Tomato Time; QUAKE CITY: A Sensitive Subject; Trailer Tales; The Miracle Cleaner; QUAKE CITY: Prediction Impossible; Porn Again?; Take a Pilgrimage in L.A.; QUAKE CITY: Native Mythology; Pierogi Paradise; Special Agent Man; Storycorps: Friends, Lovers, Parents; Jerry Stahl on Love Without; The Ashes of Oakridge
Get those gardens started! Next week, we tour a tomato nursery that's got over 40 types of the vegetables...or fruits...or whatever. We'll serve up juicy sounds, a YouTube video, and tips so you can grow your new favorites.
Contributor Jackson Musker enters the unstable world of "earthquake sensitives," who believe that their bodies tell them when the earth's going to let loose.
In the next few weeks, we'll be featuring interviews collected at the StoryCorps trailer in East LA. Thanks to the Storycorps team (at left) for helping to bring us these funny, intimate, and touching conversations.
It seems too good to be true, but more and more people are buying into a new cleaning system that uses saltwater charged with electricity. It replaces bleach and other harmful chemicals, and you can drink it.
Caltech's noted earthquake expert Dr. Lucy Jones (ducking and covering, at left) schools contributor Jackson Musker in the science on quake predictions, and talks about the new frontier of "Earthquake warnings."
John follows the L.A. Times' Steve Lopez on a crusade against repeated--and illegal--porn magazine dumpings.
Queena Kim goes on an LA Conservancy tour of religious sites, including the Self Realization Fellowship high atop Mount Washington.
Off-Ramp contributor Jackson Musker visits a sacred Native American site in Long Beach with Tongva tribe member Cindi Alvitre. She offers this advice: Don't wake up the turtles!
Dinner Party Download's Rico Gagliano discovers pierogies in Eagle Rock that are so tasty they'll make natives of Pittsburgh or Poland salivate.
Meet Steven Gomez, an Angeleano native and the head of the FBI's Southern California's counter-terrorism division. He talks to KPCC's Frank Stoltze about traveling the world in pursuit of drug dealers and terrorists.
Newly-minted parents Ying-Ying Goh and Tony Pang, of Pasadena, reflect on the roots of their unlikely romance.
LA author Jerry Stahl reads from his new collection of short stories. The New Yorker says he's better than William Burroughs, and is just as skanky and stylish as James Ellroy.
"The Ashes of Oakridge" is an Off-Ramp documentary about a wildfire's devastation of the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar - the "Beverly Hills of Mobile Home Parks." Please contact us if you have comments about the documentary. And feel free to pass along the doc to those who may have been affected, or to anyone who wants a fresh look at the impact of Southern California wildfires. Thanks!