Craig Robertson, Anne Perry and many,many more. I attended panel discussions on “Touching Evil,” “Fascinating Forensics: Bloodand Guts,” “Would you kill to win the Man Bloody Booker?,” “Deadlier Than the Male,”“Island Crime,” “Victorian Crime” and “Wild Girls.” The writers discussed motivation,character development, sense of scene, the regard in which crime fiction is held (low, butgetting better), verisimilitude and suspension of disbelief. They answered questions, en-gaged in open dialogue and signed books. The weekend’s capper was a dramatic reading byfestival writers of “The Red Headed League,” by Arthur Conan Doyle. (The festival cele-brated many milestones, one of which was the 125th anniversary of Sherlock Holmes’ printdebut. Conan Doyle was born in Scotland and Holmes is said to be based on a professor atthe University of Edinburgh’s School of Medicine.) Then two awards were given out, onefor a short story and one for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year, which was won by London-based — but Scottish-born — Charles Cumming for his thriller A Foreign Country.

The conference straddled the hotel and the Albert Halls just down the hill. There was ashuttle between the two locations, but I preferred walking. No chance of getting lost be-cause pointing the way were stylized chalk outlines of bodies, like those immortalized byTV police procedurals. (The next chapter of Bloody Scotland will be held Sept. 11 through13, 2013, in Stirling. Visit bloodyscottland.com for details.)

The town of Stirling got behind the festival with a series of companion events, most atthe city’s Old Town Jail. There were auctions (proceeds benefiting the University ofDundee’s “Million for A Morgue” campaign to build a new forensic center), a screening of aSherlock Holmes movie and special “Bloody Cocktails” at Katie’s Bar. Then there is Stirlingitself, often termed the gateway to the Highlands. It’s a hilly town with steep cobbledstreets. At some of its impossibly sharp corners are statues to the rebel warriors William

Wallace (Braveheart) and Rob Roy. It’s certainly worth a visit to the brilliantly restored andpresented Stirling Castle (Castle Court; 0178 645 0000; stirlingcastle.gov.uk) at the top ofthe town, once the home of the Stuart monarchy (Mary, Queen of Scots was born there).There are guided tours or you can opt for a recorded tour as part of the £13 ($20.74) admis-sion. It’s worth every shilling to walk the battlements that overlook the site of some of thecountry’s most significant conflicts. The recording gives you a feel for how the royal house-hold was run and how politics and jockeying for position permeated every aspect of life. Es-pecially fascinating: the re-creation of the kitchens and the Unicorn Tapestries project,where a group of master weavers are recreating the famous tapestries, based on the set at theMetropolitan Museum’s Cloisters in New York. King James V of Scotland was known toown a set when he occupied the castle.

I haven’t mentioned food. I know that Glasgow, like many cities in the U.K., is enjoying anexpanding foodie scene with fine restaurants bearing the names of well-known chef-epreneurs(Jamie Oliver’s Italian on Buchanan Street is one), along with chains such as Pret a Manger(34 Sauchiehall St.; 020 7932 5299; pret.com) and Costa (several locations; costa.co.uk). Glas-gow has some marvelous bakeries with tempting cakes and tarts. One in particular, VanillaBlack Coffee House (0141 332 9453) on Sauchiehall Street, is quite phenomenal — exactlywhat a footsore tourist with a sweet tooth is looking for; a bit funky with comfy couches andfood and beverages served in mismatched vintage cups and plates. I’m told Vanilla Black haswonderful sandwiches and soups; my eyes fell immediately on the tarts, buns and cakes.Denise had told me that Glasgow was the British Empire’s port of entry for sugar grown inthe colonies, so maybe that accounts for the city’s baking proficiency.

When I like a place — and I really liked Glasgow and environs — I do my best to savesomething for my next trip. And so I postponed tours of the distilleries that produce my fa-vorite single malts. But that doesn’t mean I eschewed Scotch while I was there. Fortunately,you don’t have to travel to the source to sample the product. Bars throughout Glasgow havestaggering selections of single malts, offering numerous variations for each label.

The best one-stop single-malt watering hole has to be The Pot Still Pub (0141 3330980; thepotstill.co.uk), conveniently located on Hope Street, just around the corner frommy hotel in Glasgow (no, not a coincidence), where I made more than one pilgrimage toworship at the altar of Scotch. There are more than 300 different Scotches there; I sam-pled perhaps eight (they were small) over two visits. The remaining 292 are more thanenough reason for many return trips.

