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Can we prevent the worst election ever? Off-Ramp for 8/29/2015
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Can we prevent the worst election ever? Off-Ramp for 8/29/2015

Got any ideas to boost turnout so the 2017 L.A. city election isn't a snooze? We celebrate Shotgun Tom Kelly, who isn't shy but is retiring. Saving Salvation Mountain.

Tammy Trujillo, KPCC newscaster and teacher at Mt Sac, knows how to get her students noticed. That's her in the sunglasses beneath the "OF" as Shotgun Tom Kelly got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 4/30/2013
Tammy Trujillo, KPCC newscaster and teacher at Mt Sac, knows how to get her students noticed. That's her in the sunglasses beneath the "OF" as Shotgun Tom Kelly got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 4/30/2013
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John Rabe
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Got any ideas to boost turnout so the 2017 L.A. city election isn't a snooze? We celebrate Shotgun Tom Kelly, who isn't shy but is retiring. Saving Salvation Mountain.

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Artist Noah Davis died Saturday, the same day MOCA opened a 'storefront' featuring the first work he showed at his The Underground Museum.
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In-depth with Steve Soboroff, the head of the Police Commission, as the LAPD prepares to roll out body cams Monday.
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A sampling of Southern California's Oktoberfest celebrations includes the weirdest spectacle you will ever see, unless you already know about Heino. Also: there will be beer.
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National Geographic photographer Aaron Huey has traveled the world for his job, but he found a book's worth of material in a place just 200 miles outside Los Angeles.
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Why am I here 18 months before the election talking with you about this? Because we have 18 months to do something to break the machine that keeps giving us insubstantial races.
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Shotgun Tom leaves afternoon drive. "The most important thing to me are the people that love this music, and I want to keep them entertained; I want to keep them happy."
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In a list of best dressed sports teams from ESPN, Los Angeles' comes in at number 11. What went wrong? ESPN's Paul Lukas blames the Clippers.
Nite Jewel is the project of California native Ramona Gonzalez and “One Second of Love” is off her 2012 album of the same name. She performs live on September 5.
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The Standardized Patient program at USC is one of the first in the country, founded in 1963. Actors are trained to play any number of symptoms: liver disease, terminal cancer, diabetes.
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These people have been picnicking for decades. It's a sport. We stopped by a concert to learn the tricks of their trades, which you can find right here.