Eye Level Pasadena

Beckman Auditorium at dusk

Tierra Miguel is a Community Supported Agriculture foundation — a CSA — that grows certified organic produce locally and delivers to Pasadena and other places in Southern California. Members pay a monthly fee and receive a box of the CSA’s produce every week or every other week.

A friend invited me to come with her to pick up her box of produce:

Tierra Miguel boxes

Looking inside

News from the farm

Food

Food, 2

Soap opera on screen at El Toreo in Old Town

El Toreo
21 S Fair Oaks Ave
Pasadena, CA 91105
(626) 793-2577

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Martini at Madeleine’s

The bar in the Bordeaux Room at Madeleine’s is a great place for a quiet drink. It is one of the few bars in Pasadena with no television.

Madeleine’s Restaurant & Wine Bistro
1030 East Green Street
Pasadena, California 91106

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Every other weekend, Gavin and I station ourselves at a Pasadena hangout for an hour or two. Come on by and say hi!

This Sunday, June 24, Eye Level Pasadena office hours will be at Bodega Wine Bar from 4-5 p.m.

Bodega Wine Bar is upstairs in the Paseo at 260 E Colorado Blvd. Hope to see you there!

The 15th annual Pasadena Chalk Festival took place last weekend at the Paseo. We were there Saturday afternoon and saw hundreds of drawings in progress.

The Kiss

A character Gavin recognizes

Oranges and a mission

This drawing won “Best 3D Effect”

John and Yoko

Does anyone have a hard copy of Friday’s Pasadena Star-News that they wouldn’t mind parting with? Aaron Proctor would love to have it.

Heritage Square house from across the street

After reading Todd Ruiz‘s posts about the Heritage Square development project (Of Struthionidae struthio, Change of heart), I wanted to know where the development site was. I looked up the address (the city’s Heritage Square web page lists it as 760 N. Fair Oaks Avenue) and went there with my camera. One of the local business people said they thought the site stretched along the east side of Fair Oaks Avenue from Orange Grove to Painter.

Northeast block at the intersection of Orange Grove and Fair Oaks

Church’s Chicken (at the intersection of Orange Grove and Fair Oaks)

Empty lot (north of Church’s Chicken)

House (north of empty lot)

Empty lot (north of house)

Habitat for Humanity Builders Surplus Store (north of empty lot)

First Stop Market (north of Habitat for Humanity store at the intersection of Painter and Fair Oaks)

More Heritage Square pictures here.