Nancie Clare, formerly the editor of LA: Los Angeles Times Magazine, plans to launch Noir —

a new tablet magazine devoted to the mystery, thriller and true crime genres — on Dec. 1.

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KITCHENCONFESSIONS

Perhaps you’ve noticed a culinary trend in which bad-boy foods

are touted as the epitome of culinary cool. Our devil-may-care

culture is embracing foods widely known to be unhealthy and

raising them to hipster heights. Bacon, for instance, has appar-

ently hired a publicist, because it is popping up on everything

from cupcakes to Band-Aids. No self-respecting gourmet donut

shop is worth its salt without the ubiquitous maple-bacon flavor,

adding insult to injury. Butter is getting into the act, too. Embracing

the mantra “It’s so bad it’s good,” foods made with “real butter” are

all the rage. You know when a food finds its way to the “totally

fried” booth at the county fair, its time has come. Who could resist

an order of deep-fried butter? (Oh yeah… I can.)Despite being championed by Julia Child (and every chef I have ever known), butter

is still considered a naughty ingredient. A saturated fat, butter has long been vilified by

modern science and blamed for decades of clogged arteries and high cholesterol,

even though fats in any form are equally to blame. Saturated fat is animal-based and

solid at room temperature (think butter, lard and that juicy hunk of fat on the edge of

your steak). This gave rise to the swift acceptance of the dreaded margarine.

In the 1860s, a challenge by Napoleon III to develop a butter substitute for his troops

spawned a wave of experimentation with beef fats, the hardening of liquid oils and the

development of oleomargarine. Early forms were made with the combination of whale

and plant oils. Crisco, first cleverly marketed in 1911 with recipe books, was the first made

exclusively from plant oil. The rationing of animal fats during World War II increased the

popularity of hydrogenated vegetable fats (unsaturated liquid plant oils made thicker

by delicious hydrogen) and quickly turned butter into a splurge item. Housewives

kneaded yellow food color into white oleomargarine and passed it off as butter, the dif-

ference in flavor apparently negligible to the mid-century palate. After the war, mar-

garine was promoted as a healthier alternative to increase sales. Today, despite a better


The “b” word is back, so you might as well enjoy it.

STORY BY LESLIE BILDERBACK | PHOTOS BY CLAIRE BILDERBACK

Butter Me Up

KITCHENCONFESSIONS

understanding of the health “benefits” of margarine and the dangers of trans-fat, mar-

garine is still considered the frugal choice. (We’ll happily spend a fortune on phones

that can play Angry Birds, but we won’t spend an extra buck for real butter.)

The mass production of food quickly jumped on the hydrogenated bandwagon be-

cause it was cheaper than butter, and most prepared foods today are still made with

these artificial fats. You easily detect these fats when you eat them (which is why foods

with real butter are so much better), because animal fats have a lower melting point

than plant fats. Butter melts in your mouth, at body temperature, but margarine, which

needs significantly more heat than your palate can generate, leaves a film in your

mouth even after it’s eaten. The tell-tale aftertaste and feel is far from pleasant. Thus, I

have set out on a one-woman mission to bring back butter, not as the latest “it” food, but

in its natural role as a superior ingredient.

Butter has many incarnations in culinary art. For the professional chef the unequivo-

cal choice is unsalted. It is my job to salt a dish, not the Land o’ Lakes guy. That's only

one of many variations among butters. European butter is typically made with less water,

making it richer than most American brands. I tend to reserve it for the table or for

recipes that are butter-focused, like hollandaise, or puff pastry, where the butter flavor will

be noticed and impact the final outcome of a dish.

Wonderful butter has a plethora of uses. Clarified butter, also called drawn butter, is

made using a classic chef’s technique of slowly melting butter, then removing its salty

foam and milk solids. The pure butterfat allows the butter flavor to be present in high-

heat sautéing and frying, eliminating the brown or burnt solids. Browned butter, or beurre

noisette in the classical nomenclature, is the opposite of clarified butter. Here the solids

are encouraged to brown, adding a nutty flavor to everything from blanched vegeta-

bles to pastry custards. Ghee is the staple fat of Indian cuisine and is essentially clarified

butter that has been cooked a little longer and allowed to develop a nutty flavor from

the browned solids before it is strained.

