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Chaz Ebert, Jerry Brown, Michele Serros, and Pascale Tayou ... Off-Ramp for Jan. 10, 2015
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Chaz Ebert, Jerry Brown, Michele Serros, and Pascale Tayou ... Off-Ramp for Jan. 10, 2015

RH Greene sits down with Chaz Ebert at the Palm Springs Film Festival; we remember poet Michele Serros; Patt Morrison looks back and forward at Jerry Brown; and Marc Haefele takes us to the Fowler museum for an exhibit that almost didn’t happen.

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RH Greene sits down with Chaz Ebert at the Palm Springs Film Festival; we remember poet Michele Serros; Patt Morrison looks back and forward at Jerry Brown; and Marc Haefele takes us to the Fowler museum for an exhibit that almost didn’t happen.

Long before the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks, Paris was a place where satire — especially satirical cartoons — has been taken very seriously, both by its people and their leaders.
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In the late 1970s, actor and writer Taylor Negron, who died Saturday, took a class from the First Lady of Comedy. Negron shares a side of Lucy that few people ever saw.
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Off-Ramp contributor R.H. Greene talks with Chaz Ebert about her late husband Roger Ebert's love of movies, and the festivals that help them get seen.
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Mystery Pier's unassuming location makes it a favorite spot for paparazzi-wary celebrities with a taste for the finest in antiquarian books and literature-related collectibles.
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Cameroonian Pascale Marthine Tayou considers himself a world artist, a cosmopolitan nomad, with so many influences that it’s hard to count them.
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When’s the last time a publisher of the Times sold out any appearance larger than a kitchen table? Heck, who can even name a publisher of the Times since Otis Chandler?
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KPCC reporter and poet Adolfo Guzman-Lopez on the ground-breaking writer Michele Serros.
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The story of Jim Tully, a former hobo who became Hollywood's "most hated man" — and the two men who spent 20 years rediscovering his life.
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Off-Ramp talks with the filmmakers behind "Hungry," a documentary that looks into the stories and lives behind one of America's strangest sports.