Communication is one of the cornerstones of our culture. It is how we describe ourselves, our thoughts and beliefs, as well as how we understand the feelings and emotions of others. Likewise, it is how we get work completed, learn, and move through other tasks. The quality of our communication can greatly influence our relationships …
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Mental health disorders were once considered a death sentence. Even as recently as the 1960s, those who showed any signs of a mental disorder were locked away in an asylum. These people never received proper treatment and were simply forgotten. Thankfully, those days are long gone. Facilities all over the world, like the Clear Recovery …
It must have been the Cosmic Tweezers that brought me to the Woodstock Festival. It was early in the summer of 1969 when their sudden and unexpected arrival landed me in Upstate New York to begin a summer job that would change my life forever. It was not the first time, but certainly the most …
MOON OVER NEW YORK From the 86th floor of the Empire State Building I view the great night scene of New York. I see New York City from Hamilton Park, New Jersey The coyote howls in the Arizona desert. The same moon I saw in the desert is Now on the left corner of New …
One-person pieces are often the hardest type of theater to bring off. Live stage work depends on conflict and no matter how talented a performer is, convincingly creating character and/or principle clashes while flying solo is a prodigious task few can handle with dexterity. There’s also the heightened economic stakes of theatre these days. Audiences …
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The world is at a critical moment Architecture by itself can not generate the many solutions that is able to offer without a politically supported global plan. Enlightened and moral leadership is badly needed. “The only safeguard Democracy can have is a free, morally enlightened fearless minority. Fear is the real danger in any democracy.” …
A festival mixes it up in Santa Monica, responding to a silent film classic downtown, family-friendly tap dance in Brentwood; women’s suffrage meets female choreographers in Hollywood, ballet by ones and twos in Costa Mesa, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. Summer guests Every summer, the respected pre-professional training company Festival Ballet presents some …
YOSEMITE Your features are hazy, a collection of textures and clips of color I can recall the bursts of green and sepia, blues and greys, Accented by unique formations of rock and abstracted stripes of bark The moss that covered your floor and the bright stars that speckled your sky The air that smelled of …
It was the 50thanniversary of one of the most audience-friendly shows at the Hollywood Bowl: The Tchaikovsky Spectacular with Fireworks! This year, the English conductor Bramwell Tovey lead the inspired and sparkling Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra with elegance, precision and virtuosity. But the real stars of the evening were the fireworks that make this event …
By degrees To go from the patio of a great classic pile to the rushing St Lawrence river, a transition by degrees is necessary to “ritualize” the approach and allow the senses to gradually adapt, from architectural to natural scale and environment. As the above image shows these degrees do step down two grassy slopes that …
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