It's the arts!

• A nod to Altadena author (and our old Claremont School of Theology classmate) Michelle Hunevan, whose new novel, Blame, is one of the five fiction finalists for the National Book Critics Circle.
• On the heels of that, Hometown Pasadena celebrates Hunevan and many other local authors who've had books coming out, including Altadena's Marla Frazee, Ian Whitcomb, Michele Zack, sometime Altadenan Liz Palmer, and Naomi Hirahara (whose detective character, Mas Arai, is an Altadena gardener)
  
• Edith Roberts, former president of the Pasadena symphony (and a 50-year resident of Tanoble Dr.) died Sunday and earned this obit from the PSN.
• A Montreal musician who calls himself "Catman" has started a blog devoted entirely to Case Study House #20, the Saul Bass house on Santa Rosa.