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JPL’S JOSH WILLIS, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ON THE OCEANS MELTING GREENLAND (OMG) PROJECT, BELIEVES ‘CLIMATE ROCK’ CAN HELP RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF GLOBAL WARMING

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Rolling Papers Cannabis initiative that could nullify city’s ordinance qualifies for March ballot.

Looking for Clues Police asking for public’s help in Rose Bowl shooting death.

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Climate Elvis JPL’s Josh Willis, principal investigator on the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project, believes ‘Climate Rock’ can help raise awareness of global warming.

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I am not a criminal.

I am a human being that yearns to be free!

In the shadows of the growing hate and immigrant bashing that is engulfi ng the United States I quietly celebrated my 40th birthday this week. I, like many of my immigrant brothers and sisters, live in constant dread and panic, fearing that today in this current black-hearted hole that we call America our day will come and we will be caught, arrested, jailed and eventually deported to some God forsaken part of Mexico or Central America that we fear will lead to a death that few will mourn. So in this week of my 40th birthday I thank La Virgen de Guadalupe for watching over me, guiding and protecting me. This week I am still free and alive.

I am a ghost without a home, I am an undocumented immigrant. In today’s Trump America, make no mistake; I am a criminal, an illegal alien that must be hunted down and caged. I have lived in the cold and heartless shadows of this country for over 33 years. Here, as Father Gregory Boyle reminds, is a place that is “on the periphery of humanity, where the pain, suffering and need is the greatest.” The United States, then, has been my purgatory, a place that I desperately want to call home, but at every turn I am denied.

I was smuggled into this country when I was about 7 years old, a child, guilty only of being born to a single mother in desperate need to fi nd a way of keeping her family from starvation and daily horrific violence in her native Mexico. Like so many of the children that were/are initially smuggled into this country as we grow into adulthood, we lost most of our connection to Mexico. This country then pulverizes and mongrelizes us into subhuman status. We all become rapists, terrorists, whores, gang

bangers, leeches. All the while this nation reminds us every second of our miserable existence that in this hostile country we are not American and never will be. We can never go home, because Mexico was never our home; we were just unfortunates to be born in a geographical/political warzone, at the mercy of everyone.

We have no real home, and the semi-invisible ghost-like life that we lead in this country is criminalized at every turn.

I have survived 33 years in a country that has denied me the human right to pursue life, liberty and happiness. I can’t get a job legally, I can’t get into college legally, I can’t vote, I can’t call the cops. I am easily reduced by politicians and fear mongers to a statistical anomaly, a political talking point, a savage criminal, a pathetic scapegoat. Periodically I am hunted, rounded up, arrested and thrown into cages, made a prisoner of a society that I have served faithfully all my adulthood.

In this schizophrenic and hypocritical land of laws (for some) I must have legal

“papers” to breathe freedom openly. Perversely, in order to have legal “papers,” I must somehow wipe away all of my 33 years of illegal existence in this country and return to a foreign and foreboding Mexico and pray for celestial intervention that I live long enough to complete the impossibly arduous process of legal immigration and re-entry into the United States, my estranged home of 33 years. How surreal is that?

Today worldwide there are millions of migrants (I am one of them) traversing the globe seeking out a country that will provide peace, compassion, love and refuge from the violence, starvation, war, hatred and persecution that we are all desperately trying to escape. The journey that each and every one of us migrants takes is when all other options have been exhausted and there is no other choice, “al camino o muerte!” the road or death.

That is what my mother did, that is why she smuggled me into this country 33 years ago, and that is why I am alive today, this week to celebrate my 40th birthday. One day before I die I hope that this country, my home, my country, will see the tragic error of its current inhumane immigration policies and transform itself back to the world’s beacon and a refuge for those persecuted and huddled migrant masses that yearn to be free. ~ ADELITA DE LOS MILAGROS (A PSEUDONYM) VIA EMAIL

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BY MARGUERITE RENNER

SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL

‘A GIRL STANDS AT THE DOOR’ PROVIDES A FRIGHTENING REMINDER OF THE RACISM WE STILL SEE TODAY Rachel Devlin’s “A Girl Stands at the Door: the Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America’s Schools” is an exciting history of women’s roles in the mid-twentieth century civil rights movement. Devlin starts with describing Lucile Bluford’s crusade in 1939 to gain admission to the University of Missouri graduate program in journalism. Citing a 1938 Supreme Court decision which prohibited racial discrimination in higher education, Bluford applied 11 times to gain admission to MU, but the university closed its prestigious school of journalism, rather than admit an African American.

Devlin moves on to the elementary schools in the early 1940s, as young girls and their parents sought to end apartheid in America’s public schools. While a few young men challenged the apartheid system in the public schools, the majority of the activists were young women with strong support from parents who were not content to see their children’s learning opportunities limited by the Plessy v Ferguson decision (1896) which had promised but rarely provided “separate but equal” education to America’s African-American youth. The struggle was bitter. James Carr, a physical plant manager at the Pentagon, and his entire crew, along with teachers and members of the PTA were fi red when they challenged the segregated schools in Washington, DC. Carr claims that President Harry S. Truman “retired” not “fi red” him, but for all the others the experience was the loss of a job. In numerous other cases young women and their parents were harassed by community members, school boards, and even friends who preferred to avoid the racism that threatened them, their homes and jobs. But the battles went on as women organized “receptions” which men remembered as “chitlin parties.”

Devlin’s account of the women’s role in desegregation is powerful, but her book also provides the scaffolding upon which that important Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Kansas decision of 1954 was based. In addition to her discussion of Bluford, she recounts at least 10 other Supreme Court cases in the 1940s. For each of these cases Devlin provides enlivening accounts of the stru ggles to challenge segregation in the public schools. Some came before World War II others followed but were not reactions to the war experience.

Then in the 1950s, preceding Brown, nine cases went to the higher court. And Devlin tells of other protests which never made it to the Supreme Court.

Devlin also highlights the changes in goals to deal with apartheid in America’s public schools. Initially some sought “equal” education for AfricanAmerican youth, as Plessy was supposed to have required. Later others rejected the “make the schools equal” argument. Although their children attended well-equipped and highly maintained schools with excellent teachers, these parents wanted their children to be prepared for the same opportunities as white children had. This meant toppling the “separate but equal” farce.

These cases also reveal the confl icts and tensions between the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Legal Defense Fund over what efforts they would support.

Was the NAACP going to support “equal education” as advocated in Plessy or take a more daring stand for integrated education? What kind of funding, legal teams and professional support would it provide? Initially Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP’s most prestigious attorney, did not want to shift to from higher education to elementary schools. He feared the cases brought to him would not stand the test in court.

After Brown came efforts to desegregate schools. Baton Rouge the school board sought to desegregate the last year of school rather than the fi rst, and young women challenged this in an experience remindful of the horrific accounts of Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. While a few said they were treated decently by white girls, overall their accounts scream of racism. But desegregation was not just a Southern story. Deborah Gray White, a prominent historian today, a public school student on the Upper West Side of Manhattan as a girl, was transferred from an almost all black class to a Special Progress class, which was white, to make the school look integrated.

For young women in the 1960s, faced with the limits set by mainstream culture, integrating the schools promised to broaden their options for adult life. The book ends with efforts to desegregate schools after Miliken v Bradley, 1974, when the court enlivened segregation by ruling that integration could not take place across district lines.

This book provides a frightening reminder of the racism we still see today. ■ Marguerite (Peggy) Renner is professor of history emerita at Glendale Community College.

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WEB EXCLUSIVE CHANGE NEEDED LOCAL STUDENTS TO TAKE PART IN CLIMATE CHANGE DIE-IN AT CITY HALL

Students from the Sequoyah School who are calling for action on climate change will take part in a “climate strike” and a “die-in” beginning at 11 a.m.

Friday, Sept. 20, in front of Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Ave. As part of the event students will simulate being killed as a result of global warming as they protest alongside activists calling for more effective environmental legislation.

