Hometown Pasadena The Insider's Guide Author:Colleen Dunn Bates, Jill Alison Ganon, Sandy Gillis, Mel Malmberg, Mary Jane Horton Hometown Pasadena is a guidebook like no other. Not content to simply profile another picturesque foothill enclave with ocean views and Nobel Prize-winning physicists, Hometown Pasadena takes the reader inside the real Pasadena... pulsating with arts, architecture, nature, science, food and international culture. Its 256 color-charged pages ... more »celebrate the savvy, the friendly, the smart, the fashionable and the historic in Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, Eagle Rock, La Caņada... in fact, throughout the San Gabriel Valley. Hometown Pasadena's five authors--locals all--have spent a combined 91 years eating in the restaurants and dim sum cafes, prowling the art galleries, antiques shops and flea markets, and discovering the gardens, colleges, architectural masterpieces, hotels, coffeehouses, museums, mountain trails, parades, libraries, children's activities, wine bars, boutiques, jazz clubs, lectures, golf courses, theaters and bookstores. But there's more. Much more. * Lively, engaging features, such as Six Caltech Smarty-Pants, where Caltech's finest professors explain an area of their expertise--in words regular people can understand
* Insightful Q&As with Pasadena's best and brightest, including actress/mom Jane Kaczmarek, architectural historian Robert Winter, earthquake expert Lucy Jones, philanthropist Jaylene Moseley, horticulturist Clair Martin and novelist Michelle Huneven
* A lovely and iconic cover showcasing work by acclaimed painter R. Kenton Nelson
* Forewords by Larry Mantle, host of KPCC's acclaimed NPR radio show AirTalk, and Larry Wilson, editor of the Pasadena Star-News
* In-depth explorations of the communities and characters that make the SG Valley tick
* Hundreds of vibrant color photographs
* Detailed color maps to the city, the region, the architectural walking tours, the Gold Line and the ARTs bus« less