Off-Ramp with John Rabe

Meet Milton Love, the Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Sea

Flu v Covid ... The eerie parallels between LA's responses to the 1919 and 2020 pandemics

Larry Davis: tears in his beer led to singing career - at 74!

A Christmas Carol ... the old time radio version, and some new takes on the Dickens classic

Happy 100th Maila Nurmi. Listen to a full-length radio documentary celebrating one of the most remarkable women in TV -- "Vampira"

David Dean Bottrell is a charming warning to little kids: Don't be greedy little Christmas pigs!

One late King of Food helps us remember another: Jonathan Gold on the legacy of King Taco

A rite of passage for LA journos: Rabe recounts his angry phone call from Harlan Elllison

How Leonard Nimoy found peace with Spock, himself, and his son Adam

"My grandpa survived the USS Indianapolis," says Kevin Ferguson ... California's last WW1 vet ... and Rabe rides a B-24

What's it like to ride a motorcycle in LA? Susan Carpenter says, "life affirming"

The Big Disaster: The Big Burn from LAist Studios

Celebrate "The War of the Worlds'" 84th anniversary with the radio legend's backstory: "The War of the Welles," a radio documentary with George Takei

RIP Jules Bass, 87. Was his "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" a Hanukkah TV special hiding in plain sight?

Paul Newman's controversial new memoir probably doesn't tell this story: When he taught Karen Ocamb how to clean fish

Tom Jones reveals the hardest song he's ever sung, rethinks "Letter to Lucille," and tells us why he thinks of his voice as a weapon

You sit on the piano bench next to Maestro Jeffrey Kahane ... and talk Bach, clapping (No!), and The Clippers

Rabe talks with Petros Papadakis, radio's loudest and second smartest host. (Matt "Money" Smith is first.)

Jim Tully, hard-boiled detective pioneer, Chaplin's wingman, the first real Hollywood journalist, and maybe the most famous Angeleno you never heard of

Meet Julie Gigante, the world's tallest violinist, and Kent Twitchell, who painted her along the Harbor Freeway

Songwriter Paul Williams has Only Just Begun to ride the Evergreen Love Boat to the Rainbow Connection ... and not just on Rainy Days and Mondays

Ashford & Simpson play the tunes they wrote ... because There Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing

Mac Davis sings "In the Ghetto" for you; Rabe sings Davis' "Oh, Lord, It's Hard to Be Humble." You have been warned.

RIP Lamont Dozier, 81, penned “You Can’t Hurry Love," “Heat Wave,” and dozens of others ... and helped put Motown on the map

This guy played on or produced tons of your favorite songs from the 1970s. Meet Clarence McDonald, the man behind the music

Happy 100th Birthday Norman Lear ... He talks America, the First Amendment, the "pursuit of happiness," and his service in a bomber in World War 2

Surfridge resident remembers when LAX turned his beachside neighborhood into a ghost town

White officials thought late great sax man Big Jay McNeely was corrupting the youth

Meet the only novelist to score 38,387 points in the NBA. Spoiler Alert: It's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and "Mycroft Holmes," set in an accurate multi-cultural London

Alex Ross says you're probably humming "Star Wars" wrong ... and more on the surprising music of John Williams, who is NOT a copycat.

In-depth with Renaissance man LeVar Burton ... from "Roots" to "Reading Rainbow" to TNG to comics to St Augustine

"Ragged, loud, and fast. We had found our band." Metallica's backstory, told by a kid who was there

The backstory to El Chicano's groundbreaking megahit, that time Adolfo was name-checked on "The Simpsons," and the podcast that connects the dots

Naked Reporter Ends Drought? Sanden Totten teaches us how to save water by taking a "Navy Shower" ... plus an astronaut tells us how they stay clean in space

Peacock, eat your heart out! Off-Ramp host John Rabe rode shotgun in the pink Corvette with the real Angelyne

How LA's WW2 Mayor used radio to support the Japanese Incarceration ... and what it did to George Takei's family

Photographer Catherine Opie got exclusive access to Elizabeth Taylor's house ... so so do you, kinda.

BONUS EPISODE: Carol Downer, 88-year-old abortion rights pioneer, reacts to SCOTUS draft on Roe v. Wade

The LA Uprising - 30 Years Later: The stories you haven't heard - Pt 2

The LA Uprising - 30 Years Later: The stories you haven't heard

dublab's Mark "Frosty" McNeill helps us relive the glory years of The Atomic Cafe, Little Tokyo's loud, greasy, sticky, punk Mecca

True Crime! Murder! Scandal! In 1922, an L.A. woman kept her lover in the attic ... and her husband in the dark

Meet the two friends from the Valley who convinced Charles Schulz to integrate "Peanuts" in 1968

The Rags to Riches to Rags story of Pio Pico, a giant of Los Angeles history

Enjoy a Dodger home opener with no labor issues, no Covid, no parking or traffic headaches ... and a guaranteed Dodger victory!

"Moonface" and "Vermont Avenue" podcast star James Kim couldn't talk to his parents - literally - because of First Language Attrition

Meet Pepe Aguilar, the son of two Mexican cultural icons, who stays true to his mariachi roots

This LA couple bought a pristine Mid-Century ranch home in the Valley ... complete with a pristine Mid-Century BOMB SHELTER!

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