“Climate change is the biggest threat we will likely face during our lives, and with only a few years [or even months] to act, we must treat it as an emergency and combat it in every way we can,” Ozzy Simpson, co-president of Sequoyah’s Student Council and one of the students leading the Pasadena Climate Strike, said in a prepared statement. “With more disastrous weather events, rising sea levels and changing landscapes, we need to make significant changes to save this planet, and quickly.”

The event will take place three days before the UN Climate Summit in New York. The climate strike is part of a growing movement of youth and adults, institutional and grassroots organizations, and climate-focused and social justice groups that are coming together to demand change needed to protect the future of the planet.

Thousands are expected to attend a similar protest at noon in Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles.

The students will start at Sequoyah’s high school with workshops and discussions led by high school students and faculty. Discussions will focus on the causes of climate change, why people deny it is happening and how to combat global warming, among other topics.

After the workshops, students will march from the school’s campus on North Orange Grove Boulevard to City Hall.

“Climate change is a frightening, imminent reality which we are all facing, and as students, even global citizens, it is imperative that we stand together and fight for the future we want to see,” Julian Suh-Toma, who serves with Simpson as co-president of Sequoyah’s student council, said in a statement issued last week.

NONPROFITS AWAIT NEW HOMES AFTER LAWMAKERS PULL THE PLUG ON THE 710 TUNNEL

BY JUSTIN CHAPMAN

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he state Legislature passed a bill last week that brings nonprofit tenants of Caltransowned properties such as Arlington Garden one step closer to purchasing their properties from the state transportation agency.

Recently named Nonprofit of the Year by state Sen. Anthony Portantino, D-Pasadena, Arlington Garden, Pasadena’s only dedicated regenerative Mediterranean Chaparral climate garden, is holding its annual fundraiser on Sept. 29.

“Instead of a freeway, we built a garden,” said Michelle Matthews, executive director of Arlington Garden. “In that same vein, in addition to purchasing the garden property, we hope to purchase one of the Caltrans homes and turn it into an urban design and ecology library and nonprofit co-working space. That way, we don’t have to build structures that impact the garden and we get to continue our same successful gardening principles, to help everyone understand the value of regenerative landscaping.”

If signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate Bill 7, introduced by Portantino, a former La Cañada Flintridge mayor and council member, also effectively kills the 710 North freeway tunnel as a replacement for an overland connector by removing the planned extension between the 710 and 210 freeways — something that’s been on the books since the 1940s — from the state highway code as of Jan. 1, 2024. SB 7 also includes housing provisions such as a rent hike freeze and

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CANNABIS INITIATIVE THAT COULD NULLIFY CITY’S ORDINANCE QUALIFIES FOR MARCH BALLOT

BY ANDRÉ COLEMAN

The City Council recently announced supporters of a measure that would allow marijuana dispensary owners that previously operated illegally to open shops in Pasadena have collected enough signatures to qualify for the March ballot.

Supporters of the People’s Initiative to Preserve the Existing Operation of NonOffending Commercial Cannabis Businesses are hoping to strike down the city’s 2018 ordinance which bars operators from opening cannabis shops within 600 feet of parks, churches, schools and residential areas. It could also allow an unlimited number of cannabis businesses to operate in town, whereas the city’s present law allows only one such business to operate in each of the city’s seven council districts. The city law only allows six such businesses to operate in the city.

After the signatures were verified by the LA County Registrar of Voters, the city refused to accept the ordinance without alteration, and ordered a study on the impacts of the initiative. The council still has the option to send the ordinance to the voters unaltered.

Organizers could have a tough road ahead as the city’s campaign machine pushes back against the initiative. Measure CC passed, the city’s present marijuana law, with nearly 60 percent of a special election vote in June.

Voter turnout is expected to be higher in the March Super Tuesday election when Californians vote in the presidential primary.

The initiative allows so-called nuisance business owners that city shut down to reopen.

“Non-offending commercial cannabis businesses may continue engaging in commercial cannabis activity within the city of Pasadena without a commercial cannabis permit from the city of Pasadena until December 31, 2024,” states the initiative. “Nonoffending commercial cannabis businesses operating without a permit pursuant to this subdivision shall not be deemed, ordered discontinued, modified, or removed as a public nuisance pursuant to the Pasadena Municipal Code based solely on their engagement in commercial cannabis activities permitted by this Chapter.”

The city has long battled so-called nuisance operators that opened storefronts without a business license or a conditional use permit.

When the city began the process of taking its own ordinance to the voters in 2018, officials proclaimed that illegal operators that refused to shut down would not be granted a business license.

More than 100 cannabis operators paid $1.7 million in application fees to vie for conditional use permit (CUP). One operator has already filed a lawsuit with the city after its CUP was turned down due to a restriction that only allows one of six possible cannabis businesses to operate in each of the city’s seven council districts. Only three businesses have received conditional use permits. According to Planning Director David Reyes, there may only be space for three dispensaries due to the distance restrictions imposed by the city’s ordinance. ■

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POLICE ASKING FOR PUBLIC’S HELP IN ROSE BOWL SHOOTING DEATH

BY ANDRÉ COLEMAN

A shooting at the Rose Bowl roughly three hours after the end of a football game between the UCLA Bruins and the Oklahoma Sooners Saturday left one man dead and another man seriously wounded.

Kamryn Stone, 18, of Los Angeles died shortly after being transported to Huntington Hospital.

Also taken to the hospital was a 51-year-old man whose identity was not released.

According to a police statement, the man remains in stable condition.

The victims were discovered by police officers responding to reports of a fight near the stadium shortly before 11:30 p.m., in the area of Arroyo Boulevard and Seco Street.

“It’s a tragic event,” said Pasadena police Cmdr. Jason Clawson. “It had nothing to do with Rose Bowl operations.”

According to Clawson, no guns were found at the scene, which may rule out both victims as a possible shooter. Investigators found ballistic evidence, including shell casings, at the scene, Clawson said.

It was not known if the two men were part of a larger altercation or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Stone’s father, Barry told CBS News that Saturday was his son’s first day on the job working for ABM, a cleaning service.

Stone recently graduated from high school and was taking real estate classes at West LA College, according to his father.

The motive for the altercation that led to the shooting remains under investigation, but police said it appears the incident may not have been random in nature.

By the time of shooting, the stadium had long been cleared of patrons and their vehicles, said city spokesperson Lisa Derderian.

“Pasadena police are actively investigating the incident and preliminary reports indicated it was an isolated incident,” Derderian said.

Anyone with information about this case is encouraged to call Pasadena police at (626)-744-4241 or report information anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS (8477).■ 8 PASADENA WEEKLY | 09.19.19

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an extended deadline for Caltrans tenants in its Affordable Rent Program.

A second bill, Assembly Bill 29, introduced by Democrat Assembly member Chris Holden, a former Pasadena mayor and council member, contains language identical to SB 7 regarding the tunnel, minus the additional housing provisions. If Newsom decides not to support the housing provisions in SB 7, signing AB 29 will still effectively kill the tunnel plan. He has until Oct. 13 to sign the bills.

Whichever bill he signs last becomes law.

‘The Final Nail’ For decades, Caltrans has tried to connect the 710 and 210 freeways fi rst by acquiring more than 460 properties in the 710 Corridor — which includes portions of West Pasadena, South Pasadena and the Los Angeles neighborhood of El Sereno — with the intention of razing them to build a surface freeway, and then, when that was defeated, by exploring ways to build a tunnel through portions of West Pasadena to connect the two freeways.

Due to environmental, health and cost concerns, along with local opposition from the cities that would have been most impacted by the project, Caltrans capitulated to political pressure and decided not to move forward with the tunnel project, according to an environmental impact report released by the state agency on Nov. 28.

The department instead chose to pursue transit improvements, increased bus use, traffic signal optimization, intersection improvements and other projects. Cities in the region, including Pasadena, have been allocated hundreds of millions of dollars from Measure R funds for those and related projects.

