John Rabe
89.3 KPCC
Pasadena, CA, United States
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TV food show host Pati Jinich brings authenticity to the table
Her Eastern European grandparents settled in Mexico and it was there that she began her love of food that is evident on "Pati's Mexican Kitchen." → Read More
Flying ambulances, space robots and AI ethics: Inside Caltech’s new robotics center
Fully automated flying ambulances and bipedal robots that can help scientists explore Mars? AirTalk chats with researchers about their goals and the limitations and ethics of autonomous robots. → Read More
Visual, visceral accounts of the Chicano movement on display in LA
A collection of 270 photos from a community newspaper archive shows how Chicano activist journalists fought to tell the community's own story, countering the mainstream media's portrayal. → Read More
KPCC unveils new weekend schedule with the accent on breaking news
Weekends used to be more laid back. No more! News breaks 24/7 now, so we've improved our weekend program schedule to keep you in the loop. → Read More
Original Off-Ramp producer Queena Kim on the show's origin
She recalls covering a ten-theremin orchestra, and working on a show where she did what she always wanted to do. "It was almost like having a free pass to the city." → Read More
The New Yorker Radio Hour joins KPCC's weekend lineup
Said one critic: "The New Yorker Radio Hour is excellent,” and host David Remnick “swings masterfully between high and low culture." → Read More
Goodbye, Car Talk
This is the last weekend for Car Talk on KPCC. The landmark public radio show, in reruns since 2014, is ending production. → Read More
Interview in the mausoleum with relics expert Elizabeth Harper
In an Altadena mausoleum, John Rabe and Elizabeth Harper, of the website All the Saints You Should Know, talk about accepting death as a way of living a better life. Harper and Atlas Obscura tour the cathedral July 1. → Read More
Good news/Bad news from Off-Ramp host John Rabe
After 11 years of exploring the best city on Earth, John Rabe is retiring Off-Ramp to take an exciting new job at KPCC. → Read More
Idle Hour, Highland Park Bowl owners to restore, reopen fabled Formosa Cafe
Off-Ramp host John Rabe talks with 1933 Group's Bobby Green about giving the historic Formosa Cafe a new lease on life after it was shuttered this winter. → Read More
Before Mazzy Star, the late Keith Mitchell was 'the Buddy Rich of punk rock' in LA groups
The late Keith Mitchell showed his stuff early in Monitor and The Romans, adventurous, seriously fun bands of the 70s and 80s. → Read More
Tiny Tim and Tin Pan Alley live again in new cassette (!) from Burger Records
It's a perfect storm of anachronisms. Burger Records, the LA label, just released an album from the early 1970s ... of Tinpan Alley songs ... on cassette ... recorded in the early 1970s ... by Tiny Tim. → Read More
Saxophonist Big Jay McNeely, 'King of the Honkers,' still steals the show at 90
Off-Ramp's jazz correspondent Sean J. O'Connell talks with the irrepressible showman and sax master Big Jay McNeely, who'll be honored May 17 at The Grammy Museum in Downtown LA. → Read More
Famous crime writers and wrongfully convicted paired in 'Anatomy of Innocence'
“Anatomy of Innocence” is a new anthology that tells the stories of over a dozen people who were convicted of crimes they did not commit. → Read More
Saxophonist Big Jay McNeely, 'King of the Honkers,' still steals the show at 90
Off-Ramp's jazz correspondent Sean J. O'Connell talks with the irrepressible showman and sax master Big Jay McNeely, who'll be honored May 17 at The Grammy Museum in Downtown LA. → Read More
RIP Lucy Casado of Lucy's El Adobe: 'A pistol and a beloved mamacita'
Dan Guerrero remembers Lucy Casado, who died Tuesday at 91, as a politically active "pistol" but also a welcoming, mothering "mamacita" who provided a welcoming space at Lucy's El Adobe Cafe. → Read More
You think you're a longtime Angeleno? Theresa Chavez's family came here in 1771!
We play "Ask a Californio" with Theresa Chavez, whose family moved to LA almost 250 years ago. One of her ancestors, it is said, "could ride from San Diego to Sonoma without once leaving his own land." → Read More
Joe Domanick sees tremendous progress in the LAPD since the riots. 'They're trying.'
25 years after the riots, journalist Joe Domanick assesses the LAPD. He says they still have work to do - particularly in officer involved shootings - but are working hard to make community policing work. → Read More
LA jazz icon Barbara Morrison celebrates Ella Fitzgerald's 100th
Singer Barbara Morrison joins Sean J. O'Connell to consider the life and legacy of Ella Fitzgerald, who would have turned 100 this April 25. The jazz vocal legend spent the last part of her life in L.A. → Read More
Exclusive first look at JANM's 'New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei'
The Japanese American National Museum backed up a couple of trucks to George Takei's house, accepting the donation of his vast personal archive. The new exhibit — "New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei" — opens Sunday. → Read More