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Why is it so creepy? Off-Ramp for March 23, 2013
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Dan Carino
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Episode 5824
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Why is it so creepy? Off-Ramp for March 23, 2013

Rabe goes there ... Regardie explains why downtown LA is exploding, but not in a good way ... Kevin goes to the narco-corrido opera ... Robert goes bowling ... and the Getty goes to Koreatown.

University High School students Corin Choppin and his date at their prom, c1994
University High School students Corin Choppin and his date at their prom, c1994
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LAPL Shades of LA collection
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Rabe goes there ... Regardie explains why downtown LA is exploding, but not in a good way ... Kevin goes to the narco-corrido opera ... Robert goes bowling ... and the Getty goes to Koreatown.

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After more than 60 years, perhaps the best of the Atomic Age shrines to bowling is closing this month, and preservationists are very worried it'll be demolished.
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'Looking East: Rubens's Encounter with Asia,' at the Getty Center through June 9th, is the Getty's first Korean-themed exhibit, and its first collaboration with LA's Korean-American community.
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Since it's now okay for high school kids to ask out celebrities, it must be okay for celebrities -- even D-list public radio celebrities -- to ask out high-schoolers, right?
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Bob Gurr, named a Disney Legend in 2004, never let a thing like not knowing how to do something get in the way of doing things.
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Making its US debut in Long Beach this Sunday, March 24th, is an opera called Camelia La Tejana. But the opera's story has roots in contemporary life.
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Seven high-profile Downtown LA institutions or offices are blowing up or melting down. Wherever you look, a community leader is enmeshed in a struggle for supremacy or even survival.
Slow pans, intense but faded colors, snow-white statues of Christ, chips in the plaster, exposed rebar. A feeling of calm. Listen with the sound up or off. A lovely movie from Christopher Lee.