Skirball Cultural Center

Gary Baseman's Love Letter to the Fairfax District (and L.A.)

Top 3 Weekend Food Events: Baltimore Pit Beef BBQ, Early St. Paddy's Pub Crawl the Jewish Connection to Chocolate

Jews on the Chocolate Trail Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz will share the history of Jews in the early chocolate trade, including tales of "how Jews, pre-Columbians, Catholics and Protestants all connected through chocolate's religious rituals and narratives." Prinz also will sign copies of her new book, O ... More >>

I Just Called to Say, "Go Fuck Yourself"

From Abe to Aliens: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

This week's list of special event movies ranges from a James Cameron classic to Henry Fonda's take on the 16th president.

10 Political Things to Do in L.A. Before (and After) the Election

This year's election has the public voting for everyone from Roseanne Barr to Hello Kitty, with Mitt Romney's Binders of Women the projected costume-winner for Halloween. While the 2012 presidential election is the biggest reason people are hitting the polls, we all know that local campaigns can be ... More >>

The Candidate

Zombies and Mummies: 
Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see includes some evidence of Halloween creeping in: Thursday, Oct. 18 Andrew Shea's thriller of a documentary, Portrait of Wally, traces the legal journey of the titular 1912 painting by Austrian artist Egon Schiele of then-17-year-old Valerie "Wally" Ne ... More >>

Alaev in the Family

Mah Jonng is Your Jongg

The Ettes, Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Benefit for Nick Curran

Also, Kendrick Lamar, the Punk Rock BBQ, Katy B and others

'Scuse Me While I Kiss My Squeezebox

Falling James' Gig of the Week: Autolux at the Skirball Cultural Center, 7/8

Falling James​There were some impressively mighty, fearsomely mechanized sounds emanating from the Sepulveda Pass on Friday night, and not all of them were from the army of construction workers digging holes into the mountainside in anticipation of Carmageddon. The local alt-rock trio Autolux ... More >>

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Magicians: Marketing Lessons (and Lots of Handcuffs) from the Era of Houdini

Collection of Ken Trombly, Bethesda, Maryland. Photo by Dean A. Beasom.​ You wouldn't think, in an era before movies, TV, or even radio, that it would take much convincing to get people to a magic show. Even the cups and balls routine must have been a thrilling alternative to singing in rounds ... More >>

ATONE AT HOME

Music Picks: Circa Survive, Joanna Newsom, El-P, Roots Roadhouse

Also, Scorpions, Viza, the Park and others

Zócalo Seafood Discussion Tonight: Maybe Eat Sushi Another Night

Anne Fishbeintoro, yellowtail, uni, albacore, wild scallop at Kiyokawa​ A reminder to maybe put down your chopsticks (omakase) and your TV remote (CNN) tonight and consider heading over to the Skirball Center for the Zócalo discussion: Will Seafood Soon Be a Delicacy? Jonathan Gold, his brot ... More >>

Will Seafood Soon Become a Delicacy?: A Zócalo Discussion with Jonathan Gold

Jonathan Gold has recommended ordering dishes such as Urasawa's high-priced and rare Fugu sashimi as one of the 99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die, and has reviewed classic edo-mae sushi at Takami, as well as countless other seafood dishes around town. But on July 7th, Gold won't be talking abo ... More >>

Superstar of David (Guest Bloggers: The "Jews on Vinyl" Project)

[Ed.'s Note: Roger Bennett and Josh Kun are the masterminds behind the amazing Jews on Vinyl project, where they have digged deep to retell the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s. Their projects include a blog, a book and a traveling museum exhibit which is coming to LA's S ... More >>

Bagels and Bongos! (Guest Bloggers: The "Jews on Vinyl" Project)

[Ed.'s Note: Roger Bennett and Josh Kun are the masterminds behind the amazing Jews on Vinyl project, where they have digged deep to retell the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s. Their projects include a blog, a book and a traveling museum exhibit which is coming to LA's S ... More >>

Guest Bloggers: The "Jews on Vinyl" Project

​Roger Bennett and Josh Kun are the masterminds behind the amazing Jews on Vinyl project, where they have digged deep to retell "the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s, weaving an account that begins with sacred songs and ends with the triumvirate of Neil Diamond, Bar ... More >>

Where the Elite Meet to Turn You Off Meat

Ruth Reichl Talks Gourmet: A Zocalo 'Celebration'

For all of you who've been crying over your old copies of Gourmet since the magazine folded in October, get an umbrella and get out of the house this evening. Evan Kleiman is moderating a Zócalo-sponsored talk celebrating Gourmet at the Skirball Center tonight at 7:30 p.m. Former Gourmet editor Rut ... More >>

Sex, Lies and Videotape

All at once, if that’s how you like it: What to do June 12-18

Jewish Boys and Comic Books: Zap! Pow! Bam! The Golden Age of Comic Books at the Skirball

View more photos of superhero and comic book rarities in the "Golden Age of Comics" slideshow. There is a pretty amazing collection at the Skirball Cultural Center's new exhibit "Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950." Some stuff on display just blew my mind, like ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Prince Performs Post-Oscars Party, Golden Age of Comic Books Exhibit, Mindshare LA, Mardi Gras at Farmers Market, The Game at Club Nokia

Academy Awards weekend in L.A. is madness so rather than exhaust ourselves party hopping the typical Oscar bashes, L.A. Weekly opted to check out what the rest the city had to offer. We indulged our inner geek at Skirball Cultural Center's new exhibit "Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of ... More >>

GO L.A.: Survival of the Fittest: Persian Comics, Russian Avant-Garde, Darwin's 200th and Some Tango

What's going down in L.A., January 30-February 5

Ajax and Philoctetes in San Diego

The U.S. Marine Corps Discovers the Greeks

Rock Picks: Rupa & the April Fishes, Gnarls Barkley, Emmylou Harris

Also, Black Kids, Chromeo, Alejandro Escovedo

Poet Billy Collins Charms the Skirball Crowd

Valentino, Luchadore You!

What to do in L.A., Feb. 8-14

Look Back

Everybody Do the Medulla Oblongata!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze

For the week of August 9 – 16

Rock Picks: The Slits, Squiddo, Electrocute

For the week of August 2 - 9

Mods & Rejects

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Ascots and Madness

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Celebreality

Glenn and the Art of Locomotive Transformation

You Say You Want a Resolution

I'm With Cupid

Eyes Opened Eyes Closed

Two CalArts-sponsored mash-ups celebrated MOCA's "Visual Music" exhibit

The Battle of a Band

Maetar explodes a world of funky stuff

Einstein’s Sky

Of saints and scientists

Getting Out of Town

Terry Allen and his chicken-fried Gesamtkunstwerk

Light and Shadowing

Viva la Revoluçion

Sound and sedition at the LAMC

Freudian Slippers

And other artifacts from the archetypal couch

A Sleek and Brilliant Monster

David Foster Wallace comes clean

These Just In

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