The ten commandments
Well, more like suggestions – but they are good ones and we guarantee you'll love our alternative Holiday Top 10
The holidays already? Where did the time go? You know, some folks actually hate the holidays. Dickens wrote an entire book on the subject. You recall? Ebenezer and his “Bah, humbug!” Well, posh on Scrooge, for there's plenty of reason to celebrate the holidays in this part of the world, even if Southern California lacks winter.
ON STAGE
A dose of 'Ecstasy'
'Whirling Dervishes' celebrates 800th anniversary of the birth of poet-mystic Rumi
By Valerie Scher
CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC
Spinning like human tops, with billowing skirts and rapt expressions, Turkey's whirling dervishes seem to defy physical limitations. Unlike ballet dancers, they don't use the head-whipping “spotting” technique to avoid dizziness.
AT THE MOVIES
Monster's ball
'Beowulf' features an amazingly terrifying antagonist in the form of Grendel
By Arthur Salm
ARTS WRITER
You can't beat the source material. “Beowulf,” a largely digital sword and sorcery, monster and dragon 3-D (in some theaters) flick, is taken from that very same 3,183-line Old English epic poem we were all force-fed a few lines of in high school.
