Can Your Kid Score $250 in a Local Art Contest?

Students from kindergarten through 12th grade are invited to create art that represents or interprets the theme 'Water is Life.' The contest winner will receive a $250 grand prize.

Budding artists and talented foothill kids are invited to use crayons, markers, pencils, paints pastels, paper or fabric to create a poster promoting stewardship of our water resources.  Foothill Municipal Water District and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California are sponsoring the "Water is Life" student art contest for children in kindergarten through 12th grade. Kids from La Crescenta, La Cañada Flintridge and Altadena are eligible to enter the contest before the deadline on May 25.  This is the district’s first time participating in the “Water Is Life” student art contest, which is co-sponsored by Metropolitan Water District, said Daniel Drugan, Education Director at Foothill Municipal Water District.  "We believe that …

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'Avengers' Smashes Box Office Records

The opening sets a new benchmark in what is possible in terms of theatrical revenue generation.

Couldn't stomach the massive lines this weekend, but you're still panting to see The Avengers? La Cañada's United Artists 8 is showing the film on two screens. You can check out movie times by clicking here.  The Avengers, the highest-grossing domestic debut in Hollywood history smashed past the pace set by the final Harry Potter movie, and is on track to have sold $641 million in tickets around the world by Sunday night, according to studio estimates gathered by Hollywood.com. "Amazing," said analyst Paul Dergerabedian. "This is the biggest North American opening weekend debut in box office history and sets a new benchmark in what is possible in terms of theatrical revenue generation." In a reverse of usual marketing patterns, the Walt …

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Trio of Singers Supports Scholarship Foundation

Assisting the Community Scholarship Foundation of La Cañada Flintridge, the Texas Tenors perform to a large crowd in Lanterman Auditorium and raise more than $50,000.

Local Rose Tournament Association Selects Dino Design

The winning float idea to represent La Cañada Flintridge in the upcoming 124th Rose Parade features a brontosaurus, and was submitted by La Cañada Flintridge resident Janis Peterson.

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Shakespeare Ensemble to Perform at Descanso

The Los Angeles theatrical group, the California Shakespeare Ensemble, focuses on the words and the characters, not costumes and 'artificial inflection.'

A new Shakespeare ensemble will debut at Descanso Gardens on April 21 with a performance of Twelfth Night. Three working actors had an idea one evening over dinner: what if they got the best Shakespearean actors they knew, then stripped their favorite plays down to only the words and the people? No fairy costumes. No artificial inflection. Just a dogged determination to tell the story at hand. By the end of dinner, the California Shakespeare Ensemble was born. The ensemble is based on the idea of a supergroup; it is a side project for currently working actors, and an incubator for up-and-coming actors. Some in the ensemble are the stars of hit TV shows (Ken Baumann on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, David Blue from Stargate: …

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Nicole Charky

7:01 am on Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Ozzie, have you been to one of these performances before? I've never been! Sounds like a lot of fun.   more ›

Annual Art Contest to Feature Online Voting

Winners of this year's Congressional Arts Competition will have their work displayed in the U.S. Capitol for one year.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced this week that he will host the annual Congressional Arts Competition Forum & Exhibit for the 29th District, featuring high school student artwork from the region, on April 15. A number of La Cañada and La Crescenta students are participating, said Patrick Boland, Schiff's communications director. The Congressional Art Competition is an annual contest, with submissions from across the country. The winner from each Congressional District has their work displayed in the U.S. Capitol for one year. In addition, Schiff is opening up the competition with a “People’s Choice” award, which will be decided through an online vote.  “Every year, I receive amazing art from high school students across the 29th …

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LCHS Grads Seek Funds for T-Shirt Business

The trio of entrepreneurs mixed art and business to create [SIC] Apparel in a garage in La Cañada.

To three La Cañada High School graduates, fresh out of college, T-shirts are a vehicle for exhibiting art, and paying respect to the artist. And now, the trio's business, [SIC] Apparel, is soliciting start-up capital to the tune of $18,000. Amount raised as of Thursday morning: $5,284, according to [SIC] Apparel's Kickstarter campaign page. Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects.  [SIC] Apparel is the brainchild of Francis Pollara, Anya Rosen and Walter Mansilla, who graduated from La Cañada High in 2007. The entrepreneurs work out of the garage of Rosen's childhood home, where they've set up a radial screen printing press that can produce from 100 to 300 shirts an hour. Who Does What? Rosen earned a degree in fine art …

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LCF Home Chosen as 2012 Showcase House

The Pasadena Showcase House of the Arts celebrates the La Cañada Flintridge based Robbins House.

Beginning Sunday, April 15, the Robbins House in La Cañada Flintridge will be displayed as the 48th Showcase House for the Pasadena Showcase House of the Arts (PSHA). The PSHA was first formed in 1948, known then as the The Pasadena Junior Philharmonic Committee. The group is made up of community members and volunteers who work on the promotion of music education programs. The first Showcase Event was held in 1965, with admission price at $1.50. The program garnered the attendance of 7,500 people; today, almost 30,000 people attend the Showcase House. This year, PSHA will honor the Robbins House. The home was designed by John Winford Byers, who worked wtih celebrity clients like Shirley Temple and J. Paul Getty, and built by Glen O. Winget…

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Community Spotlight

Fine Arts: Meet Some of LCHS Award Winning Artists

From photography to ceramics and portraits made from candy, La Cañada High Students exhibited a range of artistic talents in Thursday night's show.

On March 1, 2012, La Cañada High School opened its doors to celebrate Fine Arts month with an annual art show displaying works of art from students in Beginning and Advanced Ceramics, Art Foundation, Advanced Art I and II, Independent Study, Art Portfolio and ROP Photography. I met with three of the teachers that motivate and inspire the students to create masterpieces. Photography teacher, Gayle Nicholls-Ali has been a teacher at LCHS since 2007. She excitedly introduced me to a new student, Michal Hron, from the Czech Republic. He is here for one year as an exchange student. “I’ve never had an exchange student in my class,” said Nicholls-Ali. Hron never took a photography class until he came to La Cañada. “Michael won an honorable …

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These Rebels Aren't Just Clowning Around

A recent performing arts event at Flintridge Prep featured the school's clown troupe, Nose Goes.

When the noses are on, the talking stops. With that guiding principle, students in the Flintridge Preparatory School Clown Troupe, Nose Goes, created characters whose face paint ran the gamut: happy, angry, forlorn. No two were alike, said Flintridge Prep communications director Nicole Trevor. The second annual event, Clown Broadcasting Service Presents Now You Nose, was held Saturday.  This year's challenge: Put the clowns into situations where they have to explain how to do something basic, Trevor said. But as soon as they put on their noses, they’re not allowed to talk, so they communicate by pantomiming and using props. Under the direction of Lisa Bierman, a Prep alumna and member of the school's performing arts faculty, students acted…

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