An Alaskan blogger feels the heat and fears for her safety when Sarah Palin singles her out.

I remember building and launching a Saturn V model rocket from a kit when I was a kid in the 1970s. it was the same rocket that pushed the astronauts to the moon 40 years ago. The kit was made by Estes, a Colorado-based company. Back then, I was more concerned with the difficulty of the model than the historic magnitude of the Saturn V. But keep reading for ... the rest of the story.

The five members of Team Off-Ramp are now Tweeting. Follow Us and John Rabe, Queena Kim, Jackson Musker, Andrea Domanick, and Kevin Ferguson will be your eyes and ears in Southern California.

LAPD Comissioner Bill Bratton doesn't like smooth criminals or smooth jazz. And he's never watched Thriller ... as he confesses to KPCC's Frank Stolze.

Meet artist Wayne White, set designer for "Pee Wee's Playhouse" and art director for Peter Gabriel's video "Big Time." Now he's best known for painting big words on dime store landscape prints.

The last surviving organist from the Silent Film Era died at 96. KPCC's Patricia Nazario reports.

"Here's a song, originally written by a Black composer in honor of a Mexican bullfighter, covered by a Chicano band steeped in Black R&B and jazz, then sampled by the first major Chicano rap artist."

John checks out an exhibit of glorious Kodachrome photos of LA billboards from the 1950s and 1960s, assembled by LA's preeminent photojournalist Gary Leonard. The photos (and billboards) are like time capsules of another era.

This week: 80's metal band Anvil forges ahead...Muhammad Ali KO's the U.S. Army.... and Brendan has designs on David Bowie.

Literary commentator Marc Haefele remembers the late Sci-Fi master James (J.G.) Ballard, author of The Empire of the Sun, Crash, and many dystopian classics. Ballard gave Marc "a life's supply of healthy pessimism."

Off-Ramp host John Rabe was part of the tiny crowd (including this believer in the End Days) outside Staples Center Tuesday ... the one that was outnumbered by police. John's pics inside ...

Just a few members of the worldwide media circus that descended on Staples Center Tuesday introduce themselves to KPCC's Frank Stoltze.