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Love Is ... Off-Ramp for February 11, 2012
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Dan Carino
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Episode 5024
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Love Is ... Off-Ramp for February 11, 2012

Cheech Marin gives Off-Ramp an exclusive tour of his Chicano art ... Lincoln Elementary 5th graders on love and Valentine's Day ... Love among the Bonobos ... Nico Case reborn ... "Finding Nemo's" flexible sexuality ...

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John Rabe
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Cheech Marin gives Off-Ramp an exclusive tour of his Chicano art ... Lincoln Elementary 5th graders on love and Valentine's Day ... Love among the Bonobos ... Nico Case reborn ... "Finding Nemo's" flexible sexuality ...

Listen 9:13
Cheech Marin, half of stoner comedy duo Cheech & Chong, gives Off-Ramp host John Rabe an exclusive tour of his Chicano art collection.
Listen 5:47
FIfth-grader: If you don't have Valentine’s Day, if you’re married, how will you ever say to that special person “I love you?”
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Professor Amy Parish says evolutionary science has only been telling one side of the story, and feminists ought to be worried.
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She sang for the Velvet Underground, acted for Fellini, posed for Warhol, and now Singer Tammy Lang brings Nico back to life with a show called "Chelsea Mädchen".
Listen 2:34
It's a good thing opponents of same sex marriage aren't fish. Commentator Milton Love explains the "non-traditional" sex lives of fishes.
Driving is a huge part of living in Southern California and quite often a hassle. For Valentine's Day, Off-Ramp contributor Karen Fritsche asks, "How far should I drive for love? And for sex?"
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Off-Ramp intern Bridget Read asked passers-by one of the eternal questions: "Is there one, and only one, true love per person?" (For Mary and Nick Roman, KPCC's Senior News Editor, it's been 25 years! Photo by Patricia Nazario.)
Listen 2:04
As the 9th circuit court struck down proposition 8, the gay marriage ban, a crowd gathered outside West Hollywood city hall to celebrate the ruling.
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RH Greene tells us about Voluptua, a short-lived 1950s local tv sensation, branded "Corruptua" by Christian protest groups.
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Marc Haefele tells us that the Romans didn't think Cupid was so cute.