ArtNight Pasadena.
ArtNight returns October 8 with virtual AND limited in-person activities presented by a variety of local arts and cultural organizations. Masks REQUIRED for all indoor and some outdoor activities.

Those attending indoor activities must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination OR a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours of the event.

Participating organizations include:
A Room to Create
Armory Center for the Arts
Art Center College of Design
artWORKS Teen Center
Boston Court Pasadena
California Art Club
Lineage Performing Arts Center
MUSE/IQUE
Parson’s Nose Theater
Pasadena Central Library
Pasadena City College
Pasadena Conservatory of Music
Pasadena Museum of History
Pasadena Unified School District
Red Hen Press
Shumei Arts Council
The Gamble House
USC Pacific Asia Museum

For more details, visit ArtNightPasadena.org or call (626) 744-7887.

Stay connected to the City of Pasadena! Visit us online at www.cityofpasadena.net; follow us on Twitter at @PasadenaGov, and Instagram and Facebook at @CityOfPasadena; or call the Citizen Service Center, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday at (626) 744-7311.

INFORMATION

For information on ArtNight, please call the ArtNight Pasadena Hotline at 626 744-7887 or visit ArtNightPasadena.org.

For information on accessibility and/or to request written materials in alternative formats, please call the City of Pasadena at 626 744-7062.

ArtNightPasadena.org
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twitter.com/ArtNightPas

Maybe it’s just a sign of the times and it is coincidental, but there is some cause for concern that there are many positions within the city experiencing a change.

So far we know that

City Manager Steve Mermell- is exiting/retiring on Dec 2. 2021. having worked for the city for approx  32 years

Assistant City Manager Julie Gutierrez, exiting November 18, 2021, having worked for the city for approx 32 years

Police Chief John Perez, having worked for the city for approx 36 years

Andy Wilson – Councilmember representing District 7, and is currently Vice-Mayor, is not seeking re-election to spend his time as Executive Director for The Alliance for Southern California Innovation (www.alliancesocal.org), a nonprofit established to accelerate the growth of high tech and life science start-ups in the Southern California region.

We have also heard that the Pasadena Fire Department is also undergoing some changes in leadership.

While all these changes are cause for concern, what is more concerning is that the current Mayor has not stayed in front of these developments and communicated with the residents of these developments and a plan to fill the positions being left open.

Meanwhile, homelessness and crime are increasing in the city.

There is talk of a possible 8th district being formed for the central/downtown area of Pasadena.

Although there will be no Pasadena Chalk Festival, it appears that the Pasadena Police Department Car Show benefiting PAL is still scheduled to take place.

This is from the posting on Facebook.  It’s always a fun event and way to spend the morning.

Join Us on October 16th for our Annual #PasadenaPD Car Show benefitting The Pasadena Police Explorer Post and The Pasadena Police Activities League (P.A.L.)

Update: We have also learned Julie Gutierrez, Assistant City Manager, is also leaving. Her last day will be November 18, 2021.*

News broke that Pasadena City Manager Steve Mermell has announced that he is stepping down, retiring. After decades, having started work with the city in 1989, in various capacities with the City of Pasadena,, Mr. Mermell announced that his last day will be December 2, 2021.

Mermell worked under the previous city manager Michael Beck who left under the city debacle with embezzlement of funds, that cost the city millions in insurance claims and premiums and the litigation continues.

Mermell has endured controversy as the cities most senior official not elected by voters. From the embezzlement, to care facilities, health department, cannabis, large scale development, police and fire chiefs, police involved shooties, and others.

Mermell has served as City Manager of Pasadena for about 5 years and earns total pay and benefits approximately $500,000 per year.

No replacement or interim person has been named.  Now the search is on, we hope that city council and the mayor will help to make the process inclusive and listen to its residents when it comes to the issues that are most important to constituents.

Note:  In my several interactions with Mr. Mermell they have been pleasant.  It is a challenging job and I acknowledge him for the work he has done.

