James Franco's collaborative USC film class winds up with real movies ... a jazz pianist who uses sci-fi movies to inspire music about Mars ... Damian Kevitt runs the LA Marathon.
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Damian Kevitt was riding his bike through Griffith Park when, two years ago, he lost his leg in a hit-and-run crash. Now, he's running a marathon.
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In 1968, several parents, including Harriet Glickman and Ken Kelly, convinced Charles Schulz to create Franklin, the first black character in "Peanuts."
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What does Mars sound like on a piano? Pianist Josh Nelson came up with one answer on his latest album, "Exploring Mars."
Photographer Gary Leonard gives a free talk at the LA Public Library Saturday about the punk era, "punktuated" with archival and brand new photos of the musicians and the scene.
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Off-Ramp contributor RH Greene says James Franco's USC film school course is a model of collaborative filmmaking that Hollywood should emulate.
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Fourteen-year-old Destiny Rodriguez, an 8th grader from South Gate, plans to be a mechanical engineer, someone who will "innovate the future."
It's the single from "In a Dream," Bouquet's new EP, which comes out this month on Folktale Records.
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Images of fire, protests and tear gas from Ferguson, Mexico City, and downtown L.A. have landed in the inbox of L.A. painter Sandy Rodriguez.
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Gaines' giant series of grid-based drawings are all about how we find order and meaning. He talks about struggling to fit in with the black arts scene of the 70s.