Before Pimlico
The 133rd running of the Preakness at Pimlico racetrack is this Saturday. But there was a famous horse race here in southern California long before that. Off-Ramp special correspondent Kitty Felde says the horses didn't run on a track, but on a dirt road that later became known as Alamitos Avenue in Long Beach.
2008 Youth Film Fest
Local teenage filmmaker Woodrow White has a short movie in the Echo Park Film Center youth film festival. It features Peter Bergman, one of the founders of Firesign Theatre, retelling the story about how he was on the air at KPFK, interviewing the band The United States of America, and one of the band members pretended to take Peter hostage.
John Rabe plays a cop in the movie.
Letters
Listeners sound-off on weeping immigrants, Tango poems and music.
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