Hollywood Fights Back!, an ill-fated stand against HUAC ... 5 Every Week joins the Off-Ramp lineup ... SoCal winemakers shameful past ...
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We talk to Rainn Wilson, star of "The Office," about his new memoir, "The Bassoon King," including his terrible grandfather, his Baha'i faith, why he acts and more.
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NBC4's Joel Grover says his investigative team has uncovered evidence of much more widespread contamination at a Jewish summer camp near the former Santa Susana Test Lab site than the owner of the camp has admitted to.
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• 7:44
Duke Kahanamoku was a self-effacing, multi-sport athlete who became a household name. Despite his fame, his complete story has never been told until now.
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• 5:43
Claire Evans and Zac Pennington of KPCC's 5 Every Week podcast take you to the best bar for bad karaoke and the best place for tennis you never knew existed.
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• 8:01
Native Americans, just freed from the tyranny of the Missions, were enslaved to work in Southern California's vineyards.
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If there’s anything we should have learned since The Rams and Raiders blew town in 1994, it’s that the NFL can’t be trusted. Do things look different this time?
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With the movie "Trumbo" opening Thursday, Off-Ramp contributor R.H. Greene looks at how Hollywood tried (for a time) to stand up to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
DJDS is made up Sam Griesemer and Jerome Potter. “In the Flames” is off their upcoming new record, “Stand up and Speak," which comes out January 29.
This is 21st century opera, folks, with diverse but harmonically enticing tunes that invoke Britten, Puccini, Wagner, Glass and even Sondheim, plus generic, late-model film music.
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He lived nearly a century, overthrew two governors, and gambled $25,000 on a single race. Maybe it isn't surprising that he needed two graves.