Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

An unlikely family-owned restaurant in Little Tokyo becomes a hot L.A. punk hangout. In the late 1970s, when L.A.’s punk rock scene was exploding, an unlikely family-owned restaurant in Little Tokyo, ...

2 Everything You Need to Know About Dave Malloy and Lin-Manuel Miranda's OCTET Legendary documentary filmmaker Jayne Loader will be Tom Needham's exclusive guest this Thursday, July 11th at 6 pm on ...

Sometimes local bars and restaurants come out of the blue, change our palates and then leave far too soon. That was the case with Atomic Cafe, the latest restaurant to be part of our ongoing “Cooking ...

Film director Jayne Loader may not seem to have much in common with Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott and Sydney Pollack, but like those acclaimed directors, she also has a film released in 1982 that has ...

Surviving the apocalypse is thirsty work — so you’re going to need a place to get your drink on, after the collapse of civilization. Meet the Atomic Cafe, the bar where everybody knows the names of ...

We reported in December that the building which once housed the Atomic Café – a bastion of Los Angeles' '70s-era punk scene – was slated to be razed in order to make way for a new Little Tokyo Metro ...

Trump’s EPA recently moved to weaken rules that may affect how radiation exposure is regulated. In a news release, the EPA quoted a University of Massachusetts scientist who has stated that a little ...