This year’s Community Scholars class is broken into five project teams, each working on some aspect of the theme of a green economy. Last quarter…
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This weekend was more infused with art and music than any other this year, and I’m hoping that this is the sign of a wonderful…
So Mr. T and I have a lot in common. You probably didn’t know that, but it’s true. Apart from our shared love of mohawks,…
This year I’m celebrating Mother’s Day with a mashup about Julia Ward Howe a founding mother of U.S. Mother’s Day, and the astonishing Hissa Hilal,…
This Mothers’ Day I would like to pay special tribute to (you Mom, of course), but also to the women known as Las Madres de…
Recently, mystery and thriller writer Christopher Rice posted a piece on the Daily Beast’s book section entitled Why Crime Novelists Don’t Get Woman. You see,…
Gilda’s Gaming Adventure continues… Today I planned to share my experience with the 1970 board game, SMOG. But that’s not going to happen. For two…
by Julia Ward Howe, 1870 Arise then…women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!…
James Rojas is an urban planner who devotes a lot of his time to translating the impenetrable maps and language of land use planning into…
Gilda’s Gaming Adventure continues… Metropolis is another “German” game (see last week’s post which explains what German games are all about), that was released in…
Gilda’s Gaming Adventure continues… This game has nothing to do with the Havana of Che, Fidel, or the Buena Vista Social Club. “The revolution in…
Andrea Gibbons, among other things, established SAJE's Research Department with some path-breaking work that uncovered an invisible criminal slumlord empire just by digging into the information...
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Beautiful, bankrupt, volcano-spewing, Iceland should win the magical realism award of the century. Iceland is a tiny country. It is physically the size of Kentucky,…
Gilda’s Gaming Adventure continues… Monopoly City is yet another variation of the classic Monopoly game, and it continues the time-honored tradition for winning: whoever ends…
When thinking about urban environmental repair, there is perhaps no better place to start than in what may seem to be the most unlikely of…
The next bubble is bound to be green. Stock markets will rise and fall based on how people relate to new energy technologies. So why…
This Saturday, April 17, in honor of Earth Day, there will be activities in South L.A. This is a good thing, of course, as all…
poster Seth Tobocman While health insurance and bank lobbies vie for the comic-book-villain-of-the-year award, there is nothing more insidious than the invisible health threats that…
a poem If Only Cleverness Could Sustain Her The Earth is unconvinced by our arguments That She’s doing just fine, The ice caps remain skeptical…
Over the past few months, Rosten Woo and I have teamed up with Esperanza to create an online (and off-line) game to help familiarize people with zoning as a...
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