Father's Day; Stay at home dad; MYOB; Maila Nuri, Vamp Extraordinaire; It's a Wonderful Life in Encino; A Broad View of History; A Dream Partnership; Inside Huxley's World; No Frills B.B.Q.; Nothing, Honey.; Off-Ramp Exit Interview; Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
A journalist (W.T. Rabe) and his son (John Rabe), circa 1966. This week, two married journalists sound off. One wants people to stop getting all up in his Kool-Aid, and another misses, kinda, his old globetrotting life.
Former New York Times' reporter Charlie LeDuff talks about giving up his jet-set life to become a stay-at-home dad.
Jeff Girod sounds off at busybodies who want him and wife to reproduce.
We pay tribute to Maila Nurmi, the woman who first played a sexy horror movie host on TV: Vampira. A memorial service was being planned. For information, e-mail ghooled@sbcglobal.net
Ever wonder why George Bailey was sweating in the middle of winter in It's a Wonderful Life? Kevin Roderick says its because they shot it in the Valley; he takes Off-Ramp to the old RKO ranch.
From the LA Public Library photo archive, here's a look at Eli Broad a few years before he was funding charter schools and museums. Or involved in controversy over NOT giving his collection to LACMA.
With Martin Luther King Day around the corner, Queena Kim tells us about a little-known alliance between King and a Los Angeles synagogue.
Marc Haefele says Aldous Huxley's recently published letters are a window into the "Strange New World" that was Huxley's interior world.
"Big, tasty and messy." That's what one reviewer says of the food they turn out at Glencrest BBQ in Venice. Brian Watt takes Off-Ramp to the hole-in-the-wall family joint.
Does anyone in the Off-Ramp world know what this is? John saw it on a bulletin board at the parking ramp. Bees? How many bees? Why bees?
The LA Times' Steve Hymon is switching beats. You might remember that he and Queena ripped the lid off Parking Meter Gate? John does an exit interview.
Who guards the guardians? John talks with Joe Domanick about his Playboy article on LA Police Chief Bill Bratton, and the media's role in fighting crime.