Wine Country: Echo Park; Wine Country: Slow Pickings; Wine Country: A Tasting; Spitting Good Wine; United in Hate; Parkers Posing; Hail, Little Caesar; Twelve Tones, Hanging Ten; Lucille Ball Remembered
Joe and Heather D'Augustine always dreamed of having a vineyard. And so they grew one in their backyard in Echo Park. Queena Kim took a trip to the D'Augustine vineyard, which is just steps from their home.
There's nothing fast about making wine. From sunup to sundown, Joe and Heather D'Augustine pick grapes, sort 'em, crush 'em, and start all over again.
After a week of fermenting the grape juice, Joe and Heather bottle and taste the wine.
John hangs out with the owners of Silverlake Wine while they choose what to buy.
Off-Ramp commentators Angela Shelton and Frances Callier say neighborhoods are alive in well in Los Angeles.
L.A. Times writer Ralph Vartabedian shows John the rampant abuse of disabled parking permits. Ten percent of California drivers have them. Do they all really need them, or is it a scam?
Hidden away in a basement office at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall is a piano that inspires young musicians: the actor Edward G. Robinson's Steinway. Open up the piano and you'll see signatures of some of music's greats, including Serge Prokofieff and Rosemary Clooney.
The New Yorker's Alex Ross talks about his new book, "The Rest is Noise", in which classical music revolutionary and SoCal Dude Arnold Schoenberg is featured.
In the 1970s, actor and writer Taylor Negron took a class from the First Lady of Comedy. Negron shares a side of the Funny Lady that few have seen.