NPR's Pop-Music critic Ann Powers stops by Off-Ramp with new releases from The Head and the Heart and The Belle Brigade, two new folk indie rock albums that you'll just have to sing along to. CLICK THROUGH to hear Sounds Like Hallelujah by The Head and the Heart

Colleen Bates of Eat-LA takes us to the South Pasadena Farmers Market to talk "localvore" with LA restaurateur Susan Feniger, and Miles Clements takes us to a backyard in Silverlake, where Mark Stambler bakes his blue-ribbon bread.

Over the last few months you might remember hearing Off-Ramp's coverage of the Sterling Oaks project in Sierra Madre. It's a giant hole that Jeff Hildreth dug underneath his home using nothing more than a shovel and a bucket. You might have also heard about the hole on the evening TV news, the LA Times, or any number of other outlets who picked up on the story after Off-Ramp broke it. To help fund his lengthy battle with the city in court, Jeff and his wife are putting on a silent art auction and party on Saturday, April 30. Kevin Ferguson talked with Jeff for an update. CLICK THROUGH for more info!

Like the six-mllion dollar man, you'll be smarter, faster, and more attractive after listening to this weekend's DPD.

For our series Hard Times, Off-Ramp correspondent Hank Rosenfeld asks people in Pasadena, "What's the richest you've ever been?"

One of the people Off-Ramp correspondent Hank Rosenfeld spoke with about their past riches admitted that he'd been jailed for an insurance scam, and he told Hank exactly how it worked (until it didn't).

Off-Ramp host John Rabe talks with Leslie Berestein-Rojas, of KPCCs MultiAmerican blog, about the upcoming May Day rally and the new way that Latino youth kids are "coming out" as illegal immigrants.