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  • Even though it makes him squint, "This Old House" host Kevin O'Connor loves the California sun. He's taking a lunch break in between scenes at a home renovation in Silverlake, and we talk with him this week on Off-Ramp.
    This Old House in Silverlake on Off-Ramp, 12/4/2010
    John visits This Old House's set - a home renovation in Silverlake - and talks with the show's founder, who also produced The French Chef and Victory Garden ... another OCMA Biennial artist ... Frank Romero is painting offramps and selling his Frogtown studio ... Mark Peel lamb bastes chicken breast ... Seth Menachem's mysinglepeeps.com -- like dating sites, but without the lies ...
  • Ernest Shackleton's ice-locked ship, the Endurance. John Rabe's documentary "Walking Out of History" tells the exciting story of the ship's doom, and her crew's salvation, in the early part of the 20th Century.
    Greatest Adventure Story: Shackleton on Off-Ramp 11-27-2010
    "Walking Out of History," John Rabe's NPR documentary about Sir Ernest Shackleton's 2-year odyssey on the Antarctic ice.
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  • October 14, 1959: King-size scissors used to cut ribbon for Technology Instrument Corp. plant in Rancho Conejo Light manufacturing Research Center, Thousand Oaks.
    Don't Run With Scissors! Off-Ramp - 4-23-2011
    LA County's ribbon-cutting scissors ... Dinner Party Download ... May Day rallies and Coming Out as illegal ... new folk rock singalong songs ... EatLA talks with Susan Feniger of Street Restaurant ...
  • "If you have tears to shed, prepare to shed them now" says Albert Rossi as he attacks an onion at Lincoln Heights jail kitchen. Photo dated: July 20, 1929.
    From Passover to Potholes - Off-Ramp 4-16-11
    Sanden Totten meets the mother of all potholes ... John Frame explains his new Huntington exhibit ... Nick Waterhouse's music ... Dinner Party Download ... Gary Leonard turns 60 with a big sale ... Passover in the Desert ...
  • Two fighters take part in a Dog Brothers event.
    Wham! Ouch! Stickfighting on Off-Ramp - 4-9-2011
    Chicano Batman ... CyberFrequencies ... ghosts of the past as Peruvians vote in LA ... downtown LA's power list ... downtown LA treasure: San Antonio Winery ... a stickfighting dojo ... Pato's response to the Friday haters ...
  • "High Wall," a 1947 film noir with Robert Taylor as an amnesiac World War Two vet. One of the selections in the 13th Annual Festival of Film Noir starting Friday at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre.
    A gun, a dame, and an innocent man. It's Off-Ramp - 4-2-11
    Noir film festival returns to The Egyptian ... The Angles on the Angels and the Dish on the Dodgers ... Peru Elections ... EatLA ... Dinner Party Download ... Play with Fire and Submit a Story for Burn This! ... Sam Slovick's gay teenage life, and new Slake short story: "Tommy Crow"
  • John Albert in Claremont, on the last non-suburban stretch of Baseline Boulevard. This is where he first heard Van Halen's "Eruption," and it would change his life. He writes about it in the new edition of Slake, LA's literary quarterly.
    Van Halen Memories - Off-Ramp 3-26-11
    Slake's John Albert remembers when Van Halen was groundbreaking and good ... Riding the Blue Line ... Poison or Pleasant - what is the plant in Kevin's backyard ... Bike Advocate ... Seth MacFarlane ticket winners singing with spoons ... Simon Cowell previews The X Factor ...
  • Southern California earthquake damage, 1971.
    Are YOU ready for the Big One? Off-Ramp 3-19-2011
    Disaster preparedness in SoCal ... Dinner Party Download ... Apollo, the Getty Villa's handsome but dangerous god ... Poppies return ... Running the LA Marathon ... Owsley Stanley remembered ... Seth MacFarlane SINGS ... Lomita's "Black Widow"
  • Maila Nurmi in the RH Greene documentary Schlock!
    "Vampira and Me" -- A special documentary from RH Greene - Off-Ramp 3-12-11
    Filmmaker and author R.H. Greene presents "Vampira and Me," a special documentary for Off-Ramp that tells the story of Maila Nurmi, creator of the cultural icon Vampira.
  • Hard Times and Columbo: Off-Ramp, Fundraising Edition - 3-5-2011
    This week: Columbo co-creator William Link, hard times for Marshelle Mills, underemployed mother of three and more!
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