View Los Angeles County-area fires near Mount Wilson, La Canada Flintridge, Altadena, La Crescenta, Glendale, Pasadena, Acton, Agua Dulce in a larger map If you haven’t noticed, all of California is on fire. The L.A. Times has the best map (pictured above) I’ve seen, as they continue to update the Station Fire’s perimeter. The Pasadena [...]

A lot of cities will give advance notice of a time window and rough location for a sobriety checkpoint. It’s helpful to drivers who want to avoid a traffic jam. South Pasadena is not one of those cities. So, in short, there’ll be a sobriety checkpoint somewhere in South Pas, sometime on Saturday. We can [...]

I’m a little late to this news, but Videotheque is going to move across the street and into the space currently occupied by Bellini Baby. Bellini will continue to inhabit the western half of the space. Makes sense on both ends. Bellini was really looking spread out (and the upstairs was looking like a clearance [...]

Sorry for the big lag. Don’t get me wrong, Ireland was fun. But going back and cobbling together the past few weeks of police reports? Not so much fun. My favorite is the kid who saw the “Road Closed” sign on the 110 on-ramp, and took it as more of a suggestion. Very full report [...]

I’ll be away from my computer for the next couple weeks. South Pas fashion designer Richard Tyler decided the best way for Scientologists to overcome their sinister image is to have them wear black capes and sorting hats. Our firefighters were among those battling the blaze off the 134. Us and them: “I think the [...]