Meet a non-denominational exorcist who works out of a guest house in Van Nuys ... 5 Every Week gets you off the couch and on the streets ... climate change and creatures in the Mojave ... Brains On tells us how the salamander grows back limbs, and home come we can't?
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Off-Ramp's Dale Hoppert queued up for a week on Hollywood Boulevard to watch the first time the original Star Wars trilogy was shown as a whole in 1985. Next up, "The Force Awakens."
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"Here in America, racial and religious hated does exist, sustained by the political adventurers and plain crackpots who are willing to scrap the Democratic way of life to attain their own ends." -- Vincent Price, 1950
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Off-Ramp contributor Robert Garrova spoke with Krampus L.A.’s Al Ridenour to learn more about this Christmas boogeyman.
Behold! five great things you should do in Southern California this week, from art to food to music to wild card adventures from the makers of the 5 Every Day app.
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Not all exorcists are alike. Meet Hollywood's premier along for an exorcism by the most famous caster-out-of-demons you’ve never heard of.
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• 11:07
"We are the only Jews in Schuylerville New York," Dylan Brody opens his poignant, funny remembrance of Christmastime along the Hudson River.
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Bill Melendez said when he read in the script that Linus would recite the Gospel according to St. Luke, he told Charles Schulz, "This is religion. It just doesn't go in a cartoon." Schulz looked at him very coldly and said, "Bill, if we don't do it, who will?"
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Rankin and Bass' 1970 masterwork "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town," an origin myth for Santa, is almost as Jewish thematically as the annual Chabad telethon.
Off-Ramp commentator Marc Haefele reviews the L.A. Opera's production of Norma: "If only the production had been as pleasant to look at as it was to hear!"
San Diego-based band The Schizophonics bring high-energy rock 'n' roll to Cafe NELA in Cypress Park this weekend.