- NewTown, the Altadena-based art collective, is headlining a show at the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 S. Raymond, Pasadena. Open until Jan. 9, 2011, "Convergences: New Sculptural Media" is "one of NewTown’s most ambitious gallery shows, eleven digital natives and media pioneers appropriate the ubiquitous tools of media into cutting-edge, highly personal, curiously accessible experimental art forms. Convergences seamlessly integrates media with sculpture and installation in a cumulatively immersive experience, a multi-station journey through a labyrinth of experiences, interactions, aesthetics and technologies, from garage pillaged elegance to experimental circuitry, guaranteed to stimulate eyes, ears and imaginations."
- October is National Reading Group Month (according to the Women's National Book Association). Their 2010 list of "Great Group Reads" has 13 books, among them the novel Blame by Alta-novelist Michelle Huneven: "These titles were selected on the basis of their appeal to reading groups for whom they are bound to open up lively conversations about a host of timely and provocative topics, from the intimate dynamics of family and personal relationships to major cultural and world issues."
