Editor's Note
By Irene Lacher 06/01/2010
So summer in Southern California isn’t quite as dramatic as it is in the Northeast, where young women gaze with longing at their bikinis as early as frosty February. Pasadena’s projected July high of 89 degrees isn’t really that much higher than the typical 82 of June — but it could be just enough to put an afternoon at the pool at the top of one’s to-do list.
That goes double for kids home from school whose only aim in life is to stay out of their parents’ hair. Okay, so maybe that’s your goal for them. Arroyo is here to help you out. When your child tells you she’s bored, just point her in the direction of the nearest Mandarin Chinese class or horseback-riding ring. South Pasadena mom Noela Hueso combed the area’s wealth of offerings to write our summer guide for kids.
One summer tradition we heartily support is getting the heck out of town. As Gary Dretzka explains in “Plugged-In Travel,” that’s easier than ever with the rise of the Internet, which has changed the travel game by putting research resources at your fingertips and enabling you to swap inside tips with other travelers around the globe and keep in instantaneous touch with the folks back home. But you don’t have to crank up your computer to find some great travel deals this season, thanks to John Seeley’s compendium, “Travel Dispatches.” If you don’t have a grand tour of Europe in your budget this year, you might want to check out a couple of cool cultural destinations I explored that are just a weekend away in the desert — Las Vegas’ towering new CityCenter and Desert Hot Springs’ spiritually satisfying Miracle Hill.
But you might want to stick around Pasadena for this month’s appearance of one of the great vocalists whose music has passed the veritable test of time — Dionne Warwick, who talks to Kirk Silsbee about her legendary career in this issue.
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