(From the Best of State of the Arts - Original Air Date: January 24, 2011) Sterling and

Stroili talk high and low tech about computers and the internet. Top TV producer/writer Maxine Lapiduss

(Roseanne, Home Improvement, Foxworthy, Ellen, Dharma & Greg) is interviewed about her love of singing

and stand-up comedy, and her return to performing. The Live Arts Calendar features the hysterical and

stirring adventure Cyrano at the Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica, CA. and Traces, an acrobatic spectacle

of circus, physical theatre, music and dance at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling reviews

Louis Van Amstel's Ballroom with a Twist at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Successful television

actor Blair Hickey discusses his entrepreneurial skills as the co-founder of CastingAbout.com, and gives

proactive advice to actors about how to promote themselves during TV "pilot" season. Lapiduss and Hickey

their reveal worst career experiences.