Compound butters are a nifty trick. They sound super-snooty, but are ridiculously easy to

make. Assorted herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables and aromatics are whipped into softened

butter, which is then rolled into a log, like refrigerator cookie dough. Once chilled, butter

coins are sliced off the log and used to dress up a piece of meat, fish, veggies or whatever.

With all that butter has to offer, the most intriguing aspect, in my mind, is its carvability.

The first documented lard-tastic renderings appeared in the Renaissance as an edible

tableau on the table of Pope Pius V, with butter sculptures of elephants, camels and

lions. The first butter sculpture presented as public art was a bas-relief woman’s portrait

made for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 by dairy farm woman Caroline Brooks. Her

creations were so successful that she left the dairy business to study sculpture in France

and Italy. When refrigeration became widespread, butter carving was harnessed as a

marketing tool. Forced to compete with the new artificial butter (margarine), the Beat-

rice Creamery Company commissioned a butter cow from sculptor John K. Daniels for

the 1911 Iowa State Fair. It was such a hit that the butter cow tradition spread (not a

pun) throughout the Midwest, and the official Iowa State Fair Butter Sculptor became a

coveted position. Norma “Duffy” Lyon was the first woman with the title and held the post

from 1960 to 2005. She was known affectionately as the “Butter Cow Lady,” although her

most notable piece was the butter Last Supper, re-created in the recent movie Butter. In

Minnesota they forgo the butter cow in favor of butter teenagers. Contenders for the title

of Dairy Princess are each painstakingly carved in butter, giving new meaning to the

phrase “butter her up.” The lucky girls get to take themselves home afterwards.

In the age of Cupcake Wars and Food Network Challenge, I am shocked that we

have yet to see competitive butter carving on the national stage. How about America’s

Butter-Cow Wars, or Butter-Cow Rodeo Challenge? We can ask the American Heart Asso-

ciation to be the sponsor.

Leslie Bilderback is a certified master baker, chef and cookbook author. A South

Pasadena resident, she teaches her techniques online at culinarymasterclass.com.

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The King of Compound Butters: Beurre Maître d’Hôtel

I had to go to culinary school to learn this, so… you’re welcome. Beurre maître d’hô-tel or, as we Americans call it (preferably with a Southern twang), maître de butter,is a holdover from the glory days of food service, when the maître d’hôtel was theleader of the dining room, responsible for the many dishes finished tableside. Thisbutter was the final preparation for dishes such as sautéed fish or, most famously,entrecôte, a filet of beef, similar to the rib eye, Delmonico or New York strip. (Youhaven’t lived until you’ve slathered herby butter over a properly cooked steak.) Seethe variations following the recipe for some more compound butter ideas. Enterpris-ing home cooks will, I’m sure, come up with buttery creations of their own.

INGREDIENTS1 pound unsalted butter, room temperature½ cup fresh flat-leaf Italian parsley, washed, dried

and chopped fine½ teaspoon kosher salt¼ teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper Zest of 1 lemon, plus 1 tablespoon of the juice

VARIATIONS:To a pound of unsalted butter add:

2 tablespoons each of chopped fresh chives sage,rosemary, thyme, 2 minced cloves of garlic and ½teaspoon kosher salt. Use this for meat, fish, veggies,potatoes and warm French bread.

One entire head of roasted garlic and ½ teaspoonkosher salt. This one is great on roasted root veg-etables.

The zest and juice of one lime, ¼ cup choppedcilantro, 2 tablespoons roasted green chiles and ½teaspoon of kosher salt. Try it on grilled tilapia orroasted corn.

¼ cup of your favorite blue cheese and ¼ teaspoonof fresh cracked pepper. This is delicious on a goodsteak or over sautéed mushrooms.

Add 3 tablespoons of honey, ¼ teaspoon groundginger, the zest of one orange and ½ teaspoonkosher salt for a delicious breakfast butter to top bis-cuits, scones, pancakes or muffins.

METHOD1. In a mixer with a paddle attachment (or in a

bowl with a sturdy spoon), beat the butteruntil it is soft and turns lighter in color, about3 to 4 minutes. Add parsley, salt, pepper andlemon zest, and beat for another 1 to 2 min-utes. Slow down the mixer to add the lemonjuice, and continue mixing another minute,until it is all well combined.