“Generations who have been fighting this freeway can rest in peace knowing that they made this day happen and that the freeway will never get completed,” Portantino said in a statement. “Many people worked collaboratively to get us to this place, giving moral support for those of us in office and providing the runway to let this 60-year-old plane land.”

Claire Bogaard, a long-time anti-710 activist and member of the No 710 Action Committee, said she was “extremely grateful to our senator for putting the fi nal nail in the 710 tunnel’s coffi n. He has been by our side for two decades. When SB 7 is signed we can all fi nally sigh in relief.”

However, Caltrans successfully negotiated the removal of language from the original bill that would have compelled the state agency to immediately relinquish control of the freeway “stubs” — areas where the existing freeways end — to the cities of Pasadena and Alhambra. Caltrans now retains control of the stub lands until 2024, which worries some anti-710 activists.

“I’ve long suspected Caltrans is not an honest broker,” William Sherman, a member of South Pasadena’s Freeway and Transportation Commission, told the South Pasadenan newspaper.

“This gives them four years to do something. I don’t know what, but I suspect the tunnel is not dead.

Caltrans has been strongly opposed to giving back the stubs to the cities and they have said so on multiple occasions. It’s not a shocker but I expected more from our state legislators.”

SB 7 authorizes the California Transportation Commission to relinquish the north stub area near

California Boulevard to the city of Pasadena “upon terms and conditions the commission fi nds to be in the best interests of the state, if the department and the city enter into an agreement providing for that relinquishment,” the bill states. “The city of Pasadena shall ensure the continuity of traffic flow on the relinquished portion of Route 710.”

For several years, a group of Pasadena residents have been working on the Connecting Pasadena Plan, developing a vision for what the stub land could look like if the city of Pasadena were to acquire it. That could include reconnecting eastwest streets that were divided by the freeway and building new green space or parkland, a boulevard and new retail, office and residential development.

Garden Party SB 7 also makes permanent a rent hike freeze for tenants who reside in Caltrans properties in the 710 Corridor and are in the Affordable Rent Program.

It also gets rid of the so-called “2012 policy,” an arbitrary rule Caltrans used to prevent tenants who moved in after August 2012 from being eligible for the Affordable Rent Program. The new eligibility deadline is July 1, 2019.

The bill also helps the nonprofit tenants in the 710 Corridor purchase their properties in a fi scally prudent manner,” including Arlington Garden, Ronald McDonald House, Sequoyah School and others. In late 2016, Caltrans announced it would sell the 710 properties in three phases, but so far has only sold a handful. Caltrans has not released a timeline for when the hundreds of remaining properties will be sold. More than 160 houses — including about 50 percent of the houses that Caltrans owns in Pasadena — are vacant and falling into disrepair, according to an investigation by the Pasadena Star-News. Caltrans does not rent out houses again after they become vacant.

Arlington Garden will hold its annual fundraiser, Autumn in the Garden, from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29. During the event, the garden’s newly completed custom Batchelder tile fountain, designed by local artist Cha-Rie Tang, will be dedicated to the founders of the community-built, climate-appropriate garden, Charles McKenney, who died in 2015, and Betty McKenney, who died last year. Charles McKenney served as a member of the Pasadena Board of City Directors, now called the City Council, from 1972 to 1978.

Tickets are $45 and $65. There will also be a special VIP reception from 3 to 4 p.m. Tickets for that event are $150.

Autumn in the Garden will be “an immersive, sensory experience with music curated by dublab, a listener supported, nonprofit radio station dedicated to the growth of music, arts and culture,” according to a press release from Arlington Garden.

There will also be other live music performances.

Matthews said Arlington Garden and the other nonprofit tenants are excited to move forward now that the 710 tunnel is officially dead.

“With the passing of SB 7, Sen. Portantino is helping to ensure that our nonprofits, which provide so many public benefits, can afford the properties that we have made improvements on and have long sought to own,” said Matthews.■ For more information about Arlington Garden, visit arlingtongardenpasadena.org.

Climate Elvis

JPL’S JOSH WILLIS, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ON THE OCEANS MELTING GREENLAND (OMG) PROJECT, BELIEVES ‘CLIMATE ROCK’ CAN HELP RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF GLOBAL WARMING

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cientist Josh Willis of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, principal investigator on the Oceans Melting Greenland project, or OMG, wonders what it will take for people to become interested in climate change and reversing its effects.

“There’s enough ice in Greenland to raise sea levels by 25 feet worldwide,” Willis recently told CBS News, adding Greenland lost 11 billion tons of surface ice in just one day last August.

“Now, we don’t think it’ll happen right away, but just how fast it does is something we’re trying to figure out with OMG ... We all live with one ocean,” Willis said. “So a billion tons of ice lost here in Greenland means higher sea levels in Florida, California, New York, even as far as Australia.”

The name of the project was intentionally chosen for its acronym’s other well-known meaning. That’s because Willis believes it’s important to get people’s attention before you can start a dialogue with them about what’s happening with Earth’s climate, he told CBS. And a good way to start that conversation, he believes, is through things like commonly used phrases, such as OMG, and comedy.

To that latter end, Willis, spends his days as a scientist at JPL, visiting Greenland for days to a month at a time twice a year. But on the weekends, he’s entertaining as “Climate Elvis,” belting out what he calls “Climate Rock,” or doing improv comedy at a club in Hollywood “Being a scientist, we’re trying to discover something about the world, and I think being a comedian, you’re trying to discover something about people that CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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makes them laugh,” Willis recently told NBC4 News. Earning a doctorate in oceanography from UC San Diego, the 45-year-old Dallas native graduated in 2014 from the Second City Comedy School in Hollywood.

“I wanted to make global warming funny because I think people will have an easier time relating to it and understanding it if they can have a laugh every now and then,” he said.

The Pasadena Weekly caught up with Willis by phone on Monday, his birthday.

PASADENA WEEKLY: Is there a connection between this massive glacier retreat in Greenland and the growing frequency and intensity of storms hitting the East Coast and the Gulf states?

Really, I would say they are both connected by climate change. The planet is warming up and warmer waters in the tropics means bigger storms, and warmer waters around Greenland means more ice melt. Sometimes these glaciers sit in 3,000 feet of water. The face of the glacier is in direct contact with the ocean, and as it warms the water chips away at the glacier more quickly and it dumps more ice into the ocean than it had before. That process is part of the reason why Greenland is losing ice.

You spend a lot of time flying and dropping probes into the ocean. Besides ocean warmth, what else are you measuring with those probes, what are you finding, and why is that important?

We’re also measuring the saltiness of the water, and that’s important because it helps us understand where the water came from and what its history is. Around Greenland it’s kind of interesting because the water is what I call upside down. The water there is warm at depth and cold on the surface, so you have this layer of cold, fresh water coming out of the Arctic and underneath that there is a layer of warm, salty water, and the difference in saltiness is so big that it overcomes the fact that deep water is warmer. Normally, you would think of the warmer water being higher at the top because it’s lighter, but in fact the saltiness makes it sink down deep. It’s important to go to Greenland and measure this information directly because the water we are looking for is sort of hiding underneath several hundred feet of colder water, and it’s that warm water down deep that melts away the glacier and causes more ice to be dumped into the ocean and creates sea level rise.

How long do you think it will be before coastal cities and communities will be under water?

We’re already seeing the impact of sea level rise over the past 100 years. For example, in San Francisco, what used to be a 100-year storm happens every 10 years now. And all up and down our coastline we are beginning to see the impacts. Some cities are trying to decide whether they are going to try to retreat from the ocean, build sea walls … even in Malibu, even in places that are very wealthy along our coastline are struggling — disappearing beaches and beach erosion, Pacific Coast Highway in many places is threatened by sea level rise. So we are already feeling the impacts. The question is how much faster is it going to get? And that’s what we are trying to figure out with Oceans Melting Greenland. We are trying to figure out how quickly the ice in Greenland can disappear and how much we have to prepare along our coastlines.

