It is hard to believe it’s been a month since the show closed. I miss seeing the ever changing piles each day. More importantly, I miss the incredible members of Stan’s Cafe.
I’ll be back to post some additional photos and comments from visitors to the show.
Thanks to all who visited and shared this incredible experience [...]

Holiday Schedule

There’s just a little more than a week left to see Stan’s Cafe’s Of All the People in All the World at the Skirball Cultural Center!
 We’re open regular hours this weekend.  To help plan your holiday visits, our hours next week are:
 Closed Monday, December 24
Closed Tuesday, December 25
Wednesday, December 26 from 12-5
Thursday, December 27 [...]

Have you seen the show this week?

The show is looking great, it has expanded and changed over the past two weeks. I was away for almost a week and was delighted to see “the new stuff” on my walkthrough yesterday!

If you have seen Of All the People in All the World, let us hear from you! Feel free to add your [...]

Tuesday report

The day began with a workshop with students from Canterbury Avenue High School. This was great fun and as last year very enlightening about American/L.A. culture for us Brits. Part of the workshop involves a fun game where we ask the group questions about themselves such as “Who is wearing jeans?” “Who has a cell [...]

Sunday blog from James

The Skirball’s Hanukkah program meant a big happy crowd milling round the centre listening to bands and enjoying a host of family based activities. Away down the corridors things were quieter for us with the rice. Occasionally large groups, like the excellent Omega crowd, made it down, but mostly the room was just steadily attended.
We [...]

Saturday report from James of Stan’s Cafe

We love doing this show in Los Angeles because people tend to be so open with their thoughts and feelings. Skeptics march directly up to you why they are skeptical. Often they’ve not understood that we have a good measure of the grains contained in a gram. They realise the show is far more accurate [...]

Have You Seen the Show? Tell us what you think!

We’d love to hear from visitors who have seen the show in the first few days. Please feel free to add your comment to this post. Comments are moderated, so they won’t appear immediately. We will, however, post them as soon as we are able.  Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

A Word from Stan’s Cafe’s Artistic Director

I am pleased to share remarks from yesterday’s opening event from Stan’s Cafe’s Artistic Director James Yarker.
“Of All the People In All the World was first performed in 2003, since then it has been around the UK, across Europe and introduced Stan’s Cafe to North America and Australia. The show has become dear to us as [...]

Opening Day!

Stan’s Cafe’s Of All the People in All the World: The Americas is now open at Skirball! I am going to check out the exhibition now. We’ll have more reports and photos later!

News from Free Rice site: Double Donations!

I went back to the FreeRice site this morning (it has become a habit!) and learned this news. Here’s a quote from the site:
For its first seven weeks, FreeRice gave 10 grains of rice for each correct answer. On November 28, 2007, we were able to increase this to 20 grains. We hope to be [...]