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Angelyne, Angelyne, the somewhat racy billboard queen. Off-Ramp for Feb. 28, 2015
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Dan Carino
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Episode 11266
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Angelyne, Angelyne, the somewhat racy billboard queen. Off-Ramp for Feb. 28, 2015

Icons! John meets and rides through Hollywood with Angelyne, and Kevin interviews former Minuteman bassist Mike Watt, who'll be on the punk Mt Rushmore.

At the French Market in West Hollywood, Angelyne pets a fish named Lightening,who apparently knows and loves her.
At the French Market in West Hollywood, Angelyne pets a fish named Lightening,who apparently knows and loves her.
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Angelyne's playing koi. (John Rabe)
)

Icons! John meets and rides through Hollywood with Angelyne, and Kevin interviews former Minuteman bassist Mike Watt, who'll be on the punk Mt Rushmore.

Listen 6:46
Fourteen-year-old Destiny Rodriguez, an 8th grader from South Gate, plans to be a mechanical engineer, someone who will "innovate the future."
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13,000 first time marathoners might be suffering from a syndrome called Taper Madness. Our expert says, "You'll do fine. Stick with the program."
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Nicholas Meyer directed Nimoy in two Star Trek films, including "Wrath of Khan." Like Raoul Wallenberg, "[h]e is not dead, as long as we remember him."
The band is a collaboration between Seattle record producer Jake One and Los Angeles soul singer Mayer Hawthorne. The video is great, too.
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Historic Places LA is a brand new website that lets anyone - city planners, developers, citizens, tourists -- find LA's historically significant places and information about them.
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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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Images of fire, protests and tear gas from Ferguson, Mexico City, and downtown L.A. have landed in the inbox of L.A. painter Sandy Rodriguez.
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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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When the Mount Rushmore of California Punk is built, there will be debates over who to include, but at least one name is for sure: Mike Watt.
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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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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.