It’s not every day scientists actually study comedy and come up with an act. How and why did you create Climate Elvis?

I love performing and I love doing comedy. Several years ago I kind of doubled down on it. I wanted to make global warming funny. And the reason I wanted to do that was so I could reach more people in talking about it. It’s a big thing. It’s a scary thing. But if we can have a laugh about it, I feel we are one step closer to doing something about it, accepting it and fi nding ways to avoid the biggest impacts, and learning to deal with the ones we can’t avoid. So I created Climate Elvis, partly because I’m a doughy, middle-age guy with sideburns (laughs), but also because I feel he can connect with people in a way that I can’t as a scientist.

How frustrating is it to still hear people calling global warming a hoax?

You have to understand that there is a well-oiled machine trying to convince everybody that it’s not happening, so we are fighting a real battle in terms of misinformation. One of the things that I hope for is that as a scientist and a comedian I can spread a little correct information in a fun way, a way that’s sticky, that people will remember, and help inoculate people against some of the misinformation that’s being generated.” ■

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ver the past year or so there has been an influx of restaurants catering to chicken aficionados. Whether it is a shift in eating habits or some other reason, wing joints and fried chicken restaurants are cropping up around the San Gabriel Valley.

Meanwhile, Morgan Spurlock is returning with a second “Supersize Me,” this time producing a documentary on the perils of the poultry industry, all the while Popeye’s is selling out of their new fried chicken sandwiches. America seems to be straved for chicken right now. So what better way to indulge that hunger than to visit The Chicken Koop, which truly lives up to its name from its West Main Street location in Alhambra.

Upon entering, I quickly surmised The Chicken Koop would be ideal as a weekend hangout, or a place to have a dinner on game night, or grab a beer with a co-worker, or enjoy a family lunch.

Upon entering, customers see a bar to the left, with a TV

CAMERON’S SEAFOOD 1978 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 793-3474 Camerons4fish.com $$ Since 1984, Cameron’s Seafood has been serving its freshest seafood, and has become a landmark in Pasadena. Cameron’s brings the ocean home with their fresh catch being cooked over mesquite wood grills that burn all day long.Enjoy the very best Seafood, Steaks, Salad & Pasta! Voted Best Seafood in Pasadena Weekly for 27 years! Now you can order on-line: camerons4fish.com.

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EL PORTAL 695 E. Green St., Pasadena (626)795-8553 Elportalrestaurant.com $$ Pasadena Weekly readers have been rewarding El Portal with the title of Best Mexican Food in the city for years. This charming little hacienda with brick walls, festive colors, fine art and a California elegant courtyard brings the authentic cuisine of Mexico and the Yucatan region to your table.

HILL STREET CAFÉ 1004 Foothill Blvd., La Canada Flintridge 818-952-1019 hillstreetcafelacanada.com $$ Hill Street Café is celebrating over 25 years of serving the community quality meals made of quality ingridients. we want to thank all of you who stuck with us during the remodeling process and we want to welcome back everyone else. in our recent remodel, we have added an outdoor patio, a bar and more dining area, we have created a relaxed ambience with a touch of modern but still retaining our extensive menu, our friendly service and most important a family atmosphere.

KABUKI JAPANESE RESTAURANTS 88 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, (626) 568-9310 3539 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, (626) 351-8963 kabukirestaurants.com $$ When you walk into a Kabuki you won’t be overwhelmed with Asian decor and music. What you will encounter is a casual atmosphere with today’s hottest music playing, people smiling and our friendly staff welcoming you through the doors. Look for the Red Mask. Come eat, drink and have fun!

TOPS WALNUT 1792 E. Walnut St., Pasadena (626) 584-0244 topsburger.com $ At TOPS on Walnut & Allen, we maintain the original taste from 60 years ago. My father wanted to create food as close to homemade as possible. Our primary goal and focus is on taste, quality, freshness, cleanliness in our service and experienced staff. Most of our staff have been with us for more than twenty years. We invite you to come to TOPS on the corner of Walnut & Allen and taste the difference! Meet our staff and experience what quality service should be.

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MARGARITA’S 155 S. Rosemead Blvd., Pasadena (626) 449-4193 margaritaspasadena.com $$ At Margaritas Mexican Restaurant, our family has been sharing our authentic Mexican dishes with the wonderful people of Pasadena since 1977. Guests enter our warm, inviting space and leave as family -- with plenty of burritos, tortas, tostadas, fajitas, and more to be had in between!

Our dishes incorporate and pay homage to the rich flavors of bustling mercados, corner taquerias, and seaside palapas. So visit us, eat to your heart's content at our mouthwatering lunch buffet, sip on a refreshing margarita, and feel at home.

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SHANDONG DUMPLINGS 80 N. Fair Oaks Ave. Pasadena 626-578-9777 227 W. Valley Blvd, 168 A, San Gabriel 626-308-3777 $ Shandong Dumplings is your Reader Recommended Winner for BEST DUMPLINGS in the 2018 Reader’s Poll! We have been a cornerstone in the greater Pasadena community and are well known for our outstanding cuisine, excellent service and friendly staff. Recognized for our modern interpretation of classic dishes and insistence on using only the highest quality, freshest ingredients. Open for Lunch and Dinner daily and until 2am Wed-Sat.

TOM'S FAMOUS FAMILY RESTAURANT 1130 E. Walnut St. Pasadena 626-577-7717 tomsfamous.com $ Please come and enjoy homemade breakfast lunch and dinner all made from scratch and FRESH. Nothing is ever served or made from a can. We pride ourselves as being the cleanest store with the best quality food and BEST service in town. Thank you PASADENA!!!!!

ZELO GOURMET PIZZAS 328 E. Foothill Blvd.Arcadia 626-358-8298 myzelopizza.info $$ It’s the cornmeal crust that makes this pizzeria stand out from the rest. This locally owned establishment’s signature dish is the fresh, corn, balsamic-marinated, oven-roasted red onion pie. Zelo Pizzeria has expanded the dining room to better serve you, so come in and give Zelo Pizzeria a try.

broadcasting a sports event. On Sunday, when I was there with a friend, the game between the LA Rams and the New Orleans Saints was on the tube. Groups of friends were gathered, either sitting or standing at the bar, drinking and watching the game, some wearing their Rams jerseys. The commotion, although welcomed, was restricted to that area, which was interesting. Not because there was any sort of signage to keep football watching and beer chugging limited to the bar, but because there seemed to be a clear division between that kind of somewhat rowdy environment and the other side of the restaurant.

While not too large, The Chicken Koop has ample space, and on the day I stopped by it was relatively busy. Still, we were seated immediately and even asked whether we were pleased with the booth available to us or wanted something else. Paintings and images of chickens and roosters lined the restaurant’s wall — one particularly angry rooster hung near the company’s logo at the back wall.

The Chicken Koop has found its specialty and taken it all the way home by offering chicken in just about any form one can imagine — sandwiches, wraps, salads, tacos, taquitos, teriyaki, roasted, fried, shredded, grilled; the list is endless. While some people need their red meat or pork, I am more than happy to go with chicken, so this was a good match for me.

To start with, we learned that they offer happy hour all day Sundays, as well as on Mondays and Wednesdays, so we opted for a happy hour appetizer. The chicken tinga empanadas ($4.99) were to die for. They come in a pair, each defi nitely large enough for one person to munch on, and is served with a green salsa. Chicken tinga traditionally has a kick to it, and these empanadas were no different. The dough was soft and flaky with sesame seeds on top, and the green salsa complimented it beautifully.

