Off-Ramp for Jul 11, 2009
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CyberFrequencies
An Alaskan blogger feels the heat and fears for her safety when Sarah Palin singles her out.
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To The Moon, in Miniature
I remember building and launching a Saturn V model rocket from a kit when I was a kid in the 1970s. it was the same rocket that pushed the astronauts to the moon 40 years ago. The kit was made by Estes, a Colorado-based company. Back then, I was more concerned with the difficulty of the model than the historic magnitude of the Saturn V. But keep reading for ... the rest of the story.
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We're on Twitter
The five members of Team Off-Ramp are now Tweeting. Follow Us and John Rabe, Queena Kim, Jackson Musker, Andrea Domanick, and Kevin Ferguson will be your eyes and ears in Southern California.
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The Chief on the King
LAPD Comissioner Bill Bratton doesn't like smooth criminals or smooth jazz. And he's never watched Thriller ... as he confesses to KPCC's Frank Stolze.
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A Way With Words
Meet artist Wayne White, set designer for "Pee Wee's Playhouse" and art director for Peter Gabriel's video "Big Time." Now he's best known for painting big words on dime store landscape prints.
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Bob Mitchell Silenced
The last surviving organist from the Silent Film Era died at 96. KPCC's Patricia Nazario reports.
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Me Gusta El Chicano
UPDATE MONDAY 3/1/2010: We just learned that Bobby Espinosa of the seminal band El Chicano has died at the age of 60. Here's our piece on him and the band from June of 2009.
Jesus Velo of the band Los Illegals interviews one of his heroes, Bobby Espinosa (right) of El Chicano, about the song "Viva Tirado."
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Billboard Art
John checks out an exhibit of glorious Kodachrome photos of LA billboards from the 1950s and 1960s, assembled by LA's preeminent photojournalist Gary Leonard. The photos (and billboards) are like time capsules of another era.
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Dinner Party Download
This week: 80's metal band Anvil forges ahead...Muhammad Ali KO's the U.S. Army.... and Brendan has designs on David Bowie.
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RIP J.G. Ballard
Literary commentator Marc Haefele remembers the late Sci-Fi master James (J.G.) Ballard, author of The Empire of the Sun, Crash, and many dystopian classics. Ballard gave Marc "a life's supply of healthy pessimism."
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World's Smallest Horde Waits for MJ
Off-Ramp host John Rabe was part of the tiny crowd (including this believer in the End Days) outside Staples Center Tuesday ... the one that was outnumbered by police. John's pics inside ...
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MJ Media Circus
Just a few members of the worldwide media circus that descended on Staples Center Tuesday introduce themselves to KPCC's Frank Stoltze.
