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Design for Living

The 49th Pasadena Showcase House of Design is a rich pastiche of styles and colors, as well as a testament to one of Southern California’s underappreciated architects, Roland Coate.

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 05/03/2013
Geragos for the Defense

In a new book, celebrity attorney Mark Geragos argues that defense lawyers get no respect in this country. 

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 04/05/2013
Wonder Bugs

Caltech medical microbiogist Sarkis Mazmanian’s pioneering research on the curative powers of good bacteria earned him a 2012 MacArthur “genius award.”

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 01/03/2013
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superdrone!

The future of flight is unmanned, and that can be a good thing for all of us, say some in the business of making the pilotless aircraft known as drones.

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 11/08/2012
Is Marriage Dead?

No, but it's becoming an elusive luxury for more and more Americans sliding down the economic scale.

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 02/01/2012
The Innovation Factory

At Pasadena’s Idealab, the remarkably inventive Bill Gross creates and spins off new-tech businesses the world doesn’t even know it needs — yet.

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 11/01/2011
An Explosive Legacy

Rachel Fermi hunted down the photographic record of the Manhattan Project and the men behind it, including her grandfather, Enrico Fermi, known as “the father of the atomic bomb.”

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 10/01/2011
The Master Craftsman of Modernism

Sam Maloof’s extraordinary furniture is shown in its creative context at The Huntington this month.

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 09/01/2011
How To Use Your Inheritance to Cushion Retirement

Baby boomers are poised to inherit the largest-ever sum of “inter-generational wealth.” And with retirement becoming more and more of a luxury, they’ll need it.

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 08/01/2011
A Passion for Panda

Andrew Cherng’s recipe of tasty Chinese fast food, technological savvy and personal development for employees has made his Panda Express empire No. 1 in its field.

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 07/01/2011
On the Wings of a Prayer

Calbraith Perry Rodgers had little else to keep him aloft during the first transcontinental airplane flight that brought him to Pasadena a century ago. 

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 06/01/2011
Showcasing the Designers

A few Arroyoland participants in this year’s Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts reflect the wide range of styles, from contemporary to classic, that will utterly transform a 1927 Paul Williams estate.

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 04/01/2011
The PWP Goes Green

Pasadena’s new Water and Power building reflects the latest in environmental and humanistic design.

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 04/01/2011
Grass, begone!

A La Cañada Flintridge couple traded in their water-guzzling lawn for an award-winning French Provincial garden that’s sustainable.

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 03/01/2011
Unholy matrimony

Why does a high divorce rate continue to plague the American marriage despite the big-ticket advice-and-therapy industry and years of handwringing? And how can couples keep their vows on track?

Categories: Arroyo Author: Bettijane Levine Date: 02/01/2011