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Off-Ramp

Off-Ramp for December 29, 2007

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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
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

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

Wine Country: Echo Park

Off-Ramp for December 29, 2007

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.

Wine Country: Slow Pickings

Off-Ramp for December 29, 2007

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.

Wine Country: A Tasting

Off-Ramp for December 29, 2007

After a week of fermenting the grape juice, Joe and Heather bottle and taste the wine.

Spitting Good Wine

Off-Ramp for December 29, 2007

John hangs out with the owners of Silverlake Wine while they choose what to buy.

United in Hate

Off-Ramp for December 29, 2007

Off-Ramp commentators Angela Shelton and Frances Callier say neighborhoods are alive in well in Los Angeles.

Parkers Posing

Off-Ramp for December 29, 2007

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?

Hail, Little Caesar

Off-Ramp for December 29, 2007

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.

Twelve Tones, Hanging Ten

Off-Ramp for December 29, 2007

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.

Lucille Ball Remembered

Off-Ramp for December 29, 2007

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.