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LA's last gay piano bar closing - Off-Ramp for June 2, 2012
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LA's last gay piano bar closing - Off-Ramp for June 2, 2012

We'll take you to The Other Side for one more round & one more song, visit two performances you'll want to catch, & ask why Molly is live Tweeting the War of 1812.

We know how they feel! Hobart Boulevard Elementary School 4th graders on the last day of school in an undated photo from the LA Public Library online archive.
We know how they feel! Hobart Boulevard Elementary School 4th graders on the last day of school in an undated photo from the LA Public Library online archive.
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We'll take you to The Other Side for one more round & one more song, visit two performances you'll want to catch, & ask why Molly is live Tweeting the War of 1812.

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American women earned the right to vote decades before they were allowed to run in marathons. The first to do it was Merry Lepper, in 1963, in Culver City.
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RIP Marcie Page
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Those of us who have lived and breathed Kings hockey since before the Lakers and Clippers lost in the playoffs are a pretty obsessed bunch.
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With the non-profit LAX ART, Saturday the Hammer Museum opens a delicious new exhibit highlighting dozens of new and emerging artists from LA.
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Over 40 years, it was a refuge from homophobia, a last preserve for pro-am show tunes, and a neighborhood bar. Now, Silverlake's The Other Side, the last gay piano bar in LA, is closing.
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Every weekend when the weather is fair, somewhere in the US, from Los Angeles to Maine, there’s an American Indian powwow going on.
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What do you know about The War of 1812? To mark its bicentennial, starting Friday, KPCC's Molly Peterson will compress the 3 years it happened into 3 months, and blogging about it.
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She sang for the Velvet Underground, acted for Fellini, posed for Warhol, and now Singer Tammy Lang brings Nico back to life with a show called "Chelsea Mädchen".
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"D is for Dog," a dark combo of stage acting, video, and puppetry that will leave you shaken and thinking about the nature and the future of man ... and his best friend.