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The tawdry history of the Huntington Library? Off-Ramp for June 22, 2013
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Episode 5969
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The tawdry history of the Huntington Library? Off-Ramp for June 22, 2013

The Art of Wealth tells the untold story of the Huntington family ... ethics and the OC Register ... Texas Loves Lyla! at the Hollywood Fringe Festival ... Bottle Tree Ranch ... Tyris continues his evolution from South LA to college student ... James Gandolfini, c 1990 ... 16-year old starts her own vegan bakery

Undated photo at unidentified SoCal beach.
Undated photo at unidentified SoCal beach.
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Ralph Morris/LA Public Library
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The Art of Wealth tells the untold story of the Huntington family ... ethics and the OC Register ... Texas Loves Lyla! at the Hollywood Fringe Festival ... Bottle Tree Ranch ... Tyris continues his evolution from South LA to college student ... James Gandolfini, c 1990 ... 16-year old starts her own vegan bakery

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Clara Polito might only be 16, but she runs her own vegan baking company and has dreams of opening up a bakery before she turns 20.
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Off Route 66, just north of Victorville, there's a forest in the desert. The forest has hundreds of trees -- but they're all made from bottles.
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In the latest edition in her series on graduates of Crenshaw High, Tanya Jo Miller tells us Tyris Williams, with grandma's help, is fitting in at UC Irvine.
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This weekend, you can not only try curling yourself, but mingle with the best in the sport at Orange County's first 3-day bonspiel, or curling tournament.
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Gandolfini had "an incredible capacity for intensity and realness. What's what made Tony Soprano such an indelible character is that you totally believed that he was this guy, you know, that he was capable of this huge range of emotions."
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Shelley Bennett's spectacular new quadruple biography takes a look at the family that gave the Southland the Red Car lines and its most venerated museum.
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Just once, I'd like to meet a personality-based drag queen who, underneath the huge bouffant, the dowdy dress, and the huge boobs, has a huge bouffant, dowdy dress, and huge boobs.Not the case with Jeffrey Wylie, who plays Lyla KaRug.
In his 62 years as a ballroom dance instructor, Lou Schreiber estimated that he'd taught 50,000 Southern Californians to fox trot, rhumba, salsa and swing.
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To remember Ray Bradbury is to remember summer. KPCC's John Rabe and Molly Peterson talk about one of their favorite books, Dandelion Wine, which catches magic in a bottle.
A few words about this week's lead photo, by the famed photog, Ralph Morris.