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THE URBAN GARDEN11 A CHEF’S GARDEN

Chef Niki Nakayama of n/naka grows Japanese herbs and vegetables at her

East Pasadena–area home.

— By Bettijane Levine

21 WILD ABOUT GARDENING Landscape designer Wynne Wilson’s wildlife refuge in Altadena.

— By Brenda Rees

23 FALLEN FORESTEvaluating Arroyoland’s urban forestry after windstorm

— By Ilsa Setziol

DEPARTMENTS9 FESTIVITIES Claremont School of Theology, Rosemary Children’s Services’

Cottage Guild and more

10 STYLE SPY Punch up your wardrobe with accessories in hot hues.

38 KITCHEN CONFESSIONS The ingredients for a luscious cookbook library

41 WINING AND DINING Orange County’s hit Haven Gastropub unveils a

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42 THE LIST Litfest 2012, Descanso’s Cherry Blossom Festival, Al Martinez at the

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THANK GOD FOR JEANNE CARR.

Name doesn’t ring a bell? Carr was a 19th-cen-

tury horticulturalist remembered mainly for mentor-

ing John Muir, the legendary naturalist and Sierra

Club founder who helped save Yosemite from devel-

opment. Of course, she left her mark on the land-

scape in other ways as well, not least by persuading

her neighbors in what is now Pasadena to plant

beautiful gardens in the 1870s and look beyond the

vineyards and orange groves that were among the

Indiana Colony’s raisons d’être.

Lo these many years later, Carr’s legacy can be seen all over Pasadena, from

grand estates to the spectacular Huntington Botanical Gardens to community gar-

dens that have transformed abandoned properties into accessible sources of beauty

and food. Indeed, when it comes to Arroyoland gardeners, some of us have come full

circle, returning to the area’s original mission of food production, although on a far dif-

ferent scale than the early agriculturalists.

Visit Chef Niki Nakamura’s acclaimed Culver City restaurant, n/naka, for example,

and you’re likely to dine on Japanese vegetables and herbs picked that morning from

her garden in the East Pasadena area. Nakamura spoke to Bettijane Levine about grow-

ing her own produce as a key element of her practice of kaiseki — cuisine as high art.

Landscape designer Wynne Wilson of Terra Design also grows food at her Altadena

home, but not for her own plate. She explained to Brenda Rees how planting food

sources for wildlife helped her garden win National Wildlife Federation certification —

and the hearts of her new neighbors, some of Mother Nature’s more mobile offspring.

Some horticulture is less about producing bounty than it is about protecting it.

In the wake of last November’s severe windstorm that toppled thousands of trees

here, Ilsa Setziol examines savvy planting practices that will help your own trees resist

nature’s worst blows.

— Irene Lacher

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Harvard cultural anthropologist Marla F. Frederick gave the 2012

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7 as part of its annual celebration, which also included a special

worship service and dinner... Pasadena trial attorney Thomas V.

Girardi of the firm Girardi | Keese received the Beverly Hills Bar As-

sociation’s Excellence in Advocacy Award at the group’s second

annual Litigation Awards Dinner at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on

Feb. 15… Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra honored Music Director

Jeffrey Kahane at its Crystal Ball at The California Club on Feb. 11;

the benefit was named in honor of Kahane’s 15th year --- known as

the crystal anniversary in nuptial circles --- at LACO’s podium… The

Cottage Guild celebrated Valentine’s Day by creating a festive tea

room at Rosemary Children’s Services’ largest group home for

teenage foster girls in Pasadena on Feb. 14… The Fashion Institute

of Design & Merchandising Museum & Galleries unveiled pieces

from the five films nominated for best costume-design Oscars on

Feb. 11 at the opening reception for the 20th annual “Art of Motion

Picture Costume Design” exhibition.

Oscar nominee Arianne Phillipsand FIDM Curator Kevin Jones

Jonathan Stein, Justice Norman L. Epstein, Thomas V.Girardi of Pasadena and Lawrence H. Jacobson

William Shernoff and Superior Court Judge Michael Linfield William Shernoff and Superior Court Judge Michael Linfield

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Janis Brown, Dr. Marla F. Frederick and Dr. Cornish Rogers

CST President Rev. Dr. Jerry Campbell, Rev. Dr. Arthur Cribbs, Dr. Helene Slessarev-Jamir

Oscar nominee Arianne Phillipsand FIDM Curator Kevin Jones

Cottage Guild members (L to R): Liz Popoff, Lori Cucchiaro, DonnaPierson, Susan Hale, Jill Boli and Helga Sherman

Jonathan Stein, Justice Norman L. Epstein, Thomas V.Girardi of Pasadena and Lawrence H. Jacobson

William Shernoff and Superior Court Judge Michael Linfield

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and Linda Speigel

Pasadena residents Titus and Wendy Brenninkmeijer withJohn Peaslee and Ken Berkowitz

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Chase away those winter blues (and

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with a tropical palette of pinks, fuchsias,

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AChef’s Garden

Chef Niki Nakayama of n/naka nurtures an exoticvariety of Japanese herbs and vegetables at herEast Pasadena–area home.BY BETTIJANE LEVINE

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FOUR YEARS AGO, CHEF NIKI NAKAYAMAhad never planted a seed or grown anything edible. Nowshe’s an urban farmer extraordinaire, master of what maybe the most unusual organic vegetable garden west ofthe Mississippi — an exotic array of Japanese herbs andvegetables blooming in raised redwood beds, destinedfor her restaurant’s kitchen.

Nakayama greets each morning with a visit there“for inspiration,” she says. It is peaceful, fragrant, beau-tiful, prolific. On that little plot of land behind herhome, she enjoys some meditative minutes amidst thegarden’s shifting scents and palettes calibrated to thecurrent season.

After deciding what to use that night for dinner ather Culver City–area restaurant, n/naka, she clips theproduce she’ll need: perhaps some mizuna, a Japanesesalad green; mitsuba, a Japanese parsley; a few tsugaroscarlet turnips; and some lunar white, Kyoto red andsolar yellow carrots. Or kabocha squash, shishito pep-pers, Japanese eggplants, momotaro tomatoes and edibleflowers such as nasturtium, borage and wild pansy —all picked at their peak of flavor.

She packs the produce into her car and heads for

Green cabbage, purple carrots, green onions and spinach thrive behind Nakayama’s home.

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work at the intimate 10-month-old restaurant that seats 26, has no sign on the doorand does no advertising. Starting at about noon, five days a week, she designs and cre-ates the evening’s prix fixe tasting dinners (either nine- or 13-course), which have ex-hilarated some of the most persnickety palates in Southern California. Nakayama’scuisine, which includes one vegetarian menu each night, has left diners and bloggerspractically gasping for adjectives of appreciation: “Spectacular,” “best food experience ofmy life” and “OMG Worthy” are some of the raves on Open Table, Daily Candy andother websites.

Chef Nakayama’s backyard garden is at the heart of her success, she says. It is also atthe core of her food philosophy, based on the ancient Japanese tradition of kaiseki. Toconnoisseurs, that single word conveys the essence of 500 years of Japanese dining cul-ture and is an automatic stimulus to the senses. Kaiseki is the artful blend of taste, tex-ture, scent and visual beauty, utilizing only ingredients in season, at their peak ofperfection. It is Japanese cuisine as high art, and it relies totally on the chef as artist —one whose palate distinguishes the delicate flavor difference between a tomato, carrotor salad leaf just arriving at maturity and one that is perhaps a few days past its prime.Two Los Angeles Times writers, on a dining tour of Japan some years ago, rhapsodizedthat kaiseki is “a poetic experience” involving “tiny jewel-like courses beautiful enough

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for a design museum.”Nakayama, 36, could buy her produce at a Japanese market, she says, but it wouldn’t

be as fresh and certainly not as pampered as the herbs and vegetables she grows in herown organic garden. And to attain true kaiseki, quality ingredient sourcing is key.

Nakayama, who says she has always known she would be a chef, has studied suchsubtleties since girlhood, attending Pasadena’s California School of Culinary Arts(later, Le Cordon Bleu College). She then apprenticed with some of the finest Japanesechefs in Los Angeles and spent three more years absorbing kaiseki culture at arenowned Japanese inn owned by relatives. She also toured Japan to study regional fla-vors and gardens, she says, noting that many Japanese people grow their own organicfood. Finally, after rehearsing her skills at small restaurants she ran in Arcadia andWest L.A., she was almost ready for the main act of her professional life. She hadeverything she needed to open her namesake restaurant, she says, except one essentialingredient: her own organic Japanese garden.

About a year before she opened her eatery, Nakayama hired Los Angeles–basedFarmscape, an urban farming firm that plants and maintains residential gardens toproduce healthy, organic, home-grown food. Master gardener Dan Allen, one ofFarmscape’s eight co-owners, took Nakayama’s call and paid a visit.

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“Niki’s backyard was mostly dying grass,” he says. “It wasn’t huge,but it was certainly big enough to grow a big chunk of what she neededfor her upcoming restaurant.” Allen was familiar with some of the un-usual items Nakayama wanted to grow but totally unfamiliar with oth-ers. It was a learning experience for them both.

Allen constructed the raised redwood frames and filled them withnutritious soil; together they ordered seeds from the Kitazawa SeedCompany, a Japanese organic seed supplier in Oakland.

The garden was fully operational by the time n/naka opened, andAllen has continued to plant and maintain it on a weekly basis eversince. He uses ladybugs and other natural methods to keep the producepest-free. An underground system in each bed supplies automatic wa-tering. “Farmscape does the work, but they have also taught me to par-ticipate,” Nakayama says. “I get so excited to have things growing —like shiso leaf, a Japanese-type mint that’s not really unusual. But it’s justso nice to have my own patch of it, because I get to choose what sizeleaf to use. And we have snow peas and edible flowers like borage,which has a cucumber-like flavor. And nasturtium, which has pepper-like flavor that’s not overwhelming.”

Perhaps best of all, she says, food from her garden is farm-to-tablefresh each night — and that makes all the difference in flavor.

“At first Niki gave us very specific lists of what she wanted to grow,”Allen says. “Over time it has become more collaborative.” Allen, who’sfrom Iowa, can now reel off a long list of obscure Japanese vegetablenames and explain their particular flavors. “Kabocha squash is a kind ofJapanese pumpkin. It has the sweetness of winter butternut, but it’stastier,” he says.

Although crops change with the season, there’s always abundantcolor, he adds, citing the variety of “round Japanese turnips which arewhite, scarlet and red; the three varieties of Japanese carrots which arewhite, red, yellow. There are the edible blue nasturtiums, colorfulJapanese varieties of eggplant, peppers and tomatoes along with moreusual crops such as green cabbage, bunching onions, baby arugula.” Allpotential fodder for Nakayama’s vegetarian meal each evening, whosesuccess depends on the excellence of what she has carted across townfrom her backyard. ||||

Japanese TurnipsTokyo market (round and white) and tsugaru scarlet (round andred). Can be pickled, steamed, stir-fried or chopped into a salad.

Japanese CarrotsLunar white, Kyoto red and solar yellow. Often thicker than Western carrots.

ShungikuAlso known as chrysanthe-mum greens, these popularleaves are rich in vitamin B.

KyusiJapanese cucumbers, thinner

than Western and always eatenunpeeled.Favorites include the

hybrid tasty queen.

ShisoA mint-like herb served withsashimi, salads and stews.

JAPANESE VEGGIES BY THE SEASONWINTER CROPS

MizunaA popular salad green alsoused in soups and hot pots

and as a garnish.

DaikonA radish served raw in salads,

boiled in soups and hot pots orgrated atop fish and tempura.

SUMMER CROPS

MitsubaAlso known as Japaneseparsley and packed with nutrients; used in soups,

noodles and meat dishes.

ShishitoA sweet and usually mild

pepper, used in tempura orroasted and topped with

bonito flakes and soy sauce.

KabochaAlso known as Japanesepumpkin, it’s packed with vitamins and served as

tempura or boiled in sugarand soy sauce.

Momotaro Delicious red medium-size

tomatoes, usually served rawin Japan.

NasuJapanese eggplants, smaller

and less bitter than theirWestern counterparts, used in

a wide variety of dishes.

Available from the Kitazawa Seed Company, kitazawaseed.com, (510) 595-1188.

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Thus Oberon, king of the fairies, de-

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speare’s dreamy Elizabethan drama. And thus

we often wish our own days to be ensconced,

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to be the bread and butter, the raw earth, of everyday existence.

“You don’t have to book a spa retreat, or scale a mountain to enjoy the out-

doors,” say John Vega and Michael Bernier of Vega & Bernier Design Group. “You can enjoy

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“I KNOW A BANK WHERE THE WILD THYME BLOWS,WHERE OXLIPS AND THE NODDING VIOLET GROWS,QUITE OVER-CANOPIED WITH LUSCIOUS WOODBINE,WITH SWEET MUSK-ROSES AND WITH EGLANTINE;THERE SLEEPS TITANIA SOMETIME OF THE NIGHT,LULLED IN THESE FLOWERS WITH DANCES AND DELIGHT,AND THERE THE SNAKE THROWS HER ENAMELED SKIN,WEED WIDE ENOUGH TO WRAP A FAIRY IN…”

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THE DESTRUCTIVE AUGUST FIRES OF 2009brought smoggy days, closed forest roads and plumes ofdark purple clouds rising above the Angeles NationalForest. It also displaced countless animals suddenly leftwithout nests, burrows or holes to call home.

Altadena resident Wynne Wilson was not surprisedto see enormous flocks of birds arriving at her recentlyplanted backyard garden for a cleansing dip in hernewly paved creek bed. Critters of all shapes and sizesjoined the post-fire influx to set up temporary sheltersamong the coffeeberry bushes, edible currant shrubsand 900 other plant types that punctuate Wilson’sthree-quarter-acre landscape. “We were happy to wel-come the birds and all the other escapees,” says Wilson,a landscape designer, photographer and former long-time Art Center College of Design instructor. “I’ve al-ways wanted my own garden to be a wildlife refuge, aplace I could connect with the natural world.”

Beneath a splendid vista of the rising San GabrielMountains, Wilson’s backyard ecosystem sculpts itsown majestic scene of California natives mingled withMediterranean plantings ideal for the Southern Cali-fornia climate. Part arid chaparral, part shady wood-lands, the expanse is more than just a fine example ofan economical water-wise garden (with the gardenredo, her monthly water bill went from $1,000 permonth to a mere $100 to $150). This arty smart gardencontains several large areas, including a sun–bakedsalvia and California lilac garden with a stone seatingcircle, and an updated pool and a spa with customhand-painted Malibu tiles, guarded by huge deodarcedars and privacy hedges of California lilacs. Veritablerainbows of floral color abound, including more than3,000 plantings of coral bells (delicate but hardy plantsthat proliferate wildly), to Wilson’s delight. “I’ve also

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got so many varieties of penstemons that they are cross-hybridizing into unique specimens,” she says.

The garden is open for educational tours, and Wil-son and her Terra Design Company host classes and in-formal gatherings of eco-minded gardeners. (She’s alsowell connected with the Theodore Payne Foundation;her garden has been showcased on TPF’s annual gardentour for the past two years.) Former students and staff atArt Center, artists, musicians and garden clients aredrawn together to discuss a topic that’s an evergreen inArroyoland — using California natives and drought-tol-erant plants to create wildlife habitats as well as beauti-ful landscapes. “It is ironic how [California natives] havebeen utilized in European gardens for over a centuryand are now finding new popularity here,” she says.

Wilson planted her garden in the spring of 2009,beginning by removing her typical suburban lawn,scraggly azaleas and other water-hungry plants. “I handdug it up. We removed about 95 percent of the grass. Itwas a long process, but the best way to do [it],” she saysof forgoing chemicals or large black plastic sheets thatsuffocate and kill beneficial insects (like native bees)and underground critters while they’re killing grass.Wilson then followed guidelines set by the NationalWildlife Federation (NWF) for designing a residentialwildlife refuge. She discovered it wasn’t difficult tocombine those directives with her ambition to craft agarden that would be attractive in any season. The trick:Use plants with long bloom times, interesting leafstructures and sculptural qualities.

The NWF specifies four main criteria to certify agarden as a wildlife refuge: The site must provide foodand water sources, protective covering and safe placesfor wildlife to raise their young. In return, the organiza-tion participants (who may be involved in residential,school or community projects) receive an actual certifi-cate, a free one-year free NFW membership and the op-portunity to install an official plaque in their habitats.But, says NWF spokeswoman Roxanne Nersesian Paul,“I think the real benefits are twofold — with so much oftheir habitat disappearing, wildlife has a better chance tosurvive when we provide space for them. For people, thechance to view the wildlife up-close and share with theirchildren is an end in itself.” Some 146,000 locations —with California’s in the lead — have been certified sincethe program was launched almost 40 years ago.

For Wilson, getting the certification was “more apersonal accomplishment and a way of giving some-thing back…Waking up to the sights and sounds ofbirds, butterflies, bees and water is a wonderful way tobegin one’s day.” Wilson found that supplying the pro-gram-mandated food and water was easy enough. Sheinstalled appropriate bushes, trees and flowers (e.g.,manzanitas, lavenders, poppies, sages) which soon be-came a wildlife smorgasbord of tempting berries, nec-

tar, leaves and fruit. For water, she constructed a 50-foot-long recirculating man-made stream completewith 30 tons of boulders. Creating hiding spots andwildlife nurseries involved a little more thought whenit came to placement. “Shrubs that are intermingled toallow animals to escape… plants with spiny branchesand/or thorns are just the thing,” says Wilson, whoused wild roses, native grasses and toyon and goose-berry bushes. Scattered stones in the stream bed alsoprovide nesting opportunities for lizards and insects.Large trees, like pines, offer great seclusion spots forraccoons, squirrels and birds.

“The ability to invite nature in is so easy,” says Wilsonabout the ever-changing critter clientele. “Every winter,we are a stopover for migrating cedar waxwings. I love itwhen they come. We had an incredible migration ofpainted lady butterflies that flocked to the native [Cali-fornia lilac] by the thousands one year.”

Walk her footpaths to glimpse Western fencelizards basking on enormous boulders. Nearby,monarch butterflies feast on California milkweedplants tucked beneath centuries-old California liveoaks. Aerobatic dragonflies dart over bubbling waters.At night, little brown bats and great horned owlsperch high in the deodar trees, which offer ideal van-tage points for their evening hunts. “When you createthis kind of ecosystem, everything takes care of itselfpretty much,” says Wilson. Sure, she’ll do monthlydeep waterings, pruning and weeding but, on thewhole, the garden runs on its own with no pesticidesor fertilizers. Ladybugs eat aphids, possums eat thesnails, hawks go after the small rodents. Wilson’s es-sential philosophy is to stand back: “Just let naturealone and it will be fine,” she says.

Landscape designer Wynne Wilson can be reached at

[email protected] or (626) 296-3773. For informa-

tion about the National Wildlife Federation’s Certified

Wildlife Habitat® program, visit nwf.org/gardenforwildlife

or call (800) 822-9919.

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A mix of California nativescreates a tapestry of color

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The tiles were selectedto harmonize with the

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An uprooted tulip tree tore up parkway pavement along Edgewood Drive in South Pasadena.

The storm splintered a major limb ofa jacaranda tree on Milan Avenue inSouth Pasadena.

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Evaluating Arroyoland’s urban forestry after the windstormBY ILSA SETZIOL

WHEN THOUSANDS OF TREES TOPPLED IN LAST November’s fierce windstorm, it was a reminder that urban trees, thosegentle giants, can pack a powerful punch. Pasadena and Altadena arestill littered with stumps, uplifted sidewalks and orange cones. The

event has prompted soul-searching among arborists and tree lovers over the challengesof sustaining urban forests.

The loss of so many mature trees — more than 1,500 in Pasadena alone — is notjust an aesthetic issue; it means hotter, more polluted neighborhoods for years to come.“Large trees, particularly conifers, are like giant air filters,” explains Rebecca Latta,Pasadena’s former tree superintendent. “They intercept large-particle pollution that canget into your lungs.”

It’s a calm January day, and Latta is surveying some of the damage in northPasadena. She examines the slanting 8-foot-tall stump and exposed roots of a deodarcedar. A resident has wrapped the tree with green-and-white barricade tape reading

“killer tree.” “The winds were coming from the north and pulled the root plate up,” saysthe consulting arborist and oak specialist based in Glendora. “You can see the rootscame up a long way, so there had to be tremendous force placed on top of this very talltree.” Indeed, wind speeds approached 100 miles an hour in the unusually destructivestorm; meterologists considered it a ferocious variation on the gentler and warmerSanta Anas typical of the season.

Latta notes the winds particularly “devastated the really tall trees — Canary Islandpine, deodar cedar, stone pine.” Some trees probably toppled simply because of the ve-locity. But the demise of others can, at least partially, be attributed to the challenges ofgrowing trees in parkways. “Street trees have to be maintained in a situation where theyhave limited root space,” says Latta. “And, in some cases, the trees will pull up the side-walk, curb and gutter, so those trees will have their roots pruned when new sidewalksare put in.” That makes the trees less stable.

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Inadequate watering regimes also threaten bothstreet trees and their brethren in home gardens. That’sbecause a tree and a lawn have fundamentally differentwater requirements, as horticulturist Barbara Eisensteinis quick to point out. “Watering once or twice a weekfor 10 minutes is not good for trees,” she says. “Thewater doesn’t soak down very far; trees want a muchdeeper root system and you want to water them infre-quently and really deeply.”

The storm was so intense at Eisenstein’s SouthPasadena home — small branches flying everywhere,windows blowing open, dust swirling around the house— that she worried her mature avocado and deodarcedar would crash onto the Craftsman home. They didn’t, perhaps because of the care she’d given them.Eisenstein had removed the lawn around both trees and

replaced it with mulch, which allows for less frequent watering and prevents root rot. Another tip: Cap or remove irrigation systems around trees so they don’t spray the trunks.“There should be no watering [next to the tree],” says Latta. “If the soil is too wet or thesoil is compacted, you don’t have enough oxygen in the soil or the exchange of gasses thattree roots need to be healthy.”

Pasadena plans to hire a consultant to undertake a storm post-mortem and analyze howits street-tree practices might be improved. The findings are scheduled to be released to thepublic in the spring. Meanwhile, Forestry Superintendent Kenneth Graham says, whenworkers plant new street trees, the city hands out care guidelines to neighbors, advising,among other things, “not to grow any groundcover adjacent to tree trunks.” He notes thatthe city trims and inspects street trees every five to seven years, depending on the kind oftree. Latta says that for some trees, that’s not often enough.

And many trees, both municipally and privately owned, suffer from sloppy pruning. Alot of cities have cut their tree maintenance funds, and Eisenstein says they often contractwith companies that charge less and aren’t as diligent. Pasadena, however, has increased itsstreet-tree budget over the past decade.

Perhaps the worst offender is Southern California Edison, which prunes — no, hacks —trees near power lines, often lopping off their tops in a bad buzz cut. “Trees should never bebrought down (called ‘heading back’ or ‘topping’),” Eisenstein says. “As soon as you cut a branchin the middle like that, it sends out multiple shoots that aren’t attached to the stem very well.”The new shoots are weaker and the dense regrowth is more vulnerable to wind damage.

For homeowners, finding a good tree service can be a challenge. Latta says even shestruggles to find qualified crews. She recommends making sure a certified arborist su-pervises any pruning and that the arborist doesn’t leave the worksite until the crew isdone cutting. It also helps to hire a consulting arborist who specializes in the treespecies you have.

As Latta continues her tour, she points out more stumps in Altadena, then drives by aspot where trees blown over in a previous storm have not been replaced. Pasadena officialssay they’re optimistic they can secure grants and other funds for replanting, although theyacknowledge the city faces financial constraints. But Latta wonders aloud whether L.A.County will have the money to reforest Altadena. “All these cities — Pasadena, Altadena,Arcadia, La Cañada — have really amazing urban forests,” she muses. “I think the legacywe leave our children is to replant and to maintain the trees we have so we don’t losethem.” And even if the fallen are replaced, it will be decades before the saplings grow intothe giants that stood before the storm.

Ilsa Setziol is an environmental reporter who blogs at ramblingla.com.

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TIPS FOR SELECTING AND PLANTING TREES

• Purchase small trees in containers no larger than five gallons. The longer a

tree is in a pot, the more time there is for root damage or stress to occur.”

• Purchase plants with roots that are spreading out symmetrically, not cir-

cling inside or overgrowing the container. Circling roots “will grow in tight

balls that never adequately anchor the trees and eventually choke off water.”

• Leave lower branches on trees for the first few years to help feed and struc-

ture the young tree.

• Choose trees that will thrive in our semi-arid climate, such as coast live oak,

Engelmann oak and western sycamore.

.• When planting, don’t bury the crown (where roots intersect the base of

trunk). Keep it slightly above ground level.

• Always remove the nursery stake, so the trunk doesn’t get scraped and the

tree can sway, which promotes stronger roots. If staking is needed, use two

with flexible webbing in between to allow the tree to sway a bit. Remove them

after the first year or two.

• Mulch around the base of the tree, but keep the area directly around

the trunk bare to prevent root rot.

• Young trees need more frequent

water, but allow top layer of soil to dry

before watering. Water deeply.

• Prune young trees to ensure good

structure.

Recommended reading: The Pruning

Book by Lee Reich (The Taunton Press).

— Adapted from Barbara Eisenstein’s blog

at Weedingwildsuburbia.com

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ARNOLD’S FINE JEWELRYIt’s a busy time at Arnold’s Fine Jewelry.Bruce Arnold and his seasoned staff workwith patrons in choosing just the right giftsfrom diamond heart pendants to watchesand rings. They also personalize jewelryby engraving graduation gifts sure toplease lucky high school and collegegrads. If you have something special inmind or an estate piece that needs up-dating, Bruce will custom design a pieceof jewelry. 350 S. Lake Avenue. Hours are10am-6pm, Tuesday-Saturday. (626) 795-8647.

