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  • Desert Daze festival turns eight, lands rare appearances by Devo, The Locust

    San Diego Union-Tribune

    “Doing a live music rock and roll festival for weirdos in Southern California means you’re an outlier.” Phil Pirrone is talking about Desert Daze, the vagabond music festival he founded eight years ago. At the time, Pirrone’s company, Moon Block, was already throwing parties in the streets of Pomona, but it wasn’t long before he knew ...

  • Survivor of Japanese internment to speak about mass incarceration

    Jackson Hole News & Guide

    Mihara and his family were included in that number. Taken from their home in San Francisco, they were sent to Pomona, California, where they were kept in what was called an “assembly center,” a holding facility built on the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds. It took the federal government about three months to build 10 relocation centers like ...

  • Pumpkin Nights Unleashes 3,000 Hand-Carved Creations On Southern California

    LAist

    It opens tonight. It's like a small orange traveling theme park, with seven different Pumpkin Lands, from Forbidden Pumpkin City to Pumpkin Pirate Cove. The event is taking over Pomona's Fairplex, home of the L.A. County Fair. The attraction includes more than 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins, a combination of synthetic and real orange gourds.

  • Exposing Los Angeles’s Shaky Geologic Underbelly

    Eos

    We are grateful to the deployment and pickup crews from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; local California high schools; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; the California Institute of Technology; and Louisiana State University who helped with the fieldwork; the Los Angeles area homeowners for their willingness to host the nodes ...

  • Union Pacific's Big Boy: Largest locomotive ever built back in SoCal after massive restoration

    ABC7

    Thousands of people welcomed the largest steam locomotive ever constructed as it made its way back to Southern California Wednesday. The Union Pacific locomotive, known as "Big Boy" 4014, had been sitting on display for more than 50 years at the Pomona fairgrounds. But after a massive restoration project, it's up and running yet again.

  • KTM Officially Launches its KTM SX-E 5 Junior Model

    Cycle News

    This “Ready to Race” model, showcased for the first time in North America at Red Bull Straight Rhythm in Pomona, California, grows with the rider while offering premium performance and all of the benefits that electrically powered vehicles enjoy. KTM has put a lot of effort and all of its electric know-how that’s evolved over the last 10 ...

  • Acratech announces the launch of The Acratech GXP Ball-head

    Benzinga.com

    innovative products for photography and imaging. All products are proudly made in our Pomona, CA facility using the finest materials and top quality workmanship.

  • They named Mt. Helix after a snail

    San Diego Reader

    Up on Pomona, John Grisham and Edith Wharton and Wendell Berry are on the small shelves ... “There are almost no feral cat problems in California anymore.” Peter Tira, the public information officer for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, is not making a joke. He is serious. Since the urban bloom in coyote populations, his ...

  • I was terrified when I felt my baby’s foot between my legs at 22 weeks – we lost her moments later

    The Sun

    The warehouse worker, from Pomona, California, knew her unborn daughter Leylah Aubrielle Mota would not survive if she were to give birth that early on. And just moments the thing Nohely most feared happened - her little baby passed away, weighing a tiny ...

  • Crucial O.C. wildlife corridor hits a freeway roadblock

    Orange County Register

    Less far along are tentative plans for an I-15 Freeway crossing near Temecula. For that area, Cal Poly Pomona faculty and staff have drawn up blueprints for an overpass ($17.6 million), culvert upgrades ($9 million to $10 million) and an underpass upgrade ...

  • Montclair blasts San Bernardino County transit agency for considering altered course on Gold Line

    Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

    “We are developing solutions to the California housing crisis and California’s transportation problems ... This stemmed from successful legislation (AB 1600) by then-Assemblywoman Norma Torres of Pomona in 2012. Montclair will add a 400-space parking garage addition to the transit center in the near future, bringing the number of ...

  • Alexis DeJoria returning to NHRA Funny Car ranks after hiatus

    ESPN

    DeJoria will re-enter the sport at the Feb. 6-9 season opening NHRA Winternationals in Pomona, California. "I honestly knew deep down when I made the announcement to retire at the end of the 2017 NHRA season that it was going to be sort of an open-ended retirement," the 42-year-old DeJoria said in a statement. "I've been blessed spending time ...

  • Alexis DeJoria coming out of 'open-ended retirement,' to return to NHRA

    Autoweek

    starting at the February 6-9 Lucas Oil Winternationals at Pomona, Calif. Primary sponsor for the independent team will be announced soon. “I’m beyond excited to get back out there,” DeJoria ...

  • Alexis DeJoria coming out of 'open-ended retirement' to return to NHRA

    Autoweek

    The five-time winner and winner of the 2014 U.S. Nationals will be back in an 11,000-hp, nitro-burning, 330-mph race car for a full season in 2020, starting at the Feb. 6-9 Lucas Oil Winternationals at Pomona, California. The primary sponsor for the independent team will be announced soon. “I’m beyond excited to get back out there ...

  • Chill Out, Bumper Ice Cars Are on Their Way

    NBC Los Angeles on MSN.com

    This Week: Pumpkin Nights Opens in Pomona But pairing a county fair classic with a different time of year ... And such a mash-up is spinning for Southern California this February, when a limited-time bumper car ice rink pops up in the region. It's a touring event, one that's visiting Melbourne and Sydney soon, and tickets?

  • Team Translator Helps Rays Players On, Off Field

    Bay News 9

    I figure if I could do that with this team as a utility guy, you can do whatever you can for the team and that’s what I’m here for," Navarro said. The former Cal Poly Pomona baseball player had no idea what to expect when he took on the role. "To be honest with you, I had no idea that it was even a job," he laughed. He quickly stepped into ...

  • Living a longer, healthier life: A systems approach to medicine at WesternU’s Pumerantz Lecture

    bio-medicine.org

    Hood, MD, PhD, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of the Institute for Systems Biology and Senior Vice President and Chief Science Officer for Providence St. Joseph Health, served as the keynote speaker at Western University of Health Sciences’ 11th annual Dr. Philip Pumerantz Distinguished Lectureship Oct. 3, 2019 in Pomona, California.

  • Player Omega partners with Super League Gaming for esports tour to smaller cities

    VentureBeat

    The partnership begins with Player Omega’s first-ever event November 9-10 in Pomona, California (that’s a town 30 miles east of Los Angeles). While companies such as Metarama put on esports ...

  • Player Omega Tour Partners with Super League Gaming to Foster Ongoing Growth of Esports Communities in Local Markets

    Benzinga.com

    Super League also will be participating in Player Omega's inaugural event on November 9-10 at the Fairplex in Pomona, Calif. Together, Player Omega and Super League are committed to creating year-round opportunities for gaming communities in underserved markets to experience esports in ways typically available only to those living in major ...

  • Everyone’s favorite caper for the 36th time

    The Poly Post

    Aliens and creatures from a faraway galaxy invaded Cal Poly Pomona’s campus at the 36th annual Hot Dog Caper on Thursday, Oct. 3. The Hot Dog Caper is a tradition the Cal Poly Pomona Foundation hosts to welcome all returning and new students to the new ...

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