We go to Wilson High School in El Sereno to talk with students in the brand new firefighter magnet school, which preps kids for as firefighting career with everything from military discipline to the science of firefighting ... The Summit Inn in the Cajon Pass may be the most famous casualty of the Blue Cut fire so far, and its destruction has hit one community especially hard: the hot-rodders who traditionally stopped at the diner on the way to and from the Bonneville Salt Flats ... The brand new LA Rams are off to a good start, but adjusting to playing in Southern California will be tough. We got advice for the league’s youngest team from linebacker Roman Pfifer, who moved with the Rams from Anaheim to St Louis in 1995 ... Brains On, the science podcast for kids, takes some kids into a glass factory to see how the odd substance is made ... And we hear why you should go to the Huntington right after you see “London Calling” at the Getty.
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It’s 28 miles from the Getty to the Huntington, but you should make the trip to see “London Calling” and “Blast.” Together, they provide a rich, continuous century’s span of English figurative art we’ve seldom seen here.
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Off-Ramp host John Rabe talks with Bobby Green about the Summit Inn, which burned down Tuesday in the Blue Cut fire.
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15-year-old Matthew Ruiz, one of the 28 kids in Wilson High's firefighting magnet: "Those fires look kind of crazy, and I want to get out there, but I'm not old enough. I can't wait til I'm older so I can actually do something."
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Yes, the traffic's bad, the weather's great. But when you move to a larger market like Los Angeles, you become a very small fish in a very large pond.
Formed in 2008, the bands describes themselves as a quartet that draws from "a spectrum of influences ranging from psychedelia, soul, to Tropicalia."
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Whatever side of the aisle you're on, did you promise to move to Canada if she/he wins? Before you do, listen in to this uncomfortable phone call.