If you need a little push to give to KPCC during our fall member drive, here are some reminders - in the form of our best pieces - of why Off-Ramp is worth supporting.

George Takei couldn't be happier he made the leap ten years ago this month ... a new exhibit at the Skirball Center explores the Japanese-American internment camps through sketches and photos by Ansel Adams and others ... Dodgers v Mets ... YACHT fits in an Uber

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 ...