Gay About Marriage!; Jazzing up the Classics; A Late Composer's Early Birthday Bash; Bike to Work Day; Aesthetes, Bohemians, and Craftsmen; Auctioning Art for AIDS Research; Ode To Teacher; Grade A Investigator; Gotcha!; Crime Buster; To Catch a Thief; Before Pimlico; 2008 Youth Film Fest; Letters
Gay About Marriage!
The State Supreme Court ruled Thursday that it's against the state constitution to deny same sex marriage. KPCC's Frank Stoltze went to West Hollywood where gay couples were celebrating.
Jazzing up the Classics
Uri Caine is a pianist who plays fast, loose, and beautifully with the classics. Caine talks to Off-Ramp producer Queena Kim about reinterpreting the classics.
Caine is the composer-in-residence at the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, which will be performing their last show of the season this weekend.
A Late Composer's Early Birthday Bash
Off-Ramp commentator (and KPCC's program director) Craig Curtis holds an early birthday party for Leroy Anderson, the most famous composer you've never heard of.
Bike to Work Day
With gas prices soaring, KPCC's Brian Watt decides to ride his bike from his home in Venice to downtown Los Angeles.
Aesthetes, Bohemians, and Craftsmen
The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising opens a new exhibit that shows how the avant garde were dressing from the 1880s to the 1920s. John Rabe spoke with Kevin Jones, curator of FIDM's costume collection.
Auctioning Art for AIDS Research
The work of LA's hottest emerging artists will be auctioned off to benefit AIDS Research. Off-Ramp correspondent Jackson Musker checked out their work.
Ode To Teacher
Long Beach State is losing one of its most beloved teachers: Gerald Locklin. Locklin is retiring after 43-years of teaching English. Former student Dave Alvin, who's best known for starting the seminal LA roots band The Blasters, reads a poem honoring Locklin.
Grade A Investigator
John interviews the man who really knows what's going on: KNBC's Joel Grover. His undercover investigation led to EZ Lube's settlement for unfair business practices.
Gotcha!
Joel Grover talks about his career and how he and his team perform undercover investigations.
Crime Buster
Off-Ramp commentator Mimi Pond and her Barney Fife moment.
To Catch a Thief
Mimi Pond tells us how she - and a rainbow coalition of amateur crime stoppers - chased down a mugger.
Before Pimlico
The 133rd running of the Preakness at Pimlico racetrack is this Saturday. But there was a famous horse race here in southern California long before that. Off-Ramp special correspondent Kitty Felde says the horses didn't run on a track, but on a dirt road that later became known as Alamitos Avenue in Long Beach.
2008 Youth Film Fest
Local teenage filmmaker Woodrow White has a short movie in the Echo Park Film Center youth film festival. It features Peter Bergman, one of the founders of Firesign Theatre, retelling the story about how he was on the air at KPFK, interviewing the band The United States of America, and one of the band members pretended to take Peter hostage. John Rabe plays a cop in the movie.
Letters
Listeners sound-off on weeping immigrants, Tango poems and music.