According to a recent LA Times article there is “an explosion” of one-man and one-woman shows around town: 25 solo shows in 2003; last year, at least 54.
“We like to hear personal intimate insights that we can connect to,” says Jean-Louis Rodrigue, who teaches theater at UCLA. Rodrigue worked with Heather Raffo on her highly [...]

Religious belief and passion fuel much art and literature. One recent example is the film based on The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis.
Composer Richard Wagner said in his essay “Religion and Art” (1880) : “One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.”
Anne [...]

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.”
Janis Joplin [quoted in the Changing Course newsletter]
But we may often do that: compromise, stifle ourselves, shut down what we are capable of.
“You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don’t do it… A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating [...]

A number of us have conflicted feelings about power - having it, using it, trying to get more, how to define it for ourselves. Is it primarily control of others and situations? Or the capability to lead, and effect positive change, both outward and inner?
Mary McDonnell costars in the Sci Fi Channel series “Battlestar Galactica” [...]

What is this compulsive urge to pursue, have and wish others happiness?
In his book The Art of Happiness, The Dalai Lama claims “Whether one believes in religion or not, the very purpose of our life, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.”
But many of us aren’t so sure. In his review [LA Times [...]