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Amanda Mosher, a Pasadena area native and Arcadia business owner, recently won the 2005 Los Angeles Music Award for female singer/songwriter of the year. She is also the co-owner of Sugar Glider Studios in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31658
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 8, 2005
Pages
p. 33
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 8, 2005
Pages
p. 33
Subjects
Awards - honors - recognitions
Business owners
Mosher, Amanda
Singers
Songwriters
Item ID
31856AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The Universal Studios film, Seabiscuit, based on the non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand, will be filmed at Santa Anita Park race track in November and December. Arcadia mayor Gail Marshall will be an extra on the film.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30659
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 31, 2002
Pages
p. 16
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 31, 2002
Pages
p. 16
Subjects
Marshall, Gail
Motion Pictures
Seabiscuit - Film
Universal Studios
Woolf, George
Item ID
30847AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Musicians

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1. "The Patriots,"an Arcadia High School musical combo won the first place prize at the La Puente High School Invitational Hootenanny. 2. Stevie Nicks, born Stephanie Nicks (solo artist, singer, songwriter, and member of rock group Fleetwood Mac) biography and photograph. Biography retrieved from I…
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1. "The Patriots,"an Arcadia High School musical combo won the first place prize at the La Puente High School Invitational Hootenanny.
2. Stevie Nicks, born Stephanie Nicks (solo artist, singer, songwriter, and member of rock group Fleetwood Mac) biography and photograph. Biography retrieved from Internet website www.allmusic.com on June 12, 2008. Photograph from Arcadia High School 1965 yearbook, p. 212. Printouts from Arcadiaapaches.com of Stevie Nicks's biography, her friendship with Robin Snyder, Class of 1966 Reunion pictures, including Stevie Nicks, at Pasadena Westin, October 7, 2006. 1965 Arcadia High School yearbook p. 92 mentions Stevie Nicks as part of Changing Times folk group and article from Arcadia Tribune, March 21, 1965 mentions The Changing Times performing at the Shindig, a 1700 seat music event.
3. Masters of Harmony concert flyer, May 21, 2011. Ron Larson, an Arcadia resident and library volunteer is part of this group.
4. "United in song and harmony," The Weekly Star, November 13, 2011. Article about Masters of Harmony singing group that includes three Arcadia residents, Ron Larson, Dan Place and Richard Stanford (photo).
5. Flautist Emily Zheng gives back to the community with flute club. She has been tutoring elementary school musicians. The Weekly Star, December 1, 2013. (The Weekly Star is the Thursday supplement to Pasadena Star News.)
6. Mark Tuan, copy of picture in the Arcadia High School yearbook, 2010, p. 131. Mark Tuan is a member of GOT7, a Korean-Pop (K-Pop) group.
7. K-pop Star, Arcadia High Alumnus Mark Tuan Gives Back to Alma Mater. Arcadia Weekly, February 17, 2023. Tuan gave away clothing from his clothing line, called Arcadia Country Club.
8. Principal Pops conductor Michael Feinstein kicked off the Pasadena Pops 2023 Rusnak Summer Concert series on June 24 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum with "Divas Through the Decades." Freda Payne headlined the show honoring "powerful Black women who shaped the American Songbook." Pasadena Weekly, June 22, 2023, p. 10.
Subjects
Musicians
Item ID
276AF
Collection
Subject Files
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Selfie Selfie Photo Studio has opened in Arcadia at 28 1/2 E. Huntington Drive. It offers private rooms where customers can snap quality and even costumed shots of themselves using a remote control. It is a venture of the popular 321 Photo Studio Franchise in China.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2015
Pages
p. A8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2015
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Business and Industry
Photographs
Photography
Selfie Selfie Photo Studio
Item ID
34261AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Spotlight on Stephanie Aikin and her business Move Your Mountain Fitness, located at 120 E. Santa Clara Street in downtown Arcadia. It is a studio for personal and semi-private fitness training. Most of her clients are over age 55, baby boomers, but her business serves all ages.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 29, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 10
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 29, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 10
Subjects
Aikin, Stephanie
Businesswomen
Gyms
Move Your Mountain Fitness
Small business
Item ID
35326AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadian Melody Bodor reviews her European tour with the America's Youth in Concert orchestra. Bordor, a violinist, competed with high school musicians from all over the United States for one of the 96 positions.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 24, 1980
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 24, 1980
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Bodor, Melody
Item ID
637AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The Serbian Orthodox church is struggling to rebuild after a New Year's Eve arson gutted the social hall.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 17, 1997
Pages
p. A1 photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 17, 1997
Pages
p. A1 photo
Subjects
Churches - Serbian Orthodox Church
Item ID
9122AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Over 4,000 musicians will participate in the 44th annual Arcadia Festival of Bands on Saturday, November 22.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 20, 1997
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 20, 1997
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia High School - Apache Marching Band
Festival of Bands
Item ID
26110AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council gives Westfield Santa Anita mall the okay to host dance studios, car washes, auto detailers, and chair massages, in an effort to attract new tenants and customers. Council members also indicated that they support the concept of a medical office building on Santa Anita Park property.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 5, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 5, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council
Westfield Santa Anita mall
Item ID
