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Fudge! It's a darn good Off-Ramp for June 21, 2014
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Dan Carino
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Episode 6613
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Fudge! It's a darn good Off-Ramp for June 21, 2014

Exploring Southern California with John Rabe and Kevin Ferguson and the rest of Team Off-Ramp.

Off-Ramp host John Rabe and his iPhone, photographed in downtown LA's Ace Hotel by Instagram photog @brandenwinter.
Off-Ramp host John Rabe and his iPhone, photographed in downtown LA's Ace Hotel by Instagram photog @brandenwinter.
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Branden Winter
)

Exploring Southern California with John Rabe and Kevin Ferguson and the rest of Team Off-Ramp.

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Off-Ramp's John Rabe, who sometimes makes things up, imagines what it might be like to talk with Mayor Eric Garcetti about dropping his first public obscenity.
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Off-Ramp host John Rabe talks with Zoey Tur and Dana Vahle, who 20 years ago were Bob and Dirk, macho TV chopper pilots competing for video of OJ slow-speed chase.
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Only in America could Rialto's Native American-themed Wigwam Motel be lovingly restored by an Indian-American born on Route 66.
Of all the artists of over a century ago, James Ensor would probably have done best in Zap Comix. Much of his work is rooted in obscenities akin S. Clay Wilson's and R. Crumb’s.
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In bucolic Rolling Hills Estates, a murder mystery is unfolding, featuring local politics, warring neighbors and at least 50 victims.
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Harry Hall was born in 1913, and he’s lived in San Pedro ever since. Friends, family and fans flocked to the English pub last Friday to celebrate Harry’s 101st birthday.
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O.J. Simpson had said he'd surrender that morning, avoid all the cameras and the hoo-ha, but then he cut and ran, and for hours, it was a game of where's O.J.?