Gunnar Hansen's "Chain Saw Confidential." A cheap solution for barotrauma makes biologists and rockfish happier. Weighing fracking in Sacramento. Slapstick 101.
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• 7:47
The actor, who played the villain in the iconic horror movie classic, explodes many other myths and lies about the movie. And, yes, the chain saw was real.
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• 6:51
Off-Ramp host John Rabe talks with marine biologist Milton Love about a cheap, simple solution for barotrauma, which affects rockfish caught by sport anglers.
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It looked like a convention of Keystone Kops, Laurel & Hardy, Keaton & Lloyd, and many, many Stooges. More than two-dozen physical comedians, for two days, twelve hours a day knocking about and no AC. This is a festival?
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What if Monterey offers our state the biggest frack in the nation? Then it will be far harder to pass any fracking regulation. SB 4 is the law we can have now and that makes it a good law.
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Southern Californians are now heading some of the nation's most prestigious arts institutions. One Angeleno now cares for Dorothy's red slippers in DC.
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The weirder, goofier literary successor to Poe, HP Lovecraft's short horror stories have given rise to a film festival in their honor.
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He said, “Hey. Don’t yell at me. I’m just being the Devil’s advocate.” I said, “The devil doesn’t need an advocate. He’s the devil.”