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  • Originally just 20-acres, the LA National Cemetery opened as one of 11 facilities operated by the Veterans Administration on lands shared with national veterans' homes or asylums for disabled soldiers. It was dedicated in 1889, and through the years has expanded to more than 100 acres. Those interred there are war veterans from the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, and other American conflicts.
    We Remember and Pay Tribute - Off-Ramp 5-28-11
    An Off-Ramp Memorial Day Special ... the youngest man on the list remembers Oskar Schindler ... Louis Zamperini, torpedoed, remembers life on a raft in the Pacific and in a Japanese POW camp ... Kevin Ferguson's Grandma and the USS Indianapolis ... an Iraqi vet remembers ... stories from Vietnam War correspondents and photojournalists ... helping grieving Marine families cut through the red tape ...
  • Highland Park was chosen by Redfin as the top "up-and-coming" neighborhood in the US.
    Bright Lights, Big City - Off-Ramp for May 21, 2011
    EatLA talks perfect pizza and LA's best Chinese food ... Highland Park reactivates a neighborhood treasure ... Hard Times ...
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  • Actor and writer David Dean Bottrell, with Off-Ramp host John Rabe.
    David Dean Bottrell on Off-Ramp for November 5, 2011
    David Dean Bottrell of "Boston Legal" in person ... getting to the bottom of Echo Park Lake ... Edith Head Lives! ... A Noise Within's new home ... the Magic Castle's Medium ... first CD of Disney Hall organ ... Cambodian-American rapper Prach Ly of Long Beach ... Hard-edge painter Karl Benjamin ...
  • Orson Welles (1915-1985) opens the Caesar awards in Paris in 1982. Welles' radio career is the subject of "Airborne," a new documentary produced for Off-Ramp by R.H. Greene.
    Off-Ramp documentary "Airborne: A Life in Radio with Orson Welles" for October 29, 2011
    Off-Ramp special documentary "Airborne: A Life in Radio with Orson Welles," from R.H. Greene.
  • The LA-based United Productions of America animation house changed the face of animation and heavily influenced design. So how come, animation expert Charles Solomon asks on this week's Off-Ramp, isn't UPA featured in Pacific Standard Time?
    Up! with UPA on Off-Ramp - 10-22-11
    Solomon boosts UPA ... Pacific Standard Time and the Long Beach Museum of Art's pioneering video art ... a great sound piece from Steven Cuevas ... IUD's make a comeback ... Vets speak out at KPCC's Crawford Family Forum ...
  • From the LA Public Library online photo collection, a lovely shot that makes Rabe want to relax in the corner with a very cold gin martini (2 olives) and watch the patrons come in. This was Romanoff's in Beverly Hills, which closed in 1962, run by the famous Michael Romanoff, who pretended to be Russian royaly, but was actually a Brooklyn pants presser. Let's here it for the pressers among us!
    Off-Ramp's audio cocktail - 10-15-2011
    Spend a day with Huell Howser ... Pacific Standard Time: LA's art history with Judy Chicago and De Wain Valentine's monolith ... young birder uses public transit ... Thos Guides remembered, and they're not even dead ...
  • A scene from the Great Depression. During KPCC's fall fund drive, we're helping people hit by the Great Recession, by partnering with the LA Regional Food Bank.
    Feeding the Hungry on Off-Ramp - 10-8-2011
    KPCC listeners near 1,000,000 meals for hungry ... new book reviews ethnic spas ... fighting bullying with jiu-jitsu ... CyberFrequencies marks the Afghanistan War's 10th anniversary ... Hard Times and child care ... Brian Watt and Frank Stoltze, KPCC reporters, get real ...
  • Pacific Standard Time, Off-Ramp (10-1-11) Style
    Pacific Standard Time - almost 70 art exhibits over six months - proves LA's place in history of Modern Art ... Jim Meskimen and his 75 celebrity impressions ... the Wende Museum in Culver City preserves Cold War history ... Are you prepared for The Big One? Probably not ... "Andy Rooney" reminisces ...
  • Hard Times Get Harder - Off-Ramp 9-24-11
    LA Regional Food Bank, barometer of poverty ... UCLA Anderson: years of hard times ahead ... Great Wall mural restoration in Valley ... Rabe blows shofar for Rosh Hashanah ... MoLAA's Pacific Standard Time exhibit shows Mexican influences ...
  • Denise Hamilton's new novel, Damage Control.
    Special: Denise Hamilton on "Damage Control" - Off-Ramp 9-20-11
    For our online listeners and podcast subscribers (you subscribe, don't you?), KPCC's John Rabe goes in-depth with "Damage Control" author Denise Hamilton in a special Off-Ramp podcast.
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