The annotated H.P. Lovecraft ... France's proud history of satire ... Oscar nods at the chosen few ... the late Taylor Negron loved Lucy
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• 8:26
Roll out the barrel — more than 30 years after it closed, the historic, barrel-shaped Idle Hour Cafe in North Hollywood is set to reopen in mid-February.
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Off-Ramp host John Rabe talks with Susan Cloke, who marched from Selma to Montgomery as a young, white teenager.
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• 8:22
Charles Solomon talks about Disney's animated blockbuster "Big Hero 6" with two of the artists responsible for its look and its Oscar nomination: Paul Felix and Scott Watanabe.
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He was a bigot, but scholar Leslie Klinger says he turned that anger and angst into great horror fiction.
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• 5:18
Writer and director Damian Chazelle says he based the screenplay on his own life, but the Academy nominated the film for Best Adapted Screenplay. Which is it?
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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• 7:49
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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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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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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Jerry Brown is the only man who ever has been and now ever can be elected to four terms as California governor. What is it he wants?
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• 3:56
Cameroonian Pascale Marthine Tayou considers himself a world artist, a cosmopolitan nomad, with so many influences that it’s hard to count them.