JOHN MORAN AUCTIONEERSA full-service auction house for over 40years, John Moran Auctioneers is interna-tionally recognized as a leader in sales ofexceptional antiques, fine art, jewelry andeclectic estate items. In addition tomonthly Estate Auctions, Moran’s con-ducts tri-annual California and AmericanArt auctions featuring top 19th and 20thcentury Impressionist and Western artists.For information about consigning, pur-chasing at auction, estate services, ap-praisals, and free walk-in Valuation Days,please call (626) 793-1833 or visit johnmoran.com.

WAYNE JASON JEWELRY DESIGNSWayne Jason Jewelry Designs has been inbusiness since 1987, in the same locationin the city of Pasadena, California. Waynedesigns most of his own jewelry and man-ufactures it on the premises, eliminating amiddleman. Wayne Jason Jewelry Designsoffers unique, often one of a kind, topquality jewelry pieces at a value wellbelow the competition. Most of our de-signs can be made in any color gold, 18-karat or 14-karat, with any stones. 105 WestCalifornia Blvd., Pasadena (626) 795-9215

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BACKYARD STUDIO COMPANY PROFILEBackyard studio is a local architectureand construction office that specializesin comfortable, modern backyard struc-tures: custom-built studios, personal re-treats, guest rooms. The vision ofBackyard Studio is affordable, ecologicalbuildings that can be rapidly deployed,maximizing spatiality and function whileusing a minimum of resources. The princi-pal of Backyard Studio, Leigh Jerrard, isan architect who draws upon an exten-sive background in small, experimental,and prefabricated structures to createsurprisingly affordable and elegant struc-tures that can be built in a matter ofweeks. 3400 Holyoke Dr., Los Angeles, CA90065. (213) 949-2343 backyard-studio.net

GARDEN VIEW LANDSCAPESpecializing in landscaping, nurseriesand pools, Garden View Inc. can takeyou from a design idea to a finished, de-tail-oriented garden. Garden View & theirclientele are recipients of 60 awardsfrom the California Landscape Contrac-tors Association. The intent of the com-pany is to provide high-qualityinterrelated outdoor services. The syn-ergy between having their own de-signer/project managers, in-housecrews, their own large nursery, and beinga licensed pool builder provides for effi-ciency, competitive pricing, quality andschedule control. Call (626) 303-4043.

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DICKSON PODLEYRichard Langstaff is an effective Realtorwho works hard for his clients. Represent-ing clients in the sale of their Architecturaland character homes for over 20 years inthe Pasadena area. Richard Langstaffstates "The greatest satisfaction in mybusiness comes from getting results formy clients. I believe that the client’sgoals and needs are always the key andthe first priority. Podley Properties RichardLangstaff 818.949.5750

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KITCHENCONFESSIONS

Athenaeum AnthemThe ingredients for a luscious cookbook library

BY LESLIE BILDERBACK | PHOTOS BY CLAIRE BILDERBACK

I RECENTLY READ THAT RUSS PARSONS, EDITOR OF THE LOS ANGELES

Times food section, owns two copies of all his favorite cookbooks.

One copy is preserved for posterity, the other brought into the kitchen

as a working stiff, available for spillage. I had to laugh. Practical? Not

really, unless by practical you mean "sells more books for publishers.”

A proper chef (something that, in all fairness, Parsons does not claim to be) is

taught never to cook directly from a book. Recipes should be rewritten onto a separate

sheet, which is then carried into the kitchen and hung on the wall at eye level, or

crammed into the pocket of your herringbone pants, along with your one good peeler

and your Sharpie.

This serves several purposes: The paper takes up less counter space (which is usu-

ally at a premium), and it keeps your books clean (although personally, I enjoy the

nostalgia of a stain or two. It brings back fond memories of jobs, colleagues, restau-

rants and my youth, all now gone the way of the floppy disk and Kajagoogoo).

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Buy These Books

More important, recipes hand-copied from books are in-

surance against screwing up. It forces at least one read-

through, which is something amateurs rarely do. As a culinary

instructor I can tell you that 99.9 percent of recipe failures are

due to user error. Revving the KitchenAids and cold reading

the recipes as you cook inevitably results in leaving out a step

or ingredient (which typically leads to a forced excursion to

the market by some poor innocent bystander) or simple

hubristic wrongness.

This need to charge ahead without full knowledge is not

just a plague of the kitchen. It is part of our national M.O. — it

occurs everywhere, from the voting booth to the backseats of

cars. This lack of preparation is only facilitated by a new age

of kitchen technology. It is bad enough that most people now

get their recipes off the Internet, where origin, authenticity and

accuracy are dubious at best. (Being an Internet recipe

provider, I guess I should be careful here.) Now you can fire up

iPhone apps to further enable your blind assault on food. Why

bother to learn something when you can have it beamed di-

rectly at your head? And so, while I scoff at Parsons for his

dual-tome collection, at least he is still reading books.

My cookbook library reached its zenith years ago. Can we all

just admit that there are too damn many cookbooks out there?

In 1962 there were 850 cookbooks in print. So far this century,

there has been an average of 3,000 new books on cookery

published every year. Putting aside for a moment my dream of

writing the Great American Gustatory Opus, have there really

been 3,000 new breakthroughs in the world of food this year?

That is not to say I do not own cookbooks, because I sure

as hell do. But, with the exception of the occasional flea mar-

ket find (my latest being the hilarious Can Opener Recipes for

the Casual Cook from 1951), I have stopped adding to my

cookbook library. Still, I understand the foodie nation's insa-

tiable hunger for cookbooks and, to that end, I have com-

piled a list of what I consider to be the most important

cookbooks you should own. (In some cases, newer editions

have followed mine.) Use it to start your cookbook library, or

legitimize the one you've already got.

Now get reading. There will be a quiz next month.

Leslie Bilderback is a certified master baker, chef and cook-

book author. A South Pasadena resident, she teaches her

techniques online at culinarymasterclass.com.

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American Cookery by James Beard (Little, Brown; 1972)Like America itself, this book is a melting pot. Beard is the father of American cookery, and this is why.

Couscous and Other Good Foods from Morocco by Paula Wolfert (Ecco; 1973)I love all of Wolfert’s books. She is hands down the authority on Mediterranean cookingand the reason you can find couscous at Vons.

The Food Lover’s Companion by Sharon Tyler Herbst (Barron's; 1995)I keep several copies of this book — one in my office, one in the kitchen and one in thecar, because you never know when you might need to look up “flummery" or "shamogi.”

The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher (North Point Press; 1989) The beautiful prose of this (and her other volumes, including Serve it Forth, An Alphabet forGourmets, Consider the Oyster, How to Eat a Wolf) recount a lifelong love of food. It’s perfect for cultivating culinary snobbery.

Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagne (Clarkson Potter; 2001)More commonly known simply as Larousse, after the French publishing house that firstproduced it in 1938, it is the premier culinary encyclopedia, proofread by August Escoffierhimself. I am on the lookout for an old edition that has (I am told) an amazingly gory engraving of turtle soup preparation.