*Source: ColoradoBlvd.net

FaceTime

• Spatial audio makes people’s voices sound like they’re coming from the direction in which they’re positioned on the screen on Group FaceTime calls (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and later)
• Voice Isolation blocks background noises so your voice is crystal clear (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and later)
• Wide Spectrum brings all background noises into your call (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and later)
• Portrait mode blurs your background and puts the focus on you (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and later)
• Grid view displays up to six people at a time in Group FaceTime calls in the same-size tiles and highlights the current speaker
• FaceTime links allow you to invite your friends into a FaceTime call, even friends on Android or Windows devices can join from their browser

Messages and Memoji

• Shared with You shows content sent to you by friends in Messages conversations in a new section in Photos, Safari, Apple News, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, or the Apple TV app
• Pinned content elevates the shared content you choose and makes it more prominent in Shared with You, Messages search, and the Details view of the conversation
• Multiple photos sent in Messages are displayed as a glanceable collage or a swipeable stack
• Over 40 Memoji outfit choices and up to three different colors to customize your Memoji stickers’s clothing and headwear

Focus

• Focus lets you automatically filter notifications based on what you’re currently doing, such as fitness, sleep, gaming, reading, driving, work, or personal time
• Focus uses on-device intelligence during set up to suggest apps and people you want to allow notifications from in a Focus
• Home Screen pages can be customized to match your apps and widgets to a specific Focus
• Contextual suggestions intelligently suggest a Focus based on your context, using signals like location or time of day
• Status appears to your contacts in Messages conversations, indicating your notifications are silenced with Focus

Notifications

• A new look displays contact photos for people and larger icons for apps
• Notification summary delivers a helpful collection of your notifications daily, based on a schedule you set
• Notifications can be muted from any app or messaging thread for the next hour or for the day

Maps

• Detailed city maps display elevation, trees, buildings, landmarks, crosswalks and turn lanes, and 3D views to navigate complex interchanges, and more in San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and London, with more cities coming in the future (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and later)
• New driving features include a new map that highlights details like traffic and incidents, and a route planner that lets you view your upcoming journey by choosing a future departure or arrival time
• Immersive walking directions show step-by-step directions in augmented reality (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and later)
• Updated transit experience provides one-tap access to departures near you, makes it easy to see and interact with your route using one hand, and notifies you when approaching your stop
• Interactive 3D globe shows enhanced details for mountain ranges, deserts, forests, oceans, and more (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and later)
• Redesigned place cards make it easy to learn about and interact with places, and a new home for Guides editorially curates the best recommendations for places you’ll love

Safari

• Bottom tab bar is easier to reach and helps you move between tabs by swiping left or right
• Tab Groups help you save and organize your tabs and easily access them across devices
• Tab overview grid view displays your open tabs
• Start page can be customized with a background image and new sections like Privacy Report, Siri Suggestions, and Shared With You
• Web extensions on iOS help you personalize your browsing and can be downloaded through the App Store
• Voice search lets you search the web using your voice

Wallet

• Home keys let you tap to unlock a supported home or apartment door lock (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and later)
• Hotel keys allow you to tap to unlock your room at participating hotels
• Office keys allow you to tap to unlock your office doors for participating corporate offices
• Car keys with Ultra Wideband help you unlock, lock, and start your supported car without having to take your iPhone out of your bag or pocket (iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 models)
• Remote keyless entry functions on your car keys allow you to lock, unlock, honk your horn, preheat your car, or open your trunk on your supported vehicle

Live Text

• Live Text makes text interactive in your photos so you can copy and paste, look up, and translate in Photos, Screenshot, Quick Look, Safari, and live previews with Camera (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and later)
• Data detectors for Live Text recognize phone numbers, emails, dates, street addresses, and more in photos so you can take action on them
• Live Text is available from the keyboard letting you insert text directly from the camera viewfinder into any text field

Spotlight

• Rich results brings together all the information you’re looking for on contacts, actors, musicians, movies, and TV shows
• Photos can be searched from your photo library by locations, people, scenes, text in the photos or other things in the photos, like a dog or a car
• Web image search allows you to search for images of people, animals, monuments, and more

