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Ramadan on Off-Ramp for August 11, 2012
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Dan Carino
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Episode 5441
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Ramadan on Off-Ramp for August 11, 2012

Marking Ramadan, a time to fast, with a canned food drive. EatLA on pop-ups gone permanent. Dylan Brody learns something Down South. And: who's the guy in the chair?

Portrait of George Edward Cryer, Mayor of Los Angeles from 1921-1929. Under Cryer, a former police officer, the present city hall and library, the Coliseum and Olympic Auditorium were erected. The population had reached one million, and passenger service and airmail routes opened between Los Angeles and New York.
Portrait of George Edward Cryer, Mayor of Los Angeles from 1921-1929. Under Cryer, a former police officer, the present city hall and library, the Coliseum and Olympic Auditorium were erected. The population had reached one million, and passenger service and airmail routes opened between Los Angeles and New York.
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LA Public Library
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Marking Ramadan, a time to fast, with a canned food drive. EatLA on pop-ups gone permanent. Dylan Brody learns something Down South. And: who's the guy in the chair?

George E. Cryer ... some claimed he was a grafter who became a millionaire as LA mayor in the 1920s. But he was felled by a simple garden hose.
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The LA City Council voted unanimously last Friday to officially name a neighborhood in Northridge "Sherwood Forest." It's a great place to fry an egg on the sidewalk.
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Criminologist Pete Simi was studying Southern California white supremacists and skinheads when he met Wade Michael Page, who was living in Orange.
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Omar Shamout spends the day with a Torrance family as they go about the family's daily routine during Ramadan--it's much more than just fasting.
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Break out the lawn chairs and sport your best sweater this weekend, because the annual Perseid meteor shower will be gracing the night sky.
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An octogenarian aunt went on in a careful whisper, “Ah don’ wanna talk dirty to you in a church but he got the penis cancer. You know what that is?” I nodded.
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The white or red wine of your choice - not too spending - some fizz, and some ice, and you've made a delightful summer drink that doesn't deserve its bad name.
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Eat LA finds out why some pop-up restaurants pop, why LA won’t benefit from the East Coast’s newest bumper crump of lobsters and what makes goat taste so good.