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Having a 'relatively painless' Thanksgiving - Off-Ramp for Nov. 23, 2013
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Having a 'relatively painless' Thanksgiving - Off-Ramp for Nov. 23, 2013

Aja Brown's vision for Compton, CalTrans' houses, Matthew Bourne's "Sleeping Beauty," Dylan Brody's Thanksgiving, and Marv Gross' Thanksgivingkuh. Yes, we're possessive.

City Councilmen Garcetti and Weiss and Mayor Villaraigosa celebrate with rabbis from Chabad on the first day of Hanukkah. Behind them is the historic menorah that will stay in City Hall through the 8-day holiday. And behind it are members of the Jerusalem Children's Choir.
A few years ago, City Councilmen Garcetti and Weiss and Mayor Villaraigosa celebrate with rabbis from Chabad on the first day of Hanukkah.
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Aja Brown's vision for Compton, CalTrans' houses, Matthew Bourne's "Sleeping Beauty," Dylan Brody's Thanksgiving, and Marv Gross' Thanksgivingkuh. Yes, we're possessive.

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Aja Brown, Compton’s new Mayor, has pushed to shut down problem motels and liquor stores to improve life for families.
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I’m sad I’ll never again come home to a phone message that began “Charles? Diane Miller!” It always meant the start of another shared adventure.
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The London choreographer known for making ballet accessible and exciting opens his rule-breaking version of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet Thursday in L.A.
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Off-Ramp host John Rabe talks with half of the Mythbusters, Adam Savage, about fire drills, science education and injecting hot pepper under his skin.
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What do Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, which coincide this year, have in common? Miracles.
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When it was my turn, I said, "I'm thankful that at that very first Thanksgiving everybody ignored the one wise, old Native American woman who kept saying, 'If you feed them, they'll never leave.'"