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My little boy wears his sister's dresses - Off-Ramp for July 19, 2014
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Episode 6656
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My little boy wears his sister's dresses - Off-Ramp for July 19, 2014

Seth Menachem: Don't judge me or my 2-year old; an update on the Broad Museum and Hauser, Wirth, and Schimmel; Spike Lee up close & personal.

When Jim Meskimen does an impression, his face as well as his voice gets in the act. Here, Meskimen teaches KPCC's John Rabe the DeNiro Frown Mouth.
When Jim Meskimen does an impression, his face as well as his voice gets in the act. Here, Meskimen teaches KPCC's John Rabe the DeNiro Frown Mouth.
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Impressionist Jim Meskimen and Off-Ramp host John Rabe
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Seth Menachem: Don't judge me or my 2-year old; an update on the Broad Museum and Hauser, Wirth, and Schimmel; Spike Lee up close & personal.

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They apologize for confusing my 2-year old son's gender, but I tell them, “He’s in a purple dress with sparkly shoes. How would you know?”
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John Rabe gets an update on the Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery, coming to the downtown Arts District, and the Broad Museum coming to Grand Avenue.
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The life and death of Rodney King is examined on stage by writer/performer Roger Guenveur Smith.
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Spike Lee: "It's not good to be a flash in the pan. As an artist you want to have longevity, because longevity will let you do your work. And artists want to build up a body of work."
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In the Fall of 1971, CalArt's Feminist Art Program converted a run-down Hollywood mansion into an enormous and immersive feminist art exhibition.
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KPCC staffers try two of the mental tests doctors gave Clippers owner Donald Sterling as part of their examination into whether he has Alzheimer's Disease.
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He was shoplifting from toy stores at 12, snatching purses at 15, and by the time he'd grown up he was robbing stores and dealing drugs.
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Multiple brain aneurysms have left Siike Donnelly with a fractured memory. The graphic novelist hopes to regain the memories he's lost--and his ability to draw.
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Sophia Loren and 400 of her closest friends are in Napa next weekend for her 80th birthday. LA restauranteur Piero Selvaggio is cooking something special.
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John Rabe talks with Mike Sheehan, Off-Ramp's sketch artist, about what he can capture with his pen that can't be captured by the camera.
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"Sweetheart, this man wants to ask you some questions," my dad said as he knelt down and looked me in the eyes so intensely I thought I would shatter into pieces.
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John Rabe talks with Mythbuster Kari Byron, who's in town to help open Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition, at the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana.
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Marvel is tackling the universe with the "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie. Writer Sam Humphries is the one who makes the unknown lead character a star in comics.
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At the Getty Center and Villa: What civilization lasted 1,100 years that hardly anyone thinks of as a civilization? Byzantium. And, they invented the fork.