Spotlight on Medicine: Torrance Memorial Medical Center Holiday Festival of the Trees Gala
The 41st Annual Holiday Festival Gala at Torrance Memorial was an extraordinary evening of giving, raising $2.1 million to support the hospital’s Emergency Department expansion. Held in a beautifully decorated 23,000-square-foot tent, the event featured gourmet dining, live and silent auctions, and 32 dazzling holiday trees. A highlight of the night was the announcement of […]
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“Dimanche” at the Broad Stage pleases and provokes by Bondo Wyszpolski I received an extra graduate degree at UCLA simply by attending dozens and dozens of theatrical and musical performances in Royce Hall, Schoenberg Hall, and the Freud Playhouse. Most of these took place a very long time ago but I was thinking of them […]
Ask Dr. Allen: Why we help other people
One may ask, how does it benefit me to help someone else? Our culture continually sends messages about what we need, what we don’t have, what we should get. We get stuck in a cycle of feeling empty. We don’t measure up to what we see on TV and the internet. As a result many […]