Photos

• New look for Memories with a new interactive interface, animated cards with smart, adaptive titles, new animation and transition styles, and multiple image collages
• Apple Music can be added to your Memories for Apple Music subscribers, and personalized song suggestions combine expert recommendations with your music tastes and what’s in your photos and videos
• Memory mixes let you set the mood by selecting from different songs and a Memory look to match
• New memory types include additional international holidays, child-focused memories, trends over time, and improved pet memories
• Info pane now displays rich information about the photo like which camera and lens, shutter speed, file size, and more
• Visual Look Up recognizes art, landmarks around the world, plants and flowers, books, and dog and cat breeds in your photos so you can learn more about them

Health

• Sharing lets you choose health data, alerts, and trends to share with people important to you or those who are caring for you, including your healthcare provider
• Trends lets you see how a given health metric is progressing over time and can notify you when a new trend has been detected
• Walking Steadiness is a new metric that can assess your risk of falling and notify you if your walking steadiness is low (iPhone 8 and later)
• Verifiable health records enable you to download and store verifiable versions of COVID-19 vaccines and lab results
• Lab results can now be pinned for quick access and include highlights that show how your labs have changed over time

Weather

• A new design shows the most important weather information for that location and includes new maps modules
• Weather maps can be viewed in full-screen and show precipitation, temperature and air quality in supported countries
• Next-hour precipitation notifications alert you when rain or snow is about to start or stop in Ireland, U.K., and US
• New animated backgrounds more accurately represent the sun position, clouds, and precipitation (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and later)

Siri

• On-device processing means audio of your requests does not leave your device by default, and means Siri is able to process many requests while offline (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and later)
• Share items with Siri lets you send on screen items like photos, web pages and Maps locations to any of your contacts
• Onscreen context can be used by Siri to refer to contacts on screen to send them a message or place a call
• On-device personalization allows Siri speech recognition and understanding to improve privately (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and later)

Privacy

• Mail Privacy Protection protects your privacy by preventing email senders from learning about your Mail activity, your IP address or whether you’ve opened their email
• Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention now also prevents known trackers from profiling you using your IP address

iCloud+

• iCloud+ is a cloud subscription service that gives you premium features and additional iCloud storage
• iCloud Private Relay (beta) sends your requests through two separate internet relays and encrypts the internet traffic leaving your device so you can browse Safari in a more secure and private way
• Hide My Email lets you create unique, random email addresses that forward to your personal inbox so you can send and receive email without having to share your real email address
• HomeKit Secure Video supports connecting more security cameras without using your iCloud storage quota
• Custom email domain personalizes your iCloud Mail address and allows you to invite family members to use the same domain

Accessibility

• Image exploration with VoiceOver allows you to get even more details about people and objects, and learn about text and table data in photos
• VoiceOver image descriptions in Markup let you add your own image descriptions that can be read by VoiceOver
• Per-app settings allow you to customize display and text size settings only for the apps you want
• Background sounds play balanced, bright, or dark noise, ocean, rain, and stream sounds continuously in the background to mask unwanted environmental or external noise
• Sound actions for Switch Control enable you to control your iPhone with simple mouth sounds
• Audiograms can be imported in Settings so you can customize Headphone Accommodations based on your hearing test results
• New Voice Control languages include Mandarin Chinese (China mainland), Cantonese (Hong Kong), French (France), and German (Germany)
• Memoji options including a cochlear implant, oxygen tubes, or a soft helmet

This release also includes other features and improvements:

• Tags in Notes and Reminders help you quickly categorize your items to make them easy to find, and you can use custom Smart Folders and Smart Lists to automatically collect your notes and reminders based on rules you can define
• Mentions in Notes enable you to notify others of important updates in shared notes, and an all-new Activity view displays all the recent changes in a note in a single list
• Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking in Apple Music brings an even more immersive experience to Dolby Atmos music with AirPods Pro and AirPods Max
• System-wide translation lets you select text throughout the system and translate it with a tap, even in photos
• New widgets include Find My, Contacts, App Store, Sleep, Game Center, and Mail
• Cross-app drag and drop function lets you pick up images, documents, and files from one app to another
• Keyboard magnification loupe magnifies the text when moving the cursor
• Apple ID Account Recovery Contacts lets you to choose one or more people you trust to help you reset your password and regain access to your account
• Temporary iCloud storage grants you as much iCloud storage as you need to create a temporary backup of your data, free of charge, for up to three weeks when you buy a new device
• Find My separation alerts notify you if you leave a supported device or item behind and Find My will give you directions to your item
• Game highlights of up to the last 15 seconds of gameplay can be saved using game controllers like the Xbox Series X|S Wireless Controller or Sony PS5 DualSense™ Wireless Controller
• App Store in-app events help you discover timely events within apps and games such as a game competition, a new movie premiere, or a livestreamed experience

This release includes even more features and improvements. For more information, please visit this website: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-15/features/

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

Have you purchased your tickets yet for Taste of ‘Dena 2021? There’s still time to get tickets for one of our favorite nights of the year supporting our Altadena Libraries! https://conta.cc/3hz3RTf

Update on the Pasadena Chalk Festival postponing until 2022.  From the Facebook page.

It is with a heavy heart that we have decided to postpone the Pasadena Chalk Festival’s scheduled event for this fall. The ongoing and recent additional restrictions have proven too great a challenge for hosting the festival. The event is rescheduled for its usual weekend, Saturday and Sunday, June 18 and 19, 2022, at The Paseo.

The NAMM Show Returns to Anaheim
June 3–5, 2022 

Save the dates: The NAMM Show is moving to June 3–5, 2022 in Anaheim, CA. Originally scheduled for Jan. 20–23, 2022, the change to June addresses the travel and meeting realties of the time and seeks to assure a safe-and-healthy gathering for all in attendance. Read details about The NAMM Show change of dates.

Plan on attending these programs at The 2022 NAMM Show: Music Education Days, to try out the latest tools for music education classrooms; GenNext, an immersive way for college music students and faculty to explore careers in music through specialized programming and networking events; and the Nonprofit Management Institute, where music-service organization professionals can earn a certificate in leadership, organizational effectiveness and outreach. All will gather at the Grand Rally for Music Education, energizing and celebrating our shared passion for music education.

Get notified when registration opens for The 2022 NAMM Show!

Join us for our next virtual tasting event on Thursday, September 16!
Must RSVP and pre-pay for Smoked Duck Breast & Seafood Plate for further
instructions and information.

Join us for our next virtual tasting event w/ @gelsonsmarkets on Thursday, September 16! Must RSVP and pre-pay for Smoked Duck Breast & Seafood Plate for further instructions and information: https://t.co/6ol3t2nR8l. The Last Day to RSVP is Sunday, 9/12. pic.twitter.com/NSkpYkWbOQ

— Hampton Water (@hamptonwater) September 7, 2021

An Online Tasting with Hampton Water featuring Jon Bon Jovi – September 16

Must RSVP and pre-pay for Smoked Duck Breast & Seafood Plate for further instructions and information. Virtual tasting event will take place on Thursday, September 16 at 7:30pm.

Featured wine to buy in-store:

• Hampton Water Rosé – $19.99

Paired with: Gelson’s Smoked Duck Breast & Seafood Plate (serves 2) – $39.99

*Last Day to RSVP is 9/12
*Non-Refundable Ticket

*Additional information will be sent in a confirmation email following your purchase.

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$39.99

Virtual Event

Last Day to RSVP is Sunday, September 12.
RSVP AND PRE-PAY FOR SMOKED DUCK BREAST & SEAFOOD PLATE 

Gaucho Grill to Open Location in Pasadena.

In the location that was previously occupied by Paul Martin’s.

Gaucho Grill | 455 S. Lake Avenue #102

Gaucho Grill promises to deliver the experience of a contemporary Argentine steakhouse inspired by the tradition, values, and culture of the gaucho lifestyle.

For more information, please visit Gaucho Grill.

Gaucho Grill – Coming Soon!

455 S. Lake Avenue, #102,  Pasadena, CA 91101