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What are you doing Veterans Day? - Off-Ramp for Nov. 8, 2014
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Episode 10899
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What are you doing Veterans Day? - Off-Ramp for Nov. 8, 2014

A variety of vets weigh in on Veterans Day; Caitlin Doughty gives her cat The Meow a "good death;" DrinkLA saves you time, money, tastebuds; SCOTUS frees Sherlock Holmes

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A variety of vets weigh in on Veterans Day; Caitlin Doughty gives her cat The Meow a "good death;" DrinkLA saves you time, money, tastebuds; SCOTUS frees Sherlock Holmes

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Three vets: one who fought the Cold War, one who survived sharks in the Pacific, and one who became a hero to Hmong refugees in the US.
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Off-Ramp host John Rabe goes to Sonny's Hideaway in Highland Park to talk with the editors of "Drink: Los Angeles," a guide to the best beverages.
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We talk with a vet who wishes she’d never enlisted, but now works to help vets; another who loved her job working with Army dogs but had to stay in the closet during her service; and a couple who met in the service and are still married 47 years later.
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NPR veteran host Susan Stamberg remembers the genesis of NPR's "Car Talk," and the genius of Tom Magliozzi, who died Monday.
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We remember the Santa Monica fixture who cut the hair of the rich and famous, the infamous ... and Off-Ramp commentator Hank Rosenfeld.
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The Supreme Court Monday affirmed the rights of creators to develop characters who live in the public domain, like Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, and Tarzan.
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John Rabe talks with Caitlin Doughty, author of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory," on death, the Americanization of Halloween and more.
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Kozy and Dan Kitchens make up Kozyndan, a husband and wife team whose work is featured in the Japanese American National Museum's Hello Kitty exhibit.
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Alice Rackham is a college student who responds to a bad grade by living her life according to the themes of classic literature. Learn about this Web series here.
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Maybe it’s time we had an entire museum dedicated to the cultural migration that transformed Hollywood when the Nazis took power.
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As the city mulls building three new "pedestrian scramble" crosswalks, Off-Ramp's Alana Rinicella talks with pedestrians at in front of Pasadena's diagonal crosswalks.