Good Eats Pasadena on Saturday

Ever eat ice cream made with a bike?  Well, you can on Saturday, September 8th in the Playhouse District in Pasadena.  Peddler's Ice Cream will be there, along with more than 25 other foodie favorites at an event called Good Eats Pasadena.  All the delicious treats will be less than $10.  And you get music, too.  Better yet, no admission fee.  Good Eats Pasadena runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Madison and Colorado. 

The Lake Street Station is the closest to the Playhouse District, but if you disembark from the Gold line at the Memorial Park Station, you can stop by the Pacific Asia Museum to see a sand mandala being created by Tibetan monks.  By Saturday the mandala should be nearly complete.  On Sunday, September 9th, the mandala will be blessed and destroyed.  I've seen this before in Santa Barbara and it is fascinating to watch.

The Pacific Asia Museum is at Los Robles and Union in Pasadena.

2 Changes at Mission--no--South Pasadena Station

A new name for the Mission Gold Line Station:  it's now the South Pasadena Gold Line Station.  And this change only makes sense.  I'm sure quite a few people thought that the Mission Station was close to the San Gabriel Mission when, in fact, the actual Mission is miles and miles away.

Another change.  The sign that read "Irish Pub Coming Soon" at the South Pas station now reads: Griffins of Kinsale.  So that's the name.  Inside it's all wood and dark.  Since I was there at 9 a.m. on Labor Day, it was closed, so I don't know much about it.

Another change--nothing to do with South Pas:  I have launched a new blog at www.lacitypix.wordpress.com  I've been taking street photos around greater Los Angeles for years.  This new blog will have stories about people and places in L.A.--including neighborhoods and areas you may not know about.  The first post is about my recent encounter with a security guy at the Scientology headquarters near Los Feliz.  It was funny!