Picasso went outside the boundaries to forge a new perspective.
A few years back, I worked in Laguna Hills, a city that rims Interstate 5 and is best known for being the address of Leisure World and home to lots of nondescript mortgage and auto design firms. There wasn’t one thing remarkable about the town or my job.
Then one day, I wandered and wound my [...]
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Shortly before 1 p.m. on Friday, pockets of people slowly started filing out of their offices and homes from D Street and Bonita Ave. in La Verne all the way to Cataract and 4th St. in San Dimas – and Lindsay Lohan was nowhere in sight.
This curious confection of patriotic paparazzi on a hazy dog [...]
The La Verne United Methodist Church — home of the famous last scene in The Graduate, home of annual July 4 pancake breakfast and home to Troop 411 in La Verne – is also home to the Third Annual Hawaiian Luau on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. And you’re invited!
There’s [...]
The quilting group at Saint John’s Episcopal Church in La Verne, the Piecemakers, will raffle a beautiful handmade quilt in a Dresden Plate design this fall. This lovingly crafted work of art is 98″ x 91″, big enough to fit a double bed as a bedspread (with a generous overhang), a queen size bed or [...]
This year while attending the Celebration of the Arts, May 1-2, at the Church of the Brethren in downtown La Verne, take a while to also appreciate the church’s unique art and architecture. From its welcoming gates and courtyard to the pulpit and chancel, the church is a sanctuary of symbolism inviting your discovery and [...]
In a typical day, the Rev. Ron Beams is as likely to counsel couples celebrating a double marriage ceremony as he is a woman about to undergo a double mastectomy.
For him, “Three Weddings and Funeral isn’t just a movie; in a single day he’s actually officiated at four such services, helping people celebrate and cope [...]
The Holy Name of Mary Family Festival will be offered three days this year. Set for April 16, 17, and 18, the 2010 Festival is a mix of traditional offerings and brand new excitement. This year’s festival was moved from Fall to the Springtime and a third day of festivities was added. In addition to [...]
It’s not every day a human being is made a saint, and equally rare when a film about a saint is made.
Yet, last year, both events occurred. On Oct. 11, 2009, Father Damien de Veuster was canonized in Vatican City, and more than 6,000 miles back in La Verne, Calif., filmmaker Jennifer Hoge was putting [...]
Saint John’s Episcopal Church in La Verne offers Wednesday night Lenten Soup and Study at 6 p.m. This “Soup and Study” time is offered in addition to the Church’s year-round worship services: Sundays at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., healing service Tuesdays at 10 a.m., and evening prayer service Sundays at 6 p.m.
The Church wishes [...]
If the truth be told, it is not just the hand of God that worshippers feel when they attend church or synagogue. Man’s hand is also very present, and one hand, in particular, Jeff Tortorelli’s.
For many year’s Tortorelli owned a liturgical art and design studio on Arrow Highway in San Dimas before moving his workshop [...]
