Welcome to the Coachella Valley!; Dinner Party Download: On Princeton; Jesse Jackson, 20 years ago; Date Shakes in the CV: Part 1; A Good Indian Wife; Date Shakes in the CV: Part 2; Princeton, The Erudite Rockers; She Drew the Line; Racy Dates?; The CV before AC; Stay Away from the Germs!; Music Featured on Off-Ramp:
Welcome to the Coachella Valley!
We've expanded our signal to the far reaches of the Coachella Valley: You can hear us now all the way from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea on KPCV 90.3.
Join us this week as we explore our new stomping grounds.
Dinner Party Download: On Princeton
This week, Dinner Party Download co-host Rico Gagliano talks with Jesse Kivel, of the band Princeton.
Dinner Party Download is a fast and funny 12-minute "cheat sheet" of news and culture... designed to give you enough conversational firepower to dazzle friends and family at this weekend's dinner party.
This week: New York Times columnist David Carr threatens to kick our butt... Lolita turns fifty but she's still too young... Tips on how to pretend you know about wine... Our song of the week features a guy from the seventies who sounds like another guy from the seventies.
Jesse Jackson, 20 years ago
KPCC senior news editor Cheryl Devall recalls being part of the press contingent covering Jesse Jackson's 1988 bid for president.
Date Shakes in the CV: Part 1
Fast-Food Dude Jeff Girod travels to three of the best places for date shakes in the Coachella Valley. First up: Hadley Fruit Orchards.
A Good Indian Wife
Queena Kim continues her series on local writers by talking with Anne Cherian. Cherian's first novel is A Good Indian Wife, which one reviewer calls "a cross-cultural treat."
Off-Ramp Exclusive Video: Anne Cherian
Date Shakes in the CV: Part 2
And the winner of the Coachella Valley Date Shake-off: Shields Date Gardens! How can you argue with a 40-foot-tall knight, anyway?
Princeton, The Erudite Rockers
Dinner Party Download's Rico Gagliano talks to Jesse Kivel about the inspiration for Princeton's album Bloomsbury: the post-Victorian intellectuals of the Bloomsbury Group.
She Drew the Line
Today, we take the painted lines that divide traffic on two-lane roads for granted. But Coachella Valley historian Patricia Laflin says Indio woman Dr. June Robertson McCarroll is responsible for striping our roads.
Racy Dates?
Mr. Shields created the first version of this show (and this title) way back in the 1950s. Don't worry, it doesn't get too explicit.
The CV before AC
How did the scorched, pre-AC Coachella Valley lure its settlers? Local historian Pat Laflin, who moved to Indio in 1948, explains.
Stay Away from the Germs!
Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Head of LA County Dept. Of Public Health, warns against The Germs. Bet he likes The Cure, though.
What We Do is Secret, the documentary about the groundbreaking 1980s punk band The Germs is now playing in Los Feliz.
Music Featured on Off-Ramp:
"Die Die Die" by the Avett Brothers, from their 2007 album Emotionalism.