Night of Art

Parking tickets. Coagulated traffic. Hideous development replacing beloved institutions. Ignored communities and deep-seated interracial enmities.

Wait, why do we live in Pasadena?

Lots of reasons, including Pasadena Art Night, which makes its biannual happenin' this Friday. But LO, Friday is only the first day of Pasadena Art Weekend. Boo-yah.

Check the links for a comprehensive catalog of the major happenings, here's some of the Playhouse/Central District highlights:

Confucianism in the age of Melamine at Pacific Asia Museum, "complex and fragile site-specific installations at Pasadena Museum of California Art , and possibly most interesting, the site of the much-anguished, much-delayed, much-manipulated Heritage Square affordable housing development hosts "Mogility."

What's conspicuously ABSENT from the Art Night particulars is our very own Pasadena Playhouse, which typically serves up some form of performance to compliment the static-yet-usually-not-uncool installments across the street at the furniture store.

What's up w/our PP?

Those unable to contain their appetite for kulture another day need look no further than Castle Green, where an opening night (6 to 10 p.m.) on Thursday unleashes hundreds of original and sometimes eclectic work of E. Milton Wilson, progenitor of Star-News editor Larry Wilson, in the form of hand-painted postcards.