Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica has become a shrine to a chicken. A dead, headless, buried and exhumed grocery store chicken named Blinky the Friendly Hen. Blinky started as an art joke thirty years ago by a Cal State Northridge art student Jeffrey Vallance.

Meet artist Wayne White, set designer for "Pee Wee's Playhouse" and art director for Peter Gabriel's video "Big Time." Now he's best known for painting big words on dime store landscape prints.

LA Times food writer Russ Parsons explains why he tore out his front lawn to grow edibles.

Geraldine Ferraro stirred up controversy this week when she was quoted as saying, "If Obama were a white man, he would not be in this position." African-American novelist Jervey Tervalon knew this moment would come. He spoke to Queena Kim at a bakery in Pasadena.

"What's wrong with Geraldine Ferraro's comment?" asks Off-Ramp satirist Tanya Jo Miller.

John offers this eulogy to a longtime Barbeque joint that picked up and moved down South (south on Vermont that is).

Longtime Angelinos Ernie and Frances Wooster shared some of their childhood memories - and culinary discoveries - with correspondent Jackson Musker. This story came via the Heritage Square Museum in Highland Park, which recently held an "Old-Timer's Day" to collect stories of L.A.'s senior residents.

Meet dentist and tree grower Ron Tremmel. He raises California oaks as a hobby. His wife wants them out of the backyard.

Frank Stolze caps off his week-long series on rehabilitating criminals by taking us on a ride-along with a parole officer.

Tucked behind a restaurant and parking lot in Silverlake, The Other Side is one of the oldest piano bars in Los Angeles. Filmmaker Jane Cantillon takes Queena Kim on a tour.

Mateo is back on Off-Ramp to talk about the amazing response he got from KPCC's listeners. If you want to get a CD from Mateo phone: 323.215.6479 ml_stoneman@hotmail.com