Matching anecdotal evidence with scientific proof of global warming ... Billy the Mime speaks ... Why walk 16 miles of Wilshire Blvd ... Brains On! ... Larry Mantle on The Big Fight
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• 4:38
It's Frank McDonough's job at the LA County Arboretum to field questions from residents, and he's getting 3-5 questions every day about the drought.His answers may surprise you.
Next week, the same plane Louis Zamperini flew in World War II — as depicted in the Oscar-nominated movie "Unbroken" — goes on display in Torrance.
Puzzle is from "Gilding the Lily," Williams' latest record. He's playing live at the Smell in Downtown LA on Friday, May 8.
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• 5:03
Milton Love, Off-Ramp's resident marine biologist, turns his expertise to our project #ISeeChange, and considers whether tropical fish sightings off California prove global warming.
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• 5:24
You missed a rare local performance by Billy the Mime. Read this to find out why you shouldn't miss the next one.
On this date in 1992, the LA Riots started when the Rodney King verdict was announced. In 2012, Off-Ramp aired a special edition looking back at the event on the 20th anniversary.
Unlike nearly every white American of his time, painter Robert Henri saw native-born people of color as inheritors of American civilization.
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• 5:15
Tom Carroll, host of YouTube's "Tom Explores Los Angeles," will lead a 16-mile walk Wednesday down one of Los Angeles' most iconic streets.
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• 9:31
For two years, director Henry Jaglom had lunch with Orson Welles every week, and taped their conversations. Finally, the tapes have been transcribed, edited, and published.
Someone bought 13 postcards from Kennedy's Card Shop in Los Angeles many years ago and never sent them.
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• 4:01
Despite the glamorous imagery, almost all of the world's perfumes are created in a large, antiseptic, industrial chemistry lab. But that didn't pass the smell test for an LA woman.
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• 6:57
Since the "OC Meth Renaissance" of the 90's, Gabriel Hart has documented SoCal's drug and gang cultures in song with hefty Americana and girl group influences.
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The city imposed a quarantine of schools, theaters and other public gatherings. Poolrooms were closed and public funerals were banned. Factory schedules were staggered to prevent crowding on streetcars.