LA County's ribbon-cutting scissors ... Dinner Party Download ... May Day rallies and Coming Out as illegal ... new folk rock singalong songs ... EatLA talks with Susan Feniger of Street Restaurant ...
Sing along indie folk rock with Ann Powers
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
Song list:
*The Head and the Heart*
Song 1: Cats and Dogs
Song 2: Sounds like Hallelujah
*The Belle Brigade*
Song 1: Fasten You to Me
Song 2: Losers
HVN 213 The Head and the Heart - Sounds like Hallelujah by heavenlyrecordings
For full versions of the songs you can visit the bands MySpace pages:
The Head and the Heart
The Belle Brigade
Eat-LA: Susan Feniger, home brick oven, new Vietnamese
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.
Sierra Madre hole project raises funds
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!
Saturday's auction is at 187 E Montecito in Sierra Madre. It starts at 2pm and goes until 7 that evening.
Dinner Party Download
Like the six-mllion dollar man, you'll be smarter, faster, and more attractive after listening to this weekend's DPD.
Hank's Hard Times Vox Pop
For our series Hard Times, Off-Ramp correspondent Hank Rosenfeld asks people in Pasadena, "What's the richest you've ever been?"
Hank Finds a Reformed Criminal
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).
"Coming Out" has new meaning for Latino immigrants
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.