John Rabe rides along with a crew of LA County Sheriff Deputies and probation officers as they check-up on suspected taggers and gang-bangers on probation.

In 1988, a Chicano teenager, who goes by the nom-de-aerosol "Toomer" started a tagging crew called "T-K-O." KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez met up with Toomer and his crew as they painted a mural in South Central LA.

Queena Kim spent a morning with the Boyle Heights graffiti removal crew. The crew removes over 250,000 square feet of graffiti every month.

Two men were honored for bravery this week by the LA County Board of Supervisors. It all started on October 7th with a small plane crash off Malibu.

Just before the inauguration, Dan Savage helps out the Obama's with advice on living with your mother-in-law. The White House is a big place, but is it big enough?

KPCC's Brian Watt talks to the Tuskegee Airmen who were invited to the president-elect's inauguration.

Furnell Chatman says goodbye after 35 years at KNBC-Channel 4's. He says it wasn't hard being one of the few black reporters in Los Angeles; what was hard was breaking the color line in New Orleans.

Lamont Dozier is a soul music legend - first as a singer with groups like The Romeos, then, most famously, as the co-writer of dozens of Motown hits, including just about every hit for The Supremes and the Four Tops. Dinner Party Download's Rico Gagliano caught up with Dozier, who teaches songwriting at USC.

Artist Moira Hahn brings a new twist to the old art of Japanese woodblock prints.

Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight gives us an update on LA's Museum of Contemporary Art and makes a radical suggestion: show your art!

Paulette McWilliams joined us for a recent Off-Ramp session with Clarence McDonald, and she joins Grammy-winning sax player Tom Scott at Catalina's Friday through Sunday of next week. And the world-famous Pacifica Quartet play Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy.