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  • Off-Ramp for October 25, 2008
    Delmar Watson, L.A. Photojournalist, 82; Stick it to 'em; Dinner Party Download; Roky Erickson, Resurrected; R.I.P. Rosie the Riveter; Fiddling with Tradition; Meet Dracula, Jr.; Herbal Taste Test; High Stakes at Santa Anita; Emptying the Archives; Their Bubble Burst; Norwegian Black Metal; Don't Bite it, Lick it!; The Bible Props Up '8,' Really?
  • Off-Ramp for October 18, 2008
    She Healed the Bay; Dinner Party Download; Silver Seduction; He Made Jazz Visual; Violin Virtuoso; Voter Registration: Now or Never; Door-to-Door Democrat; (Fire)Fighter Pilots; All the Pretty Worn-Out Horses; No TV Coverage: Take Cover!; Haute Cuisine in Hard Times?; On the Fire Lines; The Bradley Non-Effect; Letters
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  • Luke Butler - Landing Party II. Now on Display at OCMA's California Biennial!
    Hard Times & Gwendoline Yeo - Off-Ramp 11-20-10
    Actress Gwendoline Yeo on her new one-woman show ... Off-Ramp's new series Hard Times meets Laurel Holliday, mother of three, living in a foreclosed house ... Marc Haefele: Not much new in Twain autobio, but a "magnificent browse" ... Luke Butler, OCMA Biennial artist and Trekkie ... Aztlan Underground ... Browsing 7th Street in Downtown LA ... Dinner Party Download meets actor Sally Hawkins
  • Gwendoline Yeo (L) and KPCC's John Rabe.
    Gwendoline Yeo Tells All on Off-Ramp (11-18-10)
    An intimate and bawdy conversation: Gwendoline Yeo and Off-Ramp host John Rabe on Yeo's new show, "Laughing With My Mouth Wide Open"
  • An old sign at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, which is now an art enclave. When it was industrial, was too much reading on the can a big problem? What were they reading?
    Martin Mull, painter, on Off-Ramp for 11-13-10
    Martin Mull's "Split Infinitives" exhibit opens in Santa Monica ... Frank Stoltze and Brian Watt say, "Send us your tired, your huddled donations, yearing to be free." ... Hard Times in SoCal ... The Best of Off-Ramp ... Dinner Party Download makes life better and you more interesting ...
  • Songwriters are either hams, or just concerned that SOMEONE performs their songs right ... or maybe both. Here's Hal David singing at the Grammy Museum's Songwriters Hall of Fame Gallery inaugural concert, and he can still put a song over.
    Songwriting Legend Hal David Sings - Off-Ramp 11-6-2010
    Hal "Raindrops Are Falling on my Head" David, 89, sings at the Grammy Museum ... Homeless in Hard Times ... CyberFrequencies ... the Philippines' national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal.
  • Maila Nurmi in the RH Greene documentary Schlock!
    "Vampira and Me," an Off-Ramp Halloween special documentary -- 10-30-2010
    Filmmaker and author RH Greene presents "Vampira and Me," a special documentary for Off-Ramp that tells the story of Maila Nurmi, creator of the cultural icon Vampira.
  • Reclining Lawn Chair
    OCMA's 2010 California Biennial -- Off-Ramp for 10-27-2010
    Off-Ramp's John Rabe and Kevin Ferguson talk with a baker's dozen of the 45 artists chosen to be in OCMA's 2010 California Biennial.
  • Homeless man, downtown Los Angeles, December 2005.
    Hard Times on Off-Ramp for 10-23-2010
    Stories from the Recession Front in new series, "Hard Times" ... Dan Savage's "It Gets Better Campaign" to fight gay teen suicide goes viral ... CyberFrequencies ... Songwriters Hall of Fame at Grammy Museum ... Remembering Tom Bradley campaigner & press secy Bob Kholos, witness to history of LA ... Mark Peel explains why your restaurant meal is late ... EatLA's 2011 guide is out ...
  • Marc Abrams, Silverlake's Walking Man.
    Who Was That Walking Man? -- Off-Ramp 10-16-10
    RH Greene on the Walking Man of Silverlake ... Dinner Party Download ... Cooking for 5,000 aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier ... Upton Sinclair Reconsidered ... Todd Carpenter - a real painter of light, in the dark.
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