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Off-Ramp for April 12, 2008
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Episode 3587
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Off-Ramp for April 12, 2008

The Voice of an Angel; On Set with the Late Charlton Heston; Song: Margerine Melodie by Stereolab; Bob Baker's Marionette Theater; Arboretum Welcomes Thumbs of all Colors; Angel Gets her Wings; Song: "Faithless" by Kieran McGee; Starving Poet No More; A Down-to-Earth Angel; Acres of Retail; Burmese Feast; Fore!

The Voice of an Angel; On Set with the Late Charlton Heston; Song: Margerine Melodie by Stereolab; Bob Baker's Marionette Theater; Arboretum Welcomes Thumbs of all Colors; Angel Gets her Wings; Song: "Faithless" by Kieran McGee; Starving Poet No More; A Down-to-Earth Angel; Acres of Retail; Burmese Feast; Fore!

Meet 24-year old opera singer Angel Joy Blue, a home-grown soprano who supports her career by winning beauty pageants. She performs with the West L.A. Symphony this weekend.
L.A. is a big movie set, so John goes to one of the exteriors used in The Omega Man with the late Charlton Heston. It's the building your power bill comes from.
Stereolab's tribute to The Omega Man.
Legendary puppeteer Bob Baker takes Queena Kim on a tour of America's longest running Marionette Theater.
Go gardening with John at the Arboretum, which is helping even non-gardeners show off at the upcoming LA Garden Show.
After growing up listening to opera legend Leontyne Price, Angel took her career to a new level when she joined the Young Artist Program.
A track from his CD entitled Anonymous.
Queena Kim talks with poet Tom Sleigh, who just won the $100,000 poetry award from Claremont Graduate University.
Opera singers are human, after all: Angel tells us she sings in the shower and the car.
After serving Long Beach for decades, the venerable Acres of Books has decided to sell to the city's Redevelopment Agency. John spoke with Harry Saltzgaver, editor of the Gazettes newspapers.
Queena Kim goes on a Burmese food excursion. Golden Triangle Restaurant 7011 S. Greenleaf Ave. Whittier, CA. 562.945.6778
On Masters Weekend, Frank Stoltze patrols a local golf course.