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In Octavia Butler’s Pasadena, readers pick up visionary novel and find lessons in post-fire LA
Her papers are in the Octavia E. Butler Archives at the Huntington Library. The Eaton fire came close to Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery, where Butler is buried. “It’s still very popular, it felt ...
Mom’s the Word: Altadena artists are going the hard way together
Johnson, who spent 16 years serving as music director and pianist for American songbook singer Steve Tyrell, works now with ...
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In Octavia Butler’s Pasadena, readers pick up visionary novel and find lessons in post-fire LA
Her papers are in the Octavia E. Butler Archives at the Huntington Library. The Eaton fire came close to Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery, where Butler is buried. “It’s still very popular ...
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American Artist’s Love Letter to Octavia E. Butler
Butler knew California wildfires would grow more devastating with time, and in a harrowing twist, Artist’s former home in Altadena burned down in January 2025. Endless questions arose for me ...
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NAACP Image Awards Shine Spotlight On Altadena Fire Victims Via Morris Chestnut, Ledisi Tribute: “Not Lost Is The Spirit Of Our Community”
and was once home to renowned sci-fi writer Octavia E. Butler, whose Parable of the Sower has seen renewed popularity given its eerie prescience regarding Southern California’s recent natural ...
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Mom’s the Word: Altadena artists are going the hard way together
Of course there are the writers, from Zane Grey to Octavia Butler, and Naomi Hirahara, Michele Zack and Jervey Tervalon. But as a piano-lesson-dropout, I knew of Altadena’s art and music scene ...