This week Off-Ramp digs into the dark recesses of the human mind and to find out what’s under the bed when the lights go off. Stories from "In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe," a new collection of great old under-appreciated horror stories.
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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• 1:12:01
Listen to three short horror stories that rank with Poe's best, and hear John Rabe and literary historian Les Klinger explore horror fiction live at the Crawford Family Forum.
A new show at the Getty Villa shows the Greece of 200 years ago — an ancient, empty, alien landscape of a long lost civilization, fallen into a ruin of broken columns and shattered pediments.
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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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• 7:11
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.
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• 4:48
Mary and Vincent Price loved food, but they weren't snooty. Their "A Treasury of Great Recipes" turns 50 this year. Elina Shatkin gets the backstory with daughter Victoria Price.
Fans of jangly 80's pop rock (Stone Roses, New Order, Orange Juice) can find a new, exciting band to follow in Los Angeles' Roses.
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• 4:23
There's an El Niño on the horizon, and with it a record breaking rainy season is also on the horizon. What's a drought-conscious Angeleno to do?
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• 3:37
It's more than just the sea snake. Dozens of tropical marine species are moving into Southern California's coast as El Niño brings abnormally warm water north.