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My Friend's Place - organized chaos at a youth homeless center. Off-Ramp for May 23, 2015
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Episode 11559
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My Friend's Place - organized chaos at a youth homeless center. Off-Ramp for May 23, 2015

Visit the youth homeless center that inspired Miley Cyrus's Happy Hippie Foundation ... The Cactus Store, the garden store for the drought-conscious ... Ride with Angelyne!

Off-Ramp host John Rabe outside the Wool Growers Basque restaurant in Bakersfield, California
Off-Ramp host John Rabe outside the Wool Growers Basque restaurant in Bakersfield, California
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Off-Ramp host John Rabe in Bakersfield (Credit: John Rabe)
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Visit the youth homeless center that inspired Miley Cyrus's Happy Hippie Foundation ... The Cactus Store, the garden store for the drought-conscious ... Ride with Angelyne!

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Tiki Ti to reopen tonight after scaring the board shorts off their fans with that "closed indefinitely" thing.
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There’s a tiny storefront in Echo Park that glows red and orange at night. Inside, there are dozens and dozens of some of Los Angeles' strangest cactuses.
KPCC Auction: Ride with Angelyne, the billboard queen, then have dinner with her and host John Rabe at Harlowe, the flagship of Group 1933's "refined drinking locations."
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We tour My Friend's Place in Hollywood, which is trying to show youth ages 12 to 25 a way out of homelessness. One of its clients accepted Miley Cyrus's VMA award.
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The Getty Center’s new exhibit, “Painting Set Free,” displays an incredible number of works by the man many people now think of as the greatest English painter of all time.
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"Don't Think I've Forgotten" tell the story of the rise and fall of Cambodia's vibrant, progressive music scene from the survivors of the Khmer Rouge's reign.
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Famed autism activist Temple Grandin says that kids like her who were made to deliver newspapers and ride horses are better off for not being sheltered.
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Meet ABC's Robert Moran, one of the few journalists who've "come out" about their austism.