Off-Ramp commentator Milton Love, an eminent marine biologist at UC Santa Barbara, is also a great storyteller. And this time, he tells us stories about how fish got their names. Including one of the most disgusting fishes, which was appropriately named for one of the most disgusting humans.

In 2015 Michael Holland, the LA City Archivist, dug into his files to explore how the city reacted to the 1919 flu epidemic that killed millions around the world. Michael was inspired to explore the topic by a measles outbreak, but no matter, the parallels between 1919 and today are eerie and fascinating. Masks in theaters? Music in restaurants? It's all there, more than a hundred years ago.

Dinner Party Download Launches Its Own Web Site!; Palin the Evangelical Feminist; N.O.W President Introduces Sarah Palin; Colcord Home; All-You-Can't-Eat; Palin Fever; Take A Virtual Trip of the Wasilla Assembly of God; Hard Times; Stone on "W"; Where's the Peace?; Happy Birthday, Philippe's!; With a Wink and a Nod; Letter From Reader

Dinner Party Download Launches Its Own Website!; R.I.P. Paul Newman; The People v. Experts; How to Manage Mismanagement; Spinning Out on The Melt Down; Failing at Bailing Out; Environmental Utopia?; Hard Times, Not End Times; Frangela - The Wisdom of the Crowd; Born Again: The End Times are Coming!; Hard Times II; Hearts of Palm UK; Hard Times III; Urban Homestead; Frank McCourt on the Dodgers

Dinner Party Download; Tom Bradley, in Retrospect; In The Shadows Of History; Peter and the Wolf in 21st Century LA; He Followed in Bradley's Footsteps; The Bradley Effect?; Bradley Good and Bad; Drive-by Driver; Angelenos on Tom Bradley; Chapin Sisters: Born to be Famous; L.A.P.D.: Art Division; The Hollywood Hills are Alive...; To Bail Out or Not To Bail Out; Is Sam Out of Time?

Dinner Party Download; Back on the Tracks; No Smoking...Anywhere; David Foster Wallace, R.I.P; DFW, Telling It Like It Is; Icarus in Outer Space; Charles Perry to the Rescue!; Getting an F in Detention; Historic Art Heist; Celebrating World Sacred Music

Dinner Party Download: Citay Beats; The Wish Tree; Landscape-Goats; The Immigrant's Dream; Give me LHC or Give Me Death!; The LARGE Hadron Collider; Getty Preview; George Putnam R.I.P.; The Lawn Bowling Life; This Citay's Rockin'; Stay Funky, Froggy's; Creating Vintage Photos

Haiku Contest Update!; Dinner Party Download: Barista Throwdown; He's Always Part of the Team; They Wear Their Colors Proud; They Shout Their Voices Loud; McCain's Theme Song; The Titan of Trailers; Ben Vereen: Up Close and Musical; Cut-Throat Coffee; The Sounds of Death Race; Chinese Type-Casting; You're a Good Man, Bill Melendez; Schulz and Baseball; A Labor of Laughs; Congrats, Quinn!; Music Featured on Off-Ramp: Priscilla Ahn's "I Don't Think So"

Welcome to the Coachella Valley!; Dinner Party Download: On Princeton; Jesse Jackson, 20 years ago; Date Shakes in the CV: Part 1; A Good Indian Wife; Date Shakes in the CV: Part 2; Princeton, The Erudite Rockers; She Drew the Line; Racy Dates?; The CV before AC; Stay Away from the Germs!; Music Featured on Off-Ramp:

Dinner Party Download; Rat 'Em Out; "If It's Yellow..." (c'mon you know the rest); Charles Perry: A Man For All Hallucinogens; These Germs Were Catchy; Broncos for Barack; Punch and Judy, Uncensored; Darby Crash, circa 1980; Queen of Disco in LA; Germs Culture; "Hi, Traffic Man!" Debuts