Off-Ramp for November 21, 2009
Mary Poppins descends on LA ... CyberFrequencies recommends a daily dose of video games ... MOCA's permanent collection ... Musical Books? ... Pigtails&Sauerkraut and other Thanksgiving traditions.
Off-Ramp for November 14, 2009
The Ashes of Oakridge - One Year Later ... Arthur Dong's "Hollywood Chinese" documentary becomes an exhibit ... Eli Broad and Sam Hall Kaplan help Off-Ramp mark MOCA's 30th ... Lisa Ling and KCET on middle-class homelessness.
Off-Ramp for November 7, 2009
Mayor Picks Beck to Lead LAPD ... Melrose Larry Green Weighs In ... Dracula author pays tribute to his late, great brother ... Jackson Musker has Encounter at LAX ... CyberFrequencies on Life on the Web.
Off-Ramp for October 31, 2009 - The Halloween Special
A Halloween Special ... Chris Ames and the Dog in the Nighttime ... RH Greene's News Take on Dracula ... Lugosi, Jr. on Life with Father ... Bats: Behind the Myths ... Creepiest Moment from Richard the Third.
Off-Ramp for October 24, 2009
We're for Contradancing ... It's Mourning at Heritage Square ... New Dracula Memoir Preview ... Rabe's Family History ... WEB EXCLUSIVE: Comics Icon Marv Wolfman ... Selling Medical Marijuana.
Off-Ramp for October 17, 2009
Randolph Mantooth of "Emergency!" and "Scream of the Bikini" ... John and Queena pitch good journalism and public radio ... Ed Asner on "Up!" ... Carl Orff teaches kids music ...
Off-Ramp for October 10, 2009
Richard III - done straight for once ... Dinner Party Download makes you smarter ... Asner's radio work ... Spiders creep into the Natural History Museum ... Meet the Raincoats
Off-Ramp for October 3, 2009
Orff-Ramp Music for Kids ... the late Henry Hopkins on Race in Art ... the Eagle Rock music festival ... Jackson Musker has the poop on zoo poop ... CyberFrequencies on stars who explode online ...
Off-Ramp for September 26, 2009
Music Savant Brian Eno's art installation comes to Long Beach... John Rabe plays Mo Roca at the Aquarium, sustainably ... Will Riverside's Chris Arreola become the new World Heavyweight Champ?
Off-Ramp for September 19, 2009
Camille Rose Garcia ... an anatomy of a California prison ... Herb Alpert and Lani Hall on their music ... Dinner Party Download makes you smarter.
Off-Ramp for September 12, 2009
"Andy Rooney" on Mike Duvall ... CyberFrequencies on Life on the Web ... Culture Clash does Aristophanes at the "Pancho" Villa ... KFWB Dumps All-News
Off-Ramp for September 5, 2009
The Station Fire Threatens The Station ... A Culture Clash Sneak Preview ... Dinner Party Download Users See 12% Brain Increase
Off-Ramp for August 29, 2009
John goes in-depth with Nicholas Meyer on making Star Trek movies ... and exclusive tour of Whittier Boulevard in East LA with Charles Phoenix.
Off-Ramp for August 22, 2009
The Baader Meinhof Complex screenwriter ... CyberFrequencies unveils the Facebook Future ... Art that makes you dance ... Still Burlesque at 94 ...
Off-Ramp for August 15, 2009
CyberFrequencies looks at life on the web ... Rod Roddenberry unveils a new comic book WITH NO SUPERHEROES ... We pepper the Mayor with questions ... and meet the Hammer's new curator.
Off-Ramp for August 8, 2009
Remembering "The French Chef," Julia Child ... Summer reading goes high-tech on CyberFrequencies ... Dinner Party Download.
Off-Ramp for August 1, 2009
Stan Lee Defies Time ... Fallen Fruit's Jam Session ... The Last Prop Sale
Off-Ramp for July 25, 2009
Return to DooDah ... Dandelion Wine Rewound ... Garden Envy
Off-Ramp for July 18, 2009
Julius Shulman RIP ... Biking to Tennessee ... Take the TemperaTour ... Father Boyle on Homeboy Industries ... CyberFrequencies on Kindergarten bloggers
Off-Ramp for Jul 11, 2009
CyberFrequencies on Palin enemies list ... Wayne White, artist, banjoist, new Oldham book ... last silent movie organist dies ... living Chicano rock history ... Dinner Party Download on Ali
Off-Ramp for Jul 04, 2009
Malden, RIP ... Medical Pot via Twitter ... Razorcake Lives ... Virtual AnimeExpo ... Bratton Changes Cop-Godzilla Paradigm
Off-Ramp for Saturday, June 27, 2009
Boxer Chris "The Nightmare" Arreola speaks ... How the Hammer Museum will spend $1,000,000 ... Garrison Keillor reads a love sonnet.
Off-Ramp for Saturday, June 20, 2009
The documentary "This week Garrison Keillor muses about another force of nature, Jesse "The Body Politic" Ventura; Brian Watt has third-row seats (from the back) at the Coliseum for the Lakers rally; and we explore the controversy over OCMA's sale of 18 California Impressionist paintings. If you break it, you buy it.
Off-Ramp for Saturday, June 13, 2009
The documentary "The Ashes of Oakridge" takes us to a mobile home park in Sylmar devastated by wildfires.
Off-Ramp for Saturday, May 30, 2009
From Samurai to anime; Ed Asner talks about his role in up; CyberFrequencies tells you about a Beat Boxing competition on YouTube; Garrison Keillor talks about coming to LA; we run the marathon and more!
Off-Ramp for Saturday, May 23, 2009
This Week: We'll pull up to a new horror drive-in theater, visit the archives of LA literary great John Fante, and meet Chicano rockers Thee Midniters. Plus, the latest on this week's LA gang takedown--the biggest in US history. And we ponder local billionaire Donald Sterling's endless self-congratulation in the LA Times. Happy Memorial Day!
Off-Ramp for Saturday, March 28, 2009
This week on Off-Ramp, Fast Food Dude Jeff Girod takes us on a caloric crusade through the Coachella Valley in search of the best date milkshake. Plus, radio legend Gary Owens, How the Road Got its Stripe, author Gina Nahai, and much more.
Off-Ramp for Saturday, March 21, 2009
This week on Off-Ramp...we're hoping you'll remember all of the fun you've had with us this last year and consider contributing to KPCC. YOUR support makes it possible for us to air better, funnier, smarter content from sites all across Southern California. As you listen to some of Off-Ramp's recent highlights— John's interview with music legend Tom Jones, excerpts from "The Ashes of Oakridge" documentary—please consider pitching in to your public radio station at kpcc.org. Thanks so much!
Off-Ramp for Saturday, March 21, 2009
This week on Off-Ramp...we're hoping you'll remember all of the fun you've had with us this last year and consider contributing to KPCC. YOUR support makes it possible for us to air better, funnier, smarter content from sites all across Southern California. As you listen to some of Off-Ramp's recent highlights— John's interview with music legend Tom Jones, excerpts from "The Ashes of Oakridge" documentary—please consider pitching in to your public radio station at kpcc.org. Thanks so much!
Off-Ramp for Saturday, March 14, 2009
This week, we toast a magazine publisher who made the monster movie what it is today (oh, and he coined "sci-fi", too). And speaking of monsters, we'll teach you the secret to growing scary-big tomatoes. Plus, indie filmmaker Michel Gondry explains his new experiment, ex-Mahavishnu guitarman John Mclaughlin has a new tour, and LA photojornalist Gary Leonard opens a new gallery. Stay fresh! Enjoy...