How to Approach a Grieving Jew
Grief erases all regular rules. All the logic that has ever seemed to govern one\’s life suddenly seems useless. More than useless, it seems pointless.
Grief erases all regular rules. All the logic that has ever seemed to govern one\’s life suddenly seems useless. More than useless, it seems pointless.
Here\’s what I used to know about Mike Einziger: that when he was 9, he played on the same soccer team as my good friend Mike; that he was the only kid in my second-grade class who could breakdance; that his mom makes great pizza bagels; and that he went to Calabasas High School. Well, that and the fact that he\’s now the Jewfro-sporting guitarist for the multiplatinum-selling rock band Incubus.
\”I avoid cliches,\” artist Mark Podwal said of his \”A Sweet Year\” exhibit. His witty, poetic new show at the Skirball Cultural Center, subtitled \”A Taste of the Jewish Holidays,\” instead offers food for thought.