NEWS
By Max Zimbert, max.zimbert@latimes.com | July 21, 2010
Reece LoCicero has been a regular at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles for most of his life. Some employees there even know his favorite video games. The 4-year-old is scheduled to be back again today, this time for a surgery that's never been done on someone so young. He's been frequenting doctors since he was a 10-month-old, and in that time he's been treated for recurring skin sores, internal bleeding, asthma and fevers of up to 106 degrees. It has perplexed doctors as much as it's drained the Montrose family's ability to make ends meet.
NEWS
June 30, 2010
For those wanting a good laugh, "CHiPS the Musical" has plenty. I've seen few shows as sharp as this one, and all the praise must go to the Troubadour Theater Company. A talented ensemble of actors, comedians and musicians, the Troubies, as they like to call themselves, have been performing on Southern California's stages for 15 years. Some of their most recent work pokes fun at everyone from Stevie Wonder ("It's a Stevie Wonderful Life") to Shakespeare ("Hamlet, the Artist Formerly Known as Prince of Denmark")
SPORTS
By Grant Gordon | September 19, 2009
LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE — It was a defensive stalemate that transformed into an offensive roller coaster. It was two highly-ranked football teams playing as such. And it was the closest — and most exciting — “Battle of Foothill Blvd.” in years, as St. Francis High rallied and then fended off a very game Crescenta Valley, 28-21, in the teams’ annual nonleague meeting Friday night in front of a jam-packed Friedman Field. “It was a great game,’ said Falcons Coach Tony Zarrillo, whose team, ranked fourth in the CIF Southern Section Southeast Division, fell to 1-1. “As high school football games go, it was a terrific game.
FEATURES
By Mary O’Keefe | April 3, 2009
Holy Redeemer Catholic High School mixed roller coasters and science in an experiment in fun during class on March 27. Science teacher Cathi Garcia challenged her eighth grade students to come up with a roller coaster using five different materials which caused a reaction at the end. Coasters ? short and winding and tall and treacherous ? were placed in the school?s auditorium. A marble raced down tracks made of tubing, metal and rubber then landed, creating a variety of reactions ?
NEWS
By PATRICK AZADIAN | July 26, 2008
Time does not stand still, and neither does taste. It was the early 1980s, and for some reason I had ended up at my girlfriend’s mom’s real estate office in the Valley. I think I was there to use her typewriter for a college project. It was an innocent time. Well, sort of. Kinkos was somewhat of an obscure copy shop, and Loehmann’s was one of the few outlets where stylish but bargain-savvy women could keep their wardrobe ahead of the rest of the pack. Meanwhile, Glendale was (switch to Elmer Fudd’s voice)
SPORTS
By Charles Rich | October 20, 2007
NORTHEAST GLENDALE — For a conference match victory to happen sometime soon, the passing will need to improve for the Glendale Community College women’s volleyball team. It didn’t take long for Glendale college Coach Yvette Ybarra to isolate the facet of the game that the Vaqueros struggled in most during a Western State Conference South Division match against visiting College of the Canyons on Friday night. Canyons keyed in on Glendale college’s passing deficiencies to record a 21-30, 30-19, 30-26, 30-16 victory.
NEWS
By Ani Amirkhanian | February 6, 2007
A marble rolled down a slide and into a funnel, where it spun and slid until it went through a miniature basketball net. Using a marble as one of their tools, Holy Family Grade School students were designing and engineering roller coasters. The marble was used to test speed and momentum. "It was basically just trial and error," 13-year-old Kalene Castillo said. "I would say it takes a lot of elements to get the [roller coaster] to work." The roller-coaster project was part of a science lesson about the physics of motion.
NEWS
By Vince Lovato | June 9, 2006
GLENDALE ? In anticipation of more than $5 million in one-time state funding for next year's budget, Glendale Unified School District trustees asked staff members to create a list of priorities to partially restore $9 million in jobs that were sheared over the past two years. But Glendale Unified staff members are concerned that some or all of the anticipated money will only be available once and that the state might restrict how the district can spend it. "We have reduced so much in our district and now that we are getting these funds, how should we spend them?"
ENTERTAINMENT
July 28, 2005
We have all seen the commercials. "More bang for your buck!" And that's the golden truth for this western themed roller coaster, Silver Bullet, at Knott's Berry Farm. Silver Bullt is a suspended roller coaster that zooms guests through six inversions to a height of 146 feet above the ground. Two minutes and 9 seconds is all it takes to cover 3,125 feet of unbelievably smooth track, even through the loops and spirals that make you feel like you are flying free like a bullet. Being called Silver Bullet, one would assume that the track or cars would be silver.
NEWS
April 18, 2005
Rima Shah It's never a pretty scene when the hit man hired to kill your wife fumbles the job, and the wife finds out. That's what happened Sunday afternoon in a spacious Glendale home. The curses flying around the dining table were, therefore, no surprise. But, thankfully, no real murder contract actually existed. The fiery accusations and unmentionable curses were read from a script, as a group of young filmmakers got together to rehearse for an independent movie set to film in July.