The Good Cook series (Time-Life Books; 1980)This series is so extraordinarily detailed, photographed and diagrammed, it should be re-quired reading for anyone learning to cook. Twenty-eight volumes, available at a garagesale near you, cover everything culinary, including meats, eggs, sauces, soups, snacks,fruits, vegetables, beverages and kitchen organization. Also worth noting from the Time-Life people (circa 1968) is the 27-volume Foods of the World series, covering regionalcuisine both here and abroad.

The Joy of Cooking by Marion Rombauer (Scribner; 1997)When this classic volume was revised in 1997, there was a lot of hoo-ha. At least it stillhas the opossum and squirrel recipes, complete with skinning diagrams and great tips like"don gloves to avoid possible tularemia infection."

La Technique: An Illustrated Guide to the Fundamental Techniques of Cookingby Jacques Pepin (Times Books; 1976)I still like this clear, descriptive, generously photographed book, even though MonsieurPepin, former personal chef to Charles de Gaulle, once told me I looked like a horse. I'msure he meant it in a nice way.

Le Guide Culinaire by August Escoffier (John Wiley and Sons; 1983)Originally published in 1903, this is the definitive reference for haute cuisine formulas andnomenclature. As Escoffier insisted, this is not a recipe book. You're supposed to alreadyknow the recipes.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking (two-volume set) by Julia Child, LouisetteBertolle and Simone Beck (Alfred A. Knopf; 2001)Without this book, we'd all be eating crap.

The New Making of a Cook: The Art, Technique, and Science of Good Cooking byMadeleine Kamman (William Morrow; 1997)Despite a career spent in the shadow of Julia, Kamman (a legitimate chef) earned theright to tell you how everything should be done, including the how and why of recipes.

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee(Collier Books; 1998) McGee is the Einstein of the kitchen.(Mc=Ge2). If you want to know why blueberries are blueor how your olfactory cells work (and if you're a serious cook, you should), buy this book.

The Secrets of Baking: Simple Techniques for Sophisticated Desserts by SherryYard (Houghton Mifflin; 2003)I love this book and not just because I helped write it. (Regular readers of this column willrecognize its infectious wit.) Sherry divided the book into master recipes, with subsequentvariations, akin to the way pastry is taught in culinary school.

The Taste of Mexico by Patricia Quintana (Stewart, Tabori and Chang; 1986)Though you may never have heard of her, Quintana is a culinary rock star in Mexico. Shestudied with the greatest chefs of the 20th century — Paul Bocuse, Gaston Lenotre, theTroisgros brothers, Michel Gerard — and is her country's official culinary ambassador. Thisimpeccable book is thoughtfully broken down by region, with the most authentic techniques available.

— L.B.

MY COOKBOOK LIBRARY

REACHED ITS ZENITH YEARS AGO.

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THERE ARE TOO DAMN MANY

COOKBOOKS OUT THERE?

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Pasadena’s new Haven Gastropub pairs a huge beer list with inventivefine dining and comfort fare.

BY BRADLEY TUCK

Haute Pub Grub

Haven Gastropub

42 S. De Lacey Ave.Pasadena

(626) 768-9555Havengastropub.com

Entrées: $10 – $42

Open daily from 11 a.m. – 2 a.m.

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It’s interesting that Old Pasadena now has not one but two establishments proudly sport-

ing the moniker “gastropub.” The first was King’s Row Gastropub, which opened on Col-

orado in April 2011, replacing Neomeze. The most recent, taking over the space formerly

occupied by Brix 42, is Haven Gastropub, a new outpost of the Orange County venue.

The Haven in Orange has been a commercial and critical success for partners Wil Dee,

who also serves as beverage director, and Chef Greg Daniels. Figuring that Old Pasadena

has a similar feel to Orange, with its great foot traffic and shopping, they threw their hats

into the ring and launched their paean to great beer and food here two months ago.

Walking into the space, a lot of it seems familiar, and the layout is essentially the same

as when it was Brix 42. It’s still an enormous space, organized around a central bar, and

those steel brewing tanks are still visible through glass walls. But the details are different:

Now there’s an open kitchen and a wine/private dining room toward the back of the

restaurant. And I’m happy to report that the new venue looks really promising.

The term “gastropub” generally refers to a pub that offers elevated standards of food. It

stems from the growth of such establishments in England in the early 1990s and, while not

being a pretty word, it sums up the genre pretty neatly. So, as in the

classic chicken-and-egg conundrum, which comes first — the gastro

or the pub? Does the food support the beer, or vice versa? At Haven,

they both march in unison, which is as it should be. Dee has put to-

gether a really huge beer list, with some hard-to-find and carefully se-

lected drafts and bottles. I counted 40 on tap and more than 90 in

the bottle. Add to this an interesting and accessible wine list, and a

respectable lineup of craft cocktails, and you’ve definitely got the

pub part covered.

The gastro side is taken care of by Greg Daniels, an alum of

Pasadena’s Le Cordon Bleu program at the California School of Culi-

nary Arts. Stints at respected fine-dining establishments — Pascal in

Newport Beach and Napa Rose in Anaheim — were supplemented

by dining pilgrimages to restaurants as far-flung as Heston Blumen-

thal’s Fat Duck in Bray, U.K., and Thomas Keller’s Per Se in New York,

both recipients of three Michelin stars. Daniels also cites a passion for culinary literature as

a creative inspiration, which is always encouraging. Indeed, the menu is far from the mod-

ern riff on comfort food one might expect in a pub setting. Yes, there are the familiar sta-

ples, like shepherd’s pie, mac ’n’ cheese and the like. But when was the last time you saw

pheasant pot pie on a menu a few

inches down from hiramasa crudo?

I opted for the latter as a table next to

mine shoveled into the puff pastry crust

of the pie. Judging by their fervor, it was

more than acceptable. The crudo was exceptional. Lovely raw fresh fish with fine slivers of

crunchy heat provided by the shards of Fresno chili, juicy ruby grapefruit wetting your whis-

tle and arbequina olive oil pulling the flavors together to create a light but rich mouthfeel.

Fried sardines were served whole, with a very light breading crust, a smoked paprika rouille

and golden raisins. Some diners might be fearful of the bones, and diners are often worried

about fishy fish, so putting these on the menu is a bold choice. I can eagerly imagine en-

joying their rich flavor with a crisp white wine in the summer — chewing those fine bones

would be a small sacrifice to make.