I had difficulty deciding but ultimately went with their roasted chicken plate ($11.99), which comes with sides depending on the portion ordered. It seemed like a no brainer to get the full experience of quality and taste by having the roasted chicken. I ordered the half white meat chicken in order to get two side orders — one

upgraded to poutine for an additional charge, the other roasted corn. Other side options included macaroni and cheese, Brussels sprouts and mashed potatoes. Naan bread was also served on the side, with a choice of two sauces. I went with more of the green salsa and chimichurri, specifically for the naan bread, which was delicious. The chicken was served in three pieces and was tender, juicy and slightly crisped on the outside. There was so much left over we had to take it home.

It’s important to note that after both my partner and I ordered, our food was ready and at our table within 15 minutes, something which pleasantly took us both aback, considering our orders would take longer to cook and prepare, or so we thought.

My partner ordered the spicy fried chicken sandwich ($14.99), but before he could say another word our waiter gave him warning that the sandwich was really, really spicy. We asked how much so and he quickly replied “8 out of 10” which resulted in a quick change to the regular fried chicken sandwich. We found it funny, but also reassuring that staff (and our wonderful waiter in particular) cares that much about their patrons and ensuring they have a great experience.

Suffice to say, the sandwich was incredible, served with coleslaw, Chipotle, pickles, a side of garlic fries, and served on a Hawaiian bun. Even the fries were great, with enough spice to reassure us that we had made the right decision in not ordering the spicy chicken sandwich. Although The Chicken Koop does the classics incredibly well, they have a wide range of options, including chicken pozole, chicken teriyaki bowls, chicken tacos and chicken taquitos. Their menu also boasts weekend specials like chicken and waffles ($14.99) and lunch specials during the week.

If we weren’t so full we’d have stayed for more happy hour indulgence. Items on their appetizer menu are priced at $9.99 or less. They also have $5 and $6 bottled beers, $7 and $8 beers on tap, and cocktails for $10.

The Chicken Koop not only serves dinner and lunch, but is also a great place to enjoy being with friends, watching a game and downing some sliders and brews after work.

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Bulletin Board MOON STRUCK South Pasadena set to hold Moon Festival Sunday

By André Coleman The annual Autumn Family Friendly Festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, at the South Pasadena Public Library, 1115 El Centro St., South Pasadena.

According to Ariel Liu, a spokesperson for event co-sponsor Sino US Performing Arts of Monterey Park, the festival marks the autumn harvest and is in some ways similar to Thanksgiving.

In China, where the event has been celebrated for thousands of years, families get together and feast on mooncakes.

According to legend, the festival began after 10 suns had risen into the skies and scorched the earth. The archer Hou Yi shot down nine of them, leaving just one sun, and was given the elixir of immortality as a reward. But instead of consuming it, Yi let his wife Chang’e keep it.

After Yi went out hunting, his apprentice broke into his house and tried to steal the elixir. Chang’e drank it, flew to the moon and stayed there.

After Yi discovered what had transpired, he honored his wife by displaying her favorite fruits and cakes.

The festival will feature dancing, music and martial arts.

Participants can also enjoy tea tasting, a chalk drawing contest, cultural games and art-making activities, including lantern-painting and musical instrument making.

Outdoor entertainment and activities will start at 11 a.m. Indoor activities will begin in the Library Community Room at 1 p.m.

Along with Sino US Performing Arts, the event is also co-sponsored by the South Pasadena Chinese American Club, the city of South Pasadena and the Friends of the South Pasadena Public Library.

Admission is free.

MISSIONS ACCOMPLISHED NASA and JPL win Creative Arts Emmys

By Jana J. Monji The big winners in the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday and Sunday may have been “Game of Thrones” — helping HBO lead with awards for all platforms — but NASA, which walked away with two awards, one on each night.

NASA received an Emmy on Saturday night for Outstanding Interactive Program for multimedia coverage of Demonstration Mission 1, a test flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon to the International Space Station — the first human-rated spacecraft to lift off from US soil since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.

Demonstration Mission 1 was made possible by NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

This program will ready commercial transport of astronauts to the space station while the agency looks forward to deep space missions to the Moon and Mars. NASA has spent years preparing for the historic launch and made multiple live broadcasts from NASA and SpaceX facilities across the country during each phase of the Crew Dragon’s mission to the International Space Station and its stunning return to Earth.

Throughout, NASA and SpaceX engaged social media users around the world and held local social media influencer gatherings at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

On Sunday, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, JPL, won Outstanding Original Interactive Program for the agency’s coverage — including news, web, education, television and social media efforts — of its InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission to Mars.

InSight is the first mission to study the deep interior of Mars, using an ultra-sensitive seismometer, a heat-flow probe and other instruments. InSight is managed for NASA

by JPL, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena. JPL also won the 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Interactive Program for its coverage of the Cassini mission’s Grand Finale at Saturn.

An edited version of the two ceremonies will air on FXX on Saturday. Selected Creative Arts Emmys will be shown as part of the live 71st Primetime Emmys broadcast at 5 p.m. Sunday on FOX. ■

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BY PATTI CARMALT-VENER

BE YOURSELF KIDS OF ALCOHOLIC PARENTS TEND TO DEVALUE THEIR OWN ABILITIES

Dear Patti, All my life I was told by my mother and my teachers that I wasn’t smart and shouldn’t bother going to college. Instead I was repeatedly told to enroll in a technical school. There’s nothing wrong with technical schools, but I don’t like being labeled. Nor do I like being told how I should live my life based on how others see me.

Both my parents were alcoholics, but because I was raised by my mother I feel she had a more negative effect on me. As a young kid, I was afraid to go to school, didn’t have many friends, was often tearful, and at a very early age I had trouble with anxiety. When I was older I’d isolate myself at school and at home I’d withdraw to my room. Whenever my mother was drinking she would taunt me and call me stupid, but even when she was sober she never read to me or helped me with homework. I became very self-conscious in part due to my mother’s constant criticism and tried to make up for my many shortcomings by becoming a perfectionist.

Two years ago my girlfriend encouraged me to learn whatever I was passionate about. I started to realize that I am not actually unintelligent. In fact, I’m entering a local university in less than a week and purposely keeping my options open about what I will major in and choose as a career.

I wonder how much my mother’s alcoholism contributed to my social and academic problems growing up. I’m almost afraid to believe that my childhood environment was at fault for my low functioning and that I’m actually an innately intelligent, creative thinker.

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Dear Chris, Unfortunately, your experience was not unusual. In general, children of alcoholics do not function as well in school as children of non-alcoholic parents. They typically have higher rates of absenteeism and are more likely to repeat grades or drop out of school. Children of alcoholics have greater difficulty with abstract reasoning, which is critical to academic problem solving, and therefore tend to score lower on cognitive and verbal tests. This same deficiency may impair their ability to express themselves, which is an important skill for school performance.

As early as preschool-age, children of alcoholics exhibit greater difficulty with language and reasoning than other children. This may have more to do with psychological factors such as anxiety or fear of failure than actual academic ability. These children also may be impinged because they frequently have difficulty bonding with their teachers or relating to their peers.

Heavy-drinking parents often exhibit profound and consistent indifference and negativity toward their children. These parents engage in fewer positive interactions with their kids and are often hostile and neglectful toward them. An alcoholic parent is less likely to be affectionate and more likely to become violent toward her children. If your mother consistently responded to her own needs over yours and failed to communicate empathy for you, it is understandable that you would have had difficulty regulating your needs or developing a stable sense of self. Of course this would interfere with your functioning, including academically.

Alcoholic parents often underestimate their children’s abilities and in turn, the children themselves de-value their own abilities. In your case, these erroneous perceptions of you may very well have affected your self-esteem as well as your academic performance. The lack of cognitive stimulation in your childhood home may also in part account for your pattern of academic struggling. After repeatedly being told you were stupid, I understand becoming a perfectionist as a means of acquiring self-esteem. However, it is setting yourself up for failure since you are basing your self-esteem on unattainable perfection.

