Off-Ramp® | Marc Haefele: Getty Villa...
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Off-Ramp® | Marc Haefele: How 2001: T...
[audio mp3="https://www.marchaefele.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/KPCC-Off-Ramp-Haefele-on-2001_032208.mp3"][/audio] Marc Haefele remembers how, as a former editor at Doubleday, his publisher passed on his recommendation to sign Arthur C. Clarke for the novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey. KPCC ...
Off-Ramp® | Marc Haefele: Wallace Hum...
Tonight, as you brush your teeth, you'll be scrubbing them with the same material that goes into stockings, combs, parachutes, spaceships, car engines -- the list seems infinite. That stuff turned 75 this year, but it's tragic human back story is rarely told. It was a decade when ch...
Off-Ramp® | Haefele on Carey McWillia...
Off-Ramp literary commentator Marc Haefele says Carey McWilliams is required reading for anyone who is serious about understanding Los Angeles
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Off-Ramp® | Fifty years later, Off-Ra...
What an odd lot we were, the Lower Eastsiders who boarded a chartered train for Washington on August 28, 1963 … fifty years ago next Wednesday. First, there were the grandmothers with the food: Fay Lucia, a blonded Italian lady in her 50s from the projects, who brought a huge lasagna;...
Off-Ramp® | Philip K. Dick’s ed...
Off-Ramp commentator Marc Haefele reviews "The Man in the High Castle," a ten-part series from Amazon based on Philip K. Dick's novel of the same name. Marc edited Dick in the later 1960s when he worked for Doubleday. Back in 1961, Putnam decided to roll his career-future dice publish...
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Haefele on the Los Angeles mayoral race
Shirley Jahad talks to Mark Haefele about the Los Angeles mayoral race. Shirley Jahad: Good afternoon. This is All Things Considered on 89.3 KPCC. I'm Shirley Jahad here with Marc Haefele. He is dean of the city hall reporters. Hi, Marc. Marc Haefele: Hi Shirley. Jahad: Well Marc, we are...
Marc Haefele remembers LA City Counci...
If I could go back to a decisive point in the past that would help me better understand Los Angeles political history, it might be to 1940, in a forlorn little homestead in the far San Fernando Valley, where a sharp little 3rd grader named Art Snyder would be arguing politics with his leftist fa...
Fire ravages builder Geoff PalmerR...
There's no question, says Off-Ramp commentator Marc Haefele, that developer Geoff Palmer hit the sweet spot with his apartment blocks. Long before downtown LA became hip, he started building the Italian-looking apartment buildings with the Italian-sounding names: the Orsini, the Piero, the Visco...
5 Leonard Bernstein videos you need t...
"I first saw Lennie Bernstein in 1954," he writes, "on a somber Sunday TV show called Omnibus. Though he was in his 30s and I was 12, I instantly identified with him. He was another kid like me who loved Classical Music. He brought the musical skies down to Earth with what you might call Bernstei...
Joe Goode: The Milk Bottle and the In...
One of Joe Goode’s fond memories of the New York art scene of the '60s was when the great Andy Warhol invited him to dinner at “my favorite restaurant.” Goode, who was then so poor he had hitchhiked to Manhattan, was dazzled. Would it be Grenouille or maybe the Cote Basque, where Truman Capote n...