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Off-Ramp

Dinner Party Download: Where Anatomy meets Astronomy

Dinner Party Download hosts Rico Gagliano (upper right) and Brendan Newnam (lower left, back to camera) fete Norma Shearer at a dinner party at the Biltmore in 1936.
Dinner Party Download hosts Rico Gagliano (upper right) and Brendan Newnam (lower left, back to camera) fete Norma Shearer at a dinner party at the Biltmore in 1936.
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L.A. Public Library/Herald-Examiner collection
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About the Show

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.

Funding provided by:

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

On this full-length episode: Rocker Benjy Ferree's ode to Peter Pan...We discover the planet that dares not speak its name...and Rico sharpens his conversation skills with Brooklyn's new king of cutlery.

For the uninitiated: Dinner Party Download is a fast and funny 12-minute "cheat sheet" of news and culture designed to give you enough conversational firepower to dazzle friends and family at this weekend's dinner party. You're always invited.