As a child you didn’t have the choice to create an environment where you could emotionally, socially, and intellectually thrive, but now you do. Strive to reduce stress, develop social competence and self-esteem, and form a strong social support system. Create a positive atmosphere in which you are nurtured, encouraged, and able to maintain healthy relationships with people willing and able to support and validate you. Make sure that you often have someone to talk with about your needs, fears, and hopes.

Rather than trying to prove that that you are academically sufficient, try to allow yourself to experience passion and joy. You do not need to prove anything. Instead, work on allowing yourself to be the man you were meant to be if you had not been traumatized. Celebrate being yourself. ■ Patti Carmalt-Vener, a faculty member with the Southern California Society for Intensive Short Term Psychotherapy, has been a psychotherapist in private practice for 23 years and has an office in Pasadena.

Contact her at (626) 584-8582 or email pcarmalt@aol.com. Visit her website, patticarmalt-vener.com.

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HISPANIC HERITAGE PERFORMANCE

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month Thursday, Sept. 19 at La Pintoresca Park, 1355 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, with a special performance of Charro rope tricks by the Los Hermanos Banuelos Charro Team and Marshal Ramon Banuelos, along with stories, music and crafts. Admission is free. For more information, visit ww5.cityofpasadena.net/library/.

GREEK FESTIVAL

Taste the best food that Greece has to offer at Pasadena Greek Fest. Dishes include gyros and baklava.

The fun starts at 5 p.m. Friday at St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Church, 778 S. Rosemead Blvd., Pasadena. For more information, visit pasadenagreekfest.org

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MATTERS OF PERCEPTION HUNTINGTON BEGINS CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AS USC PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM PRESENTS ‘FOLLOWING THE BOIX’

BY JANA J. MONJI

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n Saturday, the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens celebrates the centennial of its founding with an exhibition that looks back at the year “Nineteen Nineteen” with the assistance of 275 objects drawn from the institute’s library, art and botanical collections.

And, perhaps a lesson to be learned from another recently opened exhibit, this one called “Following the Box” at the USC Pacific Asia Museum, might be to not throw away old photos. That exhibit features works by 10 artists from India and two from the US, guest curated by Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral.

At the Huntington, the year was 1919, and Henry and Arabella Huntington signed the trust document that transformed their property into a public institution. World War I had just ended the year before and society was celebrating a return to community life,

although there were still battles to be fought on the home front.

Organized around themes defined by the verbs “Fight,” “Return,” “Map,” “Move,” and “Build,” the exhibition showcases items like rare books, posters, letters, photographs, diaries, paintings, and ephemera. Many are on view for the first time. Highlights include a 37-foot map of a Pacific Electric (Red Car) route in Los Angeles, German Revolution posters, and suffragist pamphlets (the 19th Amendment was officially adopted in 1920), alongside important works acquired

by Huntington in the lead-up to that year, including the original manuscript of “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,” the journal of Aaron Burr and the memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman.

“Nineteen Nineteen” is just one of several events that celebrate the Huntington’s centennial.

In “Following the Box,” each of 12 artists was given digital and/

Meet 19 young adult authors who will be speaking about their work at the Pasadena Public Library from noon to 4 p.m.

Saturday as part of the Pasadena Loves YA book festival. Admission is free. The Central Library is located at 285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena. Visit pasadenateenbookfestival.com or call (626) 744-4066 for more information.

SPORTS CAR FIX

Get your fill of beautiful fast cars when Porsche automobiles go display from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday in Centennial Square, in front of Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Ave. Free.

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Zbiral’s piece looks at the “What, Where, When, How and Why” of the photos, using six shadow boxes that fit together. “The what, where, when and how are known” Zbiral explained and includes her own photographs of Salua Airbase. The why will perhaps never been known — so many years have passed. The who box is left black but both Teller and Zbiral are hopeful that one day the photographer will be identified.

For the artistic process, however, it was better to leave the soldier unknown. Sanjeet Chowdhury in his “Letters to Rachel” and Prabir Purkayastha in his “John Miller” took on the persona of the photographer in their pieces. In other pieces, some of the artists incorporated traditional art forms with a modern twist.

Zbiral noted that “most of our artists dealt with the Bengal Famine in some way.” That’s the dark side of colonialism. “Churchill, who did not like Indians very much, decided to sacrifice Bengalis,” she explained. Aditya Basak’s untitled piece points the finger at the Allied Forces — the US, UK, France and Russia — and uses a skeleton of a guinea pig to show the kind of social experimentation that resulted in so many deaths.

Graphic novel artist Sarbajit Sen noted that the famine victims were people who were sentenced to death “without knowing why they are dying” under the imposition of colonial powers. His untitled piece is a series of eight archival pigment inkjet prints on rag paper that examines both the observer and the observed, putting both himself, the unknown photographer and the subjects into the story.

Other participating artists include: Alakananda Nag, Chhatrapati Dutta, Mamata Basak, Sunandini Banerjee and Swarna Chitrakar. n “Nineteen Nineteen” runs through Jan. 20 at the Huntington Library, Art Museums and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. Tickets are $13 to $25. Call (626) 405-2124 or visit huntington. org.

“Following the Box” runs through Jan. 26 at the USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena. Tickets are $7 to $10.

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or print copies of the photographs and asked to incorporate the images directly into their work; deconstruct them; or simply use the images as a catalyst for their imagination, according to the museum’s website.

As the site explains, “Photographs are both windows to another time and place and mirrors of ourselves and the diverse worlds in which we live.

The curators’ goal is to explore different methods of understanding the images, opening a dialogue about the ways in which American and Indian perspectives and memories might vary.”

As Zbiral explains about her work, “30 years ago at an estate sale we found a shoebox of old negatives and photographs all made of India apparently by an American soldier in 1945.” The photos were taken using a four-by-five Speedgraphic camera — standard issue in the Army at the time.

Shelved and forgotten, the box was pulled out for a class study in which the student narrowed down the area where the photos were taken. Then the box was neglected again, until their son went to study in India.

Zbiral noted that they were eventually able to narrow it down to the Salua Airbase in Kharagpur — a secret airbase in Bengal.

Teller’s piece, “The Ruined Temple,” invites viewers to literally “fall into” a photograph in order to enter a space where a small film about their reception at a temple plays and one can read a poem by Bengali poet Rabindrath Tagore, from which Teller drew the piece’s title.

According to Teller, two photographs were really instrumental in providing the location. One location was found as they were in a taxi. A photograph of a temple is “a great photograph and a useless temple” but “now it is a useable temple and a lousy photograph.” The temple has been painted and spruced up but “is visually boring.” Nonetheless, people at the temple were delighted to have a historic photo.

The title of his other piece, “Where the Mind Is Without Fear the Head Is Held High,” is also taken from a Tagore poem and laments the loss of the photographic negative printing process.

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BROOKLYN FUNK ESSENTIALS, Stay Good (Dorado): HHH

No longer based in New York, the international soul-jazz-funk collective follows 2015’s “Funk Ain’t Ova” with a smartly arranged set animated by hopeful spirit and British soul diva Alison Limerick, whose frequently remixed 1991 dance hit “Where Love Lives” (written and produced by BFE bassist/ bandleader Lati Kronlund) gets a smooth redo here.

Limerick’s expressive vocals intensify the feel of standouts like “No Strings,” “Bakabana” and the ’80s-vibed, Black Lives Matter-inspired “Watcha Want From Me” (updated from Frankie Knuckles’ 1995 recording). Recommended if you’re jonesing for funk, disco and “quiet storm” nostalgia. brooklynfunkessentials.com

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FORMER WEDNESDAY WEEK FRONTWOMAN KRISTI CALLAN AND DIME BOX CELEBRATE NEW ALBUM ‘HAPPY’ AT ADAMS PACK STATION

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alking around Adams Pack Station in Big Santa Anita Canyon, it’s easy to feel like you’ve stepped out of time, and not just because of the old horseshoes and ranch gear tacked up around the place (or the long, windy drive up the road from Sierra Madre).

