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Singer Laurie Rubin asks, "Do You Dream in Color?" - Off-Ramp for March 3, 2012
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Dan Carino
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Episode 5074
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Singer Laurie Rubin asks, "Do You Dream in Color?" - Off-Ramp for March 3, 2012

Blind mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin's new album, "Do You Dream in Color?" ... the music of "John Carter" ... a last Bookmobile ... the Flying Pigeon's bikes for the citizen cyclist ... What is Steam Punk? ...

Mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin wrote the poem at the core of her new album, "Do You Dream in Color?"
Mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin wrote the poem at the core of her new album, "Do You Dream in Color?"
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Jonathan Barkat
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Blind mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin's new album, "Do You Dream in Color?" ... the music of "John Carter" ... a last Bookmobile ... the Flying Pigeon's bikes for the citizen cyclist ... What is Steam Punk? ...

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Nick Stern: "Every time a news organization uses a Hipstamatic or Instagram-style picture in a news report, they are cheating us all."
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Flintridge Preparatory School students find out why you should buy a 65-pound bike.
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Mezzo Soprano Laurie Rubin often gets asked, "Do you dream in color?" Find out why in this interview with Off-Ramp host John Rabe.
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KPCC visited Giacchino for a tour of the historic studio as the film's score was recorded.
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Friday, Feb. 24 marked the last run for the L.A. County Library's Las Virgenes bookmobile. Off-Ramp producer Kevin Ferguson visited the bookmobile on its second to last stop at the Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park in Agoura Hills.
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This month, Van Halen released its first album ("A Different Kind of Truth") with original vocalist David Lee Roth in almost 30 years. Much of the music was written but never released when the band was playing in backyards, seedy clubs and even the bar at the Pasadena Hilton in 1975.
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San Fernando Valley historian Kevin Roderick (also of LAObserved) takes us to the ranch home of Edgar Rice Burroughs ... Tarzana.
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An homage to Edward Gorey took a left-turn as Edwardian-era enthusiasts cinched their corsets, waxed their handlebars and turned the Edwardian ball into "a steampunked vision."