2. Scrape the butter out onto a wide piece ofparchment paper. Press it to the edge into a1-to-2-inch diameter log, and roll the paperaround it, tightening it like a sausage. Chillcompletely before serving on top of beef, fishor vegetables.

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Pop (Up) Goesthe Burger

Burger Haven at Haven Gastropub + Brewery

McCormick Alley entrance42 S. DeLacey Ave.

Pasadena(626) 768-9555

Seven days, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

CAFÉ WHERE WE WOULD TAKE ORDERS ALL THE WAY DOWN THE

LINE, FIGURING THAT ONCE PEOPLE HAD ORDERED THEY WERE LESS

LIKELY TO LEAVE, EVEN IF IT MEANT THAT HALF THEIR LUNCH BREAK

WAS SPENT WAITING FOR THEIR MEAL.I’m wondering if the lunchtime crowd is what the Haven Gastropub + Brewery pop-

up, Burger Haven, is all about. I really enjoyed Haven Executive Chef Greg Daniels'

food when I visited shortly after the opening last year. It was far from traditional gas-

tropub comfort fodder, deftly executed and beautifully presented. So I was interested

to see what was in store. Pop-ups have been around for a while now. The idea is that a

chef takes over a space for a limited time and creates a menu that’s a departure from

what the venue usually serves. The one with the highest profile and most coveted tem-

porary tables, Ludovic LeFebvre’s LudoBites, sold out within seconds of the reservation

FORTUNATE AS I AM TO WORK FROM HOME ON PRETTY MUCH MY

OWN SCHEDULE, IT HAS BEEN YEARS SINCE I’VE HAD TO CRAM

LUNCH INTO A MANDATED 30- OR 60-MINUTE WINDOW OR BE OR-

GANIZED ENOUGH TO BROWN BAG IT BEFORE LEAVING FOR THE

OFFICE. I REMEMBER WELL THE ANXIOUS WATCH-GLANCING OF THE

PAST, AS I WAITED IN LINE TO ORDER COFFEE AND A SANDWICH,

WHILE SOMEBODY AHEAD ASKED TO HAVE THE MENU OPTIONS RE-

PEATED TO THEM AGAIN. I ONCE WORKED AT AN EXTREMELY BUSY

Burger Haven, Haven Gastropub's new pop-up restaurant-within-a-restaurant, offers quick lunches for busy foodies.

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I’m a big fan of a well-constructed burger. And of lamb. It did not disappoint. It was

juicy, rich, a nice slather of sweet onion jam and cool tzatziki, and a bun dense

enough to hold it all together without becoming the proverbial lead balloon. My lunch

partner buried her face in her bun and announced that it was “the best burger I’ve

had in a very long time.” She scraped out the bacon-stout jam, as she doesn’t like

onions, and proclaimed it “still amazing.” And the fries didn’t go untroubled by us ei-

ther. Some restaurants’ fries are so obviously frozen, but these seemed like the real

deal. Skinny-cut and a deep golden brown, with a dusting of crack, sorry, sea salt, they

were exceptionally good.

If I had anything else to say, I’d say the restaurant-within-a-restaurant concept was a

little confusing. The food definitely held up its end of the show. If I am in Pasadena any

time from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., when Burger Haven is open, this would be my first choice

for a burger. And ordering on the way in definitely speeds up your lunch, so it’s great for

anyone on a clock. But both my pal and I thought that the concept could have been

taken to its logical conclusion --- maybe some bright tablecloths to differentiate it from

the rest of the restaurant. Pop-ups are fun, and this needed just a bit more fun injected

into it. But I’m still thinking about that burger, so they’re doing something right. ||||

lines being open. In the case of Burger Haven, they’ve taken the back area of the din-

ing room (entered from McCormick Alley) and created a simple menu of burgers,

sides, sauces and milkshakes. Instead of the usual table service, you’re greeted at the

door by a host and a cash register. The concise menu of six burgers is on a menu in

front of you; you order, pay and seat yourself at a table. What you might not expect is

that next to the host, sitting in a tub of ice, is a beer keg. That, my friends, is the daily

tap, a special $3 beer that is poured into a red plastic disposable cup, such as you

might take on a picnic or find at a backyard barbecue. The beer that day was Up-

RYEsing, brewed by Haven, so I added that to my order and took my place.