Brussels sprouts are on pretty much every menu these days and are generally a far

cry from the gray-green slurry of many English Sunday dinners of my childhood. These

are sautéed to a nutty brown, with crisped prosciutto and a dash

of lemon juice to brighten it all up. The grilled octopus involved 6-

inch-long tentacles that looked very Jules Verne, weaving their way

through a seascape of caramelized fennel and hearts of palm.

The tentacles were really perfect, not rubbery in the least, tender

and full of flavor.

Desserts come by way of an extremely talented pastry chef, San-

tanna Salas, who has had an illustrious career so far with various

Michael Mina establishments, including his restaurant at The Bellagio

in Las Vegas. Her peanut butter and jelly took the flavors and textures

of everybody’s favorite bedtime snack and rendered the elements in

a beautifully composed and sophisticated dessert: Blackberry sor-

bet, powdered peanut butter, a peanut butter brittle and a wafer of

sourdough crisp was the kind of dessert that if shared could ruin a

friendship. You’ll be counting the number of your dining companions’

spoon dips and racing them to the finish.

Haven’s owners are counting on Pasadena’s openness to an approachable but so-

phisticated menu, a parking structure right across the street and a good volume of foot

traffic. I, for one, will be back, if only to try out that pheasant pot pie! ||||

Chef Greg Daniels

Hiramasacrudo

WINING & DINING

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THE LIST A SELECTIVE PREVIEW OF UPCOMING EVENTS

SHAKESPEARE AND SORCERY AT A NOISE WITHIN March 3 — Shakespeare’s Antony and

Cleopatra, a tragedy of lust, love, politics

and war during the glory days of the

Roman Empire, opens at 8 p.m. at A Noise

Within and continues through May 13.

Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott

co-direct.

March 17 — The Illusion by Pierre

Corneille, adapted by Tony Kushner,

opens at 8 p.m. and continues through

May 19. The classic tells the story of a fa-

ther who calls on a powerful sorcerer for

help in reuniting with his estranged son.

Tickets for both productions cost $46 for

Friday and Saturday evening and Sunday

matinee performances; $42 for Wednes-

day, Thursday and Sunday evenings and

Saturday matinees.

A Noise Within is located at 3352 E. Foothill

Blvd., Pasadena. Call (626) 356-3100 or

visit anoisewithin.org.

WOMEN AUTHORS STRUT THEIR STUFFMarch 3 — The annual Festival of

Women Authors returns to Pasadena

from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the

Pasadena Senior Center. This year’s

lineup includes Heidi Durrow, author of

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky; Fannie

Flagg, author of I Still Dream About You;

Michelle Huneven, whose latest book is

Blame; and Susan Straight, author most

recently of Take One Candle, Light a

Room. Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author

of A Woman of Independent Means,

serves as moderator. Tickets cost $85;

proceeds benefit the Senior Center.

The Pasadena Senior Center is located at

85 E. Holly St., Pasadena. Visit pasade-

nafestivalofwomenauthors.org .

COLBURN ORCHESTRA SHOW-CASES BRAHMS AND STRAUSS March 3 — The talented students of the

Colburn Orchestra perform Brahms’ Piano

Concerto No. 2 and Strauss’ “Ein Helden-

leben” at Pasadena’s Ambassador Audi-

torium. Sichen Ma is featured piano

soloist, and Bramwell Tovey conducts. Ad-

mission to the 7:30 p.m. concert is free,

but tickets are required.

Ambassador Auditorium is located at 131

S. St. John Ave., Pasadena. Call (213) 621-

1050 or visit colburnschool.edu/tickets.

LOCAL ART HISTORY REVIEWED AT PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM

March 4 and 25 — In

conjunction with the

Pacific Asia Museum

exhibition about its

predecessor, “46 N.

Los Robles: A History

of the Pasadena Art Museum,” Lynn Kien-

holz, author of L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists

Before 1980, discusses the period with

panelists influential in the museum’s his-

tory at 2 p.m. both days. Free with mu-

seum admission.

March 18 — A screening of Pasadena Art

Museum Voices, a documentary featur-

ing guest curator Jay Belloli interviewing

key artists, board members and curators

involved in the “46 N. Los Robles” exhibi-

tion, runs from noon to 4 p.m. Free with

museum admission.

March 29 — The exhibition “Kimono in the

20th Century,” showcasing items from for-

mal wear to children’s clothing, undergar-

ments and light summer pieces, opens

and continues through March 10, 2013.

The Pacific Asia Museum is located at 46

N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena. Call (626)

449-2742 or visit pacificasiamuseum.org.

SHAKESPEAREAN SOUNDS BLAST ABOUT TOWNMarch 4 — The Los Angeles Philharmonic

Orchestra’s “Sounds about Town” series

features the Los Angeles Children’s Cho-

rus and American Youth Symphony, with

James Conlon conducting, at 7:30 p.m.

at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The evening

features the world premiere of “The Isle is

Full of Noises” by Icelandic composer

Daniel Bjarnason, based on Shake-

speare’s The Tempest. The ensembles also

perform Sir David Willcocks’ “The Glories of

Shakespeare.” In addition, LACC Artistic Di-

rector Anne Tomlinson conducts the cho-

rus singing Shakespearean texts for treble

voices and AYS Music

Director Alexander

Treger conducts the

orchestra in selec-

tions from Prokofiev’s

Romeo and Juliet.

Tickets cost $20.75 to $45.

Walt Disney Concert Hall is located at 111

S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles. Call (323) 850-

2000 or Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or

visit laphil.com.

RATTLING A CENTURY-OLD CAGE March 10 and 11 — Southwest Chamber

Music celebrates the centennial of com-

poser John Cage in a series of concerts.

Pasadena locations include Art Center

College of Design and Pacific Asia Mu-

seum. The 8 p.m. Saturday concert at Art

Center features Cage’s “Atlas Eclipticalis,”

“Variations IV” and “0’00.” The 5 p.m. Sun-

day performance at the Pacific Asia Mu-

seum features his composition “Score.”

Tickets for each concert cost $38, $28 for

seniors and $10 for students.

Art Center College of Design is located at

1700 Lida St., Pasadena. Pacific Asia Mu-

seum is located at 46 N. Los Robles Ave.,

Pasadena. Call (800) 726-7147 or visit

swmusic.org.

L.A. ART, ANTIQUES ON THE BLOCKIN GLENDALEMarch 10 and 11 — Roadside America

presents the second annual “Antiques,

Objects and Art L.A.” show and sale from

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to

4 p.m. Sunday at the Glendale Civic Audi-

torium. Items include fine art, furnishings,

decorative arts, textiles, jewelry, Chicano

art, modernism, Americana, American In-

dian arts and crafts and much more. Ad-

mission costs $12 for both days.

The Glendale Civic Auditorium is

located at 1401 N. Verdugo Rd., Glen-

dale. Call (626) 437-6275 or visit

antiquesandobjects.com.