Cellphone reception is virtually nonexistent. Station operator Deb Burgess and staff members clear the area and nearby trails of trash and graffiti, and take care of the goats, donkeys and other critters housed at the station. Built in 1936 and overseen by the US Forest Service, Adams Pack Station supplies Sturtevant Camp and 80 recreational cabins farther up the mountain that are accessible only by foot or the donkeys who live at the barn across from the station’s general store.

It’s a welcome place of respite for hikers, photographers, nature lovers and, on Sunday afternoons from late spring through early fall, musicians and their fans.

Soaking up music as they rest at shaded outdoor tables, hikers

come and go as bands perform on the impromptu stage adjacent to the barn. The artists’ “green room” is a hay-strewn pen just behind the stage, where a blackand-white-haired, floppy-eared gent named Burton holds court with fellow goats who’ve been known to bleat midsong, on cue and even on key. This Sunday, it will be Dime Box’s turn to guard against Burton’s sneaky penchant for nibbling on gig bags when the band’s backs are turned.

Dime Box is a family affair, which has often been the case throughout the career of frontwoman Kristi Callan.

She founded Wednesday Week, which was part of LA’s Paisley Underground in the 1980s, with her drummer sister Kelly; in the ’90s, the siblings had a brief stint as Lucky with bassist Mike Lawrence. After working in David Gray’s band, Callan started Dime Box, which for 10 years has been dressing her smart pop sensibilities in country instrumentation.

The current lineup also includes

her guitarist son James Nolte, plus former John Fogerty/Frank Black drummer Nick Vincent and his fiddling/mandolin-playing wife Lyn Bertles and their bassist son Alex.

In July they released Dime Box’s second album, “Happy,” which balances guitar-fueled rockers like “Keystone” and “All of Nothing” with midtempo, fiddle- and mandolin-filled tracks like the good-natured “Spilt Milk” and “As the Crow Flies” (not to be confused with the Tony Joe White chestnut). The music is spirited, the family camaraderie is appealing, and Bertles, Callan and Vincent are road-seasoned veterans. Burton won’t easily steal the show. n Dime Box Band perform at Adams Pack Station at Chantry Flat in Big Santa Anita Canyon, Sierra Madre, at noon Sunday, Sept. 22; they’ll be followed by T.J. Sullivan & Mudboys at 1:45 p.m. and Wumbloozo at 3:30 p.m. Admission’s free, but parking costs $5. Info: (626) 447-7356. dimeboxband.com, adamspackstation.com

PONCHO SANCHEZ, Trane’s Delight (Concord): HHH½

The Grammy-winning conguero, once a regular presence on Old Town Pasadena stages, pays homage to early inspiration John Coltrane with spirited interpretations of classic Coltrane tunes as well as a few sympatico original compositions.

Sanchez’s tasteful playing receives invaluable support from eloquent pianist Andy Langham (note their soulful reading of Oscar Ivan Guiliani’s “Si Te Dicen”), saxophonist Robert Hardt, trombonist/ musical director Francisco Torres and trumpeter Ron Blake (Duke Ellington’s “The Feeling of Jazz,” a lighthearted cha-cha through “Blue Train”), and inspires a return to Coltrane’s original recordings.

At the Grammy Museum in Downtown LA Thursday, Sept. 26. ponchosanchez.com

JAMIE DRAKE, Everything’s Fine (AntiFragile): HHHH

A widely respected background singer and too well-kept secret in LA’s songwriter community, Drake promises “Everything’s Fine” throughout her melodic opener, her light-touch intonation and occasionally dusky tones reminiscent of Imogen Heap as she resolves to leave heartbreak behind.

That sets a forward-looking tone for this sparkling album, which is more assured and handsomely arranged than 2010’s “When I Was Yours,” with lush strings, cascading harps and harmonies evoke midcentury pop and film scores during subsequent gems like “Redwood Tree,” “Wonder” and setpiece “To My Love.” A keeper. Release party Thursday, Sept. 19, at Nichols Canyon Music in LA. jamiedrakemusic.com, facebook.com/ nicholscanyonmusic

ALEX CUBA, Sublime (Caracol): HHHH

The Cuban-born, British Columbia-based songwriter played all the instruments on this, his sixth solo album, an acoustic folk-jazz-soul set that’s easy on the ear. That’s appropriate, as Cuba’s uplifting songs repeatedly exalt creativity, tolerance and hope. The beautiful melodic flow of “Voz De Corazones” is gradually bolstered by handclaps and choral chants, and a cheery pop hook further elevates the sunny cumbia “Cantando De Alegría.” Kelvis Ochoa subtly reinforces Cuba’s message during “Ciudad Hembra (La Habana),” and Buena Vista Social Club vocalist Omara Portuondo’s elegant phrasing graces “Y Si Mañana,” but Cuba needs little help creating a positive musical refuge. constante.alexcuba.com

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Thursday Sep. 19 through Wednesday Sep. 25 PLEASE NOTE: Deadline for Calendar submissions is noon Wednesday of the week before the issue publishes. Send to johns@pasadenaweekly.com

THURSDAY La Pintoresca Park 1355 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena ww5.cityofpasadena.net/library/ Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15) with a fun afternoon filled with a special performance of Charro rope tricks by the Los Hermanos Banuelos Charro Team and Marshal Ramon Banuelos, along with stories, music and crafts. Admission is free.

The Blue Guitar Arroyo Seco Golf Course 1055 Lohman Lane, South Pasadena blueguitar.club The club presents the Greg Poreé group at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12 general admission, $17 for table seating.

Old Pasadena Fall, Food & Wine Crawl Winepas.com Join the Pasadena Educational Foundation for an evening of wine, gourmet bites and shopping at six of Pasadena’s top restaurants. For more information and meeting places, call (626) 396-3625.

Valley Hunt Club 520 Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena (626) 793-7134 valleyhuntclub.com The Valley Hunt Club presents its yearly fundraiser from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The event will feature appetizers and a cash bar as well as a short program on the organization’s achievements in Cambodia.

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(626) 564-1066 onecolorado.com One Colorado offers live music on Thursdays and Saturdays in September, starting at 7 p.m. Thursday’s music features Shane Hall. Admission is free.

The Rose 245 E. Green St., Pasadena (888) 645-5006 Coco Montoya performs. Tickets are $20 to $38.

Doors open at 6 p.m. Headliners take the stage at 9 p.m.

Vroman’s Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 449-5320 vromansbookstore.com Professor Gary Marcus signs “Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust” at 7 pm.

Marcus has witnessed some of the greatest milestones in the artificial intelligence field. According to him, computers beating a human in Jeopardy! does not signal that we are on the doorstep of fully autonomous cars or super intelligent machines.

FRIDAY St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Church 778 S. Rosemead Blvd., Pasadena pasadenagreekfest.org Taste the best food that Greece has to offer in the Pasadena Greek Fest. Dishes include dishes like gyros and baklava. Starts at 5 p.m.

Boston Court Performing Arts Center 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena Bostoncourtpasadena.org (626) 683-6801 Piano Spheres founding member Susan Svrček returns to Boston Court in a program devoted to the music of Mozart. General admission tickets are $30, $25 for seniors and $20 for students with ID. Noor Ballroom 300 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena Suite 200 (626) 793-4518 iafflocal809.org The Pasadena Firefighter Foundation hosts its 2nd annual Awards & Gala Fundraiser to celebrate and recognize heroes and community members from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $125.

Gallery at the End of the World 869 E. Mariposa St., Altadena facebook.com/mcgintysgallery The gallery presents the “Casa de la Mariposa” art show, a group exhibition of more than 60 artists centering on butterflies and the idea of metamorphosis. It opens with a reception from 6 to 10 p.m.

The reception featuring a screening of “Pollinators Under Pressure,” narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, is at 8:15 p.m. The exhibition continues through Oct. 12.

