Melanie Hicken Uncovering Injustice

Melanie Hicken Uncovering Injustice

Melanie Hicken Uncovering Injustice  Local CNN Money investigative reporter focuses on plights of the people. Sitting at her kitchen table, Melanie Hicken was hard at work from her Santa Clarita home.  Her laptop was fired up, and her phone sat face up, poised for...
Jack Storms – A Cut Above

Jack Storms – A Cut Above

Jack Storms – A Cut Above Cold glass sculptor shares his quest for artistic perfection and the beauty that results. Inside the Valencia workshop of cold glass sculptor Jack Storms, there is a constant hum of something or another — a cacophony of machines...
Healing Broken HeARTs

Healing Broken HeARTs

Healing Broken HeARTs  A local program helps domestic violence survivors develop ways to mend their souls. The day Aazam Irilian realized she stopped smiling was the day she decided to change her world – she just didn’t know how yet.  Her mother had recently succumbed...
Santa Clarita in the Pictures

Santa Clarita in the Pictures

Santa Clarita in the Pictures Film and television production in Santa Clarita dates back to the earliest forms of each of the respective mediums and has continued strong through today.  Charlie Chaplin filmed a scene from The Pilgrim at the historic Saugus Train...
Engineering The Magic of Movies

Engineering The Magic of Movies

Engineering The Magic of Movies  The road to cinematic masterpiece often presents special effects challenges – and Elia Popov is always up for the impossible. In the wide, open space of his warehouse-slash-shop in Santa Clarita, Elia Popov is pacing, head bowed and a...