Southern California's radio pointillist: Off-Ramp host John Rabe

Published: Oct. 1, 2010, 1:51 p.m.

Colin Marshall talks to John Rabe, longtime public radio personality and host of KPCC\u2019s Off-Ramp, a weekly examination of Southern California and especially Los Angeles. The show\u2019s interviews and field pieces provide, as Rabe puts it, a \u201cpointillist\u201d aural portrait of the city and its surrounding half-state, highlighting some of the most interesting people, places, and things there without attempting the futile task of precisely representing the massive amount and constantly changing composition of Southern California culture.