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2007-04-24 | Announcement and description of new independent feature film "Change of Life" and how it is relevant to the racism and bigotry that exists today in our society as evidenced by recent racist comments from well known celebrities.

2007-03-23 | It will be "a killer whale of a launch party" on Saturday, April 7, as author Cheryl Kaye Tardif's highly anticipated assisted suicide novel Whale Song hits the shelves.

2007-02-28 | Learn the facts about traumatic brain injury and how personal injury litigation can compensate you for your losses.

2007-02-27 | The author will be appearing at the Orpheum Theater on April 21, from noon to 1:30. Book-signing at the LA Times Festival of the Book is on the UCLA Campus on April 28th, sponsored by he Author's Coalition, Booth #610 Zone F

2007-02-02 | Learn about the severe life-long effects of traumatic brain injury. There are things you can do to prevent TBI, and ways to receive appropriate compensation for those who are already suffering.

2007-01-15 | A person's right to die has been the focus of many movies and books over the years, including the award winning film Million Dollar Baby and the highly anticipated 2007 release of Whale Song, the 'assisted suicide novel' by Canadian author Cheryl Kaye Tardif.

2007-01-02 | In five months, the infamous 'Dr. Death' will be released from prison and will be on probation for two years, where Jack Kevorkian will be closely monitored and expected to fulfill his promise to the court to not participate in any way in any assisted suicide.

2006-12-14 | Canadian mystery author Cheryl Kaye Tardif is getting ready to put on "the biggest and best book launch Edmonton has ever seen". On April 7, 2007, The Whale Song Book Launch ~ A KILLER Whale of a Launch Party will celebrate the release of her controversial and haunting novel Whale Song.

2006-11-30 | Twenty years ago, it was a script. Now, it is a novel. Next year, it will become a script once again. "My dream in 1985 was to see this story portrayed on the big screen," says Milton Stern, author of ON TUESDAYS, THEY PLAYED MAH JONGG. "And, for more than twenty years, I held on to that dream."

2006-11-20 | The British medical agency MHRA will soon issue new warnings for Strattera but didn't care to investigate the reported 12000 "psychiatric reactions" from the drug. And even if number of reports of suicidality has doubled since last year the MHRA has accepted the PR-analysis of Eli Lilly as its own.

2006-11-11 | The novel "Edges, O Israel, O Palestine" by Leora Skolkin-Smith and edited by Grace Paley will soon come to life in audio form. Tovah Feldshuh narrates an original audio edition, produced by three-time Peabody award winner, Marjorie Van Halteran. Directed by grammy award winner, Charles Potter.

2006-10-18 | CUBAN-AMERICAN OSCAR TORRE STARS IN LION'S GATE HEIST FILM "BANDOLEROS"

2006-09-17 | Drugs approved for Diabetes, Depression, Epilepsy, and ADHD are gaining dangerous, 'magic pill' status thanks to their weight loss side effects.

2006-08-19 | OSCAR TORRE TO STAR IN LION'S GATE FILM "Movidas"

2006-08-01 | In less than three years 10,988 adverse "psychiatric reactions" have been reported to Eli Lilly for the ADHD drug Strattera. This is revealed in a document treated as a "state secret" by the British and Swedish medical agencies.

2006-07-29 | Atavistik Pictures is announcing the release its new informative DVD, "Nutrition & Behavior" by neurosurgeon and author, Dr. Russell Blaylock. This new video discusses the mounting evidence that a person's nutrition can severly effect their mood and mental performance.

2006-07-23 | "Edges" is set in a pre-1967 Israel, during the Cold War. Characters are drawn from Israel's long-forgotten past, members of the 1940's Haganah and Jewish underground who find themselves displaced amidst the chaotic and complex tensions of an Israel just beginning to modernize and expand.

2006-07-18 | Leaders of a national union of freelance writers are lining up behind U.S. calls for an end to Arab-Israeli violence, putting the blame on "agents of terror who stockpile deadly missiles instead of libraries, classrooms and a future for their children."

2006-04-14 | Grace Paley writes: "EDGES takes the reader to an Israel before high walls formed a border, when, instead, metal wires hung "like hosiery lines" across the land.

2006-03-10 | The British Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has forbidden Swedish authorities to reveal Strattera suicide data. A release in Sweden of data about suicides and suicide attempts from Eli Lilly's Strattera is said to hurt the relations between the two countries.