Soon enough, out came the burgers. I’d ordered a lamb burger ($12), buoyed by

the sentence on the menu: NO WELL DONE PLEASE. No, you can’t have it your way, and

very wise too. Sonoma lamb, onion jam, tzatziki and onion sprouts, all crammed into a

rosemary bun. My lunch partner got the McCormick Alley ($10) --- Paso prime grass-

fed beef, Grafton two-year aged cheddar, bacon-stout jam, shaved red onion, butter

lettuce and house sauce on a roasted-shallot potato bun. Because there was not al-

ready enough going on there, we ordered a side of fries too.


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GROOM FOR LESSGroom for Less goes beyond mobile petgrooming to create the ultimate experiencefor your pet. Our experienced groomers willgive your pet their undivided attention andwill have him/her looking and smellinggreat. We offer a calm and safe environ-ment which reduces stress and separationanxiety. Our mobile spa comes to you(home or office). Call us at (323)244-3307 toset an appointment. Groomforless.com

JORDI & COJordan Stringfellow, of Jordi & CO, invents andexecutes celebrations of all sizes, occa-sions…and budgets. Parties are invented andexecuted with reliability, creativity, precisionand uncommon detail. Jordi herself will meetwith you once, or as often as you like. Be it anintimate dinner party at home, a lavish cele-

bration at a destination, or simply changingthe décor of your living space to match theseason, Jordi personally wraps her heartaround your desire to entertain with style.Jordi & CO brings out the soul of events.www.jordiandco.com or call (626)665-4222.REAL ESTATE

DICKSON PODLEYRichard Langstaff is an effective Realtor whoworks hard for his clients. Representingclients in the sale of their Architectural andcharacter homes for over 20 years in thePasadena area. Richard Langstaff states"The greatest satisfaction in my Businesscomes from getting results for my clients. Ibelieve that the client’s goals and needs arealways the key and the first priority. PodleyProperties Richard Langstaff (818)949-5750

SOTHEBY’S, LIN VLACICH-Lin Vlacich of Sotheby’s, a 25-year veteran inthe real estate profession, is known for herreputation and success as a leader in theSan Gabriel Valley brokerage community, aswell as for high professional ethics, superiornegotiating skills, innovative marketing plansand extensive knowledge of real estatesales. Committed to excellence in represent-ing buyers and sellers throughout Pasadena,San Marino, South Pasadena and the sur-rounding communities. Call (626)688-6464 or(626)396-3975 or email [email protected]

SENIOR RESOURCES

FAIR OAKS BY REGENCY PARKRegency Park Senior Living, with over 40years’ experience, is renowned in Pasadenafor its luxurious, beautifully-appointed seniorcommunities. The Fair Oaks by Regency Parkis Pasadena’s most luxurious independentand assisted living senior community. Hereresidents enjoy a lifestyle of relaxed ele-gance and the opportunity to select from abroad array of services and activities—fromfine dining and daily housekeeping to assis-tance with any of the activities of daily living.951 S. Fair Oaks Ave., South Pasadena.(626)921-4108. Visit us atwww.regencypk.com for more information

PROVIDENCE ST. ELIZABETH (PROVIDENCEST. JOSEPH’S)Providence St. Elizabeth Care Center is a 52bed skilled nursing facility. We offer an arrayof health care services for residents to enjoythemselves with family and friends. To com-plement our reputation for caring, our spe-cially trained staff works in partnership withresidents, families, doctors, referring hospitals,and health professionals to make sure resi-dents' needs are met. As a skilled nursing fa-cility, Providence St. Elizabeth is staffed 24hours a day by licensed professionals spe-cially trained in geriatric medicine. For moreinformation or to tour Providence St. ElizabethCare Center, please call (818)980-3872.

TRAVEL

MONTROSE TRAVELCelebrating 53 years in business, MontroseTravel, a family-owned travel managementcompany, has grown from 14 employees in1990 to more than 150 today. Firmly estab-lished as a Top 50 Travel Management Com-pany and a Top 5 Host Agency nationwide,Montrose Travel strives to provide the highestquality services and most complete vacation,corporate travel, loyalty and group travelmanagement solutions for its customers andhome-based travel agents. 1-800-MONTROSE(800)666-8767, MontroseTravel.com

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A 20TH-CENTURY RENAISSANCE MANNov. 3 — The Sidney D. Gamble Lecture

Series features artist Tim Solliday exploring

the works of Frank Brangwyn at 6 p.m. at

the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena.

