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Gung Hay Fat Choy! - Off-Ramp for January 28, 2012
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Dan Carino
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Episode 4988
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Gung Hay Fat Choy! - Off-Ramp for January 28, 2012

Off-Ramp welcomes Lunar New Year in Chinatown ... 3 Places with Linda Vallejo, PST artist ... Spirited Away with My Neighbor Totoro - a Ghibli celebration ... Bradley Whitford on "Art" and that show he did ... have your New Year's resolutions gone out the window?

Candies for Chinese New Year
Candies for Chinese New Year
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John Rabe
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Off-Ramp welcomes Lunar New Year in Chinatown ... 3 Places with Linda Vallejo, PST artist ... Spirited Away with My Neighbor Totoro - a Ghibli celebration ... Bradley Whitford on "Art" and that show he did ... have your New Year's resolutions gone out the window?

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Even if you never celebrate Lunar New Year, you should follow its traditions: forgive grudges, pay debts, clean the house & light firecrackers?
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Peter Mac has been performing tributes to Judy Garland for 11 years. His new show in West Hollywood brings all of Judy to the stage, not just the addictions.
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A beauty and talent queen who listens to KPCC and spreads the word about the station.
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Have you ever traveled with a giant, sweaty, daikon? Or ridden a cat bus? You can see that and more this Thursday at a local film festival.
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Lose 50 pounds. Give up smoking. Find a job. Stop drunk texting? We all make New Year's Resolutions, but do we actually pull them off?
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Actor Bradley Whitford stars in a new rendition of the Yasmin Reza's Art: a play about three longtime friends torn apart by a very expensive white painting.
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Death is one of those things we don't think about much, until someone we know is dying. But Caitlin Doughty, a local mortician, wants to change that.
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Off-Ramp has been asking artists featured in the Pacific Standard Time exhibition to share three local places important to them. Artist Linda Vallejo shares hers.
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The black-and-white silent film "The Artist" earned a leading six nominations Thursday for the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards, including a nod for best musical/comedy motion picture. Off-Ramp host John Rabe talks with actor Penelope Ann Miller, who plays Doris in "The Artist."
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Queena Kim and Tanya Jo Miller talk with Marketplace's Paddy Hirsch about why the internet starting to look more and more like the National Enquirer.
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In another installment of our partnership with Eat-LA, host John Rabe and Eat-LA's Linda Burum visit Continental Gourmet Sausage Company in Glendale, and talk about other resources for the the best sausages in LA ... from German to Polish to Creole.