Episodes
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It was 80 years ago that Jackie Robinson went to John Muir High School in Pasadena. He played shortstop and catcher on the baseball team. But flash forward to today: what about the team he played on, and the school he went to? Take a leap into a Los Angeles of the future it's unlikely any city will have changed more than Inglewood, future home to the new NFL stadium. We take a look around and talk with Inglewood movers and shakers. And we go inside the Eames House, one of Los Angeles' most important, most beautiful and elusive homes.
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We bring you Off-Ramp greatest (recent) hits: Actor George Takei reflects on the 10th anniversary of his coming out. We dig through the cookbook authored by the late Vincent Price—frightening star of stage and screen. And if you love John William's iconic Star Wars score, New Yorker Music Critic Alex Ross says it's not just nostalgia: there's a serious, brilliant mind at work.
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Milton Love's new fish book ... the violinist and artist recall the making of Harbor Freeway Overture mural ... Stan Kenton's Centennial ... As San Fernando Turns ... Word Banishment ... Arboretum weathers the storm ...
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Off-Ramp commentator Milton Love, UCSB marine biologist, on his new book "Certainly More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast."
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Leonard Maltin on the 2012 Movie Guide ... Pasadena's Fork in the Road sticks it to Grinches ... Bronze Mirrors at The Huntington ... John Lennon predicts his shooting in 1964 ... Feeling Groovy under LA's 7th Street bridge ... Landry and Summers Occupy the studio ... Occupy LA Ousted ...
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A night at The Comedy Store, with host Brandon Christy and comics Ian Edwards, Sarah Tiana, Michael Kosta, Fahim Anwar, and Freddy Lockhart.
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EatLA ... moving the Dodgers ... "Judas" remembers Crystal Cathedral Passion Play glory days ... Dale Hopper asks, "Where's my flying car and my robot pal?" ... Ilsa Setziol remembers Katherine Siva Saubel, Cahuilla Indian elder ... AEG sued over allegedly destroyed art ...
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Occupy LA with Sam Slovick ... Pigeon Fanciers ... "David Dean Bottrell Makes Love" and "Boston Legal" ... ride a dung beetle at LA Zoo's new carousel ... Jazz at the A Frame: great jazz in a livingroom ... Artist Ed Moses picks 3 favorite spots for Pacific Standard Time ...
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David Dean Bottrell of "Boston Legal" in person ... getting to the bottom of Echo Park Lake ... Edith Head Lives! ... A Noise Within's new home ... the Magic Castle's Medium ... first CD of Disney Hall organ ... Cambodian-American rapper Prach Ly of Long Beach ... Hard-edge painter Karl Benjamin ...
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Off-Ramp special documentary "Airborne: A Life in Radio with Orson Welles," from R.H. Greene.