Brangwyn, considered one of England’s

most talented; versatile artists of the early

20th century, identified with the Arts and

Crafts movement; his paintings cele-

brated the common working man. Tickets

cost $20 ($15 for Friends of the Gamble

House members).

The Neighborhood Church is located at

301 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena. Visit

gamblehouse.org for tickets.

SHINING FOR RONALD MCDONALD

Nov. 3 — The

Pasadena Ronald

McDonald House

hosts its annual Shine

Gala, “An Evening of

Wine and Roses,” at

6 p.m. at the Langham Huntington Hotel

in Pasadena. The evening includes a re-

ception, dinner, live and silent auction

and an appearance by Ronald McDon-

ald. Honorees are donors Sindee and

Steve Riboli. Tickets cost $200 per person.

The Pasadena Ronald McDonald House

provides housing and support to families

with children receiving treatment for seri-

ous or life-threatening illnesses.

The Langham Huntington Hotel is located

at 1401 S. Oak Knoll Ave., Pasadena. Call

(626) 204-0400 or visit pasadenarmh.org.

JAPANESE GARDEN FESTIVAL,THANKSGIVING AT DESCANSO

Nov. 3 and 4 — Des-

canso Gardens’

Japanese Garden

Festival opens several

windows on Japan’s

culture, with the

same schedule both days: The Descanso

Chrysanthemum Society Show celebrates

the iconic flower in its 80th annual show

from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. An ikebana display

runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the So-

getsu School of ikebana offering a

contemporary and international interpre-

tation of the traditional art of flower

arranging. The Camellia Lounge offers

Patina’s Japanese cuisine, sake and

other beverages for sale from 11 a.m. to

3 p.m. A concert of contemporary Japan-

ese music runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30

p.m. Free with Descanso admission.

Nov. 22—Celebrate Thanksgiving with

Patina Restaurant Group’s traditional

turkey dinner; seatings are at noon and

2 p.m. in Van de Kamp Hall. The cost is $53

($45 for members) and $19 for kids ages

4 to 12; free for children 3 and younger.

Visit patinagroup.com/descanso for

reservations; deadline is Nov. 18.

Descanso Gardens is located at 1418

Descanso Dr., La Cañada Flintridge. Call

(818) 949-4200 or visit descansogar-

dens.org.

THE AUTRY SALUTES NATIVE AMERICAN ATHLETES

Nov. 3 — The Autry

National Center pres-

ents “Indians in Amer-

ica: Native American

Athletes Take the

Field,” a short play

festival starting at 3 p.m. alongside the

Autry American Indian Arts Marketplace.

The Native Voices at the Autry festival cel-

ebrates the 100th anniversary of Jim

Thorpe’s Olympics achievements in 1912,

when he won gold medals for the pen-

tathlon and decathlon, as well as his later

career in professional baseball, football

and basketball. Free with admission to the

marketplace, which costs $12 for adults

(free for Autry members) and $8 for stu-

dents, seniors and children.

Nov. 3 and 4 — The Autry’s American In-

dian Arts Marketplace runs from 10 a.m. to

5 p.m. both days, featuring more than 185

Native American artists selling baskets,

pottery, textiles and jewelry as well as the

exhibition “Katsina in Hopi Life.” The event

also includes performances, children’s

activities, talks and more.

The Autry National Center is located at

4700 Western Heritage Way, Griffith Park.

Call (323) 667-2000 or visit nativevoice-

sattheautry.org.

LACO CELEBRATES BEETHOVEN, CHINA

Nov. 10 — The Los An-

geles Chamber Or-

chestra, with

composer Benjamin

Wallfisch as guest

conductor, presents

the world premiere of Wallfisch’s own vio-

lin concerto written for LACO Assistant

Concertmaster Tereza Stanislav.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 D major, Op.

