Pasadena

BURROUGHS VS. GLENDALE WHEN : 7 p.m. Thursday. WHERE : Memorial Field RECORDS : The Indians are 0-4; the Nitros are 1-3. LAST WEEK : Burroughs lost to Arcadia, 18-8; Glendale lost to Pasadena, 35-0. OUTLOOK : The Indians likely can't afford any more hiccups if they hope to win a share of their fourth straight Pacific League championship. Burroughs will get a chance to get back to the winning track against a Glendale team that had trouble moving the ball on offense last week.

Burbank punk rock trio the Peeks have it all: a strong set of original songs loaded with attitude and appeal, a drastically tight, propulsive sound and an energy level that, in performance, threatens to not just raise the roof but send the entire thing into orbit. And they still haven't even graduated high school. Formed in January of 2011, the band quickly distinguished itself as one of most natural and important forces in that perpetually rebellious musical style. The fact that singer-guitarist Dewey Peek's father is legendary punk rock spearhead Chip Kinman doesn't hurt either.

BURROUGHS HIGH - The Burroughs High and South Pasadena boys' water polo teams entered their nonleague match Thursday both missing key players. The Indians were without top scorer, Danny Mairano, who was ruled ineligible earlier in the week after failing a class during the summer session. Tigers Coach Robert Echeverria elected to bench his starters in the beginning of the contest, saying "the effort just hasn't been there" with the group of players. That left the door open for Burroughs, which got off to an early lead.

Burbank High wanted to hire a new boys' basketball coach with experience. It got just that in Jerry DeLaurie. DeLaurie has been hired to replace Jose Hernandez, who left last month to take a job at Corona High. DeLaurie, who has been a physical education teacher at Jordan Middle School for six years, comes to Burbank after coaching stints with the L.A. Baptist girls' program and the Pasadena Marshall Fundamental boys' and Blair boys' and girls' programs. "I'm very excited to be given the opportunity," said DeLaurie, 43. "I've worked in the district and I've been patient about hopefully landing a head coaching job and the opportunity arose, I applied and I was lucky enough to get it. " The coach said he is looking forward to working with the Bulldogs players and welcomes the opportunity to build a successful program.

Shakespeare, Molière, musical romps, contemporary classics, comedies of all Jordi Galcerán's descriptions, cutting-edge new work - theater in Southern California is varied, plentiful and far-flung, from the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and Center Theatre Group in downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica's Broad Stage and beyond. It is worth noting, however, that an abundance of eclectic small, midsize and large professional theaters in the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys contribute significantly to the mix.   BURBANK Burbank  Falcon Theatre 4252 Riverside Drive, Burbank (818)

Some kind of poetic conjunction will occur when jazz singer Diane Hubka performs a recital at Pasadena Presbyterian Church Saturday. Though she works as the church's accountant, what makes the pairing compelling is her lovely sound set in a sanctuary known for its majestic high-ceilinged acoustics. Hubka has a medium-dynamic alto voice with an unmistakable sparkle. Her tone is bell-like in its clarity and her diction is impeccable. Listeners can understand her no matter how brisk the tempo of the music.

SOUTH PASADENA - A season's worth of aspirations came full circle for South Pasadena High sophomore Claire Kieffer-Wright on June 2 at Buchanan High Memorial Stadium in Clovis. Kieffer-Wright clinched the area's first CIF State Track and Field individual championship in two years by tying her previous personal record jump of 5 feet, 10 inches, which was nearly an inch better than second place and placed her second to none. The prodigious high jumper's amazing season, which included setting two new Rio Hondo League records and helping her team win a CIF Southern Section Division III championship, was capped the same way she started less than six months earlier in Fresno.

It was a common game plan at Pasadena Poly boys' volleyball matches the past four seasons. Hand the ball to opposite hitter Michael Saeta and odds were his thunderous jump-serve would be accurate and turn into something positive for the Panthers. The 6-foot-5 Saeta proved to be an intimidating force for Poly. Besides his serving, Saeta could pound a ball for a kill or make a picture-perfect pass to a teammate to keep a rally going. The senior outside hitter made his teammates better while sporting a calm demeanor during a match.

Seven years ago, Burbank resident Shannon Fernando traveled to the Philippines, working in a slum for six weeks with women trafficked as sex slaves. It wasn't the first international foray for the then-UCLA biology undergraduate. The child of a United Nations official, Fernando was born in Sri Lanka and spent the first 10 years of her life in far-flung regions of the world, including the Cook Islands, before settling in Burbank. But that visit to the Philippines was one that really stuck, inspiring her to take additional service trips to places like Nairobi, Kenya in 2007 and rural Haiti in 2011.

ARCADIA — It might have been an ominous omen when the Burbank High girls' track and field team was disqualified in the 4x100-meter relay to open Thursday's Pacific League tri-meet against Arcadia and Pasadena. With both the Bulldogs and Apaches undefeated going into what was likely the battle for the league championship, Burbank could ill afford to give up any points. But as it turned out, the one event meant little in the final standings. With a wealth of depth, host Arcadia was able to sweep the girls' and boys' contests, as both of its squads remained unbeaten in league competition.