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  • Maria Delgado has been riding for four years —she's also a motorcycle riding instructor.
    Moto babes, the Rams come home, and a Chinese Superman
    Meet the East Side Moto Babes, a motorcycle club by women, for women; and the LAPD's class of 1966, men sworn-in the year after the Watts riots. With the Rams returning to town, and their first game this weekend at the Coliseum, we go to Tom Bergen’s, the venerable Irish pub on Fairfax and home of the original LA Rams.
  • Recovery of victim from the rubble created by the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times Building at First Street and Broadway.
    Duck Doc, Movie Mistakes, Hidden History
    A vacant lot is one of downtown LA's most historic spots ... A local morning radio personality tells how her father chose to commit suicide rather than die of bladder cancer ... We’ll go to the neighborhood that inspired Dexter Story latest jazz album ... Brains On explains how you get an allergic reaction to pollen ... The director of “A Million Dollar Duck,” a new doc about the Federal Duck Stamp contest ... And Tim Cogshell puts together a DIY film festival of continuity errors.
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  • Special Off-Ramp Podcast - Ben Mankiewicz is not TCM's Antichrist
    Special Off-Ramp Podcast - Interview with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz
  • Off-Ramp for April 10, 2010
    The chips are fine -- it's the bag that's too noisy ... SoCal Noir with Marc Haefele ... CyberFrequencies on The Entryway ... Annual Roses & Lemon Award goes to AEG and ugly government buildings ...
  • Off-Ramp for April 3, 2010
    EatLA on Gastropubs ... Dinner Party Download ... Photos by one of The Minutemen ... Larry Mantle interviewed by John Rabe ... The Voice of Bambi - Donnie Dunagan ... The Secret of Kells ... Poverty in Armenia.
  • Off-Ramp Extra: Father Boyle Reads from "Tattoos on the Heart"
    A parable from Father Greg Boyle from his book, "Tattoos on the Heart."
  • Off-Ramp for March 27, 2010
    Passover in the Desert ... CyberFrequencies talks with a woman who tried to scam the email scammers ... Marimbist Naoko Takada ... Anna Russell's twenty-minute Ring Cycle.
  • Off-Ramp for March 20, 2010
    Jeff Mallett on Diagnosis: Triathlete ... Riding the Angels Flight once again ... Father Boyle's big idea: give gangstas an alternative besides jail ... Dinner Party Download makes you smarter, sweetens your breath ... and so much more.
  • Off-Ramp for March 13, 2010
    CyberFrequencies talks to the woman who started a Debtors Revolt on YouTube... 1960s music icon Donovan sings and plays for Off-Ramp ... we send a real-life couple to the big travel expo to look for a honeymoon package ... Kevin Ferguson reports on female musicians' tributes bands dedicated to the music of male rock bands.
  • Off-Ramp Special Podcast - Donovan in Concert
    60s icon Donovan and his guitar in studio!
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