Eye Level Pasadena

Outdoor movie nights

The South Pasadena Preservation Foundation is showing free movies outside on the lawn next to the historical museum on Saturday nights. Here’s a link to the schedule online, and here’s a close-up:

Schedule close-up

View from the grass

The poster

Check out Karen Winters’s painting of Pasadena City Hall.

Newspaper on a table outside Peet’s and Wild Oats

Peet’s pigeon

Peet’s Coffee & Tea
605 S Lake Ave
Pasadena, CA 91106
(626) 795-7413

Author C. Leigh Purtill writes about a visit to Vroman’s: Vroman’s: A little big indie

Our new bumper sticker

The second quarterly Pasadena bloggers’ picnic is being planned for late August. If you’re a local blogger and you’d like details, email me (jilldoughtie@gmail.com) or leave a comment with a link to your blog below. All local bloggers are invited.

Once More With Feeling, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode, is coming to South Pasadena’s Rialto theater in September.

(I realize this might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I am one of those people who keeps the soundtrack to this episode in my car, so I felt compelled to announce it.)

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

This Saturday, July 21, Eye Level Pasadena office hours will be at Euro Pane Bakery from 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Hope to see you there!

Euro Pane Bakery
950 E Colorado Blvd # 107
Pasadena, CA 91106
(626) 577-1828

Neighbor Hugo Schwyzer knocks it out of the park again*: Girl talk, depression, and culturally conditioned rivalry. Excerpt:

“…because we inculcate in girls an absolutely impossible, unattainable ideal of physical and emotional perfection at such an early age, we set many young women up both for self-loathing and for hostility towards their female peers….[T]hose of us who care about young people need to be particularly attuned to the lack of resources that young girls have for safe and healthy opportunities to talk. Safe and healthy, by definition, means an uncompetitive environment, and it means providing them with understanding listeners whom these girls will not perceive as either judges or rivals.” (Link)

*If you didn’t see his post last month titled “Fat”, “Slut”, “Selfish”: a note on the three great fears, it’s also worth a read.

At last weekend’s Pasadena Really Really Free Market I got a purse, a shirt and a dress. I also gave away some new army surplus bags, cd holders, metal shoe racks and a pristine dog bed. (Our recently departed dog rejected it in favor of the best chair in the house.)

The best thing about the RRFM, though, was the people. I love meeting and chatting with neighbors, and atheist though I am, I really like Bresee Nazarene Church’s pastor, Rick Savage, who is always around helping things run smoothly or just being friendly in a neighborly kind of way.

Baby on Pastor Rick Savage’s shoulder

John Loghry on guitar

Books

More books

Red boots

Pants that were not my size

Records and snacks

A free learn to make jewelry station