Victor Caballero
This blog is written by Victor Caballero. I write about a wide variety of topics ranging from music to community events to energy.

  Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 7:30pm Skirball Cultural Center Magnin Auditorium 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Los Angeles, CA  90049 6:30pm   Reception; cash bar & snacks 7:30pm   Screening, Something Blue 9:00pm   More cash bar, schmoozing $5 suggested donation at the door RSVP (requested but not required) by sending an email here Exit I-405 (from north […]

Something to consider, just 24 hours of unplugging and learn about 10 Principles to observe at least once a week. Visit the Skirball Cultural Center for your very own Cell Phone Sleeping Bag on Saturday, March 24. https://blog.skirball.org/2012/03/manifesto-a-no-go-or-a-manifestivus-for-the-rest-of-us/#more-1566

NURIYA Thursday, August 11, 8:00 p.m. (Doors open at 7:00 p.m.) ADMISSION FREE; no reservations Limited seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking: $10 per car (cash only) Carpooling encouraged • Street parking strictly prohibited Or take Metro Rapid 761 ——————————————————————————– ABOUT THE PROGRAM Nuriya combines sizzling Spanish vocals with rumba flamenco, Afro-Cuban drumming, Arabic […]

Thursday, August 4 Limited seating on a first-come, first-served basis YEMEN BLUES Be dazzled by this band’s groundbreaking revitalization of Yemenite Jewish musical traditions. Founded by rising star and charismatic Yemenite Israeli vocalist Ravid Kahalani and arranger/bassist Omer Avital, the nine-member Yemen Blues plays an ebullient mix of traditional Yemenite Jewish melodies, American blues, jazz, […]

Houdini – Art of Magic Opens at Skirball Los Angeles @Skirball_LA The excitement has been building for months as many Houdini fans and those who love magic have anticipated the opening of the Houdini – Art of Magic at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Today and every Thursday you can get in for FREE. […]

Beloved actor (Cheers, Bored to Death) and longtime environmental activist Ted Danson stops by the Skirball to discuss his book Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them. Danson is a founder of the influential nonprofit organization American Oceans Campaign, serves on the board of Oceana, and has testified before the […]

Houdini: Art and Magic is a traveling exhibition exploring the career and legacy of magician, escape artist, and showman extraordinaire Harry Houdini (1874­–1926). Organized by The Jewish Museum, New York, the exhibition uses biographical and historical artifacts to relate Houdini’s story. Among more than 150 objects are original costumes and props, stunning period posters, dramatic […]

A very charming exhibition just opened this week at the Skirball in L.A. and will remain on view through February 13, 2011. Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) is the first museum survey of the work of Maira Kalman (b. 1949 Tel Aviv), an illustrator, author, and designer known for her whimsical yet […]

This morning we are learning that pages from the Nuremberg Laws are being handed over to the National Archives. These papers carried by Gen. George Patton out of Germany illegally  and given to Huntington are being turned over to the government-run National Archives. “Had General Patton not taken these documents, they would have been part of […]