Share: Located about a quarter mile from the Pasadena City College main campus next to a Starbucks is Major Dave’s Chicken, a fried chicken restaurant that ups the ante on quality with fresh ingredients and special preparation. Follow:
Students get psyched about human sexuality
Share: Most students grow up hearing the metaphor of “the birds and the bees” and listening to brief, and often frightening lectures on sex education. Sexuality is a much deeper concept than likening it to sex itself, however. Gender identity, sexual orientation and thorough anatomy lessons are aspects of sexuality that are glossed over in middle school and sometimes high school sex education classes. Human Sexuality, the appropriately titled Psychology 25 class, discusses such topics that students may have missed out on previously. Taught only …
Pasadena gives AxS to art and science with Curiosity
Share: The AxS Festival 2014 Curiosity, is in venues throughout the greater Pasadena area through Sunday, October 5, 2014. The arts and sciences festival is produced by Pasadena Arts Council in partnership with institutions such as NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which inspired this year’s theme in homage to the Mars Rover “Curiosity.” The festival features programming that includes visual art, theatre, dance, music, photography, history, science, literature, film, and architecture. Open House at the Machine Project installation at the Gamble House in Pasadena is October 2, 2014. …
Down the alley in pursuit of tavern trivia and a brew
Share: Located in a quaint alley a block off Lake Avenue T. Boyles Tavern will mark its fifth anniversary this October. Follow:
Student wins PCC One Host spot through hustle and heart
Share: Students stopped in recognition, smiled and shook hands with charismatic and tenacious broadcasting student Josh Zielinksi, the winner of a hosting gig on Lancer Lens’ PCC One, the video news show broadcasted throughout the campus that informs PCC students of upcoming news and events. Follow:
History instructor brings hands-on approach to classroom
A history professor’s job is to make sure their students learn important events, the dates of those events and the people involved. With the instructors usually giving vivid and passionate descriptions to help students better understand the curriculum, history professor Edgar Pacas does one better and shows his students.
The Goonies and thousands descend on City Hall for pet friendly event
Share: The line up near city hall was 100-plus deep waiting to get in, with thousands already inside. Equipped with beach chairs, blankets, picnic baskets, and pets on leashes, families en masse came to be entertained Saturday and see Richard Donner’s 1985 family classic, “The Goonies,” on an enormous blowup screen in the Centennial Square of Pasadena City Hall. Follow:
PCC Alum and Candela Club travel weekly to IXTapa
Share: Salsa, Merengue, Flamenco, Samba, Cumbia or Cha Cha – Latin dance moves the club IXTapa through PCC alum and instructor, club promoter and business owner Sergio Leal. Leal began as a math major at PCC and became a teacher’s aid for 10 years after transferring to Cal Poly Pomona to earn his math degree. However, after attending a dance course at PCC with Francisco Martinez, now of Dance Family in Pasadena, he developed a fascination for dance that quickly became a way to decompress …
Meat District Co. burger giveaway
Share: More than a hundred people lined up on Raymond Avenue Tuesday outside the Meat District Co., which offered free hamburgers for a year to the first hundred customers. Follow:
‘Badass’ professor balances working and riding
Share: In a brightly lit office in Building V, there is one desk that stands out significantly. The clutter of textbooks, the scattered papers, and the multiple framed photographs aren’t what makes this desk pop out though. This significant desk has a computer with a rotating screensaver of a professional looking motorcyclist, zooming sideways on a track field. Follow: