Support for LAist comes from
Local and national news, NPR, things to do, food recommendations and guides to Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire
Stay Connected
Listen
Podcasts Off-Ramp
Mars! Art! Replicants! Sports! - Off-Ramp for August 4, 2012
Off-Ramp with John Rabe Hero Image
(
Dan Carino
)
Episode 5425
Listen 48:43
Mars! Art! Replicants! Sports! - Off-Ramp for August 4, 2012

Mars! Art! Replicants! Sports!

Guernica
Guernica
(
Pablo Picasso
)

Mars! Art! Replicants! Sports!

Listen 6:25
"Some athletes toward the end of their career ... this was the epitome of what they'd been sacrificing for." Bolden was thinking of the 1984 Olympics.
Listen 7:36
Marc Haefele review's David Dufty's "How to Build an Android," then tells us about editing three of Philip K. Dick's 1960s sci-fi novels.
Listen 2:51
RIP Karl Benjamin, post-war art trailblazer: "I can think of no other artist whose paintings exude the joy and pleasure of being an artist with more intensity than Karl Benjamin."
Listen 4:16
At the Crawford Family Forum, Off-Ramp's John Rabe talks with Jill D’Agnenica and Robbie Conal about keeping the message from overwhelming their political art.
Listen 3:45
Question one: Who wrote “A Princess of Mars,” the sci-fi novel that launched the famous Barsoom series of books, and inspired the recent movie “John Carter of Mars”?
Listen 4:50
Off-Ramp producer Kevin Ferguson went to Costa Mesa for the 38th annual National Stereoscopic Association Trade Show and Convention.