33439AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia native Cherie Kerr, graduate of Arcadia High School Class of 1961, showcases her first film "We've Got Balls," a quirky, dark comedy, at the Krikorian Premiere Theatre, 410 S. Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia. Kerr wrote, directed, and produced the film. Garry Austin, founder of the Los Angeles Groundlings, stars in it.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 14, 2013
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 14, 2013
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Austin, Gary
Filmmakers
Kerr, Cherie
Motion Pictures
Movies
Item ID
33782AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Susan Shaffer is Miss Arcadia and Rose Queen for Arcadia. Her royal court princesses are Linda Barley, Bobbi Dauer, Susan Fox, Pamela Gibbs.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 7, 1961
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 7, 1961
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Tournament of Roses
Barley, Linda
Dauer, Bobbi
Fox, Susan
Gibbs, Pamela
Shaffer, Susan
Item ID
32252AN
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Newspaper Index
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How do Arcadia musicians get to Carnegie Hall? Practice at Classical European Music Academy Los Angeles (CEMALA).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34925
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 6, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 6, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Chow, Kaitlin
Classical European Music Academy Los Angeles (CEMALA)
Goodrich, Julia
Kim, Hannah
Wang, Pheobe
Item ID
35115AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Community rallies around Arcadia Donuts' owners Francois Ung and Shally Ung. In recent weeks, they've been doing fundraisers for victims and survivors of the mass shooting at a Monterey Park dance studio one year ago, which claimed the life of their friend Andy Kao. Surveillance video shows someone broke into Ung's car and stole the fundraiser money. A Gofundme is set up if people want to help the couple recover the money.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36626
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 1, 2024
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 1, 2024
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Arcadia Donuts
Doughnuts
Crowdfunding
Crowdsourcing
Fundraisers
Kao, Andy
Shootings
Small business
Star Ballroom Dance Studio
Ung, Francois
Ung, Shally
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Newspaper Index
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Profile of The Troubadours, a group of 17 high school and college musicians who perform for shut-ins and retirement homes in the Arcadia area.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3545
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 7, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 7, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Troubadours
Item ID
3426AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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When the dark comedy "Numbers" hits the big screen, millions of viewers will believe the story unfolds in Harrisburg, PA, but local folks will know that they're really seeing a stretch of Huntington Drive in Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 10, 1999
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 10, 1999
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Moving pictures
Item ID
18204AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Amanda Avila of Rowland Heights is one of 16 finalists on television's talent show "American Idol." Her family and friends meet at an Arcadia restaurant every week to see if she advances to the next round.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 4, 2005
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 4, 2005
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Avila, Amanda
American idol
Television shows
Singers
Item ID
29627AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia community honors musician and Arcadia High School alumnus Joe Ramsey at a benefit memorial concert at Santa Anita Park on February 21. Joe Ramsey had been a founding member of rock groups The Prime Movers and Dread Zeppelin, both of which featured fellow Arcadia musicians.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 12, 2015
Pages
p. 13
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 12, 2015
Pages
p. 13
Subjects
Arcadia High School alumni
Concerts
Deaths
Ramsey, Joe
Item ID
34286AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Marjorie Hudson, who lives in Arcadia with her daughter Ruth Thompson, celebrated her 102nd birthday on September 14. She is profiled.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper153
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 23, 1993
Pages
p. H-9 photo; Hometown section
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 23, 1993
Pages
p. H-9 photo; Hometown section
Subjects
Hudson, Marjorie
Item ID
153AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The City will hold a free skating event at the Community Center in an effort to decide whether to create a local skate park (skatepark).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper20150
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 7, 2001
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 7, 2001
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Recreation
Skate Park (skatepark)
Item ID
20383AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Monterey Park mass shooting one year later. City still lives in massacre's shadow. Permanent memorial to the 11 victims is still in planning stages. In Arcadia, doughnut business owners Francois Ung and his wife Shally Ung remember and honor their friend Andy Kao, a victim of the shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio on January 21, 2023, with a pledge that they will send proceeds from sales at their Arcadia Donuts store on January 20 and 21 to the Monterey Park Hope and Resiliency Center and the Andy Kao Memorial Ballroom Dance Group to assist funding the nonprofit organizations. See also related article, "Who were the Monterey Park shooting victims? A year later, a reflection," Pasadena Star News, p. A13, January 21, 2024.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2024
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2024
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Arcadia Donuts
Doughnuts
Fundraisers
Kao, Andy
Memorials
Shootings
Small business
Star Ballroom Dance Studio
Ung, Francois
Ung, Shally
Collection
Newspaper Index
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