Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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Southern California poet, novelist, and performer Michele Serros died last weekend of cancer. She was just 48, but in her too short life she made a difference by telling different stories of Mexican-American women in a very different voice.
KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez - a member of the Taco Shop Poets - knew Serros from the 1990s LA poetry scene and wrote the KPCC remembrance of Serros. He joined me in the Off-Ramp studio to listen to some of Serros' performances on the album "Chicana Falsa," and to tell me more about Serros' place as a public intellectual and how she gave voice to Chicanas with one foot in each culture.