Elizabeth Gilbert is back with the sequel to her popular Eat, Pray, Love memoir. She’s touring promoting the new book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage and will be passing through San Rafael, Culver City, and L.A. next week. $40 includes a signed book.
Gretchen Rubin talks about her book The Happiness Project at Books, Inc. in Berkeley [...]

The Electric Daisy Festival in Los Angeles is going on this weekend, though I prefer to go to Create: Fixate. I’m sorry to be missing Tortured Soul there, a less-known band funk band from Brooklyn that mixes drumming over electronic sounds. Look for Bamboo DNA installations there, along with lots of awesome costumes and of [...]

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I stumbled into very interesting people at a fantastic dinner party in Santa Barbara recently, thanks to an invite from my friend Hannah Apricot. Among them: a Canadian man who’d spent a month at Harbin Hot Springs, a firy acupuncturist and her partner who spoke openly about how Landmark Education helped heal [...]

Last September was the launch of the new Yoga Month campaign by the Yoga Health Foundation, which aims to get the word out on yoga and its health benefits, bringing it to a national level as a health observance. Yoga Month imitates Dance Week, striving to get teachers across U.S. cities to offer free classes.
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No place better than Bodhi Tree Bookstore to start the new year on a spiritual note. The bookstore celebrated its 35th anniversary not that long ago. It has an online store and lots of workshops, though I didn’t see any that caught my eye. I did get caught up in all the beautiful wind chimes! [...]