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A negative mindset can be detrimental not only to your mental health, but also to the decisions you’re making about your future.

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. To all those who had tickets for or planned on getting some for “An Evening With Sutton Foster,” scheduled for March 21 at Copley Symphony Hall but obviously canceled, take heart. I’ve got a consolation prize for you. For 35 bucks, you can watch New York City Center Digital’s presentation of “Sutton Foster / Bring Me to Light.” It’s an hour’s worth of the Broadwa...

ONE of Northwich’s best-known characters was Joe Allman. He had an old junk shop near the bottom of Winnington Hill. The shop dates to 1630, when it was built as two cottages. When turned into a shop, it was one of the oldest buildings in Northwich and had a thatched roof. Joe was well known as ‘Old Joe’ and had traded there for 57 years, with the shop being crammed with junk of all sorts. He bought the shop in 1904; before that, he traded from Cross Street. The poor and not s...

Gina Frangello gives an intimate account of love, betrayal and the female body Issued on: ENCORE! © FRANCE 24 14 min From Eve and her apple to Madame Bovary or the Scarlet Letter, stories of adulterous women have long fascinated and scandalised readers, with most heroines meeting a tragic end. Yet author Gina Frangello wanted to avoid telling a cautionary tale with a neat and happy ending, as she recounted the events that shook u...

The Blues Album , the third and final installment of the bands "Red, White and Blues" trilogy of themed retrospective albums. The 14-track collection features remixed and remastered versions of blues-rock-flavored songs from Whitesnakes back catalog spanning from 1984 through 2011, as well as one tune from frontman David Coverdale s 2000 solo album, Into the Light . The Blues Album , like those on the trilogys other two compilations, The Rock Album , have given "a really co...

This past week, Whitesnake released a new compilation called The Blues Album , the third and final installment of the band's "Red, White and Blues" tr...

The Blues Album , the third and final installment of the bands "Red, White and Blues" trilogy of themed retrospective albums. The 14-track collection features remixed and remastered versions of blues-rock-flavored songs from Whitesnakes back catalog spanning from 1984 through 2011, as well as one tune from frontman David Coverdale s 2000 solo album, Into the Light . The Blues Album , like those on the trilogys other two compilations, The Rock Album , have given "a really co...

Credit Limit Lowered? 4 Things You Can Do Right Now to Fix It You have the power to get your credit limit back where you need it to be. If you’ve had to lean on a credit card recently to cover expenses, discovering your credit card company decreased your limit is likely unwelcome news. Unfortunately, that’s the case for 1 in 4 American credit cardholders who’ve reported that their issuer slashed the limit on at least one of their cards — or closed the card — according to a study by Co...

Listen • 11:10 Béla Fleck performs at the Celtic Connections Festival at The Old Fruit Market on Jan. 24, 2016 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Ross Gilmore/Redferns/Getty Images) Banjo great Béla Fleck’s “Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions” reissue has been nominated for Best Historical Album at the Grammy Awards. Back in 2005, the now 62-year-old acclaimed musician went to Africa to explore the origins of the banjo. Fleck toured through Uganda, Tanzania, G...

New Book: This is the BBC Holmes Service John Holmes appears to be throwing down a challenge in his recently published autobiography, ‘This Is the BBC Holmes Service’. “No one could possibly have enjoyed a more varied career in the BBC than me,” he boasts. Just his production work at BBC Radio 4 shows considerable depth, having worked on such cornerstones of the output as, Any Questions?, Any Answers?, The Natural History Programme and Down Your Way. Highlights here inclu...