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Making Sure the Kids Are Alright
The Skirball is full of parents. I see them pushing strollers, picking up sippy cups, and chaperoning elementary school groups. But I have a hunch that another set of parents is lurking in the shadows....
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The Wheels on the Bus: From Boyle Heights to Beverlywood
The ark at the Breed Street Shul, one stop during our recent Jewish Homegrown History Bus Tour. I grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and like many Angelenos, I came here as an adult. At this point in...
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Dear Digital Age: I Love You, But You Are No Pen and Paper
Click here to sign up and join me for the hands-on writing workshop Let’s Get Personal: The Art of Letter Writing—Saturday, October 27. Don’t forget your address book! This blog post was written by...
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Behind the Scenes
The Skirball’s Learning for Life program is always looking for new and fun ways to engage adult learners. When UCLA instructor Marc Milstein approached me about teaching a course explaining the science...
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Anne Frank Redux: From Concept to Course
I am a cultural consumer. I like to attend movies, concerts, plays, and museum exhibitions. I read multiple publications, both print and online, in order to know what is happening around town. All of...
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Reading the The New Guard: Twenty-First-Century American Jewish Fiction
I met Taly Ravid when I enrolled in her course “Anne Frank Redux,” offered earlier this year through the Skirball’s Learning for Life program. In that course, Taly led fascinating sessions that...
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Do It Yourself at diy days
diy days @ the Skirball is inspired by Moshe Safdie’s design strategies for the future of the global city. Here is one of his proposals for quality, affordable housing for the new millennia. The scale...
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A Teacher Becomes Part of the Family
Getting to know the animals at Noah’s Ark at the Skirball, including this adolescent mountain gorilla. Photo courtesy of Kristin Welch Zurek, pictured here. I lived in Los Angeles for fourteen years...
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A Noir View of Los Angeles
In celebration of the new exhibitions Light & Noir: Exiles and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950 and The Noir Effect, we asked photographer Helen K. Garber—who has several pieces on display in The...
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