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Film: Side Effects

I like psychological thrillers. They keep me on the edge of my seat, but unlike some other genres, they don’t actually drop me off the psychic edge. “Side Effects,” directed by Stephen Soderbergh (slated for semi-retirement) and due in theatres any day now, will definitely keep you wondering what’s going on. Reminiscent of “The Postman Always […]

Book review: The Rainbow Bridge

Bridge to Inner Peace and to World Peace By Brent N. Hunter When a publisher comes out with a new edition 10 years after the first printing, the original book having been translated into 23 languages around the world, it’s usually for a pretty good reason. Author Brent N. Hunter first published The Rainbow Bridge […]

Flamenco in LA

Casa Patas Flamenco Dance Troupe Theatre Raymond Kabbaz If you thought flamenco is an exciting and passionate folk dance best seen on a tabletop at midnight in Madrid, you’d be only partially right. Last month it was equally charged on the stage at the Theatre Raymond Kabbaz, a jewel-box of a theatre located at Le […]

Film: Project Happiness

Directed by John Sorensen What creates lasting happiness? That question is the premise of the film and movement, Project Happiness. Depression is on the rise in America, and 1 in 5 teens has thought about suicide in the last year, the film reports. Worse, 1 in 12 has tried it. Concerned mom Randy Taran wanted […]

Kristen Stewart Meets Jack Kerouac “On the Road”

The classic novel finds new life on the silver screen By Susan Hornik Fresh off her role as Bella, human turned vampire in the Twilight series, actress Kristen Stewart takes off on a completely different journey, as the free-spirited Marylou in On the Road, Walter Salles’ film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s biographical novel. The widely […]

Going Green in LA

Green Festival Returns November 17–18 If you’ve never been to a Green Festival, you’ve missed what is probably the largest green consumer event in the country. Seeing so many green exhibitors in one space is truly encouraging—makes you realize we really are making progress in creating a more sustainable world. This year’s event at the […]

Bees & Buddhists

Bee on a flower by acidpix

I won’t even mention that enlightened master Winnie-the-Pooh. “That buzzing-noise means something,” the bear mused to himself when he heard the hum coming from a treetop in the Hundred Acre Wood. “You don’t get a buzzing-noise like that, just buzzing and buzzing, without its meaning something.”

Film: It’s a Girl

Directed by Evan Grae Davis While women’s reproductive rights may be under assault in the United States, in India, China and other parts of the world, girls’ very existence is not just threatened, but often denied. More females are missing on earth today from gendercide than the combined number of deaths from all the genocides […]