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Giant sea bass is "like a squashed Volkswagen" -- Off-Ramp for July 26, 2014
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Giant sea bass is "like a squashed Volkswagen" -- Off-Ramp for July 26, 2014

Giant sea bass census; the Great Drought and our water-dependent history; Marjorie Elizabeth Cameron Parsons Kimmel; No Mad Scientists in "I Origins"

Drawings of the giant sea bass from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1897.
Drawings of the giant sea bass from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1897.
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Giant sea bass census; the Great Drought and our water-dependent history; Marjorie Elizabeth Cameron Parsons Kimmel; No Mad Scientists in "I Origins"

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When I started in comedy, I saw hundreds of comics just finding their voices as they moved toward stardom. LA's storytelling scene has that feel now. It's a golden age.
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KPCC pop culture bogger Mike Roe reports from Comic Con. He's one of 125,000 people who have descended on San Diego for the annual convention.
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Filmmaker Mike Cahill's new movie “I Origins” explores the relationship of two scientists probing the question of reincarnation. Art and science, he says, are similar pursuits.
John Rabe discovers the mystical frog shrine in a Santa Barbara neighborhood, repository of hundreds of frog representations.
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The Giant Sea Bass Census, the first count of the highly endangered fish, could help decide if its numbers have increased enough to warrant fishing for the popular catch again.
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Marjorie Elizabeth Cameron Parsons Kimmel was an occultist, an artist, an actress and wife to one of the world’s first rocket scientists.
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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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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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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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Now that drought and water is the minds of nearly every Angeleno, what can LA's history with water teach us today?
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The life and death of Rodney King is examined on stage by writer/performer Roger Guenveur Smith.