Jess, Duncan, and their circle feel like an all-embracing family you never got to meet — and you can’t stop wishing you’d been a part of it.

UPDATE: We're reposting this segment for Rosh Hashanah, which begins at sunset on Wednesday, September 28. ----- The Jewish month of Elul begins at sunset on Monday, August 9th. Every day during Elul, until Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, observant Jews will want to hear the shofar, the animal horn. Michael Chusid, Angelino and author of "Hearing Shofar: The Still Small Voice of the Ram’s Horn," joins Off-Ramp host John Rabe in the Crawford Family Forum to teach us about the shofar ... and teach John how to play it. COME INSIDE for a link to Michael's book.

There's L.A.'s Glassell Park, near Mount Washington; there's Glassell Street, in Orange. So, who or what was Glassell?

Dateline, 1914: A Los Angeles Times headline exclaimed "Wagonload of Dreams Seized!" and referred to the drug as "Indian Hemp."

“What I’m trying to do is, I’m trying to give you scenery, lighting and enough props so you can come up with your own narrative… so you can put on your own show.”

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.

"Dear Taylor, wazzup? How's life? Eat any pie lately? Caught any pie thieves?" Funny, but not history.

An interview about his new graphic novel in which Charles Burns says, "...my sweltering, swelling, itching brain ... hasn't changed at all."