CELEBRATING DANCE DIVERSELY AT THE ALEXMarch 3 — Choreographer Jamie Nichols presents Celebrate Dance 2012at Glendale’s Alex Theatre, spotlighting new works performed by Hysterica

Dance Company, Invertigo Dance Theatre, LaDiego Dance Theatre, Los An-

geles Contemporary Dance Company, Malashock Dance, Monat Dance,

Regina Klenjoski Dance Company and RhetOracle Dance Company.

Showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets cost $16 to $36.

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L.A. PHIL LIVE, ON THE BIG SCREENMarch 18 — The Los Angeles Philhar-

monic presents a screening from the

2011--2012 season opening–night con-

cert at Disney Hall in theaters nation-

wide, including locally at AMC Santa

Anita 16 in Arcadia. The concert fea-

tures Music Director Gustavo Dudamel

and the orchestra with jazz great Her-

bie Hancock celebrating the music of

George Gershwin by performing

“Rhapsody in Blue,” “Cuban Overture”

and “An American in Paris.” Tickets for

the 2 p.m. screening cost $18 and are

available at the theater box office or at

fathomevents.com.

AMC Santa Anita 16 theater is located

at 400 S. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. Call

(888) 262-4386 or visit laphil.com.

CHRONICLER OF L.A. ON DISPLAYMarch 17 — An exhibition of papers

and other items from the 60-year ca-

reer of author and Los Angeles Times

columnist Al Martinez opens at the

Huntington and runs through June 25.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections

and Botanical Gardens is located at

1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino. Call (626)

405-2100 or visit huntington.org.

LITFEST CELEBRATES ALL THINGS LITERARYMarch 17 — LitFest 2012 comes to

Pasadena’s Central Park from 9 a.m. to

5 p.m. Organizers Larry Wilson, public

editor of the Pasadena Star-News; Tom

Costen of the Light Bringer Project; and

novelist and USC creative writing

teacher Jervey Tervalon worked with

local government leaders, independ-

ent publisher Red Hen Press and Cal-

tech to plan a day of panels and

readings by local literati, including

Jonathan Gold, Ron Koertege and Ter-

valon. Entertainment will include

music, theater, poetry and perform-

ances by local schoolchildren. Admis-

sion to the event, a project of the

Pasadena Arts Council, is free.

Central Park is located at 219 S. Fair

Oaks Ave., Pasadena. Call (626) 793-

8171 or visit pasadenaartscouncil.org.

LACO PRESENTS WORLD PREMIERE WORK BY YOUNG VIRTUOSO March 24 — The Los Angeles Chamber

Orchestra, conducted by Music Director

Jeffrey Kahane, spotlights young com-

poser and piano virtuoso Timothy An-

dres in an 8 p.m. concert at Glendale’s

Alex Theatre. Andres is featured pianist

in “Refracted,” a concert that includes

the West Coast premiere of his work

“Coronation,” in which Andres has

added his own stamp to one of

Mozart’s incomplete concertos. Re-

peated at 7 p.m. Sunday at UCLA’s

Royce Hall. Tickets cost $24 to $105.

The Alex Theatre is located at 216 N.

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

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March 4 —Curator Peter Frank and artists Kenton Nelson and Ray Turner discuss

the life and art of Richard Bunkall, the late Pasadena artist whose work is currently

on display at the Pasadena Museum of California Art in the exhibition “Richard

Bunkall: A Portrait.” The discussion, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the museum, includes the

launch of Richard Bunkall, the first published survey of his work. Admission is free.

The Pasadena Museum of California Art is located at 490 E. Union St., Pasadena.

Call (626) 568-3665 or visit pmcaonline.org.

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THE MUSIC MAN STAGED FOR SCHOLARS March 24 and 25 — The Shakespeare

Club of Pasadena presents the Meredith

Wilson musical classic The Music Man at

8 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday at the

San Gabriel Mission Playhouse. Bill Shaw

directs, with musical direction by Bob

Marino and choreography by Rikki Lugo.

The producer is Tanya Danforth. Tickets

cost $25 to $45 and benefit a scholar-

ship program for graduating seniors in

the Pasadena Unified School District.

The San Gabriel Mission Playhouse is lo-

cated at 320 S. Mission Dr., San Gabriel.

For information, call (626) 367-2428 or

email [email protected]. For

tickets, call (800) 595-4849 or visit shake-

speareclub.org.

PARTY FOR A PLANTMarch 25 — Downtown Sierra Madre

hosts a street party from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

in honor of the city’s Wisteria Festival, cel-

ebrating Sierra Madre’s most famous res-

ident, a 118-year-old wisteria plant. The

Guinness Book of World Records calls it

the world’s largest blossoming plant,

weighing an estimated 250 tons. The

event, centered around Sierra Madre

Boulevard and Baldwin Avenue, features

live music stages, 150-plus juried artists

and craftspeople, food booths and chil-

dren’s activities in Memorial Park. Shut-

tles to see the plant depart on the hour,

from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The shuttle ticket

booth is at the corner of Montecito and

Baldwin avenues. Shuttle tickets cost $10,

$7 for seniors and kids. The free Gateway

Shuttle travels on a loop from the Metro

Gold Line Sierra Madre Villa station at

the corner of Sierra Madre Villa and

Foothill Boulevard in Pasadena to down-

town Sierra Madre from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

For information, call the Sierra Madre

Chamber of Commerce at (626) 355-

5111 or visit wisteriafestival.com. To order

shuttle tickets online, visit

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EPIC BEETHOVEN AT AMBASSADORMarch 31 — The Pasadena Symphony

comes to the Ambassador Auditorium for a

concert featuring Beethoven’s epic Sym-

phony No. 3, “Eroica”; Mendelssohn’s “The

Fair Melusina” Overture; and Mozart’s Piano

Concerto No. 20. Nicholas McGegan con-

ducts, and pianist Nareh Arghamanyan is

the featured soloist. Performances are at 2

and 8 p.m. Tickets cost $35 to $100.

Ambassador Auditorium is located at

131 S. St. John Ave., Pasadena. Call

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March 24 and 25 — With cherry trees blooming at Descanso Gardens, the Cherry

Blossom Festival celebrates the seasonal arrivals and Japanese culture from

11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days, with guided walks at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.,

Japanese folk tale--telling at 11:30 a.m. Saturday and a children’s introduction to

origami from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday. The Camellia Lounge is open from 11 a.m.

to 3 p.m. both days, offering Japanese-themed dishes and cocktails. Free with

Descanso admission.

Descanso Gardens is located at 1418 Descanso Dr., La Cañada Flintridge. Call

(818) 949-4200 or visit descansogardens.org.

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