Leonard Nimoy’s son Adam tells us about his new film, "For the Love of Spock," which candidly digs into their difficult father-son relationship ... Kraftwerk, the German electronic music band at the Bowl next weekend, has a couple of surprising fans in pioneering LA Hip Hop DJs Arabian Prince and Egyptian Lover ... We'll talk with the last surviving member of the wheelchair basketball team that rose to national fame in 1947 from a VA rehab hospital in Norco ... And we go in-depth with Felipe Esparza. He's a common sight at comedy clubs and on TV, but years ago he was almost swallowed up by the gangs of East LA.

When Adolfo Guzman Lopez hears the late Juan Gabriel’s music, he remembers the 1970s, listening to Gabriel’s songs on the radio as he and his mom rode in taxis and buses in Tijuana ... Why do waves happen, and why are they shaped like waves? Brains On brings in an expert to explain ... One of the founding fathers of LA punk, John Doe, joins us to talk about his memoir and sing new songs from his latest album ... Film score composer John Williams is at the Hollywood Bowl all weekend, leading the LA Phil in some of his best-known works. We talk with music writer Alex Ross about how Williams pretty much saved the classical music film score.

Exclusive hour-long audio tour of LA's San Antonio Winery with KPCC's John Rabe, and the winery's Steve Riboli.

Tour the San Antonio Winery ... the new doc about Phil Spector ... the all-volunteer Casa Italiana opera company puts on La Gioconda ... Dinner Party Download ... legendary producer Lou Adler on talent ... Sit'n'Sleep switches shticks.

Lou Adler - the career retrospective interview with Alex Ben Block ... Getting to the Heart of Heart, pioneer rockers ... Norman Corwin and the End of World War 2 ... Photog Vince Gonzales is in LOVE with old movie equipment ... meet German Pinchevsky, who did special effects for Tarkovsky ...

Gerald Zelinger's "14 August Revisited," from 1985, with Norman Corwin.

Alex Ben Block of the Hollywood Reporter interviews entertainment legend Lou Adler for a special Off-Ramp podcast.

Creators behind Slake discuss their new magazine... actor and nude model Michael Q Schmidt literally bears all... John learns to blow the shofar for Elul ... Dinner Party Download makes you smarter ... and much more!

In-depth conversation about Slake, LA's new literary quarterly.

Olympian Louis Zamperini meets Hitler in 1936 ... Queen's Brian May and his 3D passion ... How LA County's restaurant grading system happened ... Writer RH Greene out-abs Dickens, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, et alia ...