Are you aware that eHarmony is moving its headquarters and 250+ workforce to Santa Monica in November? The reason is some of the executives live in the Santa Monica area. eHarmony also cites a superior tech labor pool in Santa Monica, which is complete baloney.  What’s equally concerning is the City of Pasadena leaders shrugged it off citing that eHarmony didn’t provide much tax revenue to the city.  What about the 250+ people who are no longer shopping at our stores in S. Pas and Pas?  I’m a S. Pas resident and I know several S. Pas residents who work for eHarmony and are affected.  This whole thing stinks.  The City of Pas is apathetic towards losing a marquee business, we are losing 250+ workers and families in S. Pas are adversely affected.

• There’s art in them thar walls.
• Chair of the 710 Freeway Coalition: “The MTA board acted courageously and decisively where public bodies had cowered before.” … Steve Hymon has the nitty gritty on the May 27 vote.
• While Radhika’s seems to be faring well since their Mother’s Day opening, Pat at Eating L.A. noticed a “promising” new Thai place snuck into town.
• “So few people I know were born in Pasadena and have lived here their whole life. But I have, baby, I have.”
• And speaking of … “You know you grew up in South Pas in the ’80s if … “
• Dr. Gary Seto gets a mention in USA Today.
• Is it the fool’s Gold Line?
• Fork off of the median.

Save the date. Via the Star-News:

South Pasadena Police Chief Dan Watson will be honored during a goodbye party from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Barn Burner Texas Barbeque Restaurant, 1000 South Fair Oaks Avenue, Pasadena.

Three things about the story: It doesn’t mention the date (June 30 per the city editor); I think they mean “party” where they say “part”; and I think they might mean “finalists” and not “finalist.” Not great for a story that’s on the site’s front page. Also, to be picky, you don’t have to spell out Avenue if it’s part of a specific address.

*UPDATE: The story has been removed, whatever that means. So I included a screenshot.

*2nd UPDATE: The story is back. And it’s been fixed, fixed, fixed and fixed.

I’m done with the updating, but they reportedly changed the venue.

• Sometimes there’s a fine line between news and advertising. Sometimes that line gets trampled.
• The death of SPHS student Aydin Salek prompts a bill proposal from Assemblyman Anthony Portantino that would “grant immunity from criminal prosecution to teenagers who seek emergency medical attention for someone possibly suffering from alcohol poisoning.”
• State Assemblyman Mike Eng pushes Caltrans to sell all the homes along the aboveground 710 route. It’s an odd about-face from the guy who opposed Portantino’s bill last year, which kinda would of done the same thing.
• iamnotastalker.com, well, stalks Kaldi’s.
• Via The Source: “Full-time students attending Pasadena City College (PCC) will soon be eligible to receive heavily discounted Metro passes – $30 for unlimited travel on all Metro bus and rail lines for an entire semester. Part of Metro’s I-Pass program, this new partnership will bring affordable transit to 8,800 community college students.”

West Coast Aerial Photography, Inc., today announced that it’s image of the B-2 bomber flying over the 2009 Rose Bowl game has placed second in World Press Photo’s annual contest in the Sports Features category.

The annual World Press Photo Contest “offers an overview of how press photographers tackle their work worldwide and how the press gives us the news, bringing together pictures from all parts of the globe to reflect trends and developments in photojournalism,” explains the World Press Photo Contest website. The two-week judging included 101,960 images by 5,847 photographers, representing 128 different nationalities.

“This is absolutely amazing,” exclaims Mark Holtzman, West Coast Aerial Photography President. “I am honored to have my picture placed with so many other fantastic images. I’m looking forward to attending the awards ceremony in Amsterdam this spring.”

The B-2 Rose Bowl flyover image first debuted in a two-page spread in Sports Illustrated. It was taken at the conclusion of the National Anthem on January 1, 2009, showing the United States Air Force B-2 Stealth Bomber, “The Spirit of Missouri,” based at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, flying over the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where the University of Southern California Trojans played the Penn State Nittany Lions.

The members of the 2010 Tournament of Roses Royal Court have been announced, and included is PCC student and South Pasadena resident Kinsey Stuart (second from left). From the release:

Kinsey Elizabeth Stuart, 18, resides in South Pasadena and is studying psychology in her first year at Pasadena City College (PCC). In high school she was the captain of the varsity cheerleading team, a youth swim coach and the vice president of Be the Change Club. At PCC, she is a member of the Student Activities Committee where she assists in planning school events. Kinsey enjoys volunteering with her cheer squad for diabetes walks and races to raise money for breast cancer. After college, she’d like to become a psychologist. Her parents are Robert and Elizabeth Stuart; she has two siblings Andrew, 16 and Kalyn, 8.

• Inside Private Lives extends its run at the Fremont Centre Theatre, which pushes the production past the one-year mark in South Pas.
• Pasadena Unified School District might try and follow South Pasadena’s lead and push for a parcel tax. The district is facing a $14 million deficit. The question is whether a city as large and diverse as Pasadena can garner the two-thirds votes necessary to pass the tax in a special election.
• Speaking of the parcel tax, and not to belabor the point, but the South Pasadena Review has yet to post the results of Measure S on its site.
• The South Pasadena Educational Foundation’s Summer School program is bucking the state trend and offering some classes.