My Teacher Alma; Dressing a Historic Landmark; The Chemosphere; Hammer Happening; The Ninth Old Man Rests In Peace; I Can Garden; The Soloist Hits the Shelves; Johnie's Broiler Rises Like a Phoenix; Tag This Wall; Sex on the Beach; Letters
Keyboard legend Clarence McDonald begins a series of commentaries on music by introducing us to Alma Hightower, a music teacher who was the backbone of black music in LA.
John Rabe visits the Gamble House by Greene and Greene in Pasadena, where they're showing how people dressed when the house was built 100 years ago.
The Hammer Museum in Westwood is mounting a retrospective of architect John Lautner's work in July. Off-Ramp producer Queena Kim visited his most famous house.
If you drove by the Hammer Museum on Wednesday, you might have seen a bunch of people sitting outside in office chairs. Off-Ramp commentator Jackson Musker says it wasn't a surreal fire drill. It was a tribute to artist Allan Kaprow.
Off-Ramp commentator Charles Solomon remembers Ollie Johnston, the last of the legendary Disney animators known as the "Nine Old Men."
Off-Ramp producer Queena Kim goes to plant a garden in a trash can at the LA County Arboretum and runs into legendary horse jockey Laffit Pincay.
LA Times' Steve Lopez talks to John Rabe about his new book "The Soloist," which is about a homeless musician he befriended and coaxed into getting help.
More than a year after Johnie's Broiler in Downey was illegally razed, Bob's Big Boy says it's going to rebuild the historical structure. Queena Kim gets the update from Adriene Biondo, president of the LA Conservancy's Modern Committee.
KPCC's Brian Watt stumbled across an unexpected piece of local art history on Carolyn Rios's wall in the Oakwood neighborhood of Venice.
Newspaperman Harry Saltzgaver takes us on a grunion run. The piece was produced by Julia Posey and Jackie Oclaray.
An Off-Ramp listener tells us how to pronounce Lompoc.