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Off-Ramp for March 10, 2012, is like a Millard Sheets mosaic
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Episode 5096
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Off-Ramp for March 10, 2012, is like a Millard Sheets mosaic

Pasadena artist Kenton Nelson ... Hipstamatic & Instagram v News ... new voting tech via crowdsourcing ... Giant Rock = Boffo Muz Biz? ... RIP Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman ...

What Pogues accordionist James Fearnley did NOT say when he came to KPCC: "If you don't listen to Off-Ramp, you can Pogue Mahone." He'll be on Off-Ramp next week, talking about the birth, death, and rebirth of the Celtic punk band.
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Pasadena artist Kenton Nelson ... Hipstamatic & Instagram v News ... new voting tech via crowdsourcing ... Giant Rock = Boffo Muz Biz? ... RIP Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman ...

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Peter Bergman's KPFK radio show gave birth to Firesign Theatre. He also produced political satire for KPCC called “True Confessions of the Real World.”
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When the Pogues met in a hotel room in 1991, they knew they had to fire unreliable frontman Shane MacGowan, but how would he take it? James Fearnley tells us.
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He made Pomona walkable, and banks likable, and the conservancy is fighting to preserve his work.
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CyberFrequencies and the meme man Lil B
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Painter Kenton Nelson's work can be seen in galleries and homes all over, museums as far as Austria and five times on the cover of the New Yorker.
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If all went according to plan this Saturday morning, the L.A. County Museum of Art received its newest and largest acquisition: a 340-ton granite boulder, which will sit on top of a 456-foot-long concrete slot – walkable by museum visitors – in LACMA’s north lawn.
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L.A. County is the nation's biggest election jurisdiction, and it's also got an outdated voting system. Now the registrar is looking for answers.
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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."