Karaoke meet your maker: We visit the Classic Rock Singalong, where everyone gets to belt out songs while a live band backs them up.
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• 6:02
Metallica plays the Honda Center Thursday, December 10th at 7pm. The heavy-metal band was born in LA, but it found stardom in San Francisco. Metallica's biggest fan? KPCC's Steven Cuevas.
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• 5:54
John checks out Todd Schorr's new exhibit of so-called "lowbrow" art. Schorr says his hyper-realistic cartoons are inspired by nightmares about nuclear war, left over from his "duck and cover" childhood.
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• 4:22
Off-Ramp contributor Jackson Musker takes us to the Classic Rock Singalong in Hollywood, where everyone gets to belt out classic rock songs while a live band backs them up.
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• 4:24
Maury Wills helps celebrate the Dodgers' Opening Day by helping young fans in DC.
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• 3:34
Mirah talks about her songs of protest, love, hate, and insects. If Carole King and Emmylou Harris had a lovechild who grew up in a commune, it'd be Mirah.
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• 2:50
For 21 years, David "Dr. Dave" Briggs, Sr. shined LAPD shoes in the lobby of Parker Center. The "Minister of Leather" passed away late last month. KFBW radio's police reporter Pete Demetrio remembered his friend at the memorial service at the police academy.
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• 5:35
The Jazz Bakery, Culver City's jazz club, has lost its lease. John asks whether the city can afford to lose a cultural treasure.
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• 4:04
Off-Ramp Architecture Critic Sam Hall Kaplan shares the joys of a tiny park in downtown Los Angeles.
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• 3:43
Author Mark Arax gives John the inside story on the murder-suicide behind Zankou Chicken's fast-food empire. His new essay collection, West of the West, brings to light the dreamers, immigrants, and criminals who have colored California's history.
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• 3:28
Off-Ramp is following actor Christopher Murray's efforts to get his mother, Hope Lange, a star on Hollywood Blvd. The late actor won an Emmy and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "Peyton Place."