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Hosted by John Rabe

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  • Horsemen at the Lugo adobe in Bell Gardens
    A deep dive on LA history with a member of local "royalty," a real Californio
    An Angeleno family going back 3 generations here is considered ancient; but Theresa Chavez is a real Californio, dating back to 1771 when her family owned an original rancho ... How many Romanian restaurants can you name? Add Parsnip in Highland Park to the short list ... We say TOMATO, they say TOMATL: Adolfo Guzman Lopez helps us explore Nahuatl. (Photo: LA Public Library Shades of LA Collection)
  • A store destroyed by the 1992 LA Riots. Credit: Gary Leonard/LA Public Library
    Some healing, some scars: the LA Riots, 25 years later
    We talk with residents, eyewitnesses, about those dark days ... Journalist Joe Domanick tells us how decades of police brutality - including hundreds of police murders of blacks and Latinos - led to the LA Riots, and he assesses how far the LAPD has come ... How former Mayor James Hahn could have been Reginald Denny ... Why one yougn Latina who lived through the LA Riots is still happy to call South LA “home" ... and Peter Sagal tells Off-Ramp about his bizarre chance meeting with Chief Gates. And we hear in-depth from the man who was reluctantly at the center of the riots, the late Rodney King.
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  • Off-Ramp for July 25, 2009
    Return to DooDah ... Dandelion Wine Rewound ... Garden Envy
  • Off-Ramp for July 18, 2009
    Julius Shulman RIP ... Biking to Tennessee ... Take the TemperaTour ... Father Boyle on Homeboy Industries ... CyberFrequencies on Kindergarten bloggers
  • Off-Ramp for Jul 11, 2009
    CyberFrequencies on Palin enemies list ... Wayne White, artist, banjoist, new Oldham book ... last silent movie organist dies ... living Chicano rock history ... Dinner Party Download on Ali
  • Off-Ramp for Jul 04, 2009
    Malden, RIP ... Medical Pot via Twitter ... Razorcake Lives ... Virtual AnimeExpo ... Bratton Changes Cop-Godzilla Paradigm
  • Off-Ramp for Jun 27, 2009
    Boxer Chris "The Nightmare" Arreola speaks ... How the Hammer Museum will spend $1,000,000 ... Garrison Keillor reads a love sonnet.
  • Off-Ramp for June 20, 2009
    Garrison Keillor on Jesse Ventura ... OCMA's picture problems ... another episode of Cyber Frequencies ... Chris Ames takes on Santa Ana.
  • Off-Ramp for Jun 13, 2009
    The documentary "The Ashes of Oakridge" takes us to a mobile home park in Sylmar devastated by wildfires.
  • Off-Ramp for Jun 06, 2009
    What happens to comics and crosswords if newspapers die? Plus, billboard art, Eric Garcetti's first career, Norwegian datarock, the new waltzmeister, and a woodworking icon remembered. Enjoy!
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