36, and Elgar’s “Introduction and Allegro

for Strings, Op. 47” complete the 8 p.m.

program at Glendale’s Alex Theatre. Tick-

ets cost $25 to $110. The concert repeats

at 7 p.m. Nov. 11 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

Nov. 17 — The orchestra’s final “LACO à la

carte” fundraiser of the season will be

held at 7 p.m. at a private estate in

Pasadena. “China à la carte,” hosted by

East West Bank, features music and dinner

inspired by Chinese culture and cuisine.

Tickets cost $250 per person. Location is

provided with ticket purchase.

The Alex Theatre is located at 216 N.

Brand Blvd., Glendale. Call (213) 622-7001

or visit laco.org.

INTIMATE APPAREL ON DISPLAY AT THE PLAYHOUSENov. 11 — Intimate Apparel by Pulitzer

Prize-winner Lynn Nottage opens at 8 p.m.

at the Pasadena Playhouse and contin-

ues through Dec. 2. The play tells the story

of Esther, a black seamstress in 1905 New

York City who makes her living sewing for

the city’s wealthy elite but dreams of using

her savings to open a beauty parlor for


Tony Peters: Bruin Theater Nocturne

THE LISTA SELECTIVE PREVIEW OF UPCOMING EVENTS

ECLECTIC LA ON DISPLAYNov. 8 — American Legacy Fine Arts’ exhibition “Eclectic L.A. — Four Perspec-

tives,” showcasing more than 30 urban landscape paintings of the city’s fa-

mous and not-so-famous buildings and façades, opens today and runs through

Dec. 8. Artists include Eric Merrell, Alexander V. Orlov, Tony Peters and Scott W.

Prior. An opening reception will be held Nov. 10 from 4 to 6 p.m. Gallery hours

are by appointment from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and

11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays.

American Legacy Fine Arts is located in a residential neighborhood near the

Rose Bowl. To schedule an appointment, call (626) 577-7733 or email info@ameri-

canlegacyfinearts.com. Visit americanlegacyfinearts.com for information.

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black women. Esther is torn between two

suitors, a mysterious Caribbean man who

writes her beautiful love letters and a Ha-

sidic shopkeeper from whom she buys her

cloth. She learns that all choices come

with a price. Artistic Director Sheldon Epps

directs. The curtain rises at 8 p.m. Tuesdays

through Fridays, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturdays

and 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 2.

Tickets cost $22 to $100.

The Pasadena Playhouse is located at 39

S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena. Call (626)

356-7529 or visit pasadenaplayhouse.org.

RED HEN PRESS CELEBRATES 18THANNIVERSARY

Nov. 11 — Red Hen

Press hosts its 18th

Anniversary Cham-

pagne Luncheon,

benefiting its school

programs, from

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Westin Pasadena.

The independent literary publisher has

produced more than 300 titles, created

prestigious literary awards and assisted

numerous underserved schools in L.A.

County through its creative writing pro-

grams and workshops. The event features

performances by local schoolchildren, a

silent auction, a raffle and presentations

of new fall releases. Speakers include

poet Dana Gioia, novelist and essayist

Jane Smiley and poet Kay Ryan, with re-

marks by Managing Editor Kate Gale.

Tickets cost $110 each.

The Westin Pasadena is located at 191 N.

Los Robles Ave., Pasadena. Visit

redhen.org/events.

WATER-WISE DEMONSTRATIONGARDEN DEDICATION Nov. 11 — Mayor Bill Bogaard and Coun-

cilman Terry Tornek join 100-plus volunteer

gardeners at the dedication of an inno-

vative urban agriculture demonstration

project on the grounds of Pasadena’s

Throop Unitarian Universalist Church. The

Throop Learning Garden, a year in the

making, converted water-greedy lawns

into a bountiful vegetable, fruit and native

plant garden, with plants selected for

drought-tolerance, rainwater catchment


OSCAR-WINNING COSTUME DESIGNER CAPTURES CENTER STAGE Nov. 9 — A Conversation with Edith Head opens at 8 p.m. at the Pasadena Play-

house’s Carrie Hamilton Theatre and runs through Dec. 1. The one-woman play

stars Susan Claassen, who co-wrote it with Paddy Calistro, based on the book

Edith Head’s Hollywood by Calistro and Head herself. One of the top costume de-

signers in Hollywood history, Head worked on more than 1,100 films during her 60-

year career and was nominated 35 times for Academy Awards, winning the top

honor eight times. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 4 and 8 p.m. Sat-

urdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, with an additional 7 p.m. performance on Nov. 25.

