While attending the Wiesenthal Center's National Tribute Dinner, I was introduced to a man named Luis Urzua. You may not know the name, but you surely know his heroic story.
New findings say that one in every 20 Americans is now a cancer survivor. Because of this, modern medicine must deliver new types of care to provide for the increased number of cancer survivors.
The central character in Fin Kennedy's How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found might be a dead man. Asleep in a life that probably seemed like a dream in his early youth.
The healthy feelings of giving, of connecting in person, and coming together with our peers to do good cannot be replaced by texting, emailing, or clicking on a link that gives a penny to a charitable cause.
For those who don't see much live music, increasingly what you witness as you stare towards today's stages is a cascade of sleek black smartphones pointed at stages.
"L'Allegro" is an ensemble piece which explodes across the stage in a series of 32 short scenes. There are no sets to speak of, and no story, but each scene works the way a short poem works, or a song.
I knew seeing Sophia Loren on the red carpet at the Academy Tribute was going to be a great, but I had no idea this iconic role model could still inspire me to feel good about being a woman now, at my age.
Neumann's latest work captures the raw, unstaged moments that create the American experience. Whether he is shooting on large format camera or simply an iPhone, his photography connects with the truth in life.
The public has a right to be protected from environmental impacts and to expect developers to follow zoning laws and codes.
In the course of helping organize a local movement to save one of the last remaining mom and pops in my town of Malibu, California, I have been given the opportunity to reflect upon what defines a business as "successful."
Although charter schools are unencumbered by the district rules and red-tape that often restricts their public counterparts, the sad truth is that at least some charters squander their advantage.
My mother was (and still is) an expert at giving The Look. It seems that as a child, any time I'd even think about acting up in her presence, her eyes were on me with The Look.
Places like The Comedy Store, Laugh Factory, and Improv have been safe havens for these talented and often self-deprecating live performance artists to try out new material before hitting the road.
This week, Loren was honored by AMPAS at their Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. What I came away with was how extraordinary a talent this woman was, with a range of performances probably unrivaled in film history.
Are you trying to destroy any chance for comprehensive immigration reform for the next 10 years? Based on your words and actions over the last two years, it sure seems that the answer is "yes."
One moment we were imagining ourselves living the fairy tale like William and Kate, and in the next we were imagining what we would do if we lost everything.
We can't solve California's fiscal disaster without addressing the foreclosure crisis. It doesn't make sense to make severe cuts to state and local budgets only to allow Wall Street banks and their overpaid CEOs to drain billions more from our states.
