Not quite South Pasadena, but without the Rialto we have to venture outside city limits every once in a while. When it comes to movies, I gave up on the Alhambra Daycare & Texting Center a long time ago. Gold Class Cinemas at One Colorado sounds promising, but they still sell out really quick. So [...]

A lot of this will be outdated, but …

City Water Manager Marcelino Aguilar says of the Wilson Reservoir: “It’s about 100 years old. The life expectancy is supposed to be about 50 years.”
Trader Joe’s is suing a New York store that’s decided to reopen as Trader John’s.
Drilling began, in a testing phase, for the 710 [...]

Here’s a quick roundup of some stuff going on in not-quite South Pasadena:

Two weeks after an architect unsuccessfully lobbied Alhambra’s Planning Commission for more bedrooms in a condo project, the place burned to the ground.
A week or so after Maureen Dowd reminded us that Pasadena Now reports from India, the L.A. Times’ James Rainey talks [...]

Curbed has the official statement on Tuesday night’s blaze, and the commenters aren’t shy about suggesting there’s something fishy about the whole thing. Also, they point to Jeff Mercado’s Flickr stream.
Earlier: Four Alarm Fire in Alhambra

Alhambra, South Pasadena and L.A. County firefighters responded to the blaze late Tuesday night at 101 N. 3rd St. The fire left about 7,000 people without power. No injuries or deaths have been reported. The L.A. Times also have this story, but it’s, um, four sentences long. This little blurb is five.

With Circuit City filing Chapter 11 today, there’s a good chance that the shopping center being erected at Palm and Main in Alhambra will have an immediate vacancy. On the plus side, Fresh & Easy would have have oodles of parking, which should make Trader Joe’s a tad nervous.