This week on Off-Ramp, named best public affairs program by the LA Press Club: Will lowering the speed limit on the 110 between downtown and Pasadena automatically make it safer? What happens when 71 artists fill a sketchbook? (They help build 4 libraries.) And one of the greatest music festivals you've never heard of, Wattstax, which happened 40 years ago.
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• 5:00
The Arroyo Seco Parkway is one of the oldest freeways in the west, but the once-upon-a-time peaceful mountain pass has turned into a dangerous high-speed raceway.
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• 4:57
You're going to love this Q&A with Jon and Al Kaplan or complain in the comments section below.
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• 4:55
He'd have been laughed out of the LA Auto Show, mocked at the River Rouge plant, but DeBord has no shame.
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• 5:22
Death is one of those things we don't think about much, until someone we know is dying. But Caitlin Doughty, a local mortician, wants to change that.
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• 5:31
SketchTravel: 71 artists, 75,000 miles, 1 sketch book -- and so far -- 4 libraries in SE Asia. Charles Solomon and Paul Felix tell John Rabe about it.
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• 6:42
40 years ago, Stax records organized and put on one of the largest gatherings of African Americans in history--and it all took place at the LA Coliseum.