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  • A view of the Los Angeles city skyline as heavy smog shrouds the city in California on May 31, 2015. AFP PHOTO/ MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
    Cider Houses Rule, and the tallest restaurant in the West
    If it hardly rains here, why does NBC-4 need its new highly-promoted mobile Doppler radar truck? ... Chef Vartan Abgaryan’s last restaurant was Cliff’s Edge. And now he’s working at the top of the US Bank Tower. But he’s afraid of heights. ... All the Rolling Stones songs from the 1960s have been remastered in the original mono, and you’ll be shocked at how good they sound. ... OK OK, it doesn’t feel like autumn yet, but it officially arrived this week, and there’s nothing better on a brisk autumn day than cider, so we’ll explore the latest culinary thing: cider houses.
  • KPCC's John Rabe and reporter Jesse Katz inside LA's Grand Central Market. Jesse's article in the October issue of Los Angeles Magazine covers the market's huge debt, as well as a major discrimination lawsuit.
    Grand Central Market's crushing debt
    An in-depth look at Grand Central Market's history ... and $60m+ debt. Comedian Danny Lobell on the lure of the urban chicken. Brains On probes, very carefully, into carnivorous plants. Jesse Katz learns to cut a bagel. The people who VOLUNTEER to examine coyote poop.
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  • Off-Ramp Music Show - 1-1-2011
    Donovan, Fitz and the Tantrums, John Cale, Joel Grey, Brian May, Lou Adler, and more as Off-Ramp rings in the new year with our best music interviews.
  • A Christmas Carol Redux - Off-Ramp 12-25-10
    Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" -- the Lionel Barrymore version, plus new takes on the classic.
  • Los Angeles, August 20, 2008.
    Off-Ramp's Celebrity "Night Before Christmas" - 12-18-2010
    Your favorite celebrities read "The Night Before Christmas" for Off-Ramp ... "Andy Rooney" doesn't like Christmas ... Marc Haefele pays tribute to author James Salter ... EatLA and Craft Beer ... Judy Chicago treats Frida Kahlo like an artist in her new book ... Life isn't easy as Isaac Haille Selassie ... Black Facts and Wax museum ...
  • Kristen Wheatley (left), Jeff Reichmann and Gale Borden sample a giant snow cone on March 3, 1964 at their school.
    Lamont Dozier's "Infidelity Song" on Dec 11 Off-Ramp
    Lamont Dozier on writing "How Sweet It Is," "Stop in the Name of Love," and "Sugarpie, Honeybunch" ... Dinner Party Download ... Downtown Women's Center's New Home ... Van Dyke Parks, American composer ... B'way Deli closes ...
  • 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.
  • 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"
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