Don't know what to get for the gun toting rifleman who has everything? In San Francisco, turning that rifle in to authorities will net you a cool $100 gift card. Eh, you say? OK, how about $200 for AK-47s? I wonder how that conversation might go at home: Honey, where is my gun? Oh, I turned it in sweety, for $100 worth of movie rentals. You did what? Guns don't kill people, gift cards... more ›

That disturbance at the Convention Center — would you believe it was a Fame-style riot? "Dozens of youths, some wearing gang colors, reportedly began to spar with vendors and dance on cars and disobeyed police orders to disperse," Channel 2 reports. Someone heard a balloon popping and thought it was a gun. The massive rally of police force seems to be, uh, disproportionate to the incident. more ›

Leonardo DaVinci lived in all of the following except: more ›

The LA Times is running an in-depth series about high schoolers who drop out, focusing on Birmingham High in Van Nuys. The paper shows that it's not a bad school, but about 20% of the class of 2005 didn't graduate. Sadly, it's hard to even get the people in charge to agree on what the exact dropout numbers are. The numbers tell a pretty bleak story: if you rebel without a cause, chances are you'll make about 30 cents to every dollar your high-school grad counterparts do. There are 4,000 students trying to navigate Birmingham High. Isn't that enormous? How big was the high school you went to? more ›

We already knew about Caltran's mission bells project that follows the original El Camino Real, which linked the 21 California missions and follows much of U.S. Highway 101 but the answer surprised us. more ›

LAist freely admits to being a nerd in high school; probably not a startling revelation, but the condition was compounded by participation in the Olympiad of academics: the Academic Decathlon. more ›