Hunter Davis and his preternatural Ian McKellen impression; Masami Teraoka on almost 50 years of boundary-stretching art; Happy Birthday Rocky, Natasha, and Witch Hazel (June Foray); Pat Metheny on tenor sax; and probably one or two other things you wouldn't expect on a public radio show.
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• 6:43
Angelenos come out to cheer and take pictures as Endeavour makes low flyovers near City Hall in downtown and Jet Propulsion Lab in Alta Dena, CA.
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• 3:34
I looked back into the Villa's central courtyard. Among brightlit Pompeian pillars, we happy Angelini disported ourselves over good wine, food and music. As as blissed, one imagines, as any gathering of the original Pompeiians in the original villa might have been on a similar kindly summer night, 1,933 years ago, just before their friendly old mountain went nuclear.
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• 8:43
The phones started ringing and reality bent when when Hunter Davis came into the Off-Ramp studio to talk about his spot-on impression of Ian McKellen doing "Baby Got Back."
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• 5:00
Why is that samurai eating a hamburger? Why is the Cardinal eating squid ink pasta? Because they're in the highly symbolic work of Masami Teraoka.
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• 4:36
'Metropolis' and 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' are two of the most iconic films of all time, but they're also paragons of an avant garde art movement.
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• 3:29
What made June Foray such a great voice actress was not that she could do so many voices, but that she was first and foremost a great actress.