Pasadena Senior Center 85 E. Holly St., Pasadena (626) 795-4331 pasadenaseniorcenter.org Free films screen at 1 p.m. on select Fridays.

Friday’s film is “Annie Get Your Gun.” (2019).

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celebrities like Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, Cary Grant, Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Hanks, and Jane Fonda.

SATURDAY Brand Library and Art Center 1601 W. Mountain St., Glendale (818) 548-2051 brandlibrary.org The Art Center presents the Brand47 National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, opening with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. The exhibition continues through Oct. 25.

Descanso Gardens 1418 Descanso Drive, La Cañada Flintridge (818) 949-4200 descansogardens.org Descanso presents the first of its three-concert series, “Silence,” presenting music unconstrained by genre, starting at 7:30 p.m. each night. Saturday’s concert is titled “Listen.” It features Zola Jesus with pop-goth anthems, Jonas Baes, a Filipino composer of interdisciplinary music, and Low Leaf, an electroacoustic artist who combines classical piano with harp, guitar and voice. Tickets are $30 and $37. Concerts continue Sept. 21 and Sept. 28.

Pasadena Convention Center 300 E. Green St., Pasadena (626) 795-9311 facebook.com/events/369448433703952/ Known last year as Nerdbot Con, this year organizers have changed the name to Nerd Expo and it’s bigger and better than ever with more activities, vendors, music, guests, games and panels. No functional props or real weapons are allowed at Nerd Expo. All cosplay/costume props and weapons need to go through weapons check located at the front entrance. Tickets are $17 to $150.

Pasadena Public Library 285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena (626) 744-4066 https://www.pasadenateenbookfestival.com/ Come meet 19 young adult authors who will be speaking about their work at the Pasadena Public Library from noon to 4 p.m. as part of the Pasadena Loves YA book festival. Admission is free The Rose 245 E. Green St., Pasadena (888) 645-5006 wheremusicmeetsthesoul.com/ Al Di Meola performs at 9 p.m. Tickets range from $34 to $58.

Victory Park 2575 Paloma St., Pasadena Streetfoodcinema.com (323) 908.0607 The Street Cinema presents the true story of Selena, a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome before her life was cut short by an obsessive fan.

Advanced tickets start at $19. Tickets at the door start at $23. Doors open at 5:30

The Rose 245 E. Green St., Pasadena (888) 645-5006 Martha Davis and the Motels perform. Doors open at 6 p.m. Headliners go on at 9 p.m. Opening sets by the Roni Lee Group.

Tickets are $24, $28 and $30.

Vroman’s Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 449-5320 vromansbookstore.com Paddy Hirsch discusses and signs “Hudson’s Kill: A Justice Flanigan thriller” at 5 p.m. Set in 1803 New York, “Hudson’s Kill” is a historical thriller from the NPR reporter.

Vroman’s Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 449-5320 vromansbookstore.com Rocky Lang and Barbara Hall discuss and sign “Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking” at 7 p.m.

The book reproduces scores of entertaining and insightful pieces of correspondence from some of the biggest Hollywood legends. Culled from libraries, archives, and personal collections, the book includes 135 letters, memos, and telegrams from

SUNDAY Centennial Square 100 N. Garfield Ave., Pasadena In front of City Hall Beautiful Porsche automobiles will be on display from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free The Rose 245 E. Green St., Pasadena (888) 645-5006

wheremusicmeetsthesoul.com/ Steve Tyrell performs at 9 p.m. Tickets range from $28 to $48.

Soulful Sunday Brunch at 10 a.m., music starts at 11 a.m. admission is $18.50 does not include brunch.

Vroman’s Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 449-5320 vromansbookstore.com Mac Barnett signs Top Secret Smackdown at noon.

Ravens have been stolen from the Tower of London! Mac B.’s top-secret mission? Travel to Iceland and retrieve the ravens... or Britain is ruined.

MONDAY Colombo’s Restaurant 1833 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock (323) 254-9138 colombosrestaurant.com The Eric Ekstrand Trio plays jazz at 7 p.m. No cover.

Vroman’s Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 449-5320 Vromansbookstore.com Entertainment Weekly reporter Maureen Lenker discusses and signs “The Friend Zone” at 7 p.m.

TUESDAY Vroman’s Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 449-5320 vromansbookstore.com Howard Ruffner discusses and signs “Moments of Truth: A Photographer’s Experience of Kent State 1970” at 7 p.m. Ruffner was a student photographer for the Kent State University student newspaper and yearbook when the tragic shootings happened on May 4, 1970, resulting in the death of four students and the wounding of nine others.

WEDNESDAY The Blue Guitar Arroyo Seco Golf Course 1055 Lohman Lane, South Pasadena blueguitar.club Rosa Pullman; The HawtThorns perform at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $12 and $17.

The Rose 245 E. Green St., Pasadena (888) 645-5006 wheremusicmeetsthesoul.com Luis Fonsi performs at 9 p.m. Fonsi soared to stardom with the mega hit “Despacito.” The song pulled in four Latin Grammy Awards, seven Billboard Latin Music Awards, five Billboard Music Awards, and three Grammy Award nominations.

His music has broken six Guinness world records.

Tickets are $69 and $149.

Vroman’s Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena.

(626) 449-5320 Vromansbookstore.com Sunita Puri will conduct a conversation with authors BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger at 7 p.m.

The pair will sign “A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death.”

Wine & Song Americana Singer/Songwriter Music Series Arroyo Seco Golf Course 1055 Lohman Lane, South Pasadena blueguitar.club Enjoy Brad Colerick’s weekly music series. Tickets are $12 general admission, $17 for table seating. n

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THURSDAY 09.19.19 Join the Pasadena Educational Foundation for an evening of wine, gourmet bites and shopping at six of Pasadena’s top restaurants at the Old Pasadena Fall, Food & Wine Crawl. For more information and meeting places, call (626) 396-3625 winepas.com.

FRIDAY 09.20.19 The Pasadena Firefighter Foundation hosts its 2nd annual Awards & Gala Fundraiser to celebrate and recognize heroes and community members from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at Noor Ballroom, 300 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, Suite 200. Tickets are $125. Call (626) 793-4518 or visit iafflocal809.org.

SATURDAY 09.21.19 Nerd Expo features vendors, music, guests, games and panels at the Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E. Green St., Pasadena. No functional props or real weapons are allowed. All cosplay costume props must go through a weapons check located at the front entrance. Tickets are $17 to $150. Call (626) 795-9311 or visit facebook.com/ events/369448433703952/

SUNDAY 09.22.19 Rock out to the sounds of Adult Parts, Celebrity Wolves, Billy Tsounis and the Amazing Androids, War Tapes, Skeletons and The Black Jacobins at the Old Towne Pub, 66 N. Fair Oaks Ave., or down the alley at 34 E. Holly St., Pasadena. Call (626) 577-6581 or visit theoldtownepub for more information.

MONDAY 09.23.19 The Eric Ekstrand Trio plays jazz at 7 p.m. at Colombo’s Restaurant, 1833 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock. No cover. Call (323) 254-9138 or visit colombosrestaurant.com.

TUESDAY 09.24.19 Photographer Howard Ruffner discusses and signs “Moments of Truth: A Photographer’s Experience of Kent State 1970” at 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. For more information, call (626) 449-5320 or visit vromansbookstore.com.

WEDNESDAY 09.25.19 Multiple award-winning singer Luis Fonsi, who is perhaps best known for his megahit “Despacito,” performs at The Rose, 245 E. Green St., Pasadena. Tickets are $69 and $149.

Call (888) 645-5006 or visit wheremusicmeetsthesoul.com for more information.

THURSDAY 09.26.19 Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, sponsors “How the Light Gets In,” the story of four lonely people who find each other when one of them falls apart, at 8 p.m.

Cost is $15 to $20. To purchase tickets, visit https://tinyurl.com/y2vrczud. For more information, call (626) 683-6801or visit bostoncourtpasadena.org/upcoming-events/.

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