Recently a wonderful book came across my desk called “Awearness: Inspiring Stories About How to Make a Difference,” by clothing designer and humanitarian Kenneth Cole. The book is a compilation of essays by such well known celebrity-activists as Elton John, Jane Fonda, Lance Armstrong, Jon Bon Jovi, Ludacris, and more, on different issues–environmentalism, homelessness, education,…

If you are like me–obsessed with Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight Series” and eagerly anticipating the film version of book one, “Twilight,” then you’ll be happy to know that Entertainment Weekly is doing a three-issue feature (with “collectable covers”) as the release day approaches (in theaters November 21).

At the Celebration of Jewish Books this weekend in Los Angeles, actor Evan Handler was making his 11th stop on an 18-city book tour in promotion of his new book, “It’s Only Temporary: The Good News and Bad News of Being Alive.” Handler, perhaps best known for his “Sex and the City” character Harry Goldenblatt,…

In this scene from the upcoming vampire movie “Twilight”–which opens in theaters on November 21st–main character Bella Swan has a lunchroom encounter with the mysterious Edward Cullen.

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