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Podcasts Off-Ramp
Duck Doc, Movie Mistakes, Hidden History
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Dan Carino
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Episode 13977
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Duck Doc, Movie Mistakes, Hidden History

A vacant lot is one of downtown LA's most historic spots ... A local morning radio personality tells how her father chose to commit suicide rather than die of bladder cancer ... We’ll go to the neighborhood that inspired Dexter Story latest jazz album ... Brains On explains how you get an allergic reaction to pollen ... The director of “A Million Dollar Duck,” a new doc about the Federal Duck Stamp contest ... And Tim Cogshell puts together a DIY film festival of continuity errors.
Recovery of victim from the rubble created by the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times Building at First Street and Broadway.
Recovery of victim from the rubble created by the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times Building at First Street and Broadway.
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L.A. Public Library/Security Pacific National Bank Collection/Security Pacific National Bank Collection
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A vacant lot is one of downtown LA's most historic spots ... A local morning radio personality tells how her father chose to commit suicide rather than die of bladder cancer ... We’ll go to the neighborhood that inspired Dexter Story latest jazz album ... Brains On explains how you get an allergic reaction to pollen ... The director of “A Million Dollar Duck,” a new doc about the Federal Duck Stamp contest ... And Tim Cogshell puts together a DIY film festival of continuity errors.

We found 5 movies with delicious continuity errors; tell us your favorites
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From magic panties to the early invention of YouTube, Off-Ramp film critic Tim Cogshell continues his DIY film festival series with a list of movies that feature some pretty great continuity errors.
A daughter's story: 'Flipping the switch' before physican assisted suicide
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Redlands resident Tiffany Angelo came home to her father's Ohio apartment to find him dead from gunshot wounds to his chest. He was fighting stage four bladder cancer. Physician assisted suicide wasn't an option in 2010.
Feel the Tizita. LA's Dexter Story finds inspiration in Little Ethiopia
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Go see world music royalty next weekend, when Nigeria's King Sunny Ade plays Downtown LA, and make sure to come early for the opening act: Dexter Story & Wondem.
See the 1971 Land Rover painted by Keith Haring at the Petersen Automotive Museum now
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It's an unlikely canvas, but you can see the SUV with Haring's signature cookie-cutter people, crawling babies and animals now at the Petersen Automotive Museum.
Song of the week: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "When I try, I'm full"
The Glendale based songwriter and composer said that on her latest album, she “create a sonic motion ride through a futuristic jungle.”
Filmmaker highlights obsessive, weird world of duck stamp artists
Listen • 6:29
A new documentary takes you into the Academy Awards of wildlife art — the Federal Duck Stamp contest, which attracts obsessive artists from all over the nation.
From radical unionists to feral cats: One of downtown LA's most historic sites is an empty lot
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That vacant lot across from the L.A. Times is no ordinary vacant lot. It's seen at least two bombings, two famous tent cities and an untold number of feral cats.