Thousands of supposedly lowbrow Angelenos lined up for hours last weekend to get inside a new architectural marvel and an old icon: The Broad museum and Hollyhock House.
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An only-in-L.A. moment: Angelyne, the billboard queen, gives Off-Ramp host John Rabe a ride in her famous pink Corvette.
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald spent a couple hourson LA's Skid Row, counting homeless, and searching for homeless veterans.
Sketch artist Mike Sheehan takes us into the San Bernardino Mountains to a temple built by Akhoy Kumar Mozumdar 80 years ago.
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From Friday the 13th into Valentine's Day, thousands of lucky people toured the architectural icon they love, Hollyhock House for free — with hours of lines.
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Need your dirty Air-Force 1's cleaned? A pair of CP3s that look less than pristine? Professional sneaker cleaner Jason Markk has you covered.
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Lynsey Addario's new memoir details her captivity in Libya as well as her childhood memories of her father coming out as gay. She had both fact-checked.
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On a hot Sunday, 3,547 Angelenos lined up to get inside an art museum that didn't have any art in it.
In a superb field of Best Foreign Language Film nominees, three of five titles hail from countries in the former Soviet Union.
"Off-Ramp" reviews "Timbuktu," a film about the fundamentalist takeover of a traditional village, and "Wild Tales," a rowdy six-part Argentine black comedy.
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Suddenly, there emerged German painters who became famous even in France and England. One major sect distanced itself from all art since the Renaissance.
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From the Off-Ramp archive, John Rabe's wide-ranging 2008 interview with Gary Owens, who died Thursday at the age of 80.
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At Musso & Frank, the oldest restaurant in Hollywood. you'll find a star for an actor named Harrison Ford, but it doesn't belong to modern "Indiana Jones" actor.