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It's not a big, flashy holiday or a momentous occasion. If author Cesca Major could do it all over, she'd choose the most ordinary of moments. Here's why.

“Grey” is an apt qualifier for the house in Levi Holloway’s play. For one, like Holloway’s ghost story, the color is eerie; the hue is associated with fog, drear, and mystery. But grey also suggests a vague middle ground, neither black nor white. En route to her father’s home, Max (Tatiana Maslany) and her husband Henry (Paul Sparks) are driving between two places—wherever they came from and wherever they are heading, locations that are never fully defined. The house they stumble into is an in-between.

I've lived in the very heart of Ireland for just over a year, now. My partner and I crossed that meandering, century-old Border just as 2019 began its shape-shifting into the year that would be 2020. We were leaving a house in Derry, something I seem to have spent most of my life doing - but this time I was leaving through choice - for reasons other than violence or pain. I was moving to a place where I might finally learn how to stay.

Ritual is an ancient and pervasive aspect of life on planet Earth. Rituals are both the products of existing communities and the wombs out of which new communities emerge.

A 'Bug's Life'-inspired exhibit opens in Hollywood while USC welcomes the annual L.A. Times Festival of Books this weekend.