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RIP Lou Schreiber, 80: Dance instructor taught 50,000+ to 'Walk in, Dance Out'

In his 62 years as a ballroom dance instructor, Lou Schreiber estimated that he'd taught 50,000 Southern Californians to fox trot, rhumba, salsa and swing.

In El Segundo, an original Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ

Off-Ramp goes to El Segundo's Old Town Music Hall to talk with Bill Field. He bought a Wurlitzer in the 60s and has been playing it ever since.
MacArthur Park file photo
Jimmy Webb, the man who wrote MacArthur Park, has never sung the song in LA's MacArthur Park. This gross oversight will be remedied June 15.
AV USE ONLY - Linda Heidema - 1
From downtown Groningen to the countryside, Linda Heidema captures the beauty of Holland. Heidema is the winner of our most Instagram challenge.
JUSTICE SERVED
Jay could stand back and watch the trials of O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson and Conrad Murray, but she put her hobby on hold to attend a trial that hit close to home.

How Dylan Brody and John Rabe faked it for fundraising

Turns out, that wonderful spontaneous Off-Ramp fundraising moment between John and Dylan was scripted and pre-recorded.
"Artifex" was a wide-ranging, eye-opening, and sometimes profane discussion on Chicano art at Koplin Del Rio Gallery, led by Cheech Marin, with Susana Smith Bautista, and artists Einar & Jamex de la Torre, Shizu Saldamando, John Valadez, and Harry Gamboa Jr..

Video: Artist Llynn Foulkes in new documentary 'One Man Band'

The Llynn Foulkes of “One Man Band” is a Lear figure, raging against the dying of the light in a world that has deprived him of his legacy.
Jack Vance, nearly the last of a great generation of American sci-fi and fantasy writers, died May 26 in his Oakland home. He wrote so many books that their exact number seems uncertain.
Carl Reiner and Patt Morrison
Patt Morrison has coffee with Carl Reiner and talks about hsi new book "I Remember Me."