Tickets cost $40.

The Carrie Hamilton Theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse is located at 39 S. El

Molino Ave., Pasadena. Call (626) 356-7529 or visit pasadenaplayhouse.org.


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basins and other conservation elements

embedded in the design. The dedication

ceremony runs from 9 to 11 a.m.

Throop Unitarian Universalist Church is

located at 300 S. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena.

PASADENA AUTHOR TO GIVE CHILLING READING IN LOS FELIZ

Nov. 14 — Pasadena

author Carla Tomaso

reads from her new

novel, Frozen, at 7:30

p.m. at Skylight Books.

The page-turner tells

the story of Elizabeth, who is tasked with re-

animating her cryonically frozen, narcissis-

tic mother Helen and raising her from

childhood. Elizabeth is determined to re-

raise the child to be the mother she feels

she deserves, but do-overs aren’t guaran-

teed to be improvements.

Skylight Books is located at 1818 N. Ver-

mont Ave., L.A. Call (323) 660-1175 or visit

skylightbooks.com.

SHOPPING FOR A GOOD CAUSENov. 15, 29 — Shop for holiday decora-

tions and support good causes from 5:30

to 8 p.m. at Jacob Maarse Florists. Twenty

per cent of proceeds will benefit local

charities: Hillsides, Children’s Hospital Los

Angeles and Five Acres. Guests also re-

ceive 10 percent off purchases. For admis-

sion, bring a $25 unwrapped gift to

donate. RSVP by Nov. 12 via email at mari-

[email protected].

The Junior League of Pasadena follows

that up on Nov. 29 with its Annual Holiday

Shopping Event from 7 to 9 p.m., which

features live music, drinks and edibles.

Tickets benefiting the league’s commu-

nity service projects cost $30 each or

$100 for four.

Jacob Maarse Florists is located at 655 E.

Green St., Pasadena. Visit

jacobmaarse.com. For Junior League

tickets, visit myjlp.com.

CRAFTS, CHEFS AND MORE AT SANTA ANITA ARTISAN FARENov. 17 and 18 — The inaugural Artisan

Faire runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday

and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Santa

Anita Park, with an array of handcrafted

works of art, fashions, home accessories

and culinary products from artisans se-

lected through a juried process. The Bon-

jour Boutique Spa will provide spa

services, a healthy living pavilion will offer

free sessions of yoga and qigong and

master crafters will demonstrate stained

glass, beading, jewelry making and other

crafts. Santa Anita chefs will operate a

food court. Admission is free. A VIP pack-

age is available for $50 with early shop-

ping both days, a light breakfast

reception, a mimosa brunch, concierge

service and more.

Santa Anita Park is located at 285 W. Hunt-

ington Dr., Arcadia. Call (626) 683-8243 or

visit woweventproductions.com.

SANTA CECILIA ORCHESTRABRINGS BRAHMS, BEETHOVEN Nov. 18 — Maestra Sonia De Léon de

Vega conducts the Santa Cecilia Orches-

tra at 4 p.m. in Occidental College’s

Thorne Hall. The concert, titled “Triumph,”

features piano master Robert Thies per-

forming Beethoven’s “Emperor" Concerto

and Brahms’ First Symphony. Santa Cecilia

is the nation’s only orchestra with the mis-

sion of sharing classical music with Latino

communities. Tickets cost $20 to $26 for

adults, $7 for children.

Thorne Hall at Occidental College is lo-

cated at 1600 Campus Rd., Eagle Rock.

Call (323) 259-3011 or visit

scorchestra.org.

SCROOGE AND CRATCHIT BACK FOR CHRISTMAS

Nov. 23 — The Sierra

Madre Playhouse

marks the holiday

season with a pro-

duction of Charles

Dickens’ A Christmas

Carol, opening at 8 p.m. and continuing

through Dec. 23. The show continues at

8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2:30 p.m.

Sundays, with additional performances at

8 p.m. Dec. 19 and 20 and 7 p.m. Dec. 23.

Tickets cost $25.

The Sierra Madre Playhouse is located at

87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre.

Call (626) 355-4318 or

visit sierramadreplayhouse.org.


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