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Father's Day
A journalist (W.T. Rabe) and his son (John Rabe), circa 1966. This week, two married journalists sound off. One wants people to stop getting all up in his Kool-Aid, and another misses, kinda, his old globetrotting life.
Stay at home dad
Former New York Times' reporter Charlie LeDuff talks about giving up his jet-set life to become a stay-at-home dad.
MYOB
Jeff Girod sounds off at busybodies who want him and wife to reproduce.
Maila Nuri, Vamp Extraordinaire
We pay tribute to Maila Nurmi, the woman who first played a sexy horror movie host on TV: Vampira.
A memorial service was being planned. For information, e-mail ghooled@sbcglobal.net
It's a Wonderful Life in Encino
Ever wonder why George Bailey was sweating in the middle of winter in It's a Wonderful Life? Kevin Roderick says its because they shot it in the Valley; he takes Off-Ramp to the old RKO ranch.
A Broad View of History
From the LA Public Library photo archive, here's a look at Eli Broad a few years before he was funding charter schools and museums. Or involved in controversy over NOT giving his collection to LACMA.
A Dream Partnership
With Martin Luther King Day around the corner, Queena Kim tells us about a little-known alliance between King and a Los Angeles synagogue.
Inside Huxley's World
Marc Haefele says Aldous Huxley's recently published letters are a window into the "Strange New World" that was Huxley's interior world.
No Frills B.B.Q.
"Big, tasty and messy." That's what one reviewer says of the food they turn out at Glencrest BBQ in Venice. Brian Watt takes Off-Ramp to the hole-in-the-wall family joint.
Nothing, Honey.
Does anyone in the Off-Ramp world know what this is? John saw it on a bulletin board at the parking ramp. Bees? How many bees? Why bees?
Off-Ramp Exit Interview
The LA Times' Steve Hymon is switching beats. You might remember that he and Queena ripped the lid off Parking Meter Gate?
John does an exit interview.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who guards the guardians? John talks with Joe Domanick about his Playboy article on LA Police Chief Bill Bratton, and the media's role in fighting crime.
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On January 26: Commentator Mimi Pond asks, "Where does a person who's fifty years old and fifty pounds overweight go for clothes?" And a new picture book on singer Elliot Smith.
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