Masonic Temple

Pasadena's ninth annual Craftsman Weekend takes place at various venues, with headquarters at the Masonic Temple, 200 S. Euclid Ave. Some events already are sold out; those available include Saturday's four lectures (admission to each is $15) and six restoration seminars (admission, $20) at the Pasadena Hilton Hotel, 168 S. Los Robles Ave.

A shooting that left one man dead and five other people injured during a birthday party at the Masonic Temple in West Los Angeles last weekend was part of an ongoing feud between rival gangs, police said Monday. About 11 p.m.

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Main Street shoppers may soon have more convenient parking in the city's downtown district. The City Council on Tuesday decided to enter into negotiations with the Masonic Temple to swap parking lots. The Masonic Lodge at 4847 Main St. has a chain link fence around its parking lot because skateboarders and pedestrians using the space could be a liability. Merchants have complained that the fence makes it difficult for customers to get to their shops.

Candidates for Ventura City Council are scheduled to tell voters their views during a series of forums to be held this week. The first forum is scheduled for Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Poinsettia Pavilion, 3451 Foothill Road. It is sponsored by the National Assn. of the Remodeling Industry. The second forum is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday at the Community Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Poli Street and Lincoln Drive.

The Glendale Redevelopment Agency voted Tuesday to set aside $5 million of its $24-million 1994-95 fiscal year budget for two theater companies to pay for proposed renovation and construction activities. The agency, whose members are the same as those who sit on the City Council, agreed to set aside $2.5 million each for A Noise Within and The Colony Studio Theatre.

A Noise Within, the classical repertory theater company in Glendale, may have found a site for a new home. The company has acquired the exclusive right to explore the use of two roughly identical parking-lot sites, owned by the Glendale Redevelopment Agency, on the west side of Louise Street, two blocks east of Brand Boulevard in Glendale. The company has six months to decide if either lot is feasible for its plan for a 400-seat theater and if it can raise the estimated $4.

The Celebrity Dinner Theater, offering a meal and a musical, has been confirmed as the first tenant of the Santa Ana Performing Arts and Event Center. Improvements to the lighting, sound system and backstage must precede the anticipated mid-November opening of "A Big Band Christmas." Limon/Carr Productions of Tustin has contracted to bring shows to one of the three halls in the downtown venue, a restored, 71-year-old Masonic Temple.

The USO has received a city permit to move its administrative offices and social club into the restored Masonic Temple on Pine Avenue in downtown Long Beach, close to the 16,000 military personnel who live in the area. Officials of the United Service Organizations of Los Angeles, which has operated out of a Hollywood building since the early 1940s, say the Pine Avenue club will open this spring.