Best-selling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter Denise Hamilton will be reading from her latest novel “Damage Control” on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Creveling Lounge as part of PCC’s Writer in Residence program.
Gallery holds artist reception for exhibition on ArtNight
The city was abuzz with thousands of people bustling between Pasadena’s many museums and art galleries during the bi-annual ArtNight on Friday where students and various other patrons of the arts enjoyed a free evening of art.
‘Laugh Lines’ cracks up audience
“Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed the show. Goodnight,” director Whitney Rydbeck said to loosen up the crowd before the start of the show.
Laugh Lines, directed by Will Ahrens and Whitney Rydbeck, is the first set of One Act shows in which students perform a selection of one-act plays. The seven plays were chosen from a book of the same title with a collection of short comic plays written by Shel Silverstein, Paul Dooley, Jonathan Rand and more.
Gatsby brings the 1920s to PCC
It’s a good time, old sport.
The 1920s were brought to life in the Sexson auditorium on Friday night when PCC’s theater department put on the play the Great Gatsby.
Marching band to debut new uniforms
After 17 years of marching in the same tattered old uniforms, the PCC Band is on its way to obtaining a new wardrobe that they will debut in the 2014 Tournament of Roses parade.
Faculty exhibition premiers in ‘Two Places at Once’
A towering structure of wooden beams put together to resemble boxes stacked upon boxes looms over you as you walk into the Boone Family Art Gallery in the newly constructed Center for the Arts building. Painted in red on a little white box are words proclaiming it to be a “cave of lamentation.”
Netflix wins “Game of Thrones”
A clear victor is emerging in the oversaturated home entertainment market in the form of on-demand Internet applications.
Universal Horror Nights to give scares with new maze
Entering the front door of a two-story house, hair stands on end as a baby walker next to the stairs starts to come alive and moves across the floor. A woman screams for her son to run as strobe lights send visitors running for the exit. This is just the first room in the newly added “Insidious: Into the Further” maze at Universal Studio’s Hollywood’s “Halloween Horror Nights.”
The Great Gatsby takes to the stage
A tale of love, loss, society, class, wealth, morality, marriage, memory and the past. The Great Gatsby is about the collapse of the American dream in an era of prosperity and material excess, a theme that carries meaning in today’s world.
Coming to terms with guilty pleasures
There’s just one problem: No matter how much you’ve fallen in love with this piece of music, it’s a guilty pleasure; no one can know how much you like it and if you’re brave enough to admit that you do then you feel just a little bit ashamed.