If you need a little push to give to KPCC during our fall member drive, here are some reminders - in the form of our best pieces - of why Off-Ramp is worth supporting.
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• 7:55
Captured Aural Phantasy Theater is the only troupe with permission to perform stories from notoriously sexy and gory EC Comics, and they're doing it at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater.
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• 8:10
"And then, when you think it can't get worse, they bring out the contact lenses — and let me tell you, having a strange woman touching your eyeballs at 7 a.m. is less fun than it sounds."
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• 1:42
I have a dream in which all the public radio stations in town collaborate to foil people who turn off a station that's fundraising and switch over to one that isn't.
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• 6:29
It's no longer surprising to find good restaurants and craft cocktails in downtown LA, but you will be surprised to discover what Curtis Berak has been up to in his basement since 1976.
‘’I told myself,’’ German artist Otto Dix said, ‘‘that life is not colorful at all. It is much darker, quieter in its tonality, much simpler. I wanted to depict things as they really are."
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• 4:35
Billed as “Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams,” the show is actually far more comprehensive than its title implies, including works by three photographers and a sketch artist.
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• 8:43
YACHT core members Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans have made a record that critiques and embraces cutting edge technology at the same time. Why?
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• 10:07
We tour My Friend's Place in Hollywood, which is trying to show youth ages 12 to 25 a way out of homelessness. One of its clients accepted Miley Cyrus's VMA award.
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• 3:55
Baseball’s postseason is underway again, and for the third year in a row, the Dodgers won their division and are in the playoffs. We've got a friendly wager.
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• 5:59
The Standardized Patient program at USC is one of the first in the country, founded in 1963. Actors are trained to play any number of symptoms: liver disease, terminal cancer, diabetes.
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• 6:13
Richard Turner is a world-renowned card shark who also happens to be completely blind. He performs all over the world, usually without audiences realizing he can’t see.
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• 8:32
The fire trucks and crews have left. The charred smell is mostly gone. And good news recently came from the USFS: Camp de Benneville Pines can open Sunday.
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• 4:51
In 1929, land underneath Sunken City started moving toward the sea, and the San Pedro neighborhood was abandoned. Now, neighbors want the landslide to rejoin L.A. as a park.
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• 1:13
Mike Sheehan went to Lucerne Valley — the self-proclaimed middle of nowhere — to meet Tonya Littlewolf and her sanctuary for wolves.
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• 14:18
The story of Jim Tully, a former hobo who became Hollywood's "most hated man" — and the two men who spent 20 years rediscovering his life.
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• 8:21
R.H. Greene takes us to the High Desert's White Rock Ranch Horse Rescue, where Marine wife Erin Corwin bonded with a horse before her murder.