In yet another installment of the Eat LA/Off-Ramp Collaboration, John Rabe goes to Vicente Foods in Brentwood with Eat LA contributor and LA Times food writer Jenn Garbee. This time, they try some of the best relishes in Los Angeles. Click through to find out where to try some Jenn's favorites!

The Natural History Museum in LA's Exposition Park just gave birth -- it unveiled the remodelled 1913 Beaux-Arts Building, with invisible earthquake retrofitting and revamped exhibits. We brought the whole Team Off-Ramp, and since kids are some of the museum's most important customers, we brought 12-year old (almost) Avery Lopez and 10-year old Sophia Lopez as cub reporters. We'll present much more of their visit to the NHM in a couple weeks on Off-Ramp, but meantime here's a sneak peak, plus a conversation with the head of the museum's board of trustees, Paul Haaga, Jr.

Poached as in how they're caught, not cooked. Unlike most kids, marine biologist Milton Love spent his summers hawking contraband barracuda he had just fished out of the Santa Monica Bay. And he lived to tell the tale.

Madame Ganna Walska was a Polish-born socialite, married six times. She was an aspiring opera vocalist who despite years of voice lessons simply couldn't sing-- her story inspired Orsen Welle's to write Citizen Kane's second wife. In 1941 she bought a huge estate in Montecito (just outside of Santa Barbara) and called it Lotusland. It's one of the most impressive botanical gardens in the country. Madame Walska died in 1984 but her estate has thrived with myriad lotus flowers, topiary bushes and cycad plants--those are stout seed plants that kind of look like short palm trees. Cyndi Bemel walked through the gardens with Lotusland curator Virginia Hayes. Click through for a photographic tour of the gorgeous property!

... in which Brendan Newnam and Rico Gagliano make you smart enough to shine at your next dinner party. This time: the Portland band Blitzen Trapper, the history of Scotlnd's “Stone of Scone,” and Brendan’s interview with a San Francisco artist who holds “dirt tastings.”

Charles Phoenix and the Third Dimension is not a band ... it's the new 3-D slideshow the local historian is bringing to the Downtown Independent Theatre on two upcoming Sundays: May 9 and May 16. The show on the 16th follows the one-day 3-D film festival put on by the LA 3D Club. COME INSIDE for more info about both events!

Can Twitter be poetry on purpose? Tanya Jo Miller and Queena Kim from CyberFrequencies do their best to find out.