ENTERTAINMENT
October 16, 2010
Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY Francesca Lia Block : The author will read and sign her new YA novel "The Frenzy. " Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. 5 p.m. Free. (626) 449-5320. Peter Cole : The poet will read and discuss his National Jewish Book Award-winning anthology "The Dream of the Poem. " Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., L.A. 2 p.m. $5; members, free. (310) 440-4500. MONDAY Malcolm Beith : The author of "The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord" will present and sign his new book.
NATIONAL
October 2, 2006 | Ellen Barry, Times Staff Writer
Teddy Papaoiannou grew up in Manhattan diners, and he can remember when a green vegetable was exotic -- a gesture almost suburban in its healthfulness. Over the years, the sands shifted. Iceberg lettuce receded; romaine emerged. In its latest iteration, his family's diner offers mesclun. Even so, Papaoiannou was caught flat-footed last week when he learned that New York health officials plan to ban the use of hydrogenated vegetable oil in city restaurants.
BUSINESS
August 27, 2003 | Josh Friedman, Times Staff Writer
In an east Pasadena building where Sears, Roebuck & Co. once trained auto mechanics, Stephen O'Connor's team of 60 is working with valves and filters on a significantly smaller scale. O'Connor's 4-year-old company, Nanostream Inc., is developing ways for pharmaceutical companies to quicken the drug discovery process by automating and miniaturizing chemical and biological reactions in the lab.
BUSINESS
March 5, 2001 | JAMES FLANIGAN
In these uncertain times, venture capital investors still look with favor on Pasadena, attracted by the "hard science" work at Caltech, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Huntington Medical Research Institute, the nearby City of Hope and other institutions. As a result, Pasadena and neighboring communities are budding hotbeds of new companies pursuing discoveries in biotechnology, optical electronics and computer and material sciences.
NEWS
August 15, 2001 | LESLIE BERGER, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
As a creative writing teacher in one of this city's strapped public schools, Stephen O'Connor had a memorable student who, for all her promise, couldn't escape her family's poverty or illness. A gifted writer and actor, the teenager missed an audition--and the chance to attend the famed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts--because her alcoholic mother needed her help at home.