Off-Ramp is a lively weekly look at Southern California through the eyes and ears of radio veteran John Rabe. News, arts, home, life ... the show covers everything that makes life here exciting, enjoyable, and interesting.
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Meet 24-year old opera singer Angel Joy Blue, a home-grown soprano who supports her career by winning beauty pageants. She performs with the West L.A. Symphony this weekend.
L.A. is a big movie set, so John goes to one of the exteriors used in The Omega Man with the late Charlton Heston. It's the building your power bill comes from.
After serving Long Beach for decades, the venerable Acres of Books has decided to sell to the city's Redevelopment Agency. John spoke with Harry Saltzgaver, editor of the Gazettes newspapers.
On Masters Weekend, Frank Stoltze patrols a local golf course.
On April 19: Queena visits the Chemosphere house and tries to make a better garden than John, as John visits the Gamble house, and Clarence McDonald tells us about an L.A. music icon: Alma Hightower.
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