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Off-Ramp for November 18, 2006
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Episode 3665
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Off-Ramp for November 18, 2006

Message From John Rabe: This week Off-Ramp brings you the Monks of St. Catherine's Cathedral in the Sinai. The monks visited the Getty to kick-off the "Holy Image, Hallowed Ground" exhibit. Also, the Clippers announcer Ralph Lawler, Rose Bowl flea market finds and turkey talk. Happy Thanksgiving, -John (and Queena)

Monks of St. Catherine's at the Getty. Leading the way, His Eminence Archbishop Damianos (L) and Father Justin, holding a bag of basil, used in a blessing of the exhibit.
Monks of St. Catherine's at the Getty. Leading the way, His Eminence Archbishop Damianos (L) and Father Justin, holding a bag of basil, used in a blessing of the exhibit.
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John Rabe
)

Message From John Rabe: This week Off-Ramp brings you the Monks of St. Catherine's Cathedral in the Sinai. The monks visited the Getty to kick-off the "Holy Image, Hallowed Ground" exhibit. Also, the Clippers announcer Ralph Lawler, Rose Bowl flea market finds and turkey talk. Happy Thanksgiving, -John (and Queena)

John Rabe visits the Getty for the remarkable new exhibit of thousand-year-old icons from the Sinai peninsula in Egypt.
KPCC's Rachael Myrow visits the Los Angeles Times' test kitchen to see food writer Russ Parsons try five methods for cooking turkey.
Meet Ralph Lawler, the Clippers announcer, who's been calling games for the team since 1978.
Marc Haefele on John Gregory Dunne's "True Confessions." He says it's the best novel about the soul and politics of modern Los Angeles.
Antique appraiser Peggy Caffey shows Queena Kim the unusual items that are showing up at the West Coast's largest flea market.
John talks to KPCC's web developer Chris Spurgeon about his Rose Bowl find: old glass slides of the original government presentation of the moon shot.
John Rabe continues his conversations with artists at the 2006 Biennial at OCMA. This time, photographer Amir Zaki, who doesn't really like interviews.
On the night before the release of the PlayStation 3, John Rabe hangs out with PlayStation fans who are camping out at the Best Buy on Los Feliz Boulevard.
Attacked in the 1950s for their lurid covers and subversive topics, EC Comics are back in sparkling new editions.
The Call Sheet crew